EDIT: Someone seems to have put a billion feathers in my chests and furnaces and LogBlock doesn't say who did it. What, you want me to craft wings?!
TAKE
THESE BROKEN WINGS
AND LEARN TO FLY AGAIN
AND LEARN TO LIVE SO FREE
And about the world saving over in the 1.9 update, I'm rather skeptical about it, as we saw what happened last time, which will most likely happen with 1.9. Sure, we have lots of chunks again, but if we expand too much, it's gonna be really weird. I understand that transferring each and every thing as a schematic is not a fun task. Well, guess I'll wait and see what happens.
Yeah, if you expand the current world after the update there will definitely be jarring breaks in the terrain. It'll look bad but I'm just so tired of losing our worlds that I'm not willing to do it again.
The idea here is for you guys to go explore and expand the
new map while using the current one as a base of operations.
And yes I will look into a sphere world.
As a side note, I have concerns about the impact all this is going to have on the server's performance. 1.8+ is apparently much slower, in addition to the multiple worlds we'll be running.