World expansion poll, Shoud we wait for 1.8 terrain?
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Ahoy!
Today I was talking to Reaper about a world expansion, we’re getting a little cluttered with our ever expanding player base (Woo!) and the restrictions of the current world border make it hard for new players to find a groovy spot to call home.
At present our world is limited to a 4000 block radius from the spawn, we were thinking about expanding to 7000 now before 1.8, with the 1.7 terrain and then 15000 when 1.8 bukkit drops, There are a few things to take into consideration when bumping the world size, So I think its best to get as many opinions as possible before a decision is made.
- The development time to update Bukkit from 1.7 to 1.8 could take months, To add to this the Bukkit team quit and its landed on one developers head from Mojang to update Bukkit (the main server software).
- Then we have to wait for all plugins we use to update to the latest 1.8 version of bukkit, This could take a few more weeks.
- Terrain generation in 1.8 is completly different, For single player worlds it is completly customizable, im not sure if this follows suit for hosting a server, I dont see why it wouldnt, this would mean we might even be able to choose what type of terrain we have.
- If we expanded now to 7000 blocks, anything genreated in that new area will not be updated to 1.8 terrain.
- At present at 4000 blocks radius the world download zipped is 1.9GB so 7k would be 3.3GB and 15k would be 7.1GB, Thats an insane size for backing up/restoring/moving server/extracting. The bigger the world the more problems arize.
So before I make the plunge I want to have a thought out disgussion between the community!
Minecraft 1.8 has a deployment date of Tuesday, September 2, according to Mojang, Thats about a week away.
We could wait for this to drop and then see if we can find an ETA on the release of a Bukkit update, then make a decision.For now, I would like to collect thoughts via a poll and comments.
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A new map isnt an option, Im not resetting the world, im talking about expanding it!
Reaper spent 12 hours not long ago regenerating old noob terrain back to its glorious self.
The idea is, once the world is bigger, we have new spawns built at each NESW point, and alternate spawn for new players, to spread them out a bit.
haha yeah definitally @michty 2 & 3 are being added together for a total score for “Not now”, But I needed to add in another option for a gradually, im sure I’ve missed out a few other options too.
the problem in what you said, michael is that if we don’t expand it soon then people will settle too close to each other and the people who settled in that position first wont be able to expand, which is the one thing I dislike about the claiming system.
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