So been doing some testing and have not been able to find any elegant solutions to random spawns working smoothly and allow us to simply 'jump' to the UHC world from the normal world, like they do in the videos.

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Option 1

We start in the normal world and manually manipulate the files when it is time to start so that everyone logs out and back into the new UHC world in their random starting location. This is a good solution but the problem is that sometimes the spawn doesn't happen right and you end up WAY high in the air, inside solid object, or something similar and end up dying right off the bat. If that happens, then the person who dies will end up at the world spawn point (which is obviously not random). Then either we 'reset' that person's files, they log out and back in again until they get a good spawn point. Problem is everyone else is waiting while this is happening, and could die themselves. We could give everyone god mode for that time period to combat this.

Option 2

We set spawn points ahead of time. We load the game world and have 2-3 people log in while I am online. Each person does the procedure we would do in part a) until they log in safely and we can set those coords as their home points for each user. Then at game time everyone logs into normal world, and we get set up. We would then teleport to the new world and everyone would /home back to their new 'spawn point'. No one knows exactly which spot they will get since I will be setting the coords for each person without seeing the location and the people that see the location won't know which location went to each person. Even if they do, we will create enough extra spawn locations that no one could be sure if the spawns they found were even ever used.

I think the second option is best, but it will require some testing to verify that it will work, and then 2-3 people + me online at some point to create the spawn points. It will also reduce the time everyone needs to commit for the main match.

I'm all for option 2, just let me know when you want to do the setup and I'll be there.

I see season 5 is up and it looks like they did what you are talking about, each player had a set spawn and even a sign saying Player 1, 2, 3 etc. They also mentioned the world edges had a glass wall, I might go into MCEdit and see if I can add that instead of the world just ending.

ok, will have time to do it tomorrow night. Maybe be best after kids go to bed, so about 8 or so.

Should work for me, I'll start checking the server at 8 and hop on when you log in.

ok, so I backed up the server this morning and wiped it.

I rebuilt server from scratch on my machine and it seems to be working. Will upload when wipe is done and reimport it. For now world is default and hardcore is fully set up, so don't teleport into it.

When you join the server it puts you in the obsidian room in the hardcore world and no permission to use mvtp.