Post by SnuRRe0 on Jan 12, 2022 20:57:32 GMT
Hi all!
It's time for 1.18, here is the plan and some information.
Minecraft version
We will be upgrading to Minecraft 1.18.1. Go prepare your clients during the down time 
When / down time
Timezone for all of the below: Central European Time (CET) (Convert to your timezone here).
Start: Friday January 14th, somewhere between 16:00 and midnight, depending on when I have time to start.
End: When it's done, probably during Saturday January 15th as we need to pre-generate some new terrain to reduce lag.
Downtime will probably/hopefully be less than 24 hours.
Border expansion
The border for the overworld and the nether dimension will be expanded like this:
Current border radius: 13000
New border radius: 16000
That's a 51% increase in world size, for those who are wondering.
New 1.18 terrain and world height
The new high and low height limits for building has been changed in 1.18, to -64 and 319 (from todays 0 and 255).
The new terrain in 1.18 will generate outside of the old border.
In old chunks will the following happen automatically, as part of vanilla minecraft upgrade:
- Bedrock layer around y:0 will be replaced with deepslate
- New 1.18 terrain with new caves etc. will generate below y:0 all the way down to y:-64
- A new bedrock layer will be added around y:-64
End dimension
The end dimension will reset during the upgrade, the current radius of 20000 will be kept.
As usual for end resets, we have a no-reset-zone in the middle that will not reset: from block 1023,1023 to block -1024,-1024.
Now, go read all about the new update and be prepared
minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java_Edition_1.18
minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java_Edition_1.18.1
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