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[James]

I would like to be different and vote for a new map...but a new Creative map.

• biomes aren't finished yet (no snow right now, for example), and this will affect terrain generation (including in the nether)
• no NPCs in villages yet, so they're less exciting to find right now
• more strongholds with bosses will be added

All of these things are gonna make us want another new map when 1.9 comes out (within 2 months, possibly 1 month depending on if there is going to be another version before the "full release" version) the same way we had no snow, no new trees, no lapis lazuli anywhere nearby in the current map because they were only generated in the new sections of map.

With a creative map, we can freely test some of the newer features (like minecarts/rails, pistons, etc) without having to mine forever to get enough iron, gold, etc to make them. Terrain generation won't matter as much since the new blocks will be free anyway. We can build stuff quickly, rather than spending the next month building up inventories of building materials only to start over again if we want to make a new map again at that point. We haven't had a good creative map going since almost a year ago.

What does anyone else think about that?

I will say this: I tried Creative mode on our old creative map. You literally have a full inventory of every brick available. You cannot remove these bricks from your inventory, you can not pick up things, because your inventory is full. 1 hit removes any block. It's not as fun as you think, because you can't craft anything. Or maybe I didn't play long enough to get to that point. I don't know. It reminds me of the early alpha stuff where before SMP was enabled, the only multiplayer servers were the really rough around the edges Alpha build.