While I have been working fast to ensure I can ship the server out in a timely manner for all who are excited.. setup does involve a lot of waiting around.

In order to aim for a weekend release, I dropped the world border size from 50k to 30k. (25k to 15k.. just learned "radius" was actually circumference smh.) This may not *seem* like much, but its a difference of 960,000,000,000 (960 billion) to 345,600,000,000 (345.6 billion) blocks! As a result, its expected to finish pre-generating later today, where ill then generate the world map for the online map. This takes significantly less time given the chunks are already generated.

Upon release, there might be some experimenting around. I have a huge amount of optimizations in the server and going to experiment with high ram with generational zgc on a custom jvm along with c2me. This means there's a chance for occasional last minute restarts, lol. I have some scripts set up to give you a warning in advance, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Anyways, not too much more to say until release day! Im hoping roughly 28-30 hours from now, but we'll see.

-TD