Eternity Minecraft - Server is Live!

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So Sep, where's the update?

Well, you might be happy to know that with work slowing and the holidays done, I finally decided to put this project ahead of my thousands of other projects, and started work on the new update.

However.

There are some problems when it comes to making workable SMP worlds with custom maps. The main issue is that literally all the current tools either do not support 1.14, or were broken by 1.14 and had key features removed. I'm mainly referring to the tools I have on hand: World Painter and Open Terrain Generator.

• The problem with OTG is pretty simple: it was simply never updated past 1.12.2, as the devs focused more on bug fixes, better usability, and more robust features. The 1.13 update changed the entire back-end nature of the game, so updating this tool will be a massive amount of work, but it could eventually be done.
  
• The problem with World Painter is more severe: the 1.14 update changed world seed parameters and the nature of world generation, specifically how chunk population occurs. You can read here for an overview of how Minecraft used to handle world generation, but the short of it is that the game's new world generation algorithm now adds trees, dungeons, towns, ores, etc during initial terrain creation, instead of handled in a second step afterwards. WP can still create terrain, but features like biome-specific trees, dungeons, and villages will not exist.

There are workarounds, I suppose, but all of them are less than satisfactory. I can obviously just create a v1.12 map and put it on our server, but we would then be missing all of the new content such as the new biomes, some new mobs, new blocks/items, etc...and that rather defeats the purpose of the server update. Alternatively, I could just add all that extra detail by hand or through schematics and...no, just no, not unless we had tens of people working on the build.

In any case, I'll get it figured out.