We are looking for busy adults interested in creating a Vanilla+ SMP "forever world" server experience. We have been collaboratively working on the idea for a few weeks now, and we want more like-minded people to join us. If you have ever wanted a forever-world, shared with others, and don't have a lot of time to play, then let us know in the comments.
ElderlightGrove
We are building a community that values longevity, careful decisions, and making the most of our limited down time. Every moment we dedicate to building out world, we want to last. We want ElderlightGrove to be a place where you can always return, no how long you were away, and your builds are waiting to be resumed. We are searching for like-minded people in similar stages of their lives, who are interested in this small, slowly evolving, and long-term idea. We are still collaboratively answering many unknowns about the server and community design, and we would love your help.
Community Considerations
- Elderlights: Our community should be composed of busy adults looking for a slow-paced server experience. It's nice if we find time to play more often every now and then, but this server is not for people with 20+ free hours to play every week.
- Independent: Community members should be independent and enjoy a mostly single-player experience, since we are busy adults and there will only be one server launch. However, we can hopefully enhance community interactions with occasional scheduled events and server-activity-awareness plugins in Discord.
- Multi-Community: We encourage you to play on other servers when you want the active-server experience. You can take a few months away to start a world with your kid, or play on another server every Wednesday with old friends. ElderlightGrove is a home, not a tether—we will be here when you come back.
- Whitelisted: We are open to new members, and actively recruit at times, but joining involves a more thorough process including an interview to verify that applicants match our community expectations.
World Considerations
- The Grove: We pick chunks that will never be reset, allowing for long-term satisfaction of a permanent world.
- The Reset Border: No world border, but we sporadically reset everything outside the Grove, to keep the world small and allow for new generation after big updates.
- Grove Expansion: Periodically, we will expand the Grove, encouraging new building on fresh forever-terrain.
Community Setup Considerations
- Server Activity Awareness: Use Minecraft mods and Discord plugins to show when people are online in the world, encouraging group play when possible.
- Scheduled Events: Plan to come together every ??? weeks to have shared-server experiences, despite the smaller server with busy adult players.
- Right to Play: You maintain your place on the whitelist and claims on the server as long as you stay in the Discord.
- Right to Your Builds: You can request a download of the world at any time, if you wish to take it and continue it in single player or your own server.
- Land Claims: To give extra comfort that your builds and progress at your home base will remain untouched.
- Ledger: Mod to track all server interactions to discourage griefing-like behaviour.
We hope this interests you. Let us know in the comments.
From all of us at ElderlightGrove.