plasticflesh

Greatings nerd.nu, plasticflesh here. I come and build on nerd in month long spurts once or twice a year. I have a strange thought on map expansion, I don't know if it is technically possible, or pragmatically wise: a 'linear map'. Instead of expanding the map outward in every direction from the center 0,0; expand the map in a single direction, with spawn at one extreme of the map, say 'west', and fresh blank expanded land at the other extreme, 'east'. The creative map then becomes a long rectangle instead of a large square. This has a few advantages. The primary advantage being that freshly expanded territory could be be in larger portions instead thin borders around the square. Perhaps every expansion could be a similarly sized square of land. A secondary advantage would be a sense of time progression on the map, Spawn would be all the way on the "west" side of the map and presumably more developed, and the fresh-est territory would be on the "east" side of the map and be the frontier for new expansion. The third advantage is this would encourage a single main road leading through all build areas, traveling through a 'linear' creative map puts all builds on display more easily than the traditional giant square. But the 'linear map' design has its limitations. Large builds could crowd out smaller builds. The main road, if cutting through the center, could be damaging to all builds if it's one road cutting through the center of everything. This could be negated by making two main roads, a road on the North boundary and a road on the South boundary. That's basically the gist of the 'linear map' idea.

What do you think of adding more /kit loadouts? Flowers; glass; panes; a few for each wood and brick type and their slabs and stairs; an accessories one for chests, anvils, paintings, and such. A mushroom kit with all the different mushroom parts for custom mushrooms. Its introduction could be celebrated with a speed building contest. However would this sort of thing be able to be abused and cause server lag, with too much /kit use?