Spawn Spot

A Spawn Spot (sometimes referred to as “NewSpawn”) is a safe location randomly selected in the Overworld by server code. All Spawn Spots are within the Border area and the current Spawn Spot is changed regularly: this is the main distinctive mechanic of NewSpawn, and is active almost all of the time, except during NewSpawn Truces, during which the Spawn Spot remains static. Near every Spawn Spot, a settlement known as Spawn Town is usually created.

The random election of a Spawn Spot through weekly NewSpawn events is one of the core aspects of NewSpawn gameplay experience, and the one major difference from standard Vanilla Minecraft gameplay. Each time a new Spawn Spot is selected, the world spawn is moved to match the new Spot, hence Compasses point to the new location and players without a bed will spawn there too. An element of randomness in the choice of location makes it so that a Spawn Spot could be either far from or close to the previous one.

Spawn Spots are usually referred to using the notation “NS#XX” where “NS” stands for “NewSpawn” and XX is the number of the Spot. For instance the first official Spawn Spot was NS#00, the following was NS#01 and so on.