MySQL is something I plan to add eventually and retire the serialize system. But LOT of stuff would have to be rewritten. The idea is to still load the entire DB into memory, but when a change is made to something, it is updated using an update query, rather then saving everything at given intervals. so take a mobile for example, you have a structure something like this: int serial string name int map int x int y int z bool alive And so on, for stuff like spawners it would require 2 tables, 1 for the spawners themselves and one for the mobs, so something like: spawner: int serial int count (etc) mobiles: int spawnerserial int mobserial So to load spawners you'd do a join with the two tables. The hard part is divising a system to make it easy to code this and not actually need to do queries in the item scripts, you want all that stuff to be taken care of at the core to make it easy to add scripts. The beauty with this is the data would be much more stable and easy to manage. Ever try doing a backup while the world saves? Baaaaad. Learned that the hard way. :O