PPCG Minecraft Server

BrainSteel

00:29

Researchers report recent explosion in chicken population. BrainSteel could not be reached for comment...

Calvin's Hobbies

00:45

@AlexA. You gonna be on soon? We could do enderdragon

PhiNotPi

01:17

@Sp3000 We're one pearl away

Sp3000

Ahaha nice, probably won't be joining the dragon fight though :P

As for the resource pack discussion - I'd put on my usual texture pack but it makes granite, andesite, etc. a lot more prettier than they actually look, so it'd make buildings look uglier to everyone else :P

Calvin's Hobbies

02:54

After a few death related drawbacks, Ender Dragon defeated!

Sp3000

Nice :)

Meanwhile I had fun with your challenge :P

PhiNotPi

mysterious resource pack initiated

Calvin's Hobbies

One sec

PhiNotPi

status-complete

^ more relevant to the dragon

Calvin's Hobbies

Done

Alex A.

03:08

Guys

Guys that was cool.

Calvin's Hobbies

Not working

Sp3000

My MC crashes whenever it tries to something something automagically

Alex A.

@Sp3000 It tries to something something?

BrainSteel

I'm going to get off for a bit. I may be back on later tonight. It was fun guys!

Calvin's Hobbies

Ah, forget it, Should be back at default

Alex A.

03:12

I'm getting off for the evening as well.

@PhiNotPi @Calvin'sHobbies @BrainSteel -- HIGH FIVE!!! (And @Sp3000 too)

Sp3000

:P not sure I should be included but okay

Calvin's Hobbies

Something is terribly wrong

BrainSteel

/High five

Alex A.

@Sp3000 You're a cool dude so you deserve a high five too!

BrainSteel

Happiness for everyone!

G'night folks :P

Alex A.

03:13

Goodnight!

PhiNotPi

Bye!

So, is the resource pack not working?

Calvin's Hobbies

No, and now the world is entirely different

PhiNotPi

Nooo!!!!!

Alex A.

Uh

Is our stuff still there?

Calvin's Hobbies

No...Wtf

Sp3000

03:16

Something seems to have changed with permissions too, /time no longer works

PhiNotPi

Can we go back to a backup?

And chat is going down.

Calvin's Hobbies

I'll try

PhiNotPi

We might have to slay the dragon again.

Alex A.

:/

PhiNotPi

This is awkward.

So... no resource packs from now on.

Alex A.

03:32

Is chat back?

Chat's back.

Yeah, no more resource packs please. :|

Calvin's Hobbies

Definitely no

I put a ticket in for a backup.

It might bring us back to 5 am June 8, montreal time

This is really freaking me out

Alex A.

No need to panic. We can always fight the dragon again. Nbd.

Calvin's Hobbies

I'm ok with that. I just want to make sure the backup works

Alex A.

Yeah

If not, it's still fun to play from the beginning.

Calvin's Hobbies

So when I clicked the server restart button (which I've done a lot before to change settings), this happened (read from bottom to top):

08.06 23:14:02 [Server] Startup Done (1.300s)! For help, type "help" or "?"
08.06 23:14:02 [Server] Server thread/INFO Preparing spawn area: 73%
08.06 23:14:01 [Server] Server thread/INFO Preparing start region for level 0
08.06 23:14:01 [Server] Server thread/INFO Preparing level "world"
08.06 23:14:01 [Server] Server thread/INFO Using epoll channel type
08.06 23:14:01 [Server] Server thread/INFO Starting Minecraft server on 167.114.158.78:25932
08.06 23:14:01 [Server] Server thread/INFO Generating keypair

It did make a brand new world

Alex A.

03:46

...

Hm.

PhiNotPi

I suspect that the seed may be incorrect.

If the seed is incorrect, it generates a new world, I think.

Alex A.

Well if the backup doesn't work and we do have to go from scratch, a new world seed is also fine with me.

PhiNotPi

So all of today's work will be lost?

Calvin's Hobbies

It should work, it has a 1 day backup

Alex A.

5am your time it'll revert to, @PhiNotPi

PhiNotPi

03:49

Moral of this story: don't trust anything Sp3000 recommends.

Alex A.

He was giving me finanicial advice earlier.

He told me to sell all my assets and live in my car.

PhiNotPi

Well, I'm signing off.

Goodnight!

Alex A.

Goodnight!

Calvin's Hobbies

They replied:

Modifying your server.properties file will not delete or reset your world. I'm afraid I don't have an explanation for why that would have happened. I can go ahead and restore your world files though. The earliest backup we have for your server would be from this morning. Would you like to have a backup of your world files restored from then?

So we'll lose most of today but not everything

Alex A.

