It has been a while since last I played minecraft, and recently I've been slowly getting back into doing it. But if you read this thread's title, it should be clear the above has nothing to do with the topic to express.

I recently visited the vizzed official minecraft server, it's still the same old server, except.. I don't exactly mean that positively.

Just like before, its quite devoid of constant activity and in quite the disrepair as a result of stagnant progress. From a certain point of view, its like the house of a hoarder in mc server form, so much accumulated content that is a utter mess with no cleanup.

The server had previously been offline for a very long time and more recently has been brought back to online state. However... it's just the same old deal as before.

Honestly the vizzed minecraft server is far overdue for a much needed rebirth, renewal, etc. It is really the time now to do what really needs to be done to breathe life back into it. Below I would like to list various bits of suggestions for what could possibly be done to achieve this.

-Reset player data globally and start with a fresh clean slate there

-Vizzed Ville of old really needs to go, at best into a archived world that could be visited. Create a new world with a new Vizzed Ville, there are world creation options that should allow for the island theme amongst a vast ocean to be achieved much more favorably.

-There are too many survival worlds that have stood long violated by mining expeditions and the likes of multiple previous mc versions, which could lead to some iffy world generation on chunks not yet generated. They need to go and be replaced and condensed back into a single survival world.

-Vizzed Ville End has stood as a End devoid of end cities and mob spawn entirely. It needs to be reset entirely.

-Economy system and shop system need a huge overhaul big time. In current conditions, you cannot view your own in game balance for whatever reasons, admin shops cannot be utilized properly, as they seem to be devoid of any economics unless purchases are made, there is a /shop command for shopping that players can access and can actually sell there though the inventory is quite a incomplete mess. Also the physical shop locations in server have rather unappealing setup and could use a clean new renovation.

-Creative world should be replaced by a new creative world that is made on a superflat preset by default.

-I am well aware of the opposition to this, but really there needs to be more convenience via warping. /warp, /sethome, /home etc. it's a great quality of life to be able to establish a player residential in a isolated location and be able to return back to it to empty inventory and avoid a much unwelcoming long trip back. if /warp was at least utilized to allow on demand travel to main islands and the spawns of survival worlds, even if it charged mviz, it'd be a huge boon to player convenience. And yes, I do know the server wants to keep things vanilla, but in its current state, it is very far from it as is.

I do enjoy the server, yet at the same time, don't enjoy what it has become compared to back when it was in it's prime, where player activity was frequent, friendly combat and co-op expeditions were constant. I wish for the best it can be and as a result, I've finally gotten around to addressing things that really need addressing. I am hoping for the best.

I've been pushing for this for a while and it hasn't happened. The MC server isn't a priority anymore.

I've actually stopped playing there altogether. I check the map once in a while to see if anyone is playing but I haven't seen anyone for weeks.

I play on a different server now that is actually active but smaller in size. If Vizzed had a reset I would come back and play there but I agree with the sentiments of the OP. There is a LOT of work that needs to be done to make it playable again.

Sorry we don't promote other servers here

If you want change please continue giving ideas and thoughts on the server the more people that are behind it the more likely it is to happen.

I would definitely play more if there was a reset and there was the ability to create something new from the start because I remember how much fun it was at the beginning. But at the same time, I would feel bad if some of the big things that I created in the past weren't a part of it, and I'm sure there are a few others who would feel that way too.

zanderlex : I think there is a way to save the old stuff while refreshing the server overall.

I'm all for keeping a lot of the old maps with the builds. I know I've made a fair number of things in the survival worlds. However, the server is dead and without some drastic changes it will never be active again.

I'd be fine starting fresh if we kept the old worlds archived and if everyone was in agreement to losing everything that they've earned. I wouldn't want to do anything that'd be unfair to those who have invested 100s of hours into the server.

Also, it's not fair to say that the minecraft server isn't a priority. I've actually invested countless hours into the server over the past 6 months, probably 100-150 hours. I've had to cut myself off though because I can't justify investing too much of my development time working on the Minecraft server. We've had various issues with it after migrating it to a new server and I've also invested hours into making it run as smoothly as possible.

Earlier in the year things were doing good but that was before the server migration and then the many different server issues that we had following. I think what has turned users off the most was the instability of the server, it being slow, crashing, not even being up for days at a time. Most of those issues have been resolved but users I think are still burnt out by it all.

I've been meaning to put together a bunch of Minecraft tournaments again like I hosted earlier in the year. Those were a huge success and everyone enjoyed them. I think if I do that again, it'll definitely spark interest in the server again because ultimately what you need for a minecraft server to be successful is to have people on it. No one is going to want to use a server that doesn't have users on it so I think it's up to me and the MC staff to host competitions often to that the server feels active and alive. I can only invest so much time into it but I think I'm done fixing things on the server which will now allow me to time to focus on the competitions again. I see no reason why I can't continue the monthly competitions starting next month.

I also had begun working on an innovate feature for the server which is unlike anything on any other server but I also had to take a break from that when it got to around 75% completion due to the amount of time I was investing into it. There's a lot of things that go on behind the scenes that no one else really sees so I'm hoping the staff can vouch for me that I have invested a lot of time into the server and have been open to a lot of ideas. I have occasional discord meetings with my MC staff to get input on stuff, share ideas, find out what needs my priority and to show them what I've been working on.

Staff : Vouch?

Davideo7 : I will vouch for you 1000% on how much you've worked on the server this year and I will always appreciate that I've been waiting for a meeting to bring up some of the things that have been said in this thread to you and staff and was planning on asking if we could have a meeting sometime after new years. I'd also look forward to having the tournaments again because they were a blast before and I see no reason why that would change.

"I think what has turned users off the most was the instability of the server, it being slow, crashing, not even being up for days at a time. Most of those issues have been resolved but users I think are still burnt out by it all."


I think this is a big part of it. When people can't play they move on to other places that are stable.

However, I also feel like the server is hard to move around and there are features that I've seen on other servers that would be nice to have (being able to teleport to spawn or having a /home available among other things). These things also make it hard to play when there are so many places to look at but you have to walk to nearly all of them.

geeogree : I'd be completely on board with giving users the ability to being able to teleport between locations and worlds. If a staff member finds a good plugin for me to install, I can install if and they can take care of making all of that possible for me. I think there should be command that takes a user back to the server's hub no matter where they are.

SonicOlmstead : Sounds good. We can plan for a meeting for January 4th or even December 28th.

Davideo7 : I to my knowledge should be free on either day also /sethome and /home are commands on the server already they just need permissions changed so everyone can use them. I've never tried to mess with them before but I think I might of got it I'll try to test it. I decided to actually test it before finishing my post even tho it says that regulars and everyone has permissions for home and sethome my alt couldn't use said commands after a restart