I looked around the current map for a bit and it's just two small islands with some really cool watery mountains. Is this permanent or will the staff decide on a good seed that provides a large play area?
The current standpoint on the matter is that the map will be kept unless a large issue is brought up with the map. I will say, though, that there is a large landmass across from the spawn island.
Eventually after inhabiting the spawn area that's where we would be expanding to, other side of the wet stuff (probably)