Resource Worlds, Reworked — One World a Week, Rotating

Hey everyone. Resource Worlds are getting a big rethink this update, and it changes how you'll plan your gathering trips.

Short version: instead of every themed world sitting open all the time, only one Resource World is open at a time now — and it rotates to a different one every week. There's a small XP fee to step in, a waystone waiting at spawn so you can hop back out, and the whole reset schedule has been rebuilt so it's finally rock-solid.

Here's the full picture.

What changed, and why

Before, all nine themed worlds were available whenever you wanted them. Need sand? Desert's right there. Need quartz? Nether's right there. It worked, but it made gathering a bit of a vending machine — pick a slot, get exactly what you want, every time, forever.

Now there's a rhythm to it. One world is live. It's open for a week. Then it closes and a different one opens. You don't always have the exact biome you want on tap, so a Resource World week actually means something — when the Ocean world is up, that's your window for prismarine and sponge; when it rotates out, you wait for it to come back around.

It rewards planning, it keeps each world feeling fresh, and it still gives you a clean, regenerating place to strip-mine without scarring the main map. Same purpose — just with a bit of scarcity and strategy baked in.

The rotation

• One world open at a time. Whatever's live this week is the only Resource World you can enter.
• Rotates every Monday at midnight (server time).
• Never the same world twice in a row. Each week picks a different theme, so you always get variety.
• When a world rotates out it's deleted and gone — and the new week's world is generated completely fresh: new terrain, new ores, new everything.

So a typical week might be Forest → then Desert → then Cave → then Ocean, and so on, mixing it up as it goes. You'll always know what's live and what's coming next (see below).

Getting in: there's now an entry fee

Stepping into the live Resource World costs 2 XP levels. That's it — a small toll, paid once each time you teleport in.

It's there to make a trip a real (if tiny) decision rather than a reflexive hop, and to give your levels something to do. If you can't spare the 2 levels, you'll be told before anything happens — no XP is taken unless the teleport actually goes through.

You enter the same way as always: walk up to any Waystone → 🌍 Resource Worlds. The menu now shows the single live world, what it is, how long until it closes, what opens next, and the entry fee. Confirm, pay the 2 levels, and you're in.

Getting out: there's a waystone at spawn now

This is the quality-of-life bit. When a Resource World is generated, a Waystone is automatically placed at its spawn. Walk up to it, right-click, and you've got the full Waystone menu — teleport home, to spawn, anywhere you like.

You can still use a Warpstone or /spawn like before. But if you forgot your Warpstone, you're no longer stuck waiting for the reset — there's always a way out sitting right where you landed.

(The spawn waystone is server-owned, so you can't accidentally break it, and it's cleaned up automatically when the world rotates.)

The boss bar

While you're inside, the boss bar at the top of your screen now shows:

• the name of the live world,
• a live countdown to when it closes,
• and what opens next.

The countdown format adapts as the deadline approaches:

• 1 day or more — 5d, 2d, 1d
• 1 day down to 1 hour — 23h 45m, 5h, 1h 12m
• 1 hour down to 1 minute — 45m 30s, 12m, 1m
• Under a minute — 30s, 5s
• Rotating now — imminent

The meter under the title drains from full at the start of the week to empty at rotation, so a glance tells you how much grind time is left.

What happens when a world rotates

When the weekly rotation hits, in order:

• A heads-up broadcast goes out a few minutes before, so you know to wrap up and leave.
• Anyone still inside is sent to spawn — the safety net for folks who didn't make it out.
• The live world is deleted. Everything in it — chests, builds, loot on the ground, even waystones you placed inside — is gone.
• Next week's world is generated fresh and opens, with its own spawn hub and spawn waystone, ready to go.

You'll get the rotation announcement in chat when the new world opens, along with how long it'll be around and what's up after it.

"I logged off inside one and it rotated"

Still covered. The first time you log back in, the plugin notices the world you were in is gone and sends you to spawn before you can get hurt. You'll get a chat line explaining what happened.

Don't build there (still true, more true than ever)

The whole point is the rotation. Anything you leave in a Resource World — chests, beds, machines, builds, named items on the ground — is deleted when the world closes. Now that worlds only last a week, that deadline comes around faster.

Want something permanent? Build it in the main world. Resource Worlds are for the punch-trees-and-run-away part of Minecraft.

About the schedule (the boring-but-important part)

If you were around for the earlier Resource Worlds builds, you might remember the reset timer being… temperamental. Worlds regenerating at odd hours, resets that seemed to fire on restarts — that whole saga.

That's fixed. The rotation schedule was rebuilt from the ground up so that which world is live and exactly when it rotates are worked out purely from the calendar. A server restart can't shift it, double-fire it, or wipe a world early anymore. Reboot mid-week and you come back to the same world with the same countdown ticking down right where it left off. It just works now.

Quick commands

• **/rw list** — what's live, what's next, the countdown, and the fee.
• **/rw info** — details on the live world.

(Direct teleports and resets stay admin-only.)

TL;DR

• One Resource World open at a time, rotating every Monday to a new theme — never the same one twice in a row.
• 2 XP levels to enter. You're warned if you can't afford it; nothing is charged unless you actually go.
• A waystone now waits at each world's spawn so you can always teleport out — Warpstone and /spawn still work too.
• Boss bar shows the live world, a countdown to close, and what's next.
• When a world rotates it's deleted and regenerated fresh — don't leave anything you want to keep.
• The reset schedule is rebuilt and reliable — no more weird-hour regens or reboot resets.

Check the boss bar, see what's open this week, and go make the most of your window. See you out there.