Minecraft, awesome one man game project

[innocentbastard]

If anything Minecraft has taught me, I have worse OCD than I thought lol.

[monroeski]

You can build a compass that points to your spawn point.

I made my base away from the spawn point, so I have a huge lit tower and I leave breadcrumb torches to mark my way.

Don't have the materials for a compass right away, though. I like to do it this way so whenever I do die I pop right back up in a well set up area with a chest full of stuff and things like that. From the home spawn base I usually build tunnels directly to my other bases, or in the case of one world, directly from spawn to the main larger base, then from there to all the others. If I die I can use this method to get directly to any other base I have on the whole map without having to brave any areas that may have monsters (outside of the ridiculously small chance one gets past my moats and through a door, of course).

[Adisharr]

Once I realized that every time you die you respawn at the same spot, I've started marking the spawn point and building my home base around it. Literally the first thing I do when I start a world is dig an X right where I'm standing, then take the pieces I dug up to make a 4 tall tower on the exact spot. That way after I've run around and picked up logs and such I know exactly where to return to to start my base during the first night.

I did something similar after I failed to find my way back to my first neato place I poured a lot of time into.

[linoleum]

If anything Minecraft has taught me, I have worse OCD than I thought lol.

It taught me that I'm not very creative.

[James]

...dang...

Gotta find a dedicated server.

Well, if it will run on Linux, and you don't mind being on a small server, I've got one available. Darksavior is still around after all these years, and currently hosts my personal mail, pictures (mostly that I put on Sharky's), and a few friends websites.

Let me know what the loads look like for Minecraft, and as long as traffic isn't crazy, I'd be more than happy to host it.

james@mail:~$ uptime
 10:03:02 up 188 days, 19:17,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
james@mail:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3906       3289        616          0          0       1984
-/+ buffers/cache:       1304       2601
Swap:         3906          1       3904
james@mail:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 35
model name      : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1000.000
cache size      : 1024 KB

[ImaNihilist]

Wait, wait, wait... whoa, whoa, whoa. Minecraft is multiplayer?

I've skipped out on most of this, but I thought it was a single player only deal.

Roll a small server on Amazon EC2/Rackspace Cloud!

[monroeski]

From Notch's twitter -

The update is going well. There are six new block types (five of them have unique abilities), one new monster, a new dimension, and a couple of bug fixes.

[kpxgq]

haha i can offer my 24/7 torrent box/htpc to run a server but dont know if it has the guts

acer revo (1.6gh single core atom, 1gb ddr2, geforce ion) haha

[monroeski]

If networking hadn't gone all to hell on my old computer, that would probably have been perfect. Poor thing can't even get on the internet anymore.

[taggart6]

Well, if it will run on Linux, and you don't mind being on a small server, I've got one available. Darksavior is still around after all these years, and currently hosts my personal mail, pictures (mostly that I put on Sharky's), and a few friends websites.

Let me know what the loads look like for Minecraft, and as long as traffic isn't crazy, I'd be more than happy to host it.

james@mail:~$ uptime
 10:03:02 up 188 days, 19:17,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
james@mail:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3906       3289        616          0          0       1984
-/+ buffers/cache:       1304       2601
Swap:         3906          1       3904
james@mail:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 35
model name      : Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1000.000
cache size      : 1024 KB

I say keep it limited to 20 people or less and make it private. If it gets to be too much we can investigate another option. We can run a test on Nov1 after the update and see how it holds up Then you can let us know if you want to continue or not.

Honestly, I just think it would be cool to create our own Sharky Mine-craft world and even work on some massive project together.

[Adisharr]

I say keep it limited to 20 people or less and make it private. If it gets to be too much we can investigate another option. We can run a test on Nov1 after the update and see how it holds up Then you can let us know if you want to continue or not.

Honestly, I just think it would be cool to create our own Sharky Mine-craft world and even work on some massive project together.

That would be really cool - playing on most of the public servers sucks big time. Griefer's gonna grief.

[James]

I'll see what I can do.
Updating my server from Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.10 now. Will no longer have my awesome uptime.

I've got the minecraft jar downloaded. I'll have to do some tweaking to the servers firewall to make sure it will work. Also, I'm not entirely clear on where you set server parameters, etc.

*Edit: Wow, didn't realize this before. But if you haven't upgraded Ubuntu in awhile, do-release-upgrade, doesn't jump to the end. I am having to go from 9.04->9.10->10.04->10.10, blar

[Kamakazie]

I'll see what I can do.
Updating my server from Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.10 now. Will no longer have my awesome uptime.

I've got the minecraft jar downloaded. I'll have to do some tweaking to the servers firewall to make sure it will work. Also, I'm not entirely clear on where you set server parameters, etc.

*Edit: Wow, didn't realize this before. But if you haven't upgraded Ubuntu in awhile, do-release-upgrade, doesn't jump to the end. I am having to go from 9.04->9.10->10.04->10.10, blar

You need the minecraft_server.jar from www.minecraft.net. You can launch the server like so:

java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

It should create a configuration file in the working directory where you can set various server properties.

[monroeski]

I say keep it limited to 20 people or less and make it private. If it gets to be too much we can investigate another option. We can run a test on Nov1 after the update and see how it holds up Then you can let us know if you want to continue or not.

Honestly, I just think it would be cool to create our own Sharky Mine-craft world and even work on some massive project together.

Hate to be rushing somebody else that's doing all the work, of course, but if we're just going to be testing it may be worth doing before the update. When the update comes, I imagine we'd just blow up the world we were working on anyway to start anew, so we wouldn't really be losing much if we had to reset the whole thing during testing anyway. If we had to reset it after a bunch of people put in work after the update, though, that would kind of suck.

Would work just fine either way, of course. Just throwing another view out there.

[James]

You need the minecraft_server.jar from www.minecraft.net. You can launch the server like so:

java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

It should create a configuration file in the working directory where you can set various server properties.

Groovy.

And I have the minecraft_server.jar. Wasn't specific. Sorry about that.

Currently I have it starting with the following parameters (or will, once I get it up and running):

[james@mail:/home/minecraft$ cat start_server.sh 
java -Xms2048M -Xmx2048M -jar minecraft-server.jar nogui

The extra memory doesn't hurt the rest of the server much, and I would imagine it couldn't hurt the minecraft instance either.