VIP Town rebuild (need pictures)

hey guys, a while back i made a guild and I wanted to make the house vip town (hint: the guild's name is VIP Town) that i was gonna build after i built my personal house
I thought it would be pretty simple, there's the secret discovery that i can use for reference (and to give the CT credit, it's fairly faithful to the original VIP Town (well I mean it's more like they repurposed it's skeleton))

but as it turns out, rebuilding a town from 9 years ago is a bit more of an undertaking then you'd might expect
there's almost no pictures of it online and at the time i didn't know what to search for to find videos on it
combined with the fact that vip town was before my time and all i had for reference was a blurry screenshot from the wiki and a 10 second clip from an igbar video outside of the town, i took a break from the project

fast forward a couple months, aka yesterday, and i decided to pick it back up. I found a lot more videos on the town. I watched a ton of old wynncraft content, and a little more french wynncraft then i'm comfortable with (but seriously, shoutouts to frankycool for needing to use the bank so often) It turns out if you were playing wynncraft in 2014 and you were rich enough to have VIP, then you weren't not going to VIP town.

the plan is to rebuild VIP Town, the houses around it, and the PVP arena across from it. I can fairly confidently say that i should have enough material to recreate most of VIP town and the buildings around it, however there are some parts that weren't explored too often and i won't be able to accurately recreate them. That's why i'm reaching out, to see if anyone has any pictures from VIP Town.

I'll take any picture, but specifically, i would really appreciate pictures that:
- Show the right side of town, the left side had enough traffic from the horse merchant, but outside of the scam merchant, nobody went to the right.
- Any building interior, I thought it would be impossible to rebuild all of the interiors because i thought they paved over them all. I mean, most of them were just empty rooms with some chests around. But, as I found out, all of the merchants were outside and those rooms were just always like that. I forgot how long Wynncraft builders and their standards came from this point. With buildings so uninteresting on the inside though, I have a total of one (1) video that showcases any inside of a building.
- Top of the wall, there is a bunch of stuff already. I'm a bit skeptical of the carpets, and I don't remember if they used pistons as "crates" pre-texture pack, but atm I have nothing to confirm this
- Any building outside of the town. I have a lot of videos passing by them but nobody ever goes inside :(
- Any pictures of the PVP arena. There's thankfully one video that showcases the majority of it and the build is a LOT simpler then most of wynncraft, however I would love more angles, especially the front
I will also take any videos too. They're more useful then pictures, but they're a much bigger ask and I've already gathered up most videos on yt that have VIP town in it

I would be suprised if anyone actually had pictures from the VIP town era. I mean I've swapped computers like 5 times since I started playing wynncraft, and I started a year after they removed it. Like i made this thread but I don't know how far it will get

Progress wise, I'm nearly done VIP town itself, just need to finish the floor and change the buildings that i don't have videos for. The houses around are gonna be it's own beast, and I don't even know where to start with the arena. My kingdom for a world download...

That should be about it. I've wanted to do this because I think the town is one of the more visually distinct from it's era, and I like many other people never got to experience it. Obviously it won't be the same considering all of the exclusive merchants won't be there, but I think it will be neat

Also if you wanted to join the guild just lemme know, it's a really cool guild and we'll take anyone really :)

 

bribe a ct member to do /warp viptown

 

invite a player named Bak'al, ive heard hes very good at renovations

 

he keeps wanting to join my guild >:(

 

VIP town can be seen in one of the Bak'al's Destruction cutscenes although i am not sure if it is the OG build

 

ye, it's what im using for the blueprint. it's not quite the og build but its still mostly intact. The floor was the biggest change they made, and they blocked out parts of the buildings, which is why i need pictures of those

 

"Have you seen bob recently?"

 

10stx minimum please

 

took a bit of a break cuz i got caught up in the update but we back
here's some pictures of what it looks like so far if anyone's interested

Spoiler: progress

orange blocks are unconfirmed, and anything that still is dark oak hasn't been touched yet (most roofs were fairly straightforward to revert, but the remaining ones are in tricky spots

i havent reached a point where ive needed ur guys help yet, but i will soon. plz someone just have an ancient hard drive :(

how does 3 le and a couple sorghum grains sound :^)

 

Use replay mod for the cutscene area if you want to look at other angles

 

good idea on paper but that wouldn't work for what i want
here's roughly the same spot in both versions:

Spoiler: picture comparison

they completely redid the city, and the floor in particular appears to be remade from scratch
i want the guild house to be the old version of the city, and if i just wanted the discovery city i would be done already
and because of that unless someone has a world download of the original map (idk if world downloading was possible back then) or if there was a copy that exists on the server (a ct member would have to fetch a schematic for me) then i can only use old photos and videos

and idk where to look for pictures outside of just asking, anything on the forums before gavel was wiped, and discord wasn't a thing back then. there wasn't really a reason to explore vip town, so there's not much within the videos outside of the main plaza

 

Kinda out of left field here but the PVP arena across from vip town is nearly complete

i only need the roofs of the towers which i dont rly know how im gonna get
i wont be building it on the main server until everything else is done
also bump

 

never forgetti