Fine with me

Nice that they got back to you so quickly

Calvin's Hobbies

03:53

Yeah

Should be fixed pretty soon

Alex A.

Let's do a little more prep before we fight the dragon this time. ;)

Calvin's Hobbies

Definitely

:P

status-no-longer-complete

Alex A.

status-try-again

Sp3000

@AlexA. A car? Too luxurious, surely you mean a cardboard box?

Seriously though, it's nice that it was resolved quickly. Thanks for being a great admin, Calvin, hope this doesn't get you down :)

Alex A.

^ 200% agree

Calvin == quality admin

Calvin's Hobbies

03:56

Nah it's all good. :)

Though now I'm a little scared to mess with other settings O.o

Sp3000

On the contrary, this is the perfect time to mess with other settings before we make more progress :)

Alex A.

What settings?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 You could buy a $2 server for a month and mess it up however :P

@AlexA. Like the config file, plugins, etc

Alex A.

If this is a democracy, I vote to stay vanilla to avoid potential issues.

If it's not, do whatever you want. :)

Sp3000

Pssh I mess up my local server all the time

btw Calvin did you set any gamerules, out of curiosity?

Calvin's Hobbies

04:00

@AlexA. I agree

@Sp3000 No.

Sp3000

k, just checking :)

Alex A.

Logging out for the evening. Have a good evening everyone but Sp! (Have a good day, Sp!)

Calvin's Hobbies

See you

Sp3000

Ahaha, night :)

Calvin's Hobbies

Maybe Geobits works for bisecthosting and is just trolling us...

Sp3000

04:03

btw not-Minecraft, but when you say leading/trailing whitespace for seven slash, do you mean before/after the whole thing or on each line? I think I might have interpretted it incorrectly

Calvin's Hobbies

Before/after/on different lines, anything is allowed as long as the numbers are correct

So you could translate the number porion however you want

Sp3000

Ahaha k, that makes things a lot easier :) (it's what I currently assumed)

Calvin's Hobbies

Ooh, it's offline, the guy must be fixing it

Sp3000

Fast!

PhiNotPi

I heard it was being fixed.

Still broken.

Calvin's Hobbies

04:14

They said:

It looks like a new spawn was generated. Unfortunately, again I couldn't tell you why. We do not have any system in place to generate new worlds. I did restore a backup for your world though so you should be good to go now. Sorry to hear about your lost progress. Let us know if you need anything else in the future.

But no...

Calvin's Hobbies

04:42

He keeps saying it's updated but then nothing changes.

Sp3000

Eh... still the same messed up world? Or are new messed up worlds being generated?

Calvin's Hobbies

The same messed up one

He tried using the backup from today and yesterday and nothing changed

Sp3000

hopes that our world is actually secretly somewhere safe and that we're just getting redirected to the wrong server

Calvin's Hobbies

Can someone join and confirm its not our original world?

@Sp3000 ^

Sp3000

04:59

Coming

Calvin's Hobbies

Just tell me if it's the forest-spawn world

Sp3000

It's still the original messed up one, I'm still in a forest and I see the same mushrooms

Calvin's Hobbies

Progress: none. If this doesn't get resolved then I'm changing hosts.

Sp3000

:( do you have access to the backup?

Calvin's Hobbies

05:19

OMG, fixed maybe!

no loss

Calvin's Hobbies

05:31

Fixed definitely!

Sp3000

:) yay, gives Calvin a medal for patience and being a good admin

Calvin's Hobbies

Turns out it was all (sort of) my fault. I had changed the "World" option, which I thought was just a title, but it's actually the folder to load the world from. I could swear that I changed it yesterday, not an hour ago, so I'm still a little confused, but I'll go with it.

So no loss whatsoever, Ender Dragon still dead

For future reference our world is in the "world" folder, not the "Codeworld" one

^ So I remember :P

@PhiNotPi @AlexA. @BrainSteel Celebrate! Everything back!

Sorry for that fiasco :O

Calvin's Hobbies

05:53

Going afk in golem farm

Rainbolt

13:09

@Calvin'sHobbies Do you have a good mechanism for allowing others from the community to donate towards your server?

Geobits

@Calvin'sHobbies It's what we call the long troll. My duties at bisecthosting for the past year or more have been slowly building rep and name recognition here in the hopes that some day, it would pay off in exactly this manner.

Now that it's begun, I finally have a bit of job satisfaction :D

PhiNotPi

17:42

I've been AFKing like a pro all day.

3 1/2 stacks of iron from the farm.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Rainbolt No. One idea is to make a separate paypal account that everyone transfers funds into. But we've got a while to figure that out.

PhiNotPi

What would the benefits be of upgrading?

