[bcbarton]

I propose that the wilderness be expanded and made even more risky. It would work by having 3 zones, the first zone is the regular map area where you can buy and sell realms normally, the second zone is the current wilderness operating as it does now, and the 3rd zone would be all the space beyond zone 2. The mechanics of zone 3 would essentially be hardcore mode such that if you died there you would be banned from the server for a number of days based on how many hundreds of blocks were traveled away from spawn. It would satisfy those who want unlimited maps while ensuring excessive expansion of the map would be highly unlikely and it would offer a tantalizing challenge for the bold.

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Or the current wilderness could become hardcore mode, there would be no expansion, and it would reset after every update to minecraft's terrain generator.

As suggested in the OP, I vote no.

[OneManWo1fPac]

Lol you die and your banned! LOL. How about once you die you can't enter this part of the wild for another 4 weeks.

[DarelleZindad]

About expanding the wilderness - I dont have the feeling there are a lot of ppl in the wildy anyways. In the beginning evryone rushed there because it was new and there were jungle biomes, but who really uses it nowadays?
I havent seen a single player there for about two months, and since I built my base on the border to the wilderness chances are quite high I meet players there - as I did the first few weeks.
If hardly anyone is there, why should it be expanded?

To make it more difficult, well, thats a different thing...
If it gets too dangerous for me I'll just take all my stuff and leave

[BSGSamuel]

I go mining in the wilderness every now and then but yeah, it's not used much anymore.