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We will be moving any builds you start now to the new worlds so don't worry about that.

Marky said:
Does this mean we will never have a portal to the old world? :confused: :(

Keep getting told it'll be "soon" or "next week" :/
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The first time we tried to bring it online it caused issues. We have a working way to do multiworld now but my plan is to allow players to go onto the test server and mark out areas for us to copy into the new worlds. Would that be acceptable to you?
 
Good stuff :) I'm discussing with admins how we'll go forward atm but I may as well post what I'm thinking in here too and get some feedback from everyone:



New World(s):

I propose that we have a system as follows…

Several official worlds pre-created (possibly pre-gen’d):

LT_landing_zone – equivalent of current spawn. Has a big hall/floating platform type area with gateways to other worlds and some kind of public information area.
LT_unstable_lands – This will be the main ’normal’ world and can be deleted at any time. It will be gen’d with new materials/etc as and when we see fit.
LT_unstable_nether – linked to LT_unstable_lands
LT_unstable_the_end – linked to LT_unstable_lands
LT_public_lands – Some standard gen and not too big world. This area is where we’ll copy in people’s builds from the old maps.

Aside from these we will have a system where players can request extra worlds to be generated (with certain choices for the gen for that world). Players will need to post these requests in the Minecraft forum. I propose a limit of 1 world request per player. If players want to do group requests they will need to sort it out amongst themselves and have just one of them make that request.

Any thoughts? Any ideas for other worlds?

FrenchTart replied 1 second ago
I’d like to give the public lands some system for fast rail transport. I would propose something like the old balloon stations but instead we use some kind of minecart train station things located in the 4 corners + centre of the map. Using multiverse teleporters we should be able to allow minecarts to pass through gateways/teleporters of some kind, right?

We would also aim to get everything onto the live map but there may be slight delays during any new world setup.
 
Greg0986 said:
That sounds fantastic :D Can't wait! I like the idea of the multiple worlds. I take it the unstable_lands would be just for mining, quarrying etc?

Will the public_lands be like what we have now? People's builds etc?

Also, any idea on how far into the future this might happen?
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unstable_lands would mostly be for mining/etc yeah...exploration and ability to easily bring in new areas would be another reason.

No actual date in mind but I would like to get this going fairly soon. We (mostly yrth and 5punk3y) have been testing some of the features/mods that we would need to use for this and so far testing has gone well.

Poodmund said:
I love the idea of having a world that might be regenerated every... say... Monday 5am GMT. This could mean that you could also exclusively use that world for quarrying, mining, build testing etc. without causing chaos and mess on a solid world.

Its such a PITA having massive quarry holes around my build at the moment covered up by a layer of 2 dirt. If you accidentally dig down, you are stuffed.
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Yeah. I'm not sure if we'll have it automatically wiping every week but that's certainly a possibility.

alangelluk said:
Looking good. As always, I am for anything that will improve the server. Even if that means I have to start again.

Could you clarify what that means FT? Is this a donating reward or just anyone can request it?? Surely giving everyone their own world would be very stressfull on the server and remove any 'community' ???
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It's just an idea at the moment but my initial thought was that anyone could request it. I don't think that the community stuff would be much different as at the moment players need to teleport to each other's builds. The server load would probably be similar to now but we could more easily isolate player builds that cause issues/lag.

HUNTER.P said:
Instead of a rail system we could use the tekkit teleporters? They require a certain amount of power to run, but nothing a HV solar array couldnt handle

Might make up a little teleport station in creative mode
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Could be interesting though I quite like rail systems :p Is there a simple way to allow players to control the end points?
 
Poodmund said:
But for you only to lose a farm when the map is regen'd as opposed to everything you've built... surely that's less painful?
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Exactly. Splitting the worlds into manageable chunks makes it much more likely that we can avoid having to delete player builds further down the line.

We don't wipe the worlds "for fun" - it's a huge PITA for admins. When we wipe it is usually due to corruption/lag issues or due to the map being so old that we are missing vital new ores and the like. As such it is impossible to accurately predict when we will have to wipe worlds. Just to reiterate, we don't do it for fun and ideally we wouldn't have to do it often or at all.

With this new setup, players could have a world dedicated to just one build and if we ever do need to wipe the main map that world could be preserved.
 
If you're worried that it might not work then I can't really argue with you on that one - it's not a guarantee by any means, but I think it has a chance of working.

I wanted to use Mystcraft in order to do something similar but it seems a bit buggy so we're stuck with just plain old Multiverse instead (which tbh might be a better long-term solution anyhow).
 
Test server is going well.. the dedi crash issue we just was caused by a really weird set of circumstances that shouldn't occur again (I say...but actually it could really easily occur again whilst this testing is going on tonight..I hope it won't though).
 
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