[QUICK POLL] With the new Freedom-01 Server, would you like your essentials data wiped or retained?

**wild1145** · July 16, 2023 at 9:52 PM Official Post

I'm starting to build out the replacement Freedom-01 server with the fresh worlds. As part of this I have the option to retain all of the Essentials Player data (Though things like homes / spawns / warps will be deleted)

Is this something that would be valuable on a fresh server, or would you be content with a totally fresh start?

Poll open until the end of day on the 17th July.

This is an example of the file

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lastlocation:
  world: flatlands
  x: 12345.30599070949
  y: 12.25033194034626
  z: 12345.5503701487
  yaw: -12.555084
  pitch: 12.851208
timestamps:
  login: 1234567891011
  kits:
    kit-01: 123456789101112
  logout: 1234567891011121
  lastteleport: 1234567891011121
afk: false
logoutlocation:
  world: flatlands
  x: 12345.10744342562
  y: 12.0
  z: 12345.219108119185
  yaw: -123.83028
  pitch: 12.102406
nickname: mynickname
godmode: false
teleportenabled: false
money: '1000'
ip-address: 12.34.56.78
last-account-name: myminecraftusername

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I will also say, we will have a world border, so the vast majority of this information will not be of any actual value, the only thing that people might want is their nicknames but everything will be able to be customised anyway.

qrtrx4 (twoeighths) · July 16, 2023 at 9:56 PM

Sorry if this question shows ignorance or idiocy, but what exactly does the Essentials player data entail? I figured I'd ask before I vote.

**wild1145** · July 16, 2023 at 10:01 PM Official Post

This is an example of the file

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lastlocation:
  world: flatlands
  x: 12345.30599070949
  y: 12.25033194034626
  z: 12345.5503701487
  yaw: -12.555084
  pitch: 12.851208
timestamps:
  login: 1234567891011
  kits:
    kit-01: 123456789101112
  logout: 1234567891011121
  lastteleport: 1234567891011121
afk: false
logoutlocation:
  world: flatlands
  x: 12345.10744342562
  y: 12.0
  z: 12345.219108119185
  yaw: -123.83028
  pitch: 12.102406
nickname: mynickname
godmode: false
teleportenabled: false
money: '1000'
ip-address: 12.34.56.78
last-account-name: myminecraftusername

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Tizz · July 16, 2023 at 10:03 PM

I'd say the only relevant thing is the username history, idk if it's easy to cherry-pick it.

**wild1145** · July 16, 2023 at 10:14 PM Official Post

Quote from Tizz

I'd say the only relevant thing is the username history, idk if it's easy to cherry-pick it.

Network Manager should have all of that anyway.

I will say as a more general point, with the fact all worlds will have a hard world border to stop excessive disk space, most of this data is likely not going to be all that valuable so take that into consideration when voting.

**Alco_Rs11** · July 16, 2023 at 11:38 PM

Nuke warps but keep player data.

A lot of the warps are troll warps with no real purpose, but active player data such as homes, etc. should be retained.

**wild1145** · July 17, 2023 at 12:47 AM Official Post

Quote from Alco_Rs11

Nuke warps but keep player data.
A lot of the warps are troll warps with no real purpose, but active player data such as homes, etc. should be retained.

Homes shouldn't make a great difference given there won't be the map transfered.

Feueristic · July 17, 2023 at 6:44 AM

Going through the individual items listed from the example file, assuming that no other players has additional information in the file:

lastlocation and logoutlocation is the easiest to eliminate. Due to the complete world(s) reset there is little to no point to keep specific coordinates intact. There is no use for specific homes set for interesting terrain in the Overworld as well, since that will not exist (or may be generated under a different seed).
Timestamps are useless - the only interesting fact is that it remembers last time you used a specific Essentials' kit, which, we quite obviously don't use.
AFK status is temporary.
godmode and teleportenabled can be changed with one command.
money holds no value, and can be changed with one command as well.
I don't think nicknames would be too hard to recreate either, given the amount of tools discovered by other players (FZMM, birdflop), or just the tools we have provided (nickgradient, nickrainbow).
There's no specific reason why we have to store IP addresses and username histories with Essentials, and I don't think our current operations relies on this. If anyone on the development side has something to say about this though, I'm sure the rest of us would love to hear it.

Hence I see nothing of note that requires us to retain this specific file. As usual, though, I'm open to discussion if any of you feels like I brushed over something or a specific entry is quite useful for your own purposes, and if that's the case, I hope you can let all of us know.

Gommeh · July 17, 2023 at 2:44 PM

only things I care about are nickname and tag tbh

pretty sure admins' custom login messages aren't part of Essentials, but I'd like those to stay as well, just putting it out there

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