From Mojang.com:

We strongly recommend that you don’t run the snapshots on an existing world if you want your landscape to stay pretty. You’ll get silly chunk borders and they don’t look pretty at all. I’d even go as far as to call them ugly.

One reason why we rarely do changes to the world generator is because every little change off-sets the world seed and causes noticeable borders between new and old terrain. A lot of people don’t mind about these borders, but we still want to avoid creating them. So, in order to avoid needing to change the world generator again in the nearest future, we try to do as many changes now as possible.

To say that i’m not concerned about this update is an understatement. I must hold true to our plan that I’ve made from the start and preserve the map we have. I will not reset the map. This holds true as long as more than 95% of the members disagree and want the reset to happen which is most likely impossible.

With that said, what are the options? Our provider, fragnet, has a terms of service that does not allow for more than 50 gigs of SSD (hard drive) space. We’re currently pushing 17 gigs. The black areas on dynmap should show the chunks that would be effected with this update. There is a lot of black space.

Option 1: If I was to generate all the chunks in our 20k x 40k world, and expand the world south from central spawn, I’d imagine the map would push over 40 gigs.
Option 2: Fill in the partially generated areas on dynmap and let the rest of the 20k x 40k world be in new generation. Its an ugly idea and several of us would have to help do this.

Also would we want to keep the large biome setting now that oceans are not so gigantic? I’d like to hear what you guys think. I would like to expand the borders again, but i’m not sure.

When Minecraft Alpha first came out I set up a server for me an my friends (its still running on the same world). The world generator wasn’t very completed yet so you would get this kind of terrain:

However, we didnt care, because when you were walking on land you didn’t notice it. Only on water area’s. But we fixed rough landscaping in 15 minutes with world edit.

What I’m saying is; I’ve seen weirdly generated parts of land a lot of times and from my experience nobody really felt bothered by it.

Also, Sometimes I used to delete unused area’s of the map so they could be generated again after an update. so in that part you would get the upgraded stuff etc.

Quote from SwitchSB on September 7, 2013, 09:15<br /><br />
If you could keep all the hard work I did at spawn then I wouldn’t mind a reset. I haven’t really used my main base in ages. It’s mostly just storage.<br /><br />
I feel like this update kinda requires the reset and from what I’ve seen I think it would be worth it. We should take a vote.

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<p>This is exactly why people will never agree to a reset. Everyone has “all the hard work i did somewhere” that they would want to bring with them. And if you do it for one person you have to do it for everyone. which would SUCK.</p>
<p>Personally i’m fine with a reset. I think people forget how much they like resets. The magpie-like urges in their brains make them cling to their possessions, but having admined for almost every server i have ever been on, i can say that after resets attendance jumps and everyone get’s all happy that they have some new project to work on and actually get to experience the survival part of minecraft. </p>
<p>Still don’t think it’ll ever happen, but that’s my 2 cents. I’ma make a straw poll just to see how the numbers run. Maybe i’m wrong and everyone is super happy about it. But i doubt it.

EDIT: switch, don’t edit your posts like that. It makes silly things like this happen. just post again. Or at least put an edit tag. = P

Like I said before but now with a little bit more detail; Cut the yellow area chunks out, it’s not used anyways. New biomes can generate there.
You would still have the normal map, but now with new biomes, without expanding the border

Quote from roi_galgal on September 8, 2013, 11:39<br />
highly doubt it, first, it is only 1 area, second If im not wrong, the code for the map already exists so Im not 100% sure it will generate new biomes…<br />
And I thought about it, and really when 1.7 will be out if the server wont reset im not so sure how many people will still be on… I mean comone we cant just play on 1.6.2 with some uexplored areas forever…

It is possible, I’ve done it before in my servers 😉