A frozen port.
A frozen town, banished from the light of the summer sun.
An incongruous mess of rain and snow, summer and winter.
A lonely lighthouse, in what was once a tropical location, a favored destination for tourists.
A royal mess.
A monstrosity.
A struggling farmer's melancholy.
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By now, I am sure that you are horrified. "What is this?" you might ask. "How did it happen?" you exclaim. "Do something!" you plead.
This, my brethren, is what remains of our fair world of server.srb2.org:7175. Once, it was a home to many residents. Testificates frolicked in the abundant sunlight, humans explored and built beautiful structures out of stone and lapis. A mighty civilization. Out of this land came brave and courageous men, men strong enough to venture to the very Ends of the world, men valiant enough to face the fearsome Enderdragon, and put an end to it's cruel rain of fire.
Today... these legends are but a ghostly whisper among the post-apocalyptic wastelands. The 1.2.4 update, and the demise of our world was a shock to us all. As we watched the first of the eternal snowflakes fall on our home, we mused on how pretty they were. But they never stopped falling.
These were not the only consequences. For some, the eternal snowflakes were too much too handle, and their minds, incapable of processing them all, slowed their movement to a crawl. They creep around the landscape, uncapable of seeing where they are going. They fall into pits, get slaughtered by monsters, or burn themselves in fiery lakes. Let us not even speak of the living deathtrap that is the Nether. 1.2.4 has frowned upon us, and doomed some of us to laggy, fiery deaths. I myself barely escaped it's wrath.
Now, I wander the lands, searching for hope, and a future. The world I loved is no more. I seek to bring answers to my fellow countrymen, answers that can restore our world to it's former glory.
And now! I bring news! I have found an answer!
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Ahem. Joking aside. The state of the Minecraft server after the 1.2.4 update is positively atrocious.
Snow biomes make up most of the world, even being in places that are absolutely unfitting for snow. As in, Sapphire Town, the Spawn Desert, the ocean, and many other places. A simple boatride over the ocean (if you can find a place that isn't iced over) will show that one block is ocean, one extreme hills, and the next river. And again and again. Though
that fact may not be dehabilitating to the server, it is a good example of just how much the transfer screwed up the map. Though it's too early to be sure, this will likely have a drastic impact on the spawning of hostile and friendly mobs.
Biomes don't seem to be the only problem, either. A number of us have experienced massive framerate drops in the Nether, as a result of the conversion. In fact, I confess with full confidence that I was quite literally sucked into the lava multiple times. I have my sister, who was watching the game and saw it too, as my witness. As much good as that does, it at least shows I wasn't just blaming my death on the game.
As far as I can tell, unless a better porting method shows up, our world is doomed to a messy future. That is why I have
a proposition.
My proposition is this:
A new map. But wait! A new map discourages creativity, because any length of time spent working on a project is ultimately wasted when the new update comes. If only there were a way around it... Perhaps there is?
As of the update to the map format, WorldEdit no longer works, or so I have been told. But, knowing the Minecraft community, it shan't be long until it updates, or another such utility pops up. When such a thing happens, I propose we use it to copy these projects out, to a new and fresh world. I think it would be a benefit to us all, actually. There were great structures in both our current world and the last one. Imagine the best of both worlds, (bad pun) in a fresh and new world! Of course, we can't shove all this work on Furyhunter, the server administrator. He doesn't deserve that. And such being the case, I would gladly do it myself. Quite naturally, I'd need both the previous maps, so that I could copy the structures from them. You know, things like Iceman's Tower, The Coatrack, Iliad, Zarro's Castle, Instantaneous' Castle, Chaos Island. Obviously before such, we would need to get ahold of who wanted to keep what. Porting the entire towns would be silly, because there are a number of undesirable buildings in both Iceville and past and present Sapphire. I'd port what people wanted, and nothing else. Again, the best of both worlds. Everyone's hard earned buildings, and a fresh new landscape.
Another problem would be where to port it to in the new world, but that too I have a solution for. I pride myself in my eye for location, and with a little guidance from each structure's respective owner as to what type of area they would like it situated in, I think I could satisfy everyone.
This plan rests on three things:
#1: Furyhunter's Approval.
#2: Approval from a majority of the players.
#3: The release of a world editing tool.
So, give the idea a spin. What are your opinions on it? Good? Bad?
