In theory, it only keeps in memory the chunks (16x16x8 that can currently be seen by someone, so once an individual has gone out of sight it's not much a matter of how far, (but just a bit of CPU and disk size as the world expands).

But given the various other stuff that's been said, I'm not sure how accurate that is.

If you know what you want, ask Kos nicely to produce the map and send you a 500KB image instead?

In fact, if it's not too server intensive, could one be auto-produced every hour/day/whatever?

I wouldn't trust anything online about the server unless it's from Mojang/Notch himself.

 

The server code is not optimised at all and does some really stupid things.

Aye, the Backup Plugin i'm using is meant to create a PNG of the world map when it does the backups, but I haven't installed the map plugin that actually lets it do that yet. I'll go about doing that now.

Thank you for running this for us (hug)

You're welcome :)

 

Seems daft not to - all my PC is used for these days is listening to iPlayer in bed and burning DVDs. It may as well get some use :D

I've just been reading about an admin plugin with corresponding Android app that lets you admin the server remotely :D

Ahhhh hahaha, I wanted to make a pit in the middle of my maze with lava in it and I've just burnt my entire maze down. Including all the green wool (XEN! :@) which took me all of last night to make.

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Oh mousey (hugleft)

OK, so how do I contain lava?

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL :'D

 

Wool is flammable. HTH

Jebus - the map plugin creates a 11.5MB PNG file :|

 

What's best to do with it? I've uploaded it to Flikr so far, but that only lets you view a 1024* 473 image, and the original is 9130*4218 :|

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5211/5386749569_d7643efbe9_b_d.jpg

Jayzus that's big :| (YJ)

 

I think my mine is going to need expanding :'D

Best thing would be to (this would be farrrrrrr easier on linux btw :(( ) run a small web/ftp server on the same machine and when the png is generated, automatically convert it to a fairly low (like 50% quality) jpeg and move it to the webserver. A jpeg will be a bit mooshy but it's a fair compromise between detail and size.

Fair bit of work there, obviously so maybe just do it once a week or so by hand.

That's what 16,271 minecraft world files look like :|

Yeah, I was thinking down that route but to it would probably make more sense if someone else could host it (either at home or on some hosting) so I only have to upload it once, as like I say bandwidth is stretched to fuck as it is :|

Yeah makes sense. Just make a batch file to ftp the image to some webspace should work.

I can stick it somewhere with plenty of bandwidth.

Remind me this evening and I'll setup an account and give you the ftp details.

Probably don't even need to go that far - I suspect a 75% JPEG would balance filesize/quality acceptably.

 

I wonder if doing a 8-bit PNG with only 64 colours might even give a good balance - just tried it on the above image and it comes out at 103KB (i.e. 40% filesize of the JPG).

 

There are PNG optimising utilities that can probably do that in a scripted way.