It will be the first to come out, and Project Cold should come roughly a month after. Some of you may have seen the 4 hour marathon streams yesterday and today. Project Hot (previously called Project Atoll), is already under construction.The first up are 'Project Hot' and 'Project Cold', which are roughly the biomes of the recent poll divided into two temperature related maps.This is going from a 14kx14k map to 2x 7kx7k maps. MassiveCraft will allow multi-map basing again, but with shorter ClaimNear to accomodate map size.MassiveCraft will release smaller thematic maps from here-on out, as opposed to massive 20 biome maps.This resulted in the following decisions: But Essalonia's degredation does mean it will have an expiry date at some point. We will not put MassiveRestore or MassiveTax on the server. Essalonia is starting to show damage because of the lack of MassiveRestore.If however a faction has a base in 3 different worlds, the commuting difference results in more contact with more factions, since the odds of neighboring factions being the same in different worlds is very small, thus actually creating more contact between factions for having multiple worlds, even if the total population per world is less. A faction has a certain 'commuting distance' around itself that it will choose not to walk beyond. While the logic of keeping 'all players in one map encourages community contact' seemed to make sense, it actually doesn't.It is better to have many smaller maps than one large map, according to tech, regarding resource management and keeping TPS reasonable.There was a major technical fiasco with leaf decay and the lack of that feature early on.ĭuring conversations with Game and Tech, we came to the following conclusions:.It basically made a giant black hole on the map barely anyone wanted to settle.

The Mushroom biome was garbage dubbed the 'badlands', wildly unpopular and really badly sourced among the players.Cave layers are a unique feature in Worldpainter which required more learning, time which I did not have.

Essalonia does not have any caves anywhere, because I simply lacked the skill to make them at that time.

I bought a new machine in the meantime to facilitate Esslonia its own rackserver. The fact that Essalonia is 14kx14k versus the 8-10k square maps of the past was a resource drain.

Large maps, so it turns out, actually cause more TPS issues than smaller ones.

The Bo2 pack was massive (600) but not as massive as it could be.

Production was rushed because I had 1 week to make a new map, so many biomes felt 'empty'.

Obviously, it doesn't take an expert to see that problems with Essalonia started showing: When I took over from Cayorion, Essalonia was supposed to be the 'map that killed all maps', so large we would never run out of space, so pretty I could never do better, and so varied that it offered plenty of choice. After internal discussions among Game Staff, myself, and tech, we explored the best way to move forward with map generation. So I asked Birb to prioritize the TPS and lag issues in Survival, and he's made some really good progress with that, enough so that the road is made for the new Survival maps. Which for sure, is something that still needed to be done, but somehow the new map had become synonymous with 'better TPS' in Survival, and that is far from the truth, in fact, at that point in time, a new map would have caused TPS to get even worse.

When I was first asked by SpunSugar to make a new Survival map for Survival, she simply asked me '1.13 content'. Eventually these tech issues were resolved, but then I came to the startling discovery, in talking to a Game Staff member, that Survival players have a wildly different expectation of the survival map than I had making it. There's a couple of things that went wrong early in the pipeline, some of our bo2's did not export correctly causing the program to crash, the program itself wasn't rendering or accepting 1.13 blocks, and when exporting at 1.14 caused the server to crash. While the last months certainly haven't gone to waste, I won't deny it: A lot of delays were also because I slacked off, or because it was just easier to do that 'quick thing' for lore which ended up taking a whole day. It's been a while since a more public blog post about the progress of Survival map generation.

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