HATA 2, also spelled Hata 2 or hata2, is the second season of HATA.

History

Conceptualisation

A new season of HATA was proposed (by Toby i think) due to the inactivity of HATA 1, with the major members, who had been greatly involved, of Arvi and Anna having become very inactive, finding the server to have become stale.

The idea to start HATA 2 was met by some protest from Remy and Billzo.

Opening

HATA 2 first opened on 2023-12-27, and, unlike HATA 1, HATA 2 was intended as a survival multipler server from the very start, and, as such, no worldborder was defined this time.

Unlike HATA 1, it was hosted on Minefort rather than Minehut because Minehut had recently introduced a new daily uptime limit for free servers hosted there, making it extremely impractical to use it.

Sponsorship

HATA 2 and its opening ceremony was sponsored by KFV.

Ender Dragon Fight

The ender dragon is still yet to be slain on HATA 2 as of writing (2024-05-06).

Leadup

On 2024-01-01, Toby posted an announcement requesting that nobody kill the ender dragon, as it should be a community event.

Eventually, with some amount of badgering from Adam, Toby posted a poll on 2024-03-12, asking members if they wanted to kill the ender dragon during March break. The poll passed with four votes in favour and one in opposition.

However, this poll was for naught, as March break came and went without the dragon being slain.

Minefort Implements Inactive Server Locking

Around Christmas of 2024 (earliest known mention on Minefort Discord being 2024-12-23), Minefort enacted a new policy, which from then on required free-tier Minecraft servers hosted on Minefort to be started at least once every 72 hours to avoid "deactivation" or "locking". When a Minefort server is locked, it is not possible to start the server again unless the server owner purchases a paid plan on Minefort for the locked server.

This caused Remy to, in a panic, attempt to log on to HATA 2 to prevent it from being locked.