As part of the first community survey results, we added a new world to the Empire today. The Wilderness is a normal world like the Wasteland but it doesn't have a live map. Of course you can get to this world using the portal in any of the world spawns or with the command /wilderness
I also noticed this. When we change worlds now, on OUR screen it appears that we're the 'default steve' skin. Although others still see you as your actual skin. Very weird glitch indeed.