I'm extremely against this idea. I've always loved the fact that we've never reset the world. Like 99% of servers this old have reset their world mutliple times, we haven't. We won't reset the world for some dumb new biome and we also won't make it a secondary world. Come on.
Want a new map? Then make that new map an alt world, but not the main VC map.
Absolutely not.
holding onto the past because there is years of builds on the server. Plus we saw how the vanilla server worked out, People would play for a week then get bored of starting over.
exactly
people have put in so many fucking hours to this server and it's not fair to just erase all of that because a few players want change
VC prides itself on history, especially when it's been around since 2011. As Air said, many other servers reset, and it's always hard to recover from.
I vote yes, you guys are too attached to the monuments of the past. It is time to forge a new era and leave the old behind. You guys are shunning the prospect of a new canvas because you spent time on an older painting that is finished now. Think of it like a renaissance for the server a time for new ideas and creations, let us not stagnate but make a new world together as we did the old one.
The Minecraft world extends to +/-30,000,000. Even if we were to assume everywhere +/-1,000,000 of spawn has been explored (which is FAR from the truth), that's still only 0.11% of the whole world. We don't need a reset. The whole idea behind the game is it's meant to be infinite, even if you've built on it for 7 years. People generally explore in lines, going out in one direction until they find something they like. Yes, people may have builds near 1,000,000 blocks out, but there's so much empty space between that and spawn that hasn't been generated yet, waiting for the new terrain in the new update.
If you want a canvas metaphor, it's the equivalent of buying a square 1m canvas, and wanting a new one after you've covered less than a cm of it. If that's hard to visualise, picture this. If the whole minecraft world were your skin, we've used around about 4cm squared of your total body area AT MOST. For those who find 4cm confusing, it's about
this much space on my hand.
Plus, 1.7 was "the update that changed the world" and added a whole bunch of new biomes, yet we managed to cope well with that change. In fact, 1.7 added 32 new biomes, whereas 1.13 adds only 7 (in the overworld), all of which are ocean biomes.
We could just make a warp like 5mill blocks out and let people explore, this might lag the server but idk.
In terms of lag, you load approx 7x7 chunks around you wherever you are. The server doesn't care if that's at 0,0 or at 10mil,10mil. Going far out has no effect. In fact, making a new world would actually be laggier. In my opinion, if people are really bothered about running out of space, then I'd be all up for teleporting them far out and setting up a warp. Heck, I'd even let them pick the biome if it were up to me, it's not a problem. Or (provided the actual world gen algorithm doesn't change much), I could regenerate an ocean near you if you wanted. I'd have to look into it, but that should be possible.
TL;DR: I'm very against a world reset. There's far too much unexplored space to justify a reset, and we have too much history to do it. If you want new terrain, I'll happily set up a warp somewhere new with a biome you want.
