Nirvana

Nirvana is the name given to the second Minecraft map to be run while Minecraft was still in the Alpha stage of development. It's predecessor was Devachan. The map and server was maintained yet again by Teffen.

Landmark Structures
Nirvana is home to numerous communities, superstructures and works of art. Not all landmarks can be accessed via. /warp. Many structures shared a name with similar structures from Devachan.

Also in the same area, the Farmworks Defence Cannon, a titanic cannon powered by lava and rage.
 * Nifelheim - Winter-themed town, in the north. Built by Toxsikkilla.
 * The Spawn - Central plaza in which the /spawn is located. Built by the server administration team.
 * Farmworks - Reproduction of the communal facility for the harvest and growth of things like reeds, wood and wheat. Built by the community in general, spearheaded by server administration.
 * Servchester - A sequel to the original large city of skyscrapers, built by the inestimable Serv.
 * Hearth - A large, walled, section of land labelled "Nature Reserve". Built by Silvertie.
 * Rapture - Like the Bioshock counterpart, and the Devachan Rapture, a town underwater. A tale of one man's hired help getting ideas above their station.
 * New Carthica - A community shrouded in trees and far East of Nifelheim. Founded and operated by Alovard

Transport
Nirvana has taken a step towards doing things the hard way, by restricting use of warps. As an alternative, minecarts can be used on the railways which zig-zag across much of Nirvana. There are several depots of minecarts for use in the transport network, run by switches, redstone networks, and the Minecart Madness server mod.

Stability
Nirvana was the first 7chan Minecraft server to be run on truly dedicated hardware, the previous servers being run off a laptop in Teffen's basement. The benefits of acutally spending money on the server's hosting was offset by broken game updates, and the server required a lot of server-side mods to function correctly.

Firsts
Nirvana was the first map in which any real combat and death was possible, thanks to a combination of half-assed updates from Mojang Specifications and server-side mods.