Survival Development Update & Community Poll

[cheater]

Heya Munchies!

With 1.20 around the corner, we have found ourselves in a dilemma and would like to hear your feedback.

Moving into the summer, we can either keep survival as it is (and perform a regular update as you are used to) or we temporarily disable custom mobs (this means all custom bosses and custom model pets) for the summer in order to greatly increase the performance of survival. This means, constantly high tps (low lag) no matter how many players are online or what they are doing. While the bosses do not directly impact the performance of survival, they conflict with the new infrastructure we are currently working on behind the scenes.

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Option 1: Keep Bosses and Custom Pets (Significantly more lag)

Pros

• Quests will still include bosses.
• You will still be able to have custom pets.

Cons

• You will still experience the same levels of lag and farming restrictions as you are used to for now
• You can expect an increase in lag in the weeks immediately after the 1.20 update (similar to what you are used to from previous version updates)

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Option 2: Temporarily remove Bosses and Custom Pets

Pros

• Significantly improved server performance as soon as possible.
• We will be able to soften up our strict rules on afking and farms.
• The server will be able to handle way more players (e.g. during streams).
• An overall way smoother experience on Survival.

Cons

• Bosses and pets with custom models will be gone temporarily (No ETA or guarantee for when they will come back).
• @skepiwi’s mob votes will be postponed.

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Vote here!

• Prioritize keeping bosses and custom pets at all times
• Temporarily remove custom mobs to increase server performance

Note that either way, we will bring both the performance increase and custom mobs to survival eventually. This poll is merely about what the community thinks we should prioritize for now.

[numbersix]

Wish some kind of middle ground could be found here. Custom mobs look awesome but tps is as important to gameplay as audio is to film. Have to lean towards mobs right now but happy to see it go either way when I can play during summer holidays!

[cheater]

The middle ground is that as soon as it is humanly possible, we will make both of them available together. Until then, it sadly is an either-or decision.

[DREX0R]

As I love custom pets and stuff I find tps to be horrible, especially because I want to make a PvP tournament in the near future so this is necessary

[alexisytical]

While I would be sad about losing the custom “mobs” (specifically my mouse LOL) - I do think it would be a great idea to temporarily remove them for the sake of smoother performance!

[skepiwi]

As much as custom pets are really fun to make and cool. Better server performance is something many have wanted for ages, including myself XD.

[DREX0R]

Good luck on the charizard skep

[oTortle]

Survival would be 100x better for all of the grinders if the performance issues were focused more then the custom mobs and pets.

[Scop211]

I agree with this 100%

good job turtle uwu

[DREX0R]

@Scop211

uwu

Disowning you rn until Tuesday.

[Candlea]

@cheater

We will be able to soften up our strict rules on afking and farms.

I am curious to see those changes considering lots of people were against the afk rules. Although it’s for the well-being of the server, some clearly made the game less enjoyable especially for those who loves to build machines either for fun or for grinding.

[cheater]

We had to implement those changes to combat lag. If our new infrastructure successfully reduces the lag on survival, we could consider removing these rules step-by-step. But this largely depends on the success of the project!

[DREX0R]

When shall this poll end because I think everyone’s stated their Opinion by now.