The Great Limbo Post-Mortem

On 2024-04-24, after a long stretch of mostly solo play, prop typed into the server chat that he was “planning on closing server permanently” ¹. His complaint was that earlier servers had at least had a period of real player activity, and Limbo never did ². The plan was to beat the Ender Dragon first, then shut it down ³.

What followed was an autopsy conducted in public. kira offered his reasons why ASMP Limbo failed: “1) you added create, some people can’t be bothered 2) you made too much progress by yourself, others feel like peasants when starting out” ⁴. The friends added a lack of lore and of any recruiting to the list, and prop admitted that literally everyone had told him they disliked Create (see The Create Mod Hate). DeathHack127 (Levi) joined the discussion, with Kart in the thick of it.

Prop then laid out two options. Option 1 was to beat the dragon together by the weekend and start a fresh vanilla server immediately ⁵. Option 2 was to wait for the 1.21 trial chambers update, keep the Create server running in the meantime, and then launch vanilla on the new version. DeathHack127 asked for a public seed and kira suggested a 2k by 2k border. Prop picked Option 2 with the seed public, a rule to stay within roughly 1000 blocks of each other, and a chosen world spawn.

The dragon would be the finale, and afterwards the Limbo world would become prop’s singleplayer world ^{6 7}. Two days later the server was closed and its backups archived (ASMP Limbo Ends).