IMPORTANT: RESOURCE RESPAWN?

[Chick Hearts Glitter.gc]

So we were mining yesterday and how the map ends right now (not like minecraft where it never ends), what happens when all the Gold/Iron, Flint, etc., is mined out? I mean i know trees and such respawn, but this could really be an issue if someone just went on a mining spree and could eventually deplete a server of all of it's precious metals and such?

I understand that making an infinite world would make PVP kinda of pointless bc I'll just travel 10k blocks and hide under ground, and if it's limited how do you make the area refill?

Because right now what's stopping someone from going on any server and completely leveling the entire map to bedrock? and just throwing all the resources on the ground. It is the ultimate troll move if none of the blocks respawn.

[Elliebird]

Leveling the whole map is an unlikely scenario, but if certain resources don't respawn, it'll definitely become an issue later on. Someone else mentioned that the servers are starting to become trashed as well, with holes dug everywhere and such.

I remember Everquest - Landmark had terrain that you could dig into, but it would gradually regenerate itself unless a structure was blocking it. This meant people got trapped if they tunneled for a long time, but they could just dig their way back out.

The issue I see with that solution is that people trying to terraform for building, or to just make their surroundings fit what they want, wouldn't be able to do so if the terrain kept coming back.

[HighFlyer15]

If someone manages to level the entire map just to troll everyone by removing all resources he deserve a freaking award :P

[Chick Hearts Glitter.gc]

It's such a complex thing to deal with. I mean it might not be bad to make the world infinity like minecraft. I'm not saying someone would completely flatten a server but nothing is stopping them and then eventually your PVPing with copper spears HAHA

[Yuna]

Maybe they could have small areas (just around the resources) where building and destroying is not allowed and they keep respawning every hour or so.

[Faya AOP]

The ability to take home blocks from other worlds would solve that problem.
This would ofc be a SP solution.

Originally posted by Ana:

Maybe they could have small areas (just around the resources) where building and destroying is not allowed and they keep respawning every hour or so.

This would make an allready small map, tiny, so imo it would be a bad idea.

[Yuna]

I didn't mean everywhere where there's resources. I meant like 4 tiny areas where you can't build anything above and below and within like 10 blocks around it. Your idea is good too. Or maybe they could have a world you teleport to just for the purpose of getting resources.