An apology and question.

First off, I want to apologize for the stealing and greifing my friends and I did. We skimmed the rules and paid the price. My ign is the same as my forum username. And I have a question, After we came back after our 7 day ban we found our base completely gone. All our hard work building our homes, my friends boats they spent time building. Where gone. I ask if this was part of the punishment or just a glitch on the server. Me and one of my friends planned to make a tropical fish farm so we found the proper ocean biome and setup a hut. This hut is still there. I really hope we can get back even just the buildings. I don't care if we need to get the items from scratch. I just want out homes we spent time on back.