Editing Shard

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A '''shard''' is an array of one or several game servers to support one instance of [[Myst Online: Uru Live|Uru Live]]. Shards do not communicate with each other; indeed, explorers end up on completely separate instances of ages, unable to see or send messages to each other.

== Prologue ==
During [[Myst Online: Uru Live#Prologue|Prologue]], three shards were created; first '''Atrus''', then '''Katran''', and finally, following the [[Myst Online: Uru Live#Clerical Error|Clerical Error]] and the cancellation of [[Myst Online: Uru Live#Rehearsal|Rehearsal]], '''Achenar''' (using what used to be Rehearsal's hardware). Explorers frequently registered [[KI]] numbers on all three shards, and communicated outside the game to meet on one particular shard so they could actually meet each other in game.

== Untìl Uru ==
In [[Myst Online: Uru Live#Untìl Uru|Untìl Uru]], administrators unrelated to [[Cyan]] got to create their own shards<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.arcor.de/marlokir/uru/Shards.en.html|title=|website=Uru Shards|access-date=February 5, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326005550/http://home.arcor.de/marlokir/uru/Shards.en.html|archive-date=March 26, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jamercer.com:80/uu/semplers_shards.htm|title=|website=Semplers' shard visits|access-date=September 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909150436/http://www.jamercer.com:80/uu/semplers_shards.htm|archive-date=September 9, 2009}}</ref> and configure them to their liking, including such details as what areas of the [[City Proper|City]] are accessible. The auth(entication) server, however, had remained Cyan's throughout. Particularly popular shards included ''Slacker's'' and ''Tapestry''.

In early [[2006 CE|2006]], Cyan created their own Untìl Uru shard, '''''[[Myst Online: Uru Live#D'mala|D'mala]]''''', as a precursor to their attempt at reviving Uru Live itself, which ultimately led to Myst Online: Uru Live.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| Adsotema || Great Tree || OvOasis
|-
| Age233/Lattice || Guild of Engineers || Pirates
|-
| AlphaBlue || Guild of Greeters || Red Lake
|-
| Barkonis || H'uru Project || <nowiki>S|-|@rD D|s0rg@/\/iz3d</nowiki>
|-
| CChat || Himesa || Schrödinger's Cat
|-
| D'ni Safety Guild || HitchHiker || Slacker's
|-
| Desert || Jersey || Sterewlz
|-
| DMC || L.A.S.T. UU || Swiss UU Rebel
|-
| DragonHeat || Lost City of Atlantis || Tapestry
|-
| Dudos || Lostkin || Technologists
|-
| Flaming Jaguar Plasma || Maui || Tomato
|-
| GamersHeaven || Meeting Place || urkle's
|-
| Gena's || Mock-Tudor || UruPassion
|-
| German Reallife || Mushroomsoup.au || Zootal
|-
| Go Beyond... || MystFriends
|}

== Myst Online: Uru Live ==
From [[Myst Online: Uru Live#Nuru|Nuru]] until the cancellation and eventual reopening of Uru Live in [[2010 CE|2010]], no fan-managed shards were officially allowed.

After the client (CWE) was made open source on April 6, [[2011 CE|2011]],<ref>{{cite forum post|url=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=24534|author=Chogon|title=An Open Letter on Open Source|forum=Myst Online forums|date=April 6, 2011}}</ref> a number of shards not managed by Cyan opened. Some of the most notable ones are:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Type !! Opened !! Server !! Status
|-
| The Open Cave ||  || August 1, 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=https://the-open-cave.net/en/how-to-play-tpots|title=How to Play|website=The Open Cave|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> || Alcugs || open
|-
| Deep Island ||   || August 23, 2010<ref>{{cite forum post|url=https://forum.guildofwriters.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=4610|author=diafero|title=Welcome to The Deep Island Shard!|forum=Guild of Writers forums|date=August 23, 2010}}</ref> || Alcugs || open
|-
| Windring || || 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.openuru.org/index.php?title=Open_Source_Shard_List|title=Open Source Shard List|website=OpenUru.org wiki|access-date=December 1, 2019}}</ref> || MOSS || closed
|-
| The Open Cave || || August 1, 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://the-open-cave.net/en/how-to-play|title=How to Play|website=The Open Cave|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> || MOSS || open
|-
| Minkata || testing || December 21, 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openuru.org/sitenav/wikicms/pages/Play.php|title=Play|website=OpenUru.org|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> || MOSS || open
|-
| Gehn || || February 4, 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guildofwriters.org/gehn/|title=Gehn Shard|website=Guild of Writers|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> || DirtSand || open
|-
| Lyros || testing || March 2, 2012<ref>{{cite forum post|url=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=383076#p383076|author=Lyrositor|title=Fan Run MOULa Based Server List|forum=Myst Online forums|date=March 2, 2012}}</ref> || MOSS || closed
|-
| Destiny || testing || February 1, 2013<ref>{{cite forum post|url=https://destiny.mystler.eu/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2|author=Mystler|title=What is DestinyURU?|forum=DestinyURU forums|date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> || DirtSand || open
|-
| The Lost City Of Atlantis || testing || April 29, 2013<ref>{{cite forum post|url=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=398314#p398314|author=MercAngel|title=Fan Run MOULa Based Server List|forum=Myst Online forums|date=April 29, 2013}}</ref> || MOSS || closed
|-
| Minkata alpha || testing || March 20, 2019<ref>{{cite forum post|url=http://forums.openuru.org/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=1020|author=rarified|title=Initial testing of the Minkata-alpha shard|forum=OpenUru.org forums|date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> || MOSS || open
|}

== References ==
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