It’s a random world, no mods initially, now it’s shaders, inventory handlers

Hard difficulty, no rule changes.

I started it some time in 2015. Spawn is on an island, from one end of the island you can listen to the local ocean monument’s guardians killing squid. I trim the world’s chunks outside the local area before updates

I started a hardcore world at the same time, and that game is now really hard to lose, with 1.16 god armour

Closest thing to a forever world I did was in the middle of beta, back when biomes were more the product of smoothly varying numbers than hard-coded distinct regions with borders. Random seed, medium difficulty, solo, no mods, and gamerules weren’t a thing. But it’s long lost now.

My forever world didn’t happen until I paid for a realm. Best 8 bucks a month I can spend. We have a massive cave system, an automatic item sorter, huge castle, built to scale Wrigley Field, a Mute City ice boat track, and more. And it’s just really two of us. Been probably 3 years or so.

I started playing in 2010, but this is my first forever world. I intend on keeping the realm alive as long as Microslop allows it.

A friend started and hosts our group of friends forever world.

did you use a random or pre-selected seed?

Random AFAIK, it may have had a few random generations before it was “good” but it definitely wasn’t selected by seed.

did you allow friends or play solo?

Small group, 6ish people.

will you reset chunks to make room for new biomes/terrain features with updates?

We haven’t yet. I’m not completely against the idea. We probably will at some point.

what mods did you use?

Vanilla, no mods except client side mods.

what difficulty did you select?

Hard, but some players are creative.

what gamerules did you change?

Sleep if one person wants to sleep.

how long has it been going?

3ish years? People play in bursts for a month or so. At the moment no one has really played in a few months.

Long ago towards the beginning of our relationship, my wife and I had a world in which we found a mushroom island and terraformed it into a lush green place with 2x2 spruce trees.

It was a random seed, but we did look up where the island was. I’ve done some work to trim the chunks, since the latest update handles chunk borders really well.

It has not mods, but has had data packs, most of which are probably broken. The biggest of which is a hammer data pack that let’s you break a 3x3 of blocks. The rest are mostly VanillaTweaks.

I’m pretty sure it was set to normal for villager conversions.

We have phantom spawning off, and 1 player sleeping.

It’s been running for about 5 years with probably a 3 year gap.

I’ve had a few “forever” ones that fizzle out over a few years. First was started on a random seed, no cheats, no mods, standard difficulty level, with 5 of us playing. Over time we granted teleportation as the only cheat.

Second world was almost the same setup with a different group of people but in addition to teleportation, creative mode was allowed for building only.

Played a few with me niece and nephew where they were on tablets. The adults were allowed to use cheats mostly because the kids couldn’t figure out how. We were just using them mostly in build mode to hide things because the kids kept stealing our diamonds or setting our houses on fire lol.

I decided to turn one of my older singleplayer worlds that I didn’t originally play on for long into my forever world. It was random seed, but I chose it because it had nice terrain.

Mostly it’s a solo adventure, but occasionally I’ll host it as a server and do a session or tour with a friend.

I never reset chunks, but I’m careful about the areas I explore to save space for new update content.

I don’t use vanilla-incompatible mods. When Mojang releases an update I want to be able to update my world without having to wait on mods to update to the new version. I’ve only created and added one datapack to delete my items and xp when I die.

I play on hard mode with no gamerule alterations.

I do impose a few rules on myself:

1. Item and xp loss on death.
2. No following tutorials or copying designs from the internet.
3. No utilizing mechanics that could be patched in the future, such as bedrock breaking or duplication glitches.

I’ve been playing on this world on and off for 5 years now. Its nice to be able to take a break for weeks or even months and still have everything exactly where I left off.

random

solo

no

vanilla

hard

none

12 short years 🥲

I’ve recently made my Forever World as wanted to document the journey instead of what I done previously on my 6 Year Old world of just play but;

Q: Did I use a random or pre-selected seed?
A: Pre-Selected from my Previous World, The generation is completely different but I love it

Q: Do you allow friends or play solo?
A: Currently Solo but plans are in place to allow friends join

Q: Will you reset chunks to make room for new biomes / terrrain features with updates?
A: I don’t like resetting chunks, so personally won’t especially with modern updates blending the new biomes there’s no real need to other than possibly storage space but that’s one of the many joys of older worlds

Q: What mods do you use?
A: vv

Minecraft Mods (Fabric 26.2) 🛠️
👓 3D Skin Layers
🏆 Achievement Plaques
🌹 Ambient Sounds
🍎 AppleSkin
🧰Axiom (For my Creative Testing World)
📜 Better Statastics Screen
📔 Better Than Mending
📑 Durability Tooltip
🧸 Essential
🎬 Flashback
🎥 LegacyFreecam (No noclip)
📑 Held Item Info
🔭 Litematica
🎇 Lithium
💅 Show Me Your Skin!
📑 Shulker Box Tooltip
🔬 Sodium
🎁 Trade Cycling
🎑 Voxy

Q: What difficulty did you select?
A: Hard due to certain things only happening 100% of the time such as villagers turning into zombified ones when killed by a Zombie

Q: What gamrules did you change?
A: None, I don’t mind most of the default gamerules but who knows might tweak a few things in the long-run

Q: How long has it been going?
A: This world is very new and is younger than your post but my previous world that I hold close to my heart was 6 years and the only reason I dropped that world was because of wanting to create videos and document it and 6 years worth of missing lore was not great for me.