You can now again use mob egg dispensers in the city. This means that stories can be equipped with mobs! I had to submit a bug for a plugin and discuss with 2 developers until some user found out that there is a setting in the plugin that allows to have mobs generally off but allow the exception of mob eggs.

We have had constant CPU lag over the last 24 hours and I am having trouble locating the reason. The first thing that I did was plugin testing and I also changed the settings of the 3D map to use fewer resources. I have for example changed how water it processed and how shadows are displayed. I also now switched off map updates on grass & tree growth and many more smaller events. The map might not be as nice and 100% accurate anymore but it helps reducing the lag.

Further I have installed now max mob limits per world and overall. This will cause some of your mobs to disappear. The overall goal should be that everyone keeps the amount of animals that they actually need for that specific moment. There should be no-one having to keep 25 wolves around, or 20 sheep in every color unless you are building something – in every color. Specially mobs that eat grass cause lag since the server has to calculate their movement, their eating AND the grass growing back which is causing lag.

Since the 3D map is currently trying to catch up rendering the new area of the empire map, there is some lag on the server. There are over 30k tiles to render since the area is quite large. Once that is done, there should be less lag.

I have switched to a new map renderer for the 2D maps and removed the flat maps from the 3D maps software. The 3D maps software updates the map on each edit and therefore creates a lot of processor load. The lot map is only created every day once with another rendering software. I hope that we will have less risk of lag. Currently the server mostly complains about chunk loading and map rendering as processor load causing items. There is some strange pattern/noise now on the 2D map that I am trying to fix however.

I will be AFK until Saturday. Please don’t wreck the server in my absence :D

I have now these three entries in the shop:

dirt	Arlong925	9141		4	100000000.00
snowball	chacha707	9923		38	100000.00
stick	JoBilly	9649		4	25000.00

I will delete them. Please note that anyone else posting stuff like this risks getting their money reset to zero and in case there is also other stuff, banned.

If you have donated enough to become a DonatorPlus, you are now able to switch off snow-accumulation and ice-forming on your lot! Please see the userlevels & commands page for details! Once you switched it off, you still need to remove the fallen snow or ice, but it won’t come back! You cannot enable snow if you are not in a snow biome however!

The darklands have now their border removed and are not backed up anymore. So you are free to roam and to explore. Please wait with massive investments into lots here since it is not certain yet how lots will work in the future there.

Teleporting is now also removed there, and removed all the homes in the darklands. They now point to the same location in the empire.

I now finally deleted the old world. Next steps will be to setup a kingdom as discussed many times before. Once that is done, I will remove the borders from the darklands and switch off backup there, so we have an unlimited mining world.

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