Voted new map, reason is that i think that todays map is big and maybe it will become too big if we get a new spawn with its own new chunks. That said i hope that as mentioned above we can have portals between the worlds for a time.
I would vote for new map with portals like we had before, this was great as we could still go back to our old builds. One thing I would suggest is that we don't do large biomes this time, I believe it made this map pretty boring and meant we missed a number of biomes, Jungle, ice spikes, mushroom island, Mega Taiga etc and made large swathes of unpopular land like forest which is really difficult to explore and no one really wants to build in them.
When we started this map one of the things we were going to do was start with a small world border that expanded every month, IMO the world border started much to big and only once got increased in size since it was started and due to the large biomes even that increase didn't help to give us more biome variety (I've explored to 10k on most directions now and no new biomes), Large biomes was a good experiment but IMO didn't work so well at least for me.
I would also suggest a much smaller world border than we had for the current map, maybe make use of the new world border mechanic and have it auto grow (no one needs to remember to increase it) and I think starting at say 1000x1000 and grow 15 blocks a day (real day) and in a just over a month the border would be 2000x2000 and each month we get another 1000 added (500 in each direction)
(command below does the job of adding 15 blocks a day)
/worldborder add 15 86400
9 years ago
Tue Aug 26 2014, 12:29PM
I voted yes for a new map, for the same reasons as Mortocus.
i say move spawn for now, allow for any problems that 1.8 brings to get ironed out then when the dust has settled (enough of it anyway) then try a new map, maybe people can use that time to prepare to move their stuff over to the new map.
I also suggest moving spawn towards the end of either rail system (east or west) although i think potentially the land to the east is better...
I'd be really sad if this current map went away. I'm nervous to vote on the poll because there's a lot of "if"s...
If we can have a portal back to this map in a new 1.8 one - this is very agreeable to me.
If having a new map means no access to this one, then I'd like to keep this one.
If keeping this one means the size of the map becomes unwieldy - I suggest setting a world border (bukkit or 1.8) at three of the current edges and allowing exploration in one compass direction to get new 1.8 chunks. .,. then we could move spawn closer to the edge that has room for expansion?
As per the large biomes issue i cant go into much detail from the discussions we had tonight so as not to get anyones hopes up but that "shouldn't" be an issue in the next map if that route is decided on.
A UHC world via a portal at spawn would be a good idea.
I propose:
A new map will be generated in 1.7 (read on), with a very very small border, but a portal to the old world as I did guarantee that world would stay.
This map will be generated with no big biomes, no amplified, just a default world spawn with a very small border for now to get it started.
Chances are we'll be waiting weeks for the new bukkit to be released. So we can get something small going shortly, rather than play a waiting game.
Will the old world portal require a player to have over a certain amount of points or can it be used freely?
So do you mean we will have a new 1.7 map but just a tiny one and then when the update is out, everything outside the border will be 1.8?
9 years ago
Mon Sep 01 2014, 02:01PM
Poll has now been closed, to recap on what will happen:
We will have a new map for 1.8, which is currently available via a portal in spawn as a small 1.7 world (1,000 block border). Once a stable bukkit release is up for 1.8, this new world will be updated for 1.8 and the border will be increased to allow for 1.8 spawning.
The current world (which we all know) will remain available indefenitely and cross-world warps are enabled (+ the portal to and from it will remain aswel), meaning that you will get to keep everything you've built / gathered over it's life-time aswel as continue to live and build there (or in both worlds) if you wish.