Thanks, UncleAcidic. Yeah, I think when I tried to port over an existing seed to the server I rented it did not go right. At first we despaired when we saw the smooth-sided, 300 foot deep pit that featured the Eikthyr summoning altar at the bottom, thinking the game world hopelessly broken. But then we figured we'd at least try to get down there so we spent a few hours building platforms and workstations to descend and it worked. We will proceed in that spirit and see what happens!