Haloween Update and how it will affect us

[Skully7780]

I was just browsing on the main forum and found a couple interesting tidbits...

Torches are going to be required to relight after a while and all torches already in game are going to be replaced with lanterns. It may be a good idea to stock up a little on torches as im sure a lantern will use more resources.

Also with the update of biomes, are we going to be keeping our map? As this will most likely change the landscape.

I like the whole hell idea, you can put signs for portals for different places and not have to walk down a 21 min hallway (no offense! that was fun!) lol

If damage goes into effect its going to be hilarious the next time I jump out of my place and splat on the ground!

Lets also hope for WORKING MINECARTS!

What do you guys think?

 

[SgtSpike]

At this point, I am planning on a map reset come Oct 31st. This is for a few reasons...

1. There is at least one buggy/crashy spot on the map.
2. The map file is now 370MB (or more), which is getting to the unwieldy point (I can't run a minimap regen because the map file is so large, backups would take hours to restore if we needed to, etc). I have an SSD on the way that should remedy most of this trouble, but it has yet to be seen how well it will handle these larger map files.
3. All the updates we would miss. While I'd be surprised if we couldn't explore the world into new biomes, I doubt the "hell" factor would work (adminimum at the bottom of the map already?), and we could very well miss out on a lot of other updates with keeping the same map.
4. I want to update to a MySQL DB format. As far as I know, there is no way to transfer a map from flat-file to MySQL.

I have toyed with the possibility of keeping the old map online along with the new map on two separate server instances, which the server should be able to handle once the upgrades come in. I wanted to switch over to the default port and a different DNS name anyway, so maybe this would help make for a smoother transition to the new port path.

I'll keep everyone posted if there are any changes made to this decision.

 

[Skully7780]

I was just browsing on the main forum and found a couple interesting tidbits...

Torches are going to be required to relight after a while and all torches already in game are going to be replaced with lanterns. It may be a good idea to stock up a little on torches as im sure a lantern will use more resources.

Also with the update of biomes, are we going to be keeping our map? As this will most likely change the landscape.

I like the whole hell idea, you can put signs for portals for different places and not have to walk down a 21 min hallway (no offense! that was fun!) lol

If damage goes into effect its going to be hilarious the next time I jump out of my place and splat on the ground!

Lets also hope for WORKING MINECARTS!

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!
Torches=NOPE
Biomes=LAG
Hell=NOPE
Damage=NOPE
Minecarts=NOPE

:evil:

CRUD! Ahh well.

I still wish I could play at work. (no open GL drivers and wrong java version) Sucks that I can't install on this computer.

 

[XsvalavsX]

You forgot that ovens and chest now mysteriously eat your valuables (not like before, much more malignant this time :evil: ) and buckets don't work.