Faction homes should no longer be lost if their target world isn't already loaded when Factions loads at server startup. This is done using a new lazy-load Location container class which only initializes the Location when it's actually needed.

src/com/massivecraft/factions/util/LazyLocation.java

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+package com.massivecraft.factions.util;
+
+import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
+import org.bukkit.Location;
+import org.bukkit.World;
+
+/*
+ * This class provides a lazy-load Location, so that World doesn't need to be initialized
+ * yet when an object of this class is created, only when the Location is first accessed.
+ */
+
+public class LazyLocation
+{
+	private Location location = null;
+	private String worldName;
+	private double x;
+	private double y;
+	private double z;
+	private float pitch;
+	private float yaw;
+
+	public LazyLocation(Location loc)
+	{
+		setLocation(loc);
+	}
+
+	public LazyLocation(final String worldName, final double x, final double y, final double z)
+	{
+		this(worldName, x, y, z, 0, 0);
+	}
+
+	public LazyLocation(final String worldName, final double x, final double y, final double z, final float yaw, final float pitch)
+	{
+		this.worldName = worldName;
+		this.x = x;
+		this.y = y;
+		this.z = z;
+		this.yaw = yaw;
+		this.pitch = pitch;
+	}
+
+	// This returns the actual Location
+	public final Location getLocation()
+	{
+		// make sure Location is initialized before returning it
+		initLocation();
+		return location;
+	}
+
+	// change the Location
+	public final void setLocation(Location loc)
+	{
+		this.location = loc;
+		this.worldName = loc.getWorld().getName();
+		this.x = loc.getX();
+		this.y = loc.getY();
+		this.z = loc.getZ();
+		this.yaw = loc.getYaw();
+		this.pitch = loc.getPitch();
+	}
+
+
+	// This initializes the Location
+	private void initLocation()
+	{
+		// if location is already initialized, simply return
+		if (location != null) return;
+
+		// get World; hopefully it's initialized at this point
+		World world = Bukkit.getWorld(worldName);
+		if (world == null) return;
+
+		// store the Location for future calls, and pass it on
+		location = new Location(world, x, y, z, yaw, pitch);
+	}
+
+
+	public final String getWorldName()
+	{
+		return worldName;
+	}
+
+	public final double getX()
+	{
+		return x;
+	}
+
+	public final double getY()
+	{
+		return y;
+	}
+
+	public final double getZ()
+	{
+		return z;
+	}
+
+	public final double getPitch()
+	{
+		return pitch;
+	}
+
+	public final double getYaw()
+	{
+		return yaw;
+	}
+}