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I'd be fine iwth a Dakka2 server that's reset regularly. Would we keep our inventories on reset? If we would, that would seal the deal for me.
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What are the chances of the server having enough players to put together the sort of build density we saw on the last few vanilla wipes?
Keeping the "old" server as a backup works. However yes, the only way to maintain the existing population if you were doing a wipe would be to transfer certain builds. As otherwise people would just continue with those on the existing server. Leaving it up to players to decide if they want to transfer anything or not would be a way to do it -the same as the previous wipes - if you did go for a full wipe.
Which personally, I disliked some of the builds on the latest server. Specifically the ones which just lagged everything within the nearest 20 chunks out. ...So maybe get rid of those.
That initial exploration period on a new server is what people chase. Once they settle into builds things seem to drop off after a while. There's also a need for permanency with builds too. So if there were to be a new server I wouldn't want to not play for a few months and come back to nothing - unless the server really does have players who are on every other day compulsively, in which case if they're the majority catering to them would be the way to go.
I mean as much as I am in favor of a new server, (which I am not really interested in anymore considering I've started doing a new build and have so many resources I could easily do that with the resources I have). We could easily just move spawn, like my prior suggestion with teleportation between the old and new spawns which would allow people to teleport in between spawn and the new spawn, I mean we don't have to do a full reset, but I can't believe that many people want a full reset. But its understandable this is a quite older server.
And most of the immediate Dakka Map that is visible has been covered entirely.
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Having just found out that this is a thing, even though I was a early beta or late alpha Minecraft era player - I would love to join and play on the new dakka2 server as a regular.
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Okay... been messing around with Mine craft on the 360 and wondering if someone could help me..
The seed I used had a small village and it was long dead or no villagers spawned by the time I found it.
After reading about the trick of turning back zombie villagers I slowly rebuilt them.
Then I bought a map and found there was a location for a Woodland mansion, went there and was nothing.
Was wondering if there is a way to reset the basic seed without loosing the stuff I already built.
Seems that I picked a bad seed to build on because I am missing a ton of bio domes (mostly swamp) and
other items that should be included are not.
Genoside07 wrote: Okay... been messing around with Mine craft on the 360 and wondering if someone could help me..
The seed I used had a small village and it was long dead or no villagers spawned by the time I found it.
After reading about the trick of turning back zombie villagers I slowly rebuilt them.
Then I bought a map and found there was a location for a Woodland mansion, went there and was nothing.
Was wondering if there is a way to reset the basic seed without loosing the stuff I already built.
Seems that I picked a bad seed to build on because I am missing a ton of bio domes (mostly swamp) and
other items that should be included are not.
Good Question. I have no idea. It seems to be that either your chunks are corrupted or your world is actually just too old though not many of us play on console on here.
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Wyrmalla wrote: What are the chances of the server having enough players to put together the sort of build density we saw on the last few vanilla wipes?
Keeping the "old" server as a backup works. However yes, the only way to maintain the existing population if you were doing a wipe would be to transfer certain builds. As otherwise people would just continue with those on the existing server. Leaving it up to players to decide if they want to transfer anything or not would be a way to do it -the same as the previous wipes - if you did go for a full wipe.
Which personally, I disliked some of the builds on the latest server. Specifically the ones which just lagged everything within the nearest 20 chunks out. ...So maybe get rid of those.
That initial exploration period on a new server is what people chase. Once they settle into builds things seem to drop off after a while. There's also a need for permanency with builds too. So if there were to be a new server I wouldn't want to not play for a few months and come back to nothing - unless the server really does have players who are on every other day compulsively, in which case if they're the majority catering to them would be the way to go.
I'd like the teleportation if nothing else. Granted, I don't particularly like "Density" of builds- I'd prefer large distances between large builds/areas, but with big logistics/transportation builds between them- highways for horse and donkey travel, elytra towers and markers, tunnels or bridges for railways, that sort of thing. Even if they're not often used, I like how they look and how they get built.
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A second spawn could be made with a teleporter that connects the main spawn.
All that is needed then is to designate a radius (say 2-3k chunks) that will get reset with every major update. It would make it really easy for Darkinnit to reset that area unless there was an overwhelming desire to reset the map.
Players could go to one area to always be able to experience new content as long as it spawns in those biomes.
Anvildude wrote: I'd like the teleportation if nothing else. Granted, I don't particularly like "Density" of builds- I'd prefer large distances between large builds/areas, but with big logistics/transportation builds between them- highways for horse and donkey travel, elytra towers and markers, tunnels or bridges for railways, that sort of thing. Even if they're not often used, I like how they look and how they get built.
Don't really need thousands of blocks inbetween as it adds challenge for us to be closer to one another. But yeah we could build at least like a few hundred blocks away from one another, but having a permanent new spawn and then each update we just move the spawn to a newly ungenerated chunk would be pretty cool.
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I'd be keen for a Dakka2. Giving an equal start for everyone (eg. nothing) is far more balanced than carrying an inventory over every reset because that just offsets what starting a new map is all about.
The start of a map is always the best time for me and even if the things I built were gone within a few updates that would be fine because it keeps the experience fresh. Just telling people to leave their area and go on an adventure off the edge of the map isn't as fun because if you get bored you can just die and head back to your own area again. Having teleporters isn't part of the vanilla experience imo.
FYI, the road west now has a track and a horse pen at the end as well. I named the track 'certain death' as it's horribly unsafe If enough people use it and complain about how unsafe the tunnel and track are, I might fix it til then it works, and as we know it's function over form
I ghast blew out some tracks from a previous trip, then when I had to jump out of the cart I ended up in a lava lake I hope everyone got a chance to put every protection on their armor, the new update is out. I fixed the track, but you never know what happened to the person before you.
Say no to 1.14.3
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Say no to 1.14.3 we don't need zombie sieges in addition to the other BS with raids. They still have not fixed the bug where zombie sieges can literally happen anywhere even when players aren't even there.
Item frames will crash the game too!
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If the 'world' is basically infinite, then making a new spawn 10,000 or so from the original will work. Some way to shortcut between the two would be nice in case old timers come back and want to relocate to the new area.
Theres a pretty funny bug in game right now if you are holding a silk touch book, and you break something that would normally break from punching, will not and instead act like as if you have something with silk touch.... Which means you can now have a silk touch book to use for glass / ice / hardened ice with no durability loss! (its a temp bug though)
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I decided it was probably best to just have a teleport to some new area of the world rather than a whole separate world. SirRalphy had suggested a jungle he found and so I've made some portals linking spawn to the jungle.
At spawn, if you head down to the basement of the Suburbia Metro, and head left, you'll find the portal room. Simply step into the portal and you're wisked to the Jungle at -47959, 94
You better be coming out here to build. You started this.
I moved east of my base into new terrian generation like a month ago. I've been going that way for a bit, and I am already in 1.14.3 terrain for a while.
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If enough people use it and complain about how unsafe the tunnel and track are, I might fix it 
