Executive summary
RootMC upgraded to Paper 26.2 and regenerated the live overworld (world) so the server could run current Minecraft builds, a clean BlueMap tile set, and refreshed spawn protection on new coordinates. The launch was a fresh map, not a wipe of the player economy: Vault balances, town banks, loans, ranks, and cloud stats continued.
The economy merge at the HST month boundary ties the old-map reserve to audited totals on the Reserve dashboard:
| Metric | Amount (G) | Meaning |
|---|
| Old-map reserve |
2,097.43 |
Server Reserve ledger net at 1 Jul 2026 00:00 HST — reserve carryover (not gold mined) |
| June dividend returned |
1,048.72 |
June 2026 treasury payout at the July boundary |
| True reserve opening |
1,049.23 |
Reserve remaining in the closed loop after the June dividend return (Jul 4 vault reconciliation +0.52 G) |
Founding & platform
- Game:
play.rootmc.net · Paper 26.2
- Live world:
world (new seed / fresh terrain from 1 Jul 2026)
- Map: map.rootmc.net — single live BlueMap for
world
- Launch window: fresh-map go-live aligned with the July 2026 HST calendar month and reserve ledger era
Staff remapped Root-Spawn protection (outer ring, chamber, well, lava vents) on the new platform. Town mayors reclaim plots on the new geography; town names and resident lists were never deleted.
What we kept
- Player wallets (Vault / MySQL)
- Town & nation organisations — names, residents, ranks
- Town banks and nation balances in Towny MySQL
- Personal loans, shop listings, and priced-item history (cloud sync)
- mcMMO progression
- Discord town/nation channels and linked accounts
- Server Reserve closed-loop policy — taxes, Towny sinks, vote rewards
What reset
- All Towny claimed plots, town homeblocks, and nation/town spawn points on the old geography
- Player homes tied to the previous world
- Overworld terrain — new map; old
world-old archived for staff reference only
- BlueMap tiles for the live map (re-rendered on
world)
Player inventories were not copied by default — everyone started fresh gear on the new map unless staff restored specific builds or items manually.
Towny & territories
The fresh-world Towny script cleared claims and spawn coordinates while keeping org rows and banks. Mayors use /town claim on the new terrain to re-establish territory.
- Town upkeep and daily taxes remain 0 G — towns are not deleted by upkeep pressure
- Embassy plots (default 100 G) are the preferred onboarding path for new players joining existing towns
- Territory influence (Root-Territories) applies on reclaimed plots — see the territories guide
Returning players
Players active before the reset could claim a one-time map return grant while the program was open (now ended July 2026):
- Was 1,000 G via
/rootmc claim-return after linking
- Eligible if joined before 2026-07-01 or with a Towny resident record
Staff moved select builds from the old map where feasible. Reclaiming town land is the mayor’s job on the new world.
Economy merge
The merge boundary is 1 July 2026 00:00 HST — the instant the July HST calendar month begins and the post-reset reserve ledger era starts.
Why a merge? June 2026 closed with a positive reserve net from Towny founding fees, transaction taxes, vote rewards, and staff grants. That pool belonged to the old map economy. At the boundary we:
- Snapshot the June reserve balance as reserve carryover (not gold mined)
- Settle the June treasury payout at the boundary (1,048.72 G returned)
- Open the July ledger era on the fresh map with the true reserve opening (what stayed in the closed loop)
Live ledger rows from July 2026 onward appear on the Reserve dashboard. June detail is preserved in this audited report and in staff change logs — not re-synced row-by-row into D1.
June 2026 reserve close
At the June 2026 HST month-end boundary, the Server Reserve ledger net was 2,097.43 G. That figure is the audited old-map reserve carryover — separate from physical gold mined via /mint.
June 2026 reserve activity (full month):
- Inflow: 6,992.43 G — mostly Towny founding, claims, and service fees
- Outflow: 4,895.00 G — staff grants and vote rewards
- Net: 2,097.43 G
Towny intake breakdown (June MTD): new towns 2,800 G · new nations 2,000 G · claims 2,192.43 G.
June treasury settlement
At the July boundary, 1,048.72 G was returned from the June reserve pool (ledger DIVIDEND rows stamped 2026-07-01 00:00 HST, month=2026-06).
This return reduces the reserve to the true opening for the new map era.
True reserve picture
After the June dividend, the closed-loop reserve opening for July 2026 was:
2,097.43 − 1,048.72 = 1,048.71 G (true reserve opening)
The Reserve dashboard shows:
- Old-map reserve (Jun end) — 2,097.43 G
- June dividend returned — 1,048.72 G
- True reserve opening — 1,049.23 G (vault-aligned Jul 4; audited carryover was 1,048.71 G)
- True reserve balance — opening plus post-reset ledger activity (June dividend rows netted out of the July-era net)
- July ledger balance — sum of inflows and outflows recorded from 1 Jul 2026 onward
Gold mined vs over-printed
RootMC distinguishes two ways wallet G enters the economy:
| Term | Meaning | Ledger |
|---|
| Gold mined |
Physical gold items converted via /mint (mine → smelt → mint) |
TAX rows with mint:gross=… |
| Over-printed (grants) |
Treasury /grant and automated grant programs — wallet G without mining |
GRANT outflows from the Server Reserve |
These are not the same as reserve carryover (2,097.43 G at the July boundary) — that figure is closed-loop reserve net from Towny sinks, taxes, grants, and votes on the old map.
Gold mined (/mint)
Gold mined on audited reports is post-reset /mint ledger gross only:
Sum of mint:gross from 1 Jul 2026 onward
That includes gold routed straight to loan repayment at mint time. Paying loans later does not reduce the mined tally.
Over-printed grants (audited)
- Old map (June 2026): 4,400 G staff/treasury GRANT outflows
- Post-reset: sum of
GRANT rows in the July+ ledger (live on the Reserve dashboard)
- Total over-printed: old-map audited + post-reset ledger
Post-reset ledger era
From 1 July 2026, the cloud reserve ledger tracks only movements on the fresh map. Typical July inflows: transaction tax, Towny founding on new claims, death fees. Outflows: vote rewards, staff grants, and loan disbursements.
Vault sync (towny-server) may lag ledger backfills; the Reserve page is ledger-authoritative for public totals.
Timeline
| When (HST) | Event |
|---|
| Jun 2026 | First full reserve ledger month on original map — net +2,097.43 G |
| 1 Jul 2026 00:00 | HST month boundary · Paper 26.2 fresh world live |
| 1 Jul 2026 00:00 | June treasury payout — 1,048.72 G returned |
| 1 Jul 2026 | True reserve opening — 1,048.71 G · post-reset ledger era begins |
| 6 Jul 2026 | Constitution 2026-07-06 ratified (Council poll 549cf16c) |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Constitution draft 2026-07-02 declared · retention pack deploy |
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