Org Minecraft Server

[Nigel]

.... Seems no-one wants to build town houses?

I would not expect this to happen overnight (or not in a couple of weeks either).
People surely are busy on whatever projects they are currently working on and it is not as if their town house is something they urgently need - it is more of a convenience thing. So building them will happen slowly one after the other. I only started on it, since it was my first project and I had nothing else lined up.

One thing that would help and encourage, though, could be if we start allocating landplots. That way we can see what areas will be dedicated to personal city houses and what can be used for communal or monumental buildings. Also, if you have claimed a plot, you are more likely to get started on it (at least that would be true for myself).

But how we would allocate plots, sell, auction, vote, give away, allocate by divine power, I have no idea.

[TinCow]

But how we would allocate plots, sell, auction, vote, give away, allocate by divine power, I have no idea.

I say plots can be claimed by the first person who develops it, with no other limitations. The objective is to grow the city, so anyone who's willing to work on it should be able to take any land they're going to actually start working on. That's essentially what I just did for the space needle.

[spankythehippo]

I say plots can be claimed by the first person who develops it, with no other limitations. The objective is to grow the city, so anyone who's willing to work on it should be able to take any land they're going to actually start working on. That's essentially what I just did for the space needle.

So instead of allocating plots, what if anyone can make plots anywhere and any size? I initially thought having grids would be the best solution, but you mentioned that cities aren't symmetrical, so that makes it a lot easier to build a multitude of different buildings.

If the plot sizes were roughly the same, it limits the potential of the building. Having an appropriately portioned plot for a building is the way to go, me thinks. Of course, there will be very small plots sandwiched between plots. With some ingenuity, those can become buildings or green spaces.

[Sigurd]

Goddamn... I just lost my best pick axe to the 5 min rule, forgetting it on an anvil while checking what the cost would be to repair it. It's just sad when you check your inventory and see it is missing and then run to the anvil just to see that it is gone... then you try to fix it by enchanting your second best pick axe with the single enchanted book you have with silk touch just to experience that it didn't transfer to your pick axe anyway.. but it still used up your enchanted book and took out a chunk of your experience.
Damn... need a break.

[Sigurd]

Phew...

A few lucky rounds in the end did the trick and I was able to recreate my best pick-axe setup.

[Nigel]

Glad to hear you got it back - or atleast rebuild, Sigurd.

I have finally packed my things together, bought a rail ticket and come to visit your castle. A fantastic place.

And it is huge.
I am moving carefully so as not to get lost in it. Currently sleeping under the stairs by the portcullis.

[Sigurd]

Server down @ 10:40 am (GMT+1)

[TinCow]

Server is having issues, I cannot seem to restart it remotely. I've opened a ticket with the host.

[Sigurd]

Wow.. Still down... 22:40 GMT+1
That is a full 12 hours. And I thought Germans were on the ball.

[TinCow]

Wow.. Still down... 22:40 GMT+1
That is a full 12 hours. And I thought Germans were on the ball.

Yeah, I know. I'm getting pretty annoyed with them, I've had no response at all. I've been considering changing hosts and this experience is certainly making such a decision more likely.

[Nigel]

Well, I hope you have the backups on your harddisk at home.

For their benefit, keep in mind that it is middle of the night in Europe at the moment, so I would not expect anyone to be working on it right now.
Still that is no good excuse for 12 hours downtime for someone offering a service to an international customer base.

[Sigurd]

If they are a serious hosting provider, 12 hours is unforgivable.
Maybe we should get Hus to phone them?

A 12 hour denial of service could be a hacker attack, some idiot road contractor digging up the line - or they've had their hardware seized due to piracy activities.
Maybe Germany has a power outing due to floods. I know they worried about this last week.

[TinCow]

I cannot even find any contact info for them other than an email address and a mailing address, and they're not responding to any emails or support tickets I open. I will definitely be moving to a different service ASAP, but unfortunately I do not have a recent backup of the world other than on the server. The best I've got access to is a few weeks old. I run daily backups, but they are also stored on the server and it never occurred to me that I would be totally unable to access the server for days at a time like this. So we're kind of in a bind, forced to wait for the server to come back up so that I can pull the files off of it and move them elsewhere.

