Middle East
Map crop with irl borders

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Launch date	14 February 2020
Historical era	2014–present
Map	Stongduke Middle East
Host	Onions
Length	2 weeks
Peak playercount	171
Plugin	Towny
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Iteration chronology
i30	i31	i32

Middle East (i31) was a server hosted by Onions in February 2020. It was the second of his series of three servers in 2019–2020. The theme was the 2010s Middle East. The map crop extended from the Nile river in the west to the east of Iran, and from Turkmenistan in the north to the southern edge of the Arabian peninsula.

Onions had previously been the host of Yugo Wars, or i30, in October 2019. This server ended with mixed success, with some criticism of the vehicle plugin and the low quality of the wars, but also lasting to 2 weeks of activity, the first for an iteration since Cold War almost 3 years prior.

The 2010s Middle East theme was actually decided for the prospective second Onions iteration at the same time as Yugo Wars was decided on, back in August of 2019. With the end of Yugo Wars, development almost immediately began on its successor. This time, more focus was to be put on advertising, to get the server population back up to Filicraft size. Onions also promised to completely rewrite the vehicles plugin, this time with 100% his own code (i30 had used a modified version of someone else's plugin, and had a lot of jank).

A mass advertising campaign was spearheaded by Onion Wizard, who spammed out multiple threads daily on 4chan and personally (according to the Discord invite tracker) invited more than 100 members to the Discord. Other members were encouraged by invite rewards to make and bump threads. This contributed to increased pre-launch interest in the server, as compared to Yugo Wars.

Some of the largest nations emerging in the pre-launch period were those led by the established metagroups, like stryker settling on Syria, Itsame on Egypt, Haan on Lebanon, and LeiteArts on Israel. Some old groups also returned, like manslay3r on the USA (whose group had not played since Filicraft) and Brogrammer, a player not seen since 12.0, who would claim Kuwait with his friends. However, the largest pre-claimed nation by Discord numbers was actually a nation of complete newfags, Turkey, led by a TrenchByte. Turkey became somewhat controversial as their members were seen as bad newfags: spammers and underage retards.

• Egypt
  • ★ Cairo
  • Alexandria
  • Giza
  • PLO camp, Sinai
• Iranian settlements
  • ★ Capital
  • ★ Sari
  • ★ New Kalmar
• Iraq
  • ★ Baghdad
• ISIS
  • ★ Ar-Rutbah
  • Babylon
• Israel
  • ★ Tel Aviv
  • Haifa
• Kurdistan
  • ★ Erbil
• Kuwait
  • ★ Kuwait City
• Lebanon
  • ★ Beirut
• Qatar
  • ★ Doha
• Saudi Arabia
  • ★ Mecca
• Sudan
  • ★ Khartoum
  • Port Sudan
• Syria
  • ★ Palmyra
  • Antioch
• Turkey
  • ★ Ankara
• Turkmenistan
  • ★ Ashgabat
  • Turkmenbashi
• U.S./Japanese Defense Forces
  • ★ Riyadh