It's time for a new adventure
54 replies · 16 participants · 🔒 Locked by AncientEagleHelm on Jan 31, 2014
Aug 14, 2012, 05:54 PM#1
It is time...
After 2 long and creative years, and a couple of rollbacks (some catastrophic), it's time to start with a clean slate. The world has grown to a whopping 10GB and has become hard to maintain and handle.
We've decided that now is a good time to start from scratch.
But don't panic! The projects you are working on right now are safe and will be safe for the foreseeable future (more on this later).
So what happens now?
We would like to invite all minecraft players, with an interest of shaping the new world, to participate in the generation of the "seed value".
The seed value is used by the minecraft server software to randomly generate the shape and contents of the world (more information here).
I've created a website where you can add your bits of text or numbers, which will then be calculated into the final seed. The site should be self-explanatory.
The site will be running for the next 7 days, so you have enough time to add seeds and vote on them until 21st of August - 13:00 UTC+2.
Once we have the final seed hash, I will create the world and everyone who is approved (or better) may start building in it.
There will however be a size limitation of the new world. We don't want to restrict anyone and there will be enough room for everyone, but we don't want to have a 10GB semi-deserted map again in two years.
But what about my castle, I just got it the way I want it!
The old world will still be around when we start the new one and you will have plenty of time to finish any unfinished business.
However, we encourage building in the new world as we plan to make the old world read-only after several months.
If you have a really good reason to be allowed to build in the old world we will of course let you - but you should know that it's not going to last for long.
Chunk generation will be disabled and there won't be any further backups of the old world (after a grace period).
We also won't transfer any builds to the new world. It would defeat the purpose of making a new world if all the old builds would be there.
That's all I could think of for now, any questions?
After 2 long and creative years, and a couple of rollbacks (some catastrophic), it's time to start with a clean slate. The world has grown to a whopping 10GB and has become hard to maintain and handle.
We've decided that now is a good time to start from scratch.
But don't panic! The projects you are working on right now are safe and will be safe for the foreseeable future (more on this later).
So what happens now?
We would like to invite all minecraft players, with an interest of shaping the new world, to participate in the generation of the "seed value".
The seed value is used by the minecraft server software to randomly generate the shape and contents of the world (more information here).
I've created a website where you can add your bits of text or numbers, which will then be calculated into the final seed. The site should be self-explanatory.
The site will be running for the next 7 days, so you have enough time to add seeds and vote on them until 21st of August - 13:00 UTC+2.
Once we have the final seed hash, I will create the world and everyone who is approved (or better) may start building in it.
There will however be a size limitation of the new world. We don't want to restrict anyone and there will be enough room for everyone, but we don't want to have a 10GB semi-deserted map again in two years.
But what about my castle, I just got it the way I want it!
The old world will still be around when we start the new one and you will have plenty of time to finish any unfinished business.
However, we encourage building in the new world as we plan to make the old world read-only after several months.
If you have a really good reason to be allowed to build in the old world we will of course let you - but you should know that it's not going to last for long.
Chunk generation will be disabled and there won't be any further backups of the old world (after a grace period).
We also won't transfer any builds to the new world. It would defeat the purpose of making a new world if all the old builds would be there.
That's all I could think of for now, any questions?
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Aug 21, 2012, 02:57 PM#21
Thanks to whoever voted for Cakemountain twice. It warms my heart! 
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!Aug 21, 2012, 03:04 PM#22
I must say that I CANT BELIEVE 'NomNomNomPenis' actually won the contest. Wow. Congrats Jamza....
Aug 21, 2012, 07:18 PM#23
I must say that I CANT BELIEVE 'NomNomNomPenis' actually won the contest. Wow. Congrats Jamza....
It sort of didn't. Chinichi just spammed the hell out of it a few days before the end. I got ticked off becasue I was worried that the admins would take it seriously. I then voted about 100 or so times to stop him, but I had buisness to attend to and stopped when Chinichi was at 116 and I was at ~140. That was an hour away from the end so I guess you can tell what happened from there.
It was pretty much a battle between Chinichi's "7 friends" and my 23 open tabs. In the end, an hour away, I decided that I would not let that optin win and added a ton of votes but chinichi added an even higher number than me in that small time frame. I'm just going to post the entire chatlog, it will be in the chatlog thread about now.
Aug 21, 2012, 09:24 PM#24
I must say that I CANT BELIEVE 'NomNomNomPenis' actually won the contest. Wow. Congrats Jamza...
I hope it does end up being "NomNomNomPenis" rather than these filthy h4x0r children.
Aug 21, 2012, 09:41 PM#25
Wow drama. It's just a seed.
Aug 21, 2012, 10:16 PM#26
Yeah, I think this is being taken a little too seriously. It's just the seed, and not even the whole seed; it's not like the spawned world will have "NomNomNomPenis" spelled in giant letters.
