It can be very useful having a single spawn point that everyone shares. But on some servers it isn't. Spawn camping or overcrowding can be an issue.
I suggest the following...
Spawn Zones
A Spawn Zone operates like a Spawn Point, except it can be a square shaped area of any size. When players die and respawn they reappear at a random spot within the Spawn Zone.
Each death can send you anywhere within this area, although it would use the same spawn criteria the game uses now to find a safe spot to appear. If there's no valid spot within the entire spawn zone, it would place you outside the zone but as close as possible.
Server owners would be able to select the location and size of the Spawn Zone. So you could make it tiny or massive, or somewhere in between. It can be as small as a 4x4 area, or thousands of blocks long on each size.
Spawn Zones would be entirely optional of course, and server owners could choose to stick with a single specific Spawn Point if they prefer.
I'm pretty sure that vanilla servers already have this, as when I played on my server and died, I would spawn in a certain area in a radius of about 20 blocks.
I'm pretty sure that vanilla servers already have this, as when I played on my server and died, I would spawn in a certain area in a radius of about 20 blocks.
It was likely a plugin. It should be incorporated into vanilla.
Spawn zones do exist in vanilla. In Singleplayer using the same seed will give you a slightly different spawn point each time. In Multiplayer some admins mark off the spawn zone for anti-griefing purposes (not going to go into details).
I suggest the following...
Spawn Zones
A Spawn Zone operates like a Spawn Point, except it can be a square shaped area of any size. When players die and respawn they reappear at a random spot within the Spawn Zone.
Each death can send you anywhere within this area, although it would use the same spawn criteria the game uses now to find a safe spot to appear. If there's no valid spot within the entire spawn zone, it would place you outside the zone but as close as possible.
Server owners would be able to select the location and size of the Spawn Zone. So you could make it tiny or massive, or somewhere in between. It can be as small as a 4x4 area, or thousands of blocks long on each size.
Spawn Zones would be entirely optional of course, and server owners could choose to stick with a single specific Spawn Point if they prefer.
It was likely a plugin. It should be incorporated into vanilla.
Actually, according to the wiki:
I have also seen this through experience.
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