Org Minecraft Server

[TinCow]

Single player minecraft is only so fun for me. It loses some of its luster when there is no way anyone else will see what I am doing. I'd much rather play in a team environment where we can learn from each other and contribute to cool things.

That's kind of the thing I was thinking about: what exactly are we losing if we lose the old world? It's basically just to show off all the work we've done previously, but who are we showing it off to? For the most part, the only people who see it are ourselves, and we all know what we built and what we accomplished. We're not going to forget those structures just because we can't run around them anymore. If anything, those memories might inspire us to do things again, bigger and better. We were already talking about knocking down the noob hotel because it didn't look good in comparison to the new stuff, and there's honestly a lot of structures like that. The Arena is actually kind of boring being built from all stone brick, but that was all we had to build from back then and no one is going to go through the effort to remodel it at this point. I feel similarly about the town hall; decent enough for when it was built, but actually kind of low quality in comparison to the rest of the city around it, and certainly not 'worthy' of being the center of the city we were building. We could do it all over with access to all the new biomes and materials, without map height constraints (a major factor in the size of the Arena), and with our more modern and elaborate designs.

[BSmith]

We can also take a little less organic approach to the initial layout of the city. I’m all for organic growth, but guided organic growth is even better. We know that we want a city, and we know roughly the size that the center will be, so we can plan accordingly in the new world. The city can also be the true center of the world.

It will also be interesting to see what kind of biome we spawn in, and work around the terrain as best we can to build a nice central city area. I am a big fan of using the terrain as it is and working around it as minimally as possible. It’s one of the reasons I kept all of the big oak trees on my farm and built around them.

Needless to say I am leaning more and more towards a fresh start regardless if we get our old world back or not.

[TinCow]

It will also be interesting to see what kind of biome we spawn in, and work around the terrain as best we can to build a nice central city area. I am a big fan of using the terrain as it is and working around it as minimally as possible. It’s one of the reasons I kept all of the big oak trees on my farm and built around them.

If we wanted to build the city right at the very center of the map, that might be a bit hard with some biomes, such as ocean, extreme hills, or mesa. If we did want to build it right in the center, I could keep respawning the world when I created it until I got one that had one of the more acceptable biomes in that area.

[BSmith]

I think I am ok with that.

[Nigel]

Well, I do feel a bit nostalgic about loosing our world and - to be honest - my very first thought was "Gosh, if we have lost it all, I dont know if I can muster the strength to get back into MineCraft".

On the other hand, your excitement for something new is catching on and after all, the value of this is in the players not in the structures. So as long as they are there, pixel-life will go on.

But we should also hear the voices of those, who will loose really hard work. Never mind my own little house, but Sigurd, Aridhol/Ishmael and some others have build some really spectacular buildings with a lot of effort. If those could still be saved, that may be definitely worth the effort.

[TinCow]

If those could still be saved, that may be definitely worth the effort.

Oh, if the world can be saved the world WILL be saved. If I can get the data back we will not be doing a wipe, period. This discussion is about what to do if the data is lost. That scenario is, quite frankly, looking very likely at this point. Our options then are a fresh world or shutting down Orgcraft altogether. Well, I suppose we could also restore from a 6 month old save, but I would be extremely reluctant to do that. A lot of the most spectacular work has been done in the last 6 months, and that would all be gone.

[Tuuvi]

I think a Feed the Beast server would cool if the world has to be started over. Building machines and piping materials around looks like a blast to me and it would make gathering large amounts of resources much easier.