Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
Hey everyone, happy new year!
2019 was a wild ride, but it was also transformative for us at Prism. Though we've only been online a couple months, we've grown a lot as a community in that time and, as we move into the new decade, I wanted to give a bit of a recap on what's been going on and an update for what's planned going forward:
On Survival:
Survival has kept the same world size since the server's launch months ago and, while there's still plenty of space left to explore in the world, it's starting to feel just a little cramped. Some of you may have noticed generated terrain past the current border on the server worldmap. This isn't an oddity; we'll be expanding the border to 20k before too long! This is exciting for a couple of reasons... One, this expansion will almost double the current area of the world and, two will give you guys access to previously inaccessible biomes! Mesa, anyone? As a slight QoL update, too, we've updated the old (and kinda ugly) Dynmap URL to something easier to remember. We'll be discontinuing the old URL after the expansion. So, if you want to start using the new URL, here it is: https://worldmap.prismparty.net/
By the end of the next decade, maybe we'll have expanded the map another 5k blocks...? Just kidding.
On Creative:
On Christmas day we opened up the Creative server for paid-donors to preview. There are still some bugs that need fixing, but the server is gearing up for a public release and we can't wait! We'll be opening it up before too long which is a good thing considering the next point...
On lag:
While server performance is, for the most part, pretty good it's no secret that there are occasional moments of lag when player counts start to rise. With the average online-player count starting to rise, this problem, unfortunately, has only gotten worse. We've done as much as we can to mitigate lag on the server, but there's only so much we can do with the performance issues of 1.14. It's not all bad news, though; we have an upgrade scheduled for the server sometime in January which should eliminate much of the lag issues we've been facing. I can't give too many details on this yet, but stay tuned: we'll keep you updated!
On sales:
We ended 2019 with our holiday party, which included things like the candy-themed hub and Christmas sale. Now that the year is over, we've been putting things back to how they were, but it sure is sad to see it all go! With the conclusion of the Christmas sale, all those who have obtained the Quartz rank for free during the sale will have their rank switched back to Pebble. We hope you all enjoyed the holiday festivities, and thank you all for participating!
In the future:
We have more planned for Prism Party aside from just Survival and Creative. While it's still far-off before we can introduce new servers, we'd love to hear your feedback on what sort of gamemodes seem most fun to you! If you'd like to vote for the next server addition, please do so here: [Link removed] We'll announce the winner in a future announcement before getting to work on it! Google Docs Server Interest Poll - Prism Party Which new gamemode(s) would you like to see added to Prism Party?
Thanks to everyone who has supported and played on Prism! Our community is full of wonderful and creative people, and we appreciate every one of you! We hope you've all had a wonderful new year and a start to a new decade!