Test worlds

Various **test worlds** were created before the release of New Seacraft in order to test the performance of Minecraft 1.18 snapshots as well as the data packs being made for the server.

A new world was generated for each of the Minecraft 1.18 snapshots from 21w39a to 21w43a in order to test the most current version of the new world generator.

## World 21w39a

The first test world was made in snapshot 21w39a. This world was relatively boring, with large amounts of taiga and snowy taiga biomes. At the time, no one was able to access the world due to some server issues. Only ZacNVR ever did anything on this world, building a wooden platform near the world's spawn point.

Unfortunately this world was overwritten when the next snapshot was released.

## World 21w40a

The world generated in 21w40a saw a fair amount of player activity in its time. A total of four players joined, namely ZacNVR, ofdstactile, CaptainBlarkay and jaykobe, with only two on at any given time. The world also saw a number of stress-tests made by ZacNVR.

The world had a pretty cool seed, featuring a variety of biomes and tall cliff faces next to oceans. ZacNVR deemed it a candidate for a world seed if Minecraft's random number generator didn't change in 21w41a.

### Happy Town

ZacNVR and jaykobe built an area near ZacNVR's stress tests. This area featured a number of spontaneous and random builds, including a small wooden house, an *Among Us* character, a gallows and a prison cell.

The entrance to Happy Townjaykobe building the bedrock cageHarold the villager in his bedrock prison cell.Among Us characterThe gallows after the brown sheep hanging from them had died"Sadness" by ZacNVR: A failed Aether portalA honey block smiley faceA magma block pit with 'spideman' the zoglinAn ejaculating copper ore man built outside the front entrance of the townThe face of the copper ore manA caged turtle out the front entrance of the town
## World 21w41a

Due to Minecraft's change of random number generator, a new world was generated for 21w41a. Like 21w39a, this world was not joined by any player other than ZacNVR, and did have some similar IP issues.

This world saw the first tests of the Automatic Announcement System, deemed version 1.0.0 build 1 retroactively. This build only had the message "Please be aware that this is a temporary world." in red text. This message was displayed every 5 minutes.

## World 21w42a

The world generated in 21w42a featured a coastal plains biome with large mountains nearby. The world also generated with a village near spawn.

This world saw the most players on at one time, and also had the most player activity in general, beating World 21w40a.

### Data packs

This world saw an update to the AAS: version 1.0.1 and build 2. The new version allowed the system to continue running between server restarts, and the new build modified the existing message: "This is a temporary world. Anything you build will be reset." The time between separate messages was decreased to 3 minutes. The AAS was updated to build 3 after the anarchy incident (see below), implementing a second message: "If you experience any issues, please notify ZacNVR."

This world also saw the first implementation of Player ID version 1.0.0 which was shortly updated to version 1.0.1, fixing a potential bug. The pack later updated to version 1.1.0.

Trigger Commands was also first implemented on this world, giving players access to a number of commands they would not normally have.

### Player activity

#### Early activity

Main player activity occurred on October 23, 2021. jaykobe and ZacNVR build a couple of smaller structures. jaykobe built another character from *Among Us* and some cobblestone pillars. ZacNVR built a dripstone spike named "The Spike of Nothing" and renamed a number of mobs throughout the village.

ItsMoose later joined, building a small firepit next to a purple void, created using layers of different coloured stained glass.

#### Anarchy

ZacNVR encouraged ofdstactile, arrow3000 and ChocoHero123 to join the server in order to test its performance with multiple players. All was well initially, but ofdstactile thought it a good idea to continually place a number of TNT minecarts on one spot. This was blown up, leaving a large crater. ZacNVR, arrow3000 and ChocoHero123 joined in, placing over 2400 TNT minecarts collectively and crashing the server. They did trigger afterward, but ZacNVR killed the remaining entities before the server crashed again.

Before long they were placing lava and summoning a number of entities, including bees, goats and withers, the latter of which killed most of the village's population. The withers were eventually killed since they just flew up into the sky.

Then ofdstactile thought to try the new music disc "Otherside" by Lena Raine, which was released in this snapshot. He did this underground, isolating himself from the other players. He soon came to the surface and put on "Stal" by C418. ZacNVR and arrow3000 repeatedly clicked on the jukebox, causing the disc to quickly be ejected and reinserted into the jukebox, which caused the same track to overlap itself, and ended up kicking the members off the server. They rejoined and continued to mess around with the jukeboxes before eventually leaving.

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ZacNVR restored ItsMoose's creation, since little damage had been done to it. He also used a command to rename all the bees to "Buzz Off".

#### Later activity

ZacNVR continued removing a large amount of lava from the area before making a lava pit edged with blackstone. He also found the two surviving villagers who he named "Farmer Joe" and "Chimney Supervisor Dave", who often stared at a chimney due to pathfinding issues.

ZacNVR also tamed some of the stray parrots left around the place and added a bee nest for some of the bees. He also added some lights in the upper part of the village.

A few days later, he also repaired and upgraded one of the villager's houses for himself, making it two stories and giving it a copper roof.

#### Testing tpa

arrow3000 joined the server with ZacNVR on October 27th (last day of 21w42a) to test the tpa family of Trigger Commands. Unfortunately, it didn't work at all to begin with, but ZacNVR quickly fixed the issue, updating the data pack to v1.0.1.

## World 21w43a

Test World 21w43a implemented all the data packs from the previous world. However, ZacNVR only ran the world for two days, before shutting off the test servers for a while to focus on other things, and because no one had interest in joining.

The main area featured a plains biome.

### Late tests

World 21w43a was used in some later tests for some of the server's data packs and other settings, updated to the latest prereleases and release candidates. Trigger Commands v1.1.0 was first tested here as well as Protection Blocks v1.0.0. Additionally, this world was used to test the resource pack that goes with Protection Blocks.