Could you please use MCEdit and make the wilderness new or repopped? it is too ravaged and destroyed.. way to hard to find anything
The state of the wilderness is the responsibility of the players. We must take it upon ourselves to restore and maintain the ravaged wastes by filling in holes, tearing down dirt pillars and replanting trees.
You don't need to go "REALLY REALLY REALLY FAR" you need to walk about 5 minutes and start mining/digging/farming/chopping down and it's as simple as that. People just don't want to do the work.
That's why I said Far Far away. To somewhere far enough that's not explored.. And I think there's security against Mods.Like it doesn't allow you to use them.
No, you can still use them. There is no sensor showing you are using something. It would make the server to laggy.
Let's just clarify that statement by saying you are permitted to use officially accepted mods, not just any mods.
It would be nice if the periodic reset areas got periodically reset. That was the argument for resetting the wilderness last time we had a major update. There have been other good recommendations for keeping things around the wilderness spawns fresh.
There was an issue with the coding for the Periodic reset areas when the height limit was raised. Which is the reason that hasn't been done since the last Wild Reset. A total wild reset (as was talked about numerous times in the 1.3 reset threads) is unnecessary; and would make more people upset than happy. I am confident that this is very high priority on Justin's to do list when he gets stabilized in (I think it was a month from now)
If you want a good successful mine, go in an outpost, then walk, and walk, and walk, and boat ride, until you are so far out that only 1 or 2 people go that far a month.
I first ride a boat, for about 1 hour, then sprint halfway across the world of Minecraftia until I'm in the black zone. Then I build underground. Mission Accomplished.