minecraft server new world?

[toblix]

Sounds good, I'll donate as well, if it's convenient, easy and safe!™

[dibs]

i don't mind what happens. its all shits and giggle either way.

and i like the idea of us all huddled together in a tiny hut waiting for the zombies to die. who knows what could happen with a wonder woman skin and some RP.

[Amobius]

I'm up for it, Haven't made anything that can't be rebuilt in a few weeks. Also would give me a chance to do some of the projects that I have half-assed, but do them right this time (minas tirith)

[tabacco]

In the interests of experimentation, I turned up a new server to play with tonight. I'm going to see what I can do about getting minecraft up and running and in the grip of daemontools to kick it if it crashes. I'll keep people posted.

[tabacco]

In the interests of load testing, could I get people to play around on minecraft.dthosting.org for a bit and let me know if it feels slow/laggy or otherwise weird? I'm trying to see if I can get away with less than the 1GB of memory the server asks for.

This is just a test instance, so don't get too involved in building anything, btw

[elmuerte]

I'll give it a try when I get back from work. I'll travel east for a long time, if others can travel in other other direction for a while we can grow the world to stress the server a bit.

[tabacco]

Thompson and I spent a few hours digging and generally running around, and it seems to work fine with two people. Be interesting to see how it holds up with 4 or 6.

[Thompson]

Thompson and I spent a few hours digging and generally running around, and it seems to work fine with two people. Be interesting to see how it holds up with 4 or 6.

Time flies when you're crafting mines.

[Erkki]

I tried it but there was no one else there now. But...

SNOW!? I didn't know there was snow & ice in Minecraft.

[elmuerte]

I tried it but there was no one else there now. But...

SNOW!? I didn't know there was snow & ice in Minecraft.

the first 7 worlds I had in single player were snowy

[elmuerte]

In the interests of load testing, could I get people to play around on minecraft.dthosting.org for a bit and let me know if it feels slow/laggy or otherwise weird? I'm trying to see if I can get away with less than the 1GB of memory the server asks for.

This is just a test instance, so don't get too involved in building anything, btw

I played around a bit on the server. Latency isn't as good as on the current server, but it's not that slow that it's annoying. Of course I was alone at the time.

[MrHoatzin]

I didn't actually log onto the server yet, but I pinged it and for me it is about five times better. I guess that has to do with the fact that Doug's server is in the states, while the other one is in Germany. Still, I didn't feel any serious pain playing on the DE server so far, so I don't think the US one will be too bad for yous.

--- minecraft.dthosting.org ping statistics ---

7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 30.557/30.668/30.765/0.072 ms

--- minecraft.idlethumbs.com ping statistics ---

8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 146.513/147.431/148.052/0.411 ms

[Squid Division]

I hopped on to check out the snow. One thing I noticed was that /playerlist didn't work.

[MrHoatzin]

I hopped on to check out the snow. One thing I noticed was that /playerlist didn't work.

I think /playerlist is a part of the hey0 server plugins: info & more info.

It is a very decent server management tool.

[Erkki]

the first 7 worlds I had in single player were snowy

7? I'm still on my first.

[Erkki]

I didn't actually log onto the server yet, but I pinged it and for me it is about five times better. I guess that has to do with the fact that Doug's server is in the states, while the other one is in Germany. Still, I didn't feel any serious pain playing on the DE server so far, so I don't think the US one will be too bad for yous.

--- minecraft.dthosting.org ping statistics ---

7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 30.557/30.668/30.765/0.072 ms

--- minecraft.idlethumbs.com ping statistics ---

8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 146.513/147.431/148.052/0.411 ms

I'm probably one of the farthest from any US server and I get ~157 ping there so it's probably good enough. ~80 for the German one BTW.

[Nachimir]

In the interests of load testing, could I get people to play around on minecraft.dthosting.org for a bit and let me know if it feels slow/laggy or otherwise weird? I'm trying to see if I can get away with less than the 1GB of memory the server asks for.

This is just a test instance, so don't get too involved in building anything, btw

I just ran around in it for five minutes, absolutely no appreciable lag at all. Currently 01:00 UK time, if that matters. I think I was the only person on the server.

[jennoa]

In the interests of load testing, could I get people to play around on minecraft.dthosting.org for a bit and let me know if it feels slow/laggy or otherwise weird? I'm trying to see if I can get away with less than the 1GB of memory the server asks for.

This is just a test instance, so don't get too involved in building anything, btw

I spent about an hour on the server, and during my whole time there it seemed to run quite well. I had no noticeable latency. Like most of the others I was alone during my time there.

[MrHoatzin]

I walked north for a couple of days, collecting world-generation miss-saplings (the generated trees sometimes have canopies that extend too far from the trunk according to world logic and as you approach them, they break and drop saplings). I collected a full stack of those, a bunch of mushrooms of both kinds, flowers, etc.

It would stutter (at most for five seconds at a time, usually for a second or less) about every 15 blocks. It would do this on any draw distance I tried.

Also, I couldn't make any snowballs, and while there was snow everywhere, it wasn't snowing for me. Was the snow off, or did I bake a dumb painterly texture pack?

[a purple future]

same for me: no falling snow, no snowballs. default textures.

[Orv]

If there is snow on the ground, you have to break it with a shovel to create snowballs.

[elmuerte]

It would stutter (at most for five seconds at a time, usually for a second or less) about every 15 blocks. It would do this on any draw distance I tried.

I think that is related to on the fly world creation. I had the same when I moved into a given direction on both this server as the current server.

[MrHoatzin]

If there is snow on the ground, you have to break it with a shovel to create snowballs.

That is what I did. With both a wooden shovel and a diamond one.

[tabacco]

I'm going to add more memory to the server, which should let me double the amount of memory I can dedicate to the server process (the probable cause of slowness, since it's never going over 12% CPU utilization).

Let me know if that makes any difference.

Also: For the curious, I picked Atlanta as a reasonably central DC for both US and EU people.

[tabacco]

Post-upgrade, I notice that a) the server is no longer complaining about its memory allowance on startup and performance in-game seems better. Thoughts?