Platz des Ursprungs



Platz des Ursprungs (often abbreviated to PdU) is a square at the center of spawn. It features a floor cleaner under the four center slabs, which is a Soup input to the Cloud channel. It also features four level-four beacons, which were acquired in the first 4 Great Wither Fights:


 * North-West: Strength and Regeneration
 * North-East: Resistance II
 * South-West: Jump Boost II
 * South-East: Speed II

Also planned (but currently on hiatus because the circuitry doesn't fit) are fireworks which trigger once per in-game year.

Name
The name „Platz des Ursprungs“ (German for “Origin Square”) was coined by to give the square a distinct name other than “spawn”, which is also used for the larger area in general. The “Origin” part is derived from the fact that like the world spawn, the square is centered exactly at coordinates.

Design


The design uses straight lines along the cardinal directions and plus shapes to symbolize a coordinate grid, standing for the unusual property of our map with its spawn point exactly at the origin of Minecraft's coordinate system. The gold blocks used for the beacon pyramids are used as a symbol for “spawn”, as used on many servers (and possibly inspired by the practice of marking spawn with a pillar which would later be replaced or decorated with valuable blocks).

A design was originally created when some of the original server members planned the basic layout of spawn on a Creative server. This design was then built on the server. When the idea of adding beacons came up, modified the design to accomodate them.

However, before any beacons were added, proposed a redesign on the Creative server, which would remove the hedges and redstone lamps that were sticking out of the ground in the original design, and were seen as annoying by most players. The design was very rounded and removed the gold blocks at the beacons, so modified it to include the gold blocks and more straight lines in order to retain the symbolism. This is the current design.

Surroundings
At the side of PdU in each cardinal direction is a Nether portal which leads to the main hub and doubles as an entrance to the neighboring building.


 * North: A small enchanter. May be replaced with either The Library, the town hall, or Wurstcreature Headquarters soon™.
 * North-East: The Bottomless Pit, and a skeleton grinder.
 * East: The mob farm. Also the Death Games, below the mob transport tubes.
 * South-East: The Iron Titan. Also the Titan Gardens, which will be located unter the Iron Titan, and the ruins of the Iron Trench.
 * South: The Cloud.
 * South-West: The Smelting Center.
 * West: Derp. Also the Wurstwater Worldwide Humane Chicken Farm, behind Derp.
 * North-West: A rail duplicator.