PlanetCraft and Planet of Cubes Forum

1. Mining speed(in creative):

• so in my creative mode Private Map, I notice that I mine everything extremely slow, which makes things annoying when I'm building and misplace a blocks, or when I have to mine or clear terrain, so it would be nice if the host of the Private Map was able to instantly mine blocks in creative like how it is on MineCraft, because that would make breaking blocks easier, and less tedious.

• there could also be an option that allows your friends to also instantly mine, as well as an option to allow anyone to easily mine if you wanted to enable that.

•this option would be somewhere on the Private Map creation menu, but can also be edited at anytime like some other Private map options.

•This option only applies to creative mode, since this option would be too cheaty in survival mode for obvious reasons.

2. Day cycle options(in creative):

•I notice that in creative mode on my Private server, time will change just as normal, and sometimes that's good, but other times it makes things a lot more difficult to see when I'm flying.

•On the public creative mode server, I believe there's an option that can enable and disable time cycle for that player. 

•Though maybe in Private Servers, this feature could be improved to pause the time cycle to the point you disabled time cycle at, for example, disabling time cycle during noon will make the world stay noon forever until time's enabled again, same for midnight, dawn, dusk, or even any point between those times, disabling day light cycle at those times would pause the cycle at that point until re- enabled again.

•this option would be somewhere in the in-game options, and is only available in creative mode, because it would be too cheaty in survival for obvious reasons.

3. Map Sizes:

• In my opinion, having a private map that generates an individual biome is very useful to me, but other people want bigger maps, or infinite maps, so why not have a few world size options?

• when creating a Private Map, you could have the option of picking a world size(with the current single biome size as the default if you don't pick a different world size, and you would have to pick out the biome to generate as it is currently).

• there would be 5 world sizes to pick from:

•Single: generates only a single biome in the world of your choosing, and is the only one where you can chose which biome generates. This is the exact same as the current Private Map worlds.

•Small: this would generate 9 biomes, but it is still a limited world, and biomes will placed in the way they do on the public server (meaning you can't pick the biomes, and the biomes will probably be randomly placed), but there could be an adiadditional option to allow you to pick biomes to generate in that map size, but Medium, Large, and Infinite worlds would lack that option.

•Medium: this would generate 49 biomes by generating 2 biomes around the Small world's edges. As with the small, it's limited, and the biomes are placed randomly.

•Large: this would generate 81 biomes by generating 1 biome around the Medium world's edges. The same biome generating rules from Small and Medium world sizes apply here, but this is the biggest world size before infinite worlds.

•Infinite: this generates an infinite amount of terrain, just like the public server, and the terrain placement is also random as well like the Small, Medium, and Large world sizes.

4. World count:

• currently right now, there's a limit on how many Private maps you can have, and the world limit is 5.

•it would be nice if the world limit was brought up to 20, since there's 20 biomes that can be chosen to generate, there could be a world for each biome, or you can use those 20 world slots for other things.

5. Enabling or disabling a Spawnzone barrier:

•Right now private maps have a cool ability to actually mine things from the spawnzone, but I have a feeling that some people don't want people greifing the spawnzone, but not care much for anything outside of it, this is where this option kicks in.

•the option is in your Private Map creation menu, but can be edited at anytime, like some other Private Map options. But this is a different option from the one that allows other players to mine/place blocks on your Private Map, so even if players editing the spawnzones are disabled, players can still edit outside of it.

This option will allow you to do 3 things:

•Allow nobody(not even the host) to edit things in the spawnzones.

•Allow only you(the host) to edit things in the spawnzones.

•Allow you and your friends to edit things in the spawnzones.

•disabling this option will allow anybody to edit things in the spawnzones, and the spawnzones would be how they currently are in Private maps when everyone's allowed to edit things in the world, just being treated as a regular part of the world.

Note: here's a image (a horrible rushed sketch, Lol) of how the Map sizes would generate like. (Image #1)

That's all I could think of for ways to improve Private Maps for now, I hope you guys enjoyed it! :D