Minecraft Buddies

we had a server crash last night, everything should be back to normal now.

the spawn and the biomes changed but i've put it all back as it was now.

I'm not aware of any chunk errors or anything similar happening but if you see any massively unfitting terrain, just let me know

The newest (unofficial) version of minecraft is 1.9pre5

As of today, we're updating the server to this version but since it's not an official version, it might be a bit of an arse to update to.

If anyone is having any troubles updating, give me a shout and I can help out.

This is the file you need. You need to place it in your application data folder.

To find it, on a Windows PC press [Win]+[R] (The Windows key, in between ctrl+alt, and R) and type %appdata%

Then go to the .minecraft folder and into the bin folder.

The file above needs to be placed in there (rename the old file first)

On a Mac, the folder is Username/Library/Application Support/minecraft/bin

The file above needs to be placed in there (rename the old file first)

If anything goes wrong, you can delete the whole bin folder and the next time you start up minecraft it will redownload it.

If anyone has a problem with this, get in touch and I can help you out.

The reason for updating is simply that we're running out of animals without the breeding introduced in 1.9. I'm not aware of any big bugs but if anything is wrong, let me know and i'll try and sort them out.

If worst comes to worst, we have a full back up of the world before the update and can easily go back.

Here is the link to the sphax texture pack, updated for 1.9, this is the 128x128 pack but there are links to the other sizes on the page if that makes minecraft run too slowly for you.

I've added voting for kicking players and restarting the server. Kicking players has been enabled in the case somebody is afk while logged in and is stopping players sleeping, restarting has been added in case people are suffering lag or people are struggling to join the game, that sort of thing.

Don't be a dick with it.

To initiate a vote:

/vote kick PlayerName

/vote restart

To vote:

/vote yes

/vote no

60 seconds after voting, all votes are tallied and if over half of the voting players vote in favour then the action will be taken. Players that don't vote don't tally for or against.

Let me know if there are any problems with it.

This ugly monstrosity is Fletch’s station. It splits into 3 lines, one leading to spawn, one leading to niall and one leading to tom. (tom’s will again split into 3, heading off to steve and ellie)

This ugly piece of shit is functional but is pretty much designed to be a box to build around. Make a pretty station with no need to learn the redstone :)

This one probably won’t be made any prettier any time soon however, congratulations on the baby.

The rail system for the new world has started. The lines to Joe and Fletch are completed and Bobby's is just waiting on knowing where to put it. 

From there we are going to start wiring up further stations using these 3 as a hub and once those are done we can start having a few other connections depending on where they're used.

Right we are, the world now has a hard limit on it, if you walk up to the edge of the map, instead of generating new chunks it just teleports you back and tells you that you've reached the end of the world.

Spawn has been moved 50 meters up the road so that it doesn;t just plonk you on top of a mountain any more, it's a little flatter and will make a much better spawn location.

The mods are now working, the way permissions are set at the moment, all commands are strictly limited. This is only until I get my head around how the new permissions system in bukkit works, bear with me, but we do now have sleep notifications working again.

Lastly, and this is where most of my time has been spent/wasted, we now have an autoupdating map that doubles as a gps, chat thingy and loads else.

http://88.190.27.29:8134/#

here is the new map, it's up now. find somewhere to settle, you know the drill.

we'll work on migrating buildings once everyone's settled and bukkit is up and running

a new world will also mean a stop to the biome shifting problem thats happened also.

As you may or may not be aware, soon will see the release of Minecraft 1.8 (The Adventure Update). New features include larger biomes, rivers, oceans, npc villages, new, larger dungeon areas with boss monsters and support for larger (vertical) map sizes.

All of these features, however, will require a freshly generated map.

Using a bit of admin super-powering, however, we should be able to get away with moving buildings from the old world to the new one. I have been playing around with a copy/paste tool within game and it should be as simple as telling me where you want the building to go and I can place it there for you.

This is pretty much a necessity considering the most impressive thing we've ever had on the server is still only half completed, and whether we can go ahead with a new world pretty much hinges on moving dimmers' castle with us.

Another advantage to all of this is we will be able to migrate things from the old old world as well. Feltch's mesa and Ellie's tower could find their way to the new new world with us.

The old old world can be downloaded here in case you forget what you had.

I've had a few other ideas for this new new world. The new version will allow us to create maps higher than 128 blocks and so I would like to double the world height. This should mean higher mountains, deeper oceans and more digging room before bedrock.

I also plan to fully explore a large section of the world and then seal off further exploration. I was considering a 2km square with spawn in the middle with an invisible wall surrounding it. This should stop any newer updates messing with the world generation and causing those sheer cliff edges whenever we explore. The portal to adventureland will be used to harvest anything that comes out in newer updates.

I am also considering using cheats to create the train system in the next world. It has taken us months to connect up as many stations as we have, and even then there is still a lot more to do. It may be an improvement if myself and Ellie create a rail system to everyone's land to make sure everyone is playing together rather than in their own separate instances.

Shut up, Ricky H

03-08-11

Here's an annotated one, too

06/07/11

You may notice that there's no longer any snow around spawn, I added a mod that can melt huge areas of snow and ice at a time to clear out the areas that are no longer considered a snowy biome.