On 22 February 2022, prop laid out four reasons for resetting the world for 1.19. First, a 5000 by 5000 area was already pregenerated, so no new terrain would appear short of travelling out into the laggy unknown. 1 Second, the server had run on 1.18 and generated chunks below y 0, so upgrading in place would give no new deep dark; players would have to travel far just to see it. 2 Third, the server was “lagging like hell” and kira was planning a hardware upgrade anyway. 3 Fourth, a fresh start meant “more random lore”. 4
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1) Server has already pregenerated all the chunks for a 5000 by 5000 area so we wont get any new terrain generating unless we go beyong the regenerated area but ofc we will die due to lag
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2) we have also opened the server in 1.18 and generating chunks under y 0 so we wont get any new 1.19 deep dark things if we update same world to 1.19 we would have to travel a lot just to see the new thing
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3) the server is already lagging like hell and kira is going to upgrade hardware soon anyway
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4) having a fresh start means we can have more random lore lmao
