I've gone through all the answered questions up until this point in the staff AMA, and I've collected all the important answers and facts about the new server into one nice thread.

The server did not go live in fault of an ore spawn rate problem.

that was one of the most commonly asked questions despite it being in the AMA multiple times.

The server will most likely go live at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time on August 9th, this Sunday. At least that's the best bet and the most given answer.

again, one of the most asked questions.

Plugins!

• Dragons won't grief your builds anymore.

• Diseases carry over to login/logouts

• Diseases will carry on after death (no more seppuku)

• Some diseases are infectious.

• Chest Shops!

• Seasons lengths vary, which may happen on some server events.

• Brews from 1.0 are going to carry over, along with some new brews being added.

• Bastions will be made through reinforced sponges. (how you get the sponges may change)

• No factories.

• Citadel 3.0 will be used, but tweaked so the reinforcement levels are:

Stone | 128

Iron | 512

Emerald | 1024

Diamond | 1536 (Diamond and Emerald may change)

• No Movecraft.

Map Info

• Map will be 1.9x larger then current map.

• Rarer ores spawning more frequently at low y-levels (that's where the ore problem was, so might mean that that was intended, just not performed correctly)

• More Water based

• Actual plain biomes, opposed to the hilly plains that existed in 1.0.

• Actual desert, opposed to the mesa/ savannah mix in 1.0.

• Map on sidebar to change once the map is cartographed.

• NO CORNER VAULTS!

• Sponges (used for bastions) confirmed on the map, however ultra-rare.

• No Guardians :(

Staff News

• Phaxar and Defmork learning Java.

• Possible new staff, more developers needed.

• New CSS soon. (thank god)

• a lot of ;)

So yeah, after 8 hours of AMA that's the answers we've been given.

e: gosh dang reddit formating puting bolds where bolds shouldn't ^go.

e2: only AMA stuff will be added, but i did correct myself on some of the points.

e3: new info from the AMA