The South Pole was a continent added with the Recode update and was initially supposed to be released in early December of 2018. However Minez's lead dev, Doc had a medical emergency and had extreme difficulty seeing things for a few weeks resulting in the update being released in late January 2019.
The start of the Easter Quest 30 minutes after it was released
During the week following Easter 2019, the MineZ team released a Easter themed quest line in the western portion of the map.
For Spookyfest 2019 every Saturday and Sunday would have two treat chests on the Private MineZ server that would be open for all to join up until the annoucement of the treat chest location.