I'm really sorry about this situation.

[Sigurd]

The down time started pretty much exactly around 10:35-40 AM GMT+1 (German time) 11th of June 2013.
I was on the server when it happened. I was the only one in the game. I was shearing my white sheep when everything froze and I lost connection.

[Papewaio]

If you were alone on the server, in what way were you sharing your sheap?

[Sigurd]

Get yer own... these are mine!! .. well.. you can have the ones marked with X

[TinCow]

The server is back online.

[TinCow]

Mobcatcher re-enabled. I have tweaked it somewhat for balance with the server economy. It costs 5 emeralds to capture non-hostile mobs and 1 ghast tear to capture hostile mobs. These resources must be in your inventory when you attempt the capture, or it will not work.

I am now working on finding a new server host. I am probably going to move to a dedicated server instead of a VPS to improve performance.

[Nigel]

Great news, that the servers is back online.

Do yo think you could copy a safegame to your computer in Washington?
It would be a shame is something more dramatic than a few days of downtime happened to the server that we are entrusting with our little world; especially now that so much work has gone into the Space Needle and other projects.

[TinCow]

The first thing I did after the server came back up was to grab a full backup of the server. I'll be sure to do that regularly until we move.

[Nigel]

How silly of me to even ask.


The rollercoaster of Funcowland is brilliant, by the way.
I am not sure if it is intentional, that your coat catches fire when you go over that lava field, but it sure adds to the trill. Glad the cart goes fast enough afterwards to blow it out again eventually.

[Empire*Of*Media]

excuse me,
can someone explain for me what is this ORG minercraft!? i know nothing about it and i read it and did not understand!! what is this about?! please in a simple explain!

[Sigurd]

excuse me,
can someone explain for me what is this ORG minercraft!? i know nothing about it and i read it and did not understand!! what is this about?! please in a simple explain!

https://minecraft.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft

Orgcraft is simply a game server for this game.

[TinCow]

For those who know what this means, please ping 188.165.240.210 and let me know what your results are. That IP is on a host I am considering moving the server to, and I'd like to know how it responds for you guys. It's an improvement for me and I suspect it will be for almost everyone, but I'd like to double-check.

[rickinator9]

For those who know what this means, please ping 188.165.240.210 and let me know what your results are. That IP is on a host I am considering moving the server to, and I'd like to know how it responds for you guys. It's an improvement for me and I suspect it will be for almost everyone, but I'd like to double-check.

I hope you meant what I think you meant. It is in dutch, though.

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[TinCow]

Yep, that's exactly what I meant. That's a rather amazing result you got as well.

[Ishmael]

For those who know what this means, please ping 188.165.240.210 and let me know what your results are. That IP is on a host I am considering moving the server to, and I'd like to know how it responds for you guys. It's an improvement for me and I suspect it will be for almost everyone, but I'd like to double-check.

293ms for the new one compared to 313ms for the old, so it's a slight improvement for me.

EDIT: I'm somewhat jealous of rickinator's ping .

[Sigurd]

For those who know what this means, please ping 188.165.240.210 and let me know what your results are. That IP is on a host I am considering moving the server to, and I'd like to know how it responds for you guys. It's an improvement for me and I suspect it will be for almost everyone, but I'd like to double-check.

compared to the old:



Also of interest:

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compared to the old:

[Nigel]

Not that I really understand what this ping is about, but when I just copy what you guys are doing, I get an average result of 54 ms for the new address, compared to 51 for the old one.

So, I guess this means nothing much is going to change for me.



By the way, @Sigurd, I build a little wooden shack next near your castle. It is a light and temporary affair, that can be taken down again easily, when I move out again. But I also saw that the streets there have a grid like structure, so I thought, perhaps you want a village in that area anyway.

I also sheared some sheep (to get wool - just in case anyone asks...) and left you 4 stacks in the box near the while sheep. Took one stack for myself. Did some lumbering, too.

[Xiahou]

I get about a 20ms improvement on the new IP. From 110's on the old down to the 90's.