Until I get to work.
Until I get to work.
Aug 21, 2012, 10:20 PM#27
Yeah, I think this is being taken a little too seriously. It's just the seed, and not even the whole seed; it's not like the spawned world will have "NomNomNomPenis" spelled in giant letters.
Until I get to work.
Aug 25, 2012, 01:34 PM#28
The New World has been opened up for everyone.
If you'd like to visit it, use /spawn to return to the spawn and look for a Gate without the nether-gate effect (like this) to go to the lobby world. If you came from the "Old World" the "New World" Portal will be directly across the portal you exited.
If you'd like to visit it, use /spawn to return to the spawn and look for a Gate without the nether-gate effect (like this) to go to the lobby world. If you came from the "Old World" the "New World" Portal will be directly across the portal you exited.
Aug 25, 2012, 11:18 PM#29
Cyber and I have gone in and started building, abandoning all our riches from the old world in the meantime for a fresh start.
I have two comments: The first is that as of right now there's no real system or order on the new map; we've started building a shelter atop a hill near the spawn but I'm not sure what will happen now. Will a grid be built? Will the area surrounding the spawn be flattened and homogenized into stone like Eos2? I must say I rather like the landscape.
My second comment is that as beautiful as newspawn is, it's confusing to have it triplicated across the two worlds and lobby. It's not immediately obvious where you are, and I could see this being off-putting to newcomers. Maybe signs or colour-coding would help.
Just my two cents.
I have two comments: The first is that as of right now there's no real system or order on the new map; we've started building a shelter atop a hill near the spawn but I'm not sure what will happen now. Will a grid be built? Will the area surrounding the spawn be flattened and homogenized into stone like Eos2? I must say I rather like the landscape.
My second comment is that as beautiful as newspawn is, it's confusing to have it triplicated across the two worlds and lobby. It's not immediately obvious where you are, and I could see this being off-putting to newcomers. Maybe signs or colour-coding would help.
Just my two cents.
Aug 25, 2012, 11:24 PM#30
My second comment is that as beautiful as newspawn is, it's confusing to have it triplicated across the two worlds and lobby. It's not immediately obvious where you are, and I could see this being off-putting to newcomers. Maybe signs or colour-coding would help..
I also experienced the same confusing situation.
Aug 25, 2012, 11:44 PM#31
Once i get back to luxembourg ( which will be the 27th ) I'll see what i can do.
I've already got an idea on new-new-newspawn and the surrounding city
but rest assured , the landscape will NOT be homogenized.
Terra forming will take place however ( like any sodding building )
that's all i can say for now.
at least for my plans ...
"blueprints" will be posted soon
I've already got an idea on new-new-newspawn and the surrounding city
but rest assured , the landscape will NOT be homogenized.
Terra forming will take place however ( like any sodding building )
that's all i can say for now.
at least for my plans ...
"blueprints" will be posted soon
Aug 26, 2012, 04:11 AM#32
I also experienced the same confusing situation.
Me too.
I find it rather confusing having the 2 worlds, plus the third world for a spawn. In my mind, having the spawn in the new world (in the center of the proposed city) makes more sense, with a single portal to the old world.
Aug 27, 2012, 01:54 AM#33
I also experienced the same confusing situation.
Me too.
I find it rather confusing having the 2 worlds, plus the third world for a spawn. In my mind, having the spawn in the new world (in the center of the proposed city) makes more sense, with a single portal to the old world.
Yes, that would be better. Perhaps the lobby world could have a diffrent appearance too?
Aug 27, 2012, 02:26 AM#34
TBH, the world clamping is kinda ridiculously small. Trying to get everyone to fit into a box that small will result in it looking like Mumbai.
Aug 27, 2012, 08:11 PM#35
I'm back! Maybe...I've been playing on a RP server and (NOT ADVERTISING) MineZ. They're both fun, but I think it's time to come back to my very first Minecraft Server. Maybe I'll join the server again...
Aug 28, 2012, 08:32 PM#36
Server is currently down again for an unknown reason. Hopefully it will be back tomorrow.
Edit: Its back, weird.
Edit: Its back, weird.
Aug 28, 2012, 08:53 PM#37
In related news, I have this picture taken by an insider at the Aprilon serverfarm.
Aug 31, 2012, 03:20 PM#38
wow...haha. That does not look good. xD
Sep 1, 2012, 03:18 AM#39
wow...haha. That does not look good. xD
It certainly does not. I think they should water-cool it, it's pretty effective.
Sep 19, 2012, 01:40 AM#40
Server's IP was blocked again and the network owner (OVH) issued a warning that this would be the last time the IP will be unblocked, so we need to start looking into MC/VPS Hosts again. 