Excellent! I was hoping that if I stirred the pot a few of you guys would bubble to the surface.
Okay, world termination is on hold. I like the idea of ceremonially TNTing the collectors and settling into a new area of the existing map. I just want to be sure that the area onto which we settle hasn't already been stripped of resources underground. A very large area around the original spawn is spent, thanks largely to those (awesome) divining rods. That area by your desert,
709: have you been mining up there or just leveling the area to build Creepertown, USA? If the latter, then it does seem a decent place to restart.