NOTE: This Blog is for the vanilla server DinoVanilla.  Due to the circumstances, this Blog can apply to any other Vanilla server.

"This is the plan as it stands, although we are completely open to suggestions!  ...Please share your thoughts and any features you would like to see with this change.  Thanks for your time,  -Vanir"

Yes, I do have a few thoughts and features I have in mind...  Basically almost all of them and how they will affect the meaning of DinoVanilla.



"Essentially, at a point every vanilla server get's overrun by the new players that join. The spawn is where most of our activity is at the moment, and we want to preserve this, however it would be difficult to keep the server unprotected if we want to stop the spawn from getting completely wrecked.


So, as a solution we propose that we have not one spawn point, but several. All newly whitelisted players will be assigned to a new spawn or "colony" and will have that spawn as their default spawn just as we have our spawn. This will allow new players to build their own villages around their spawns and to build their own micro communities. This way players do not have to join into a village that's already fully built, and they do not have to try and catch up with the other players, instead they can progress with new people alongside them.


These colonies will be spaced far apart, roughly 10km apart to provide a degree of separation from each other which will allow them to expand whilst also giving a challenge to visiting other colonies. So that the chat doesn't get too crowded either, we will be implementing a 3km radius chat limit, so to talk to other colonies you actually have to visit them. PM's will still be global so you can talk to people directly.


If you die you will respawn at the nearest colony spawnpoint, so it's incredibly easy to migrate to a new colony, all you do is move there and you're set!


We're also planning that we will make a large non-pvp area equally distanced from all of the colonies, that will be used for safe trading and trnasactions."



I am in favor of the multi-spawn town idea.  Although, being spaced out 10,000 blocks is a little much, considering traveling only 1,000 blocks is quite a chore, even on a horse!  I imagine the system will be: new player joins, gets a random spawntown.  That I think is an awesome idea and should stay.

I don't like the 3,000 block chat limit, plain and simple.  If this server is whitelisted to only 20 players, the chat will never get crowded.  If it does, you can still easily make out conversations.  Even if the player count goes up to the hundreds, 100 people probably won't all be chatting at once.

I am in favor of the rule "if you die at a colony, you respawn in that colony."  Be careful it doesn't turn into a case of: "O look, I am still 1000 blocks from this colony.  Lemme kill meself and I will respawn there."

"We're also planning that we will make a large non-pvp area equally distanced from all of the colonies, that will be used for safe trading and trnasactions."

What does this mean?  Is the server going PvP in certain locations?  Arenas are ok, but not the land itself!  "Safe trading" you say?  Just walk up to the guy, throw your junk items on the ground and get junk items from the other guy.  That is all it needs to be!

Is DinoVanilla turning into DinoPVP, DinoFactions, DinoMCMMO?  If you go the wrong route, your revolutionary vanilla server will just become another mass pvp, mass grief, mass raid server. (like we don't have enough already)

In conclusion: I AM IN FAVOR OF THE COLONIES, JUST IN A DIFFERENT WAY!

1) Make the spawn colonies closer.

2) Get rid of the 3000 block chat limit.

3) Get rid of "trade areas"

4) NO PVP, NO RAID, NO GRIEF, NO JUNK LIKE THAT JUNK!


Remember DinoVanilla map 1?  That was a perfect server.  Dino Vanilla map 2?  Even better!  Dino Vanilla map 3?  You must be joking, this place is awesome!  Don't let Dino Vanilla map 4 be a trashy place.  Continue the pattern and make map 4 perfect.  (assuming that Dino Colonies will be a new map)

But then again, who would listen to the low guy on the totem pole?
Do what you guys want.  Vanir12, just don't make it pvp.

-happyFACE82, DinoVanilla player from map 1.


EDIT: I voted for the colonies on the reddit.  Don't let my vote go to waste, I don't want to contribute to the fall of DinoVanilla.  I am sure that whatever you guys do it will be great, so I am sure that my vote contributed to the rise.