The Great Migration
8:29 am - December 30, 2011
Greetings Mhykol Mines Survival Server residents!
As you all may know running a minecraft server is very new to me and unfortunately you guys are getting to feel my learning pains as I figure out how best to run a public minecraft server. I want to thank you for your patience while I thoroughly screw things up and try to fix them 
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The Problem
One issue we are suffering from right now is our map is too large at over 2gigs in size causing several issues: 1. The overview map takes too long to generate causing it to kill the server while running. 2. The server runs out of memory and starts throwing errors when enough people are on with enough different chunks loaded.
The Solution
The simple solution is to start a fresh new map, but what about all of your hard work on this map? Well after much thought and consideration on how best to do the server move I have devised a plan that allows everyone a fresh start without having to gather lots of resources at the beginning. I’m calling this The Great Migration. Before I get to The Great Migration I want to cover a few disclaimers. First of all I understand some of you will be unhappy with it, but I’m sorry and I wish I had a better solution. The idea I had originally to just copy buildings over to the new map did not work out in practice as there is no way to tell where to cut off the copy of the house and how to get it to look good pasting on the new map. So without more delay here’s the plan.
The Great Migration
Here is how The Great Migration will work. I have a second, small, server set up with the new map already. Unfortunately the new map is not quite yet ready as it needs a nice spawn to be built. This new spawn will be much larger then the first spawn and be protected on a larger area to prevent building around spawn. Here are the steps for The Great Migration:
1. A team of volunteers and myself will build the spawn on the new map while the old map is still up. If you want to be on this team you have to be creative, be able to not explore outside of spawn, and follow my vision of spawn to the best of your ability while being able to add a little flair of your own.
2. Once this is complete I will give a set amount of notice (to be determined at that point) to gather everything you want to take on your migration into your inventory. You can ONLY take what you can fit into your inventory.
3. At the set time and date the server will come down, the new map will be copied over with your player data still in tact. Downtime could be anywhere between 5 minutes to an hour depending on any issues that arise from the migration.
4. The server goes live and you should be at the new spawn on the new map ready to go out and stake your land. Please note changes on villages in the policy changes below.
5. Enjoy the new map!
Policy Changes
- The map will be limited to 1,000 blocks in each direction from spawn (2,000 x 2,000 block map). If this is too small I will reevaluate it in the future to see if we need to expand.
- The area around spawn is off limits to building except by individuals with explicit permission. The area is 200 blocks in each direction from the spawn point (400 x 400 block area).
- Members that come together and build a town/village of their own that looks good will get their town regioned off and protected. You will pick a “mayor” for your village/town who will be in charge of the region.
- The old map will be available for download for your enjoyment. Schematics from the old map could be imported to the new map depending on the building.
- More to come!
Moderation Team
I need your contact info – I want to set up a mailing list or some kind of message board so we can keep in communication better. Please email me (mhykol@gmail) with your email address and minecraft name.
Thanks!