Calvin's Hobbies

More ram, faster hard drives, more backups, more players

(Note: I'm not upgrading before the end of the current billing period)

PhiNotPi

The golem farm has been attracting a bunch of zombies.

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi btw, we could build another iron golem farm module 100 blocks directly above the current one to double the output.

PhiNotPi

17:55

That would be pretty extreme.

Calvin's Hobbies

JSFiddle that refreshes status banner every 30 sec :D

PhiNotPi

Thanks for setting the server up, it's been great.

Calvin's Hobbies

Sure

PhiNotPi

If we double up the iron farm, that would be 80 iron an hour.

Calvin's Hobbies

18:10

Yep. There might even be room to build 2 farm modules above it. The constraint is that each module forms one village, and if two villages get too close to one another, they merge, which would mess up the spawning zone.

PhiNotPi

120 iron an hour....

No need to mine iron ever again.

With the chicken thing, that's our infinite food supply.

What else do we need?

Calvin's Hobbies

The modules arent even that expensive, just doors, water and cobble. Getting the villagers up is the tricky part

Gold farm? mob farm?

xp

I've always wanted to try a wither skull farm (we could have beacons everywhere!)

PhiNotPi

Gold farms seem extremely inefficient (unless something has changed in the game)

We need to find a skeleton spawner for arrows and bones.

Calvin's Hobbies

I just realized the world seed I gave above is to that wrong new world that loaded, not our world

PhiNotPi

I figured.

What's the correct seed?

Calvin's Hobbies

18:26

Our actual seed is 2086293838514630923.

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PhiNotPi

We're up to 4 stacks of iron now.

Rainbolt

18:46

I wish there were a way to turn the beacon lights off. One beacon is nice for finding home base. Tons of beacons are just cluttery.

PhiNotPi

@Calvin'sHobbies Is it possible to get a copy of the world file? If anything happens, that would be our own offline backup for the world.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Rainbolt Just have a sticky piston push a solid block above it or displace one of the pyramid blocks.

@PhiNotPi Yes, I have access to all the files. I plan to make some backups.

PhiNotPi

good

Rainbolt

19:22

@Calvin'sHobbies I thought beacons shine through solid blocks. Has that been changed? Or maybe it was always the case?

I'll go find out

Calvin's Hobbies

They don't. I'm sure. And rearranging the pyramid also makes them stop shining

Rainbolt

I could have sworn they used to, but all I can find in the changelog is "beacon beam changed" and "beacon beam changed again".

So maybe I'm crazy, maybe not

PhiNotPi

21:24

5 1/2 stacks of iron

PhiNotPi

21:49

still AFking

TheNumberOne

@Calvin'sHobbies That's about the only thing I'm good at in minecraft :(

PhiNotPi

@TheNumberOne Are you going to join the server?

TheNumberOne

No, still not willing to cough up the money. I'm going to work on screeps or a KOTH idea I have :(

PhiNotPi

22:09

@Calvin'sHobbies Any plans for tonight?

(or today, depending on timezone)

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi I want to make a smooth stone generator and maybe think about another iron module.

I'll be on in a couple hours

Maybe more, I want to write a Minecraft specific challenge that mentions the server

Why are people so impressed with slashes?

Geobits

"Input: Server activity logs. Output: List of each player and how much they owe towards server maintenance/upkeep for the month."

Calvin's Hobbies

I've already got an idea ;)

Geobits

Slashes are the new pipes, didn't you know?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Geobits (and I don't want to make it seem like I'll be nickel and diming new players :P )

Geobits

22:17

Oh, well yea, I wasn't being serious. That would be an unwelcoming welcome for sure ;)

PhiNotPi

It's actually a bad economic idea to have people pay based on their activity level.

Geobits

If the price is low enough for even extreme usage, I don't think it would end up mattering.

But in general, it's not much different than paying any other utility (water/electric) by usage. The main difference is you kinda need those things, I guess.

PhiNotPi

23:27

Someone ping me when stuff starts to happen.

Rainbolt

23:40

@Calvin'sHobbies Can you whitelist d2erusher please

PhiNotPi

Is rainbolt gonna join?

Rainbolt

I think so

I'm staring at my 64k iron ingots and thinking that even though I have all of this iron, I am still rather lonely on my server.

Timtech

is this vanilla? what version?

Rainbolt

1.8.6

PhiNotPi

1.8.7, actually

Rainbolt

23:47

But you can download 1.8.7 (the latest) and still join I think

Oh, nvm

Coulda sworn I saw 1.8.6 somewhere

PhiNotPi

1.8.7 is just a security update.

Timtech

o

k

whats the goal of the server

just survival?

Rainbolt

My goal is to build the prettiest castle on the server

Timtech

:P

I'll join if I get around to it

busy you know

cya guys

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