Org Minecraft Server

[TinCow]

The server is now back online. It is now running on Linux, which should make it faster by itself, and it now has access to 3gb of RAM, as opposed to the 1.5gb it was limited to previously. Hopefully this will improve performance. Linux gives me a lot more flexibility, so I plan to add automated backups and automated map updates as well, though it may take me a while to get those things working. I'm learning Linux as I go, so it takes a fair amount of google-fu to get anything done at the moment.

I've got other tweaks I need to do to restore home media center functionality which I am going to start on now. As a result, the server may lag or go offline on random occasions. If anyone is online I will notify you before I do this.

[TinCow]

Server will be down for some work for a few hours.

[TinCow]

Server is online again, apologies for the downtime.

[TinCow]

PistonChest and MobCatcher are both online again. Please test both and let me know if they're working properly. PistonChest also has more functions now than it used to. Check out the plugin page for more info. The villager balance plugin update is in the works and should hopefully be ready soon.

[TinCow]

I have added the Rebalance Villagers plugin, which overhauls the trading system. Villagers now have far more sensible prices for pretty much everything. It takes a lot of 'common' and easily renewable items to sell for a single emerald, while rare and harder to obtain items have better selling prices. Purchases are also scaled, so that a single emerald can purchase multiple 'cheap' items, while it takes correspondingly larger numbers of emeralds for more significant items. In addition, trades no longer go inactive after they have been used. All villagers start with a single trade as normal and unlock more trades as per the vanilla method. However, trading large quantities of an item no longer disables specific trades. Once a trade is active, it's there for good. The system also recognizes 'blocks' of items. For example, if it takes 9 emeralds to purchase something, you can trade it by either putting 9 emeralds or 1 emerald block in the trade window.

There is a caveat to these changes, however: they only apply to new trades. All existing trades will remain at the old, unbalanced prices and disabled trades remain disabled until you enable them once with trading the next tier item (though they will not go inactive again). All new trades that are generated will use the new pricing and will never disable. The best way to handle this is to kill off your existing villagers and let them repopulate your villages. Doing that will produce an entire village with the new prices. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug with the plugin such that any villagers spawned with the spawn egg come out as farmers. As such, I cannot repopulate your villages for you manually, unless all you want it a lot of food trading. You'll have to do the dirt work of slaughtering your villagers and letting them reproduce yourselves. The best way to handle this is to simply butcher all but 2 or 4 villagers, then idle in the village for a long time to let them repopulate. Once you've got a fair number of new adults around, then slaughter the last few oldies.

[Nigel]

... Linux gives me a lot more flexibility, so I plan to add automated backups and automated map updates as well, .....

Are the older maps still available? Are they getting saved somewhere or are they overwritten?

It would be cool if we were able to still view them sometime and see how our world has developed over the years - from a small hut to a big city.

[Ishmael]

Clearing the Nether is fine by me. It gives me an excuse to put off improvements to the roads to my portals that I'd been planning .

By the way, I think that second blaze spawner belongs to luxfx. Not sure if he still plays on this server.

[Scienter]

Clearing the Nether is fine by me. It gives me an excuse to put off improvements to the roads to my portals that I'd been planning .

By the way, I think that second blaze spawner belongs to luxfx. Not sure if he still plays on this server.

He plays from time to time, he's pretty busy IRL right now.

I'm not thrilled about having to redo all the Nether roads but it's worth it to get the new blocks and replenish the glowstone!

[TinCow]

Are the older maps still available? Are they getting saved somewhere or are they overwritten?

It would be cool if we were able to still view them sometime and see how our world has developed over the years - from a small hut to a big city.

They're still available in the sense that I still have the backups of them. Putting them online to play around in isn't really an option though, as doing so requires running a second server. I don't think my server is capable of running two instances of Minecraft simultaneously, which means that they only way to see the old worlds in-game would be to take the current server offline, which isn't ideal. If you'd like, I could temporarily put up a map of the old world at a previous point in its history. It's not something I would like to do permanently because the maps take up a fair amount of server space, but I could put an old one up for a week or two without any problems.

[spankythehippo]

Well, since the Nether will be regenerated, might as well get all the help we can get. Another friend of mine is interested in joining the server.

Oh almighty TinCow! Grant Shin0bz access to this wondrous land abound in wonderful buildings and stupid deaths!

[Beskar]

Added them for you, Spanky.

[Nigel]

...this wondrous land abound in wonderful buildings and stupid deaths!

LOL

I can be proud to say that, since I joined this server just before Christmas, I haven't died a single death yet - stupid or otherwise.

I have to say, though, that I have not managed to build a single building yet, either - wonderful or otherwise.



On a slightly more serious note:

.... I don't think my server is capable of running two instances of Minecraft simultaneously, which means that they only way to see the old worlds in-game would be to take the current server offline, which isn't ideal...

Not sure I fully understand the issues involved. Or perhaps you are trying to say something different to what I was thinking. I was not thinking of having a second earlier world to walk around in or see a map of the old world in-game.

I was just thinking of looking at the "google maps version" of an older map, as we see it here on the first page of the forum thread.

https://forums.totalwar.org/minecraf...64/-148/-5/0/0

....If you'd like, I could temporarily put up a map of the old world at a previous point in its history. It's not something I would like to do permanently because the maps take up a fair amount of server space, but I could put an old one up for a week or two without any problems.

Maybe that is more like what I had in mind.

The game seems to have been up since Nov. 2011 - just over 1 year.
If you could pull out 12 maps - 1 from each month - and put them up one at a time over a few weeks, this would give a good overview of the development of our world so far. I would volunteer to take screenshots and compile a "Brief Illustrated History of OrgCraft", if people are interested.

[spankythehippo]

I would volunteer to take screenshots and compile a "Brief Illustrated History of OrgCraft", if people are interested.

That would be difficult, considering the random projects people do in the middle of nowhere. I still don't know where luxfx and Xiahou are located.

[Sigurd]

That would be difficult, considering the random projects people do in the middle of nowhere. I still don't know where luxfx and Xiahou are located.

If the second Blaze farm is luxfx', I have been to his home. I think it is located under water and that his major area is placed in the nether... which is kinda cool. You make and obscure surface abode.. with a nether portal and keep the rest in the nether. Xiahou also spoke about building under water.

I am redoing my castle these days... which might take a while. I also want to make a medieval town around it. You can see that I have started mapping out a grid road system.

[Nigel]

Thanks TinCow, it is great to see the world in the olden days.

That would be difficult, considering the random projects people do in the middle of nowhere. I still don't know where luxfx and Xiahou are located.

Actually, spankythehippo is right. I could not do more than just record an overview of the main city and home in on some Regions Of Interest. I certainly could not claim to do justice to every player who has build on this server - especially, since many of the most impressive constructions are probably under ground or under water.

That said, if anyone wants me to record pictures of his home, or any particular area, that interests him, please let me know the coordinats. I guess this is a one time chance to get some pictures from the past