Topic on Simplicitypvp:General

The problem I see with the "delete nothing and delete trails going forward" option is that it basically heavily incentivizes people to abandon their current base and just move on.

Think of it this way. You have a trail of generated terrain to your current in-progress base, but flying 100k will get rid of ANY trail to you. Why wouldn't you just do that and be much safer? It basically gives newly built bases a huge advantage over extant ones.

If we were to target each dimension by update (doable by filtering beehives in the overworld, nether gold ore in the nether, and nothing in the end since it doesn't matter) we can prevent current bases from being disadvantaged and abandoned in large numbers. The only bases that I know of that predate update 1.14 and would have a trail leading to them still are Revalia and a couple of mine. Every other base if we deleted terrain in the overworld as old as 1.15 would be given that protection.

Though protection isn't the main goal obviously, if we're trying to eliminate side effects and impact all players as little as possible we wouldn't want to make them feel their base should be given up on because they could have a safer one.