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Regions and Shards ​

Vanilla+ is one survival world run across many servers in two regions, Europe and North America. How joining, the lobby, /wild and shard borders work.

Two regions, one world ​

  • Vanilla+ is one survival world, hosted in two regions:
    • EU: Amsterdam, Netherlands. It runs the east half of the world (X above 0).
    • NA: Ashburn, Virginia. It runs the west half of the world (X below 0).
  • Your inventory, ender chest, effects, homes, team and tokens are the same on every server, in both regions.
  • World border: 802,816 x 802,816 in the Overworld (+/- 401,408 blocks in either direction) and 100,352 x 100,352 in the Nether (+/- 50,176).

Joining ​

  • play.vanillaplus.net connects you to the nearest region: players in Europe join through EU, everyone else through NA.
  • On Java you can pick the region yourself with eu.vanillaplus.net or na.vanillaplus.net. See Optimizing Your Connection.
  • The region you join through is your region. It decides which lobbies you are sent to first and where /wild takes you.
  • If you logged out in the world, you go straight back there. New players, and anyone who logged out in a lobby, start in a lobby.

The lobby ​

  • The lobby is a safe zone: no PvP and no breaking blocks.
  • Walk off an edge to go into the world:
    • North or South: the NA spawn
    • East or West: the EU spawn
  • PvP is on as soon as you drop off the edge. The spawn area is rebuilt every 30 minutes, at a quarter past and a quarter to the hour.
  • Holes in the lobby floor drop you into The Pit.
  • /spawn, /lobby and /hub all take you back to a lobby after a short countdown. Dying without a bed also sends you back to a lobby.

/wild ​

  • In the lobby, /wild sends you to a random spot in your region, between 2,128 and 12,000 blocks from spawn.
  • /wild na or /wild eu picks the region.

Shard borders ​

  • Each region is split into several servers, called shards. Walking or flying across a shard border moves you to the next one, usually without a loading screen.
  • /whereami shows which server you are on.
  • Players just across a border are visible, but PvP does not cross it: within 6 blocks of a shard border you cannot hit players, or break or place blocks. Dropping items and trading are also blocked close to a border.

Ping ​

  • Your connection runs through the region you joined, then to the shard you are standing on.
  • For the lowest ping, join through your nearest region and play in the half of the world it runs: east (X above 0) for EU, west (X below 0) for NA.

Updates ​

  • When an update goes out, you are moved to Limbo, a waiting server, and sent back automatically when it is done.