Ongandu Posted January 11, 2025 Report Posted January 11, 2025 Hello everyone, I run a server and was wondering if someone who's knowledgeable about world generation and the server technology could help me with a query. What is the most idiomatic way to persist a world between updates but get the new content generated in it? The reason I ask is that players spent a long time sometimes in their creations and most of them would like to keep them as part of their progression in the game. Are there reasonable steps to avoid a wipe that scales well when there's a lot of buildings? What I found so far: I have read that between major world generation updates some content may not be generated in the world such as ruins and cave content. Additionally, there are some blocks that simply can break, which it seems some commands can be run to fix this, according to the Vintage Story Wiki. but it doesn't currently seem to be up to date. However, I found that there are some commands that can be run to regenerate entire chunks with a threshold to control how much player alteration can a chunk have in order to be removed. There's a great read on this on a community Reddit post. Finally a user (Zaldaryon, The First Clockmaker) on the Vintage Story Discord said there's a World Edit tool and that creations need to be kept manually (perhaps only if there's a server wipe) but honestly, this is the worst option in my opinion, it can be a lot of work to maintain this: Quote you’ll have to export them all and importing via worldedit manually. also this is not a TOPS question if you mean server wipe and readding player’s bases Plenty of leads here but would be great to reach a method a bit more conclusive, if anyone has more resources and knows if this is reliable please let me know. I will attempt to update the world when I have a spare minute and test things, when I do I'll share my findings here. What about mods working from version to version? The server I run is vanilla with the exception of the live map mod. However, I do see that a lot of servers are heavily modded and what I found about updates to the game with mods is that, understandably, it can take a while for the mod to be updated and if it's no longer maintained it has to be removed to play new versions of the game. A discussion on this can be found here: Thank you very much in advance!
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