Archive of past seasons

An archived world is an underrated thing: players come back to look at their old builds and bring their friends along.

How to do it

1. Before the wipe, download the world — Download the world.
2. Keep the archive locally (and in the cloud).
3. Optionally, connect it as a separate world in spectator mode — Multiverse.

/mv import season3 NORMAL
/mv modify set gamemode spectator season3
/mv modify set monsters false season3

Plus a region-based build ban — WorldGuard.

Load

Every loaded world takes up memory and ticks. Your options:

• Keep the archive unloaded and load it on demand.
• Open the archive for a week after the wipe, then disable it.
• Store it as files only, without connecting it to the server.

The last option is the cheapest and usually sufficient.

What it gives you

• A wipe stops being a loss: builds don't disappear, they move to a museum.
• Material for content: screenshots and videos about the project's history.
• A sense of history for the community.

Schematics

An alternative to a whole world is to save the best builds as schematics and move them into the new season as monuments — Schematics.