I need to make sure all plugins will work with 1.8 first so it doesn't thunderfuck us.
I will be making a second brand-new world... I didn't want to do this, as I believed splitting the already small player base would be bad, but yeah there are thousands of hours of work.
I don't think we'll EVER get entirely rid of the original world... it may become a museum someday, but it's got a lot of good times woven into it.
ANYWAY.... once I can get the two worlds linked together, we'll be bangin.