Let’s talk about Essalonia, our first post-reset survival world.
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Home to thousands of factions since its creation in 2018, Essalonia has served us well. The nine-quadrant design enabled players to gather resources and build factions, kingdoms and empires that expanded far beyond its borders.

The large size of Essalonia was of great benefit in the early days, allowing players ample space to expand and co-habit a single world, slimming down from the several choices available before the reset. However, as additional survival worlds opened, the large size of Essalonia now puts a strain on our server’s capacity, far beyond what smaller maps together equaling the size would cause.

A long time ago in an update post, Essalonia was slated for removal in early 2023. The staff team has put together a planned phasing out of Essalonia. This post will explain the steps, what you can do as a player to make sure you’re ready for the removal of Essalonia, and explain our general protocols surrounding moving your faction to our new survival worlds.
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The newest world, Ravanna, will be released very soon. Once released, we will open a separate forum thread to go into the finalised process and take requests for the transfer of faction builds from Essalonia to Essa, Ithania, Ravanna and beyond.

When a faction build is transferred from Essalonia, blocks and containers (chests, barrels, furnaces) including their contents, are copied over and placed at the desired end location. Locks, item frames, armour stands, portals and animals do not transfer over. Please store items in item frames and armour stands in containers to avoid losing them.

You must have both the old site and new site claimed before submitting your request. Once the build is transferred to the new claim, Game Staff will not terraform it into the landscape. Please do this manually or request the World Edit Service at a later date (after all transfer requests have been served) to blend into the new terrain.

You will be able to make a rectangular, chunk-based selection of your claimed faction land to transfer. Please provide the X and Z locations for both corners. 100 chunks of land can be transferred free of charge, with additional chunks going over this limit costing 100r each.

Once transferred, the old location will be restored to the original wilderness state to avoid any scenarios where effectively ‘duped’ items are accessible.

Only faction leaders can request the transfer of their claim (or part thereof). We will allow officers to request transfer closer to the deletion of Essalonia.

The rate of faction transfer requests being served is entirely dependent on trained Game Staff availability. We aim to start after the release of Ravanna to ensure that demand is met.

One final thing, the deletion date of Essalonia is not yet scheduled.

Please do not be worried if you can’t immediately get things sorted. You will have time to get organised before the world is fully removed.​

Will you move my vault that’s stored under my alt faction?
Yes, as long as it meets all the above conditions prior to transfer and is moved to a legal claim in Essa, Ithania, Ravanna or beyond.My leader/officer/friend is inactive/banned, can I fill out the form for them?
Initially, only leaders will be able to fill out a request. This will be expanded to officers and exceptional cases closer to Essalonia’s final deletion.

Can I make two requests and get the 100 chunk transfer for free each time?
No, each faction gets 100 chunks transfer for free total. Additional requests that go over the total limit will incur a cost of 100r/chunk.

Will the staff team help me claim my desired location?
No.

Will the fourth world be released before Essalonia is removed?
Yes!

Can I ask additional questions?
Yes! Check out the Essalonia-update FAQ discord channel in the survival discord. Ask away to get clarification from Game Staff.
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Please ask away if you have any further questions in the Survival Discord!