@MCShovel – First of all, thank you for what you did to spawn! It has not looked this nice in at least a year, and makes it a lot easier to expand. I haven’t had the opportunity to check out the claims on the island yet; I’ve only gotten on a few times since you edited them and only to work on the landscaping on the mainland. I am sure that it should not be any issue at all. I am building a village primarily for new players, and am planning to build a few small buildings on the island that would be useful (armory with an anvil, library with an enchantment table, etc.), and where that happens to be can be flexible. However, if you would rather use the island for other purposes, I completely understand. I will hold off building on it for a bit until a decision is made.

@GodsDead – I think that including the island with spawn and having pirate-themed builds for new players is a really cool idea, and I’m totally fine with that. I was planning on building a few small things there, but I can easily change where that will be as nothing is built yet (except for the bridge, which will be easy enough to take down). Just let me know what the ultimate decision is!

Kitsune wrote:

@mcshovel – First of all, thank you for what you did to spawn! It has not looked this nice in at least a year, and makes it a lot easier to expand. I haven’t had the opportunity to check out the claims on the island yet; I’ve only gotten on a few times since you edited them and only to work on the landscaping on the mainland. I am sure that it should not be any issue at all. I am building a village primarily for new players, and am planning to build a few small buildings on the island that would be useful (armory with an anvil, library with an enchantment table, etc.), and where that happens to be can be flexible. However, if you would rather use the island for other purposes, I completely understand. I will hold off building on it for a bit until a decision is made. @godsdead – I think that including the island with spawn and having pirate-themed builds for new players is a really cool idea, and I’m totally fine with that. I was planning on building a few small things there, but I can easily change where that will be as nothing is built yet (except for the bridge, which will be easy enough to take down). Just let me know what the ultimate decision is!

We have regenerated all around spawn 3-4 times in the last year to completely fresh land. So has CallieMav. Im glad our hours and hours doing this went noticed :/

So @MoonKitsune you live on this island, do you own that big castle on it? Who else lives there? Would be good to figure out whos active there.

@mcshovel its that kind of effort that really does make a 2 year old map stay alive! I hate new players walking out of spawn and just seeing trashed land.

An option that we talked about is getting west up and running as a second spawn, so they can be alternated between as spawn to fan out new players.

This also brings up that topic of having a tutorial area on it.