Been having a bit of a play with MC Server this evening (www.mc-server.org, I think).

 

It's a custom server written in C++, and it seems reet fast. Running it on my laptop and I can play happily with view distance set to far when connected to the server. WHen playing single player I can't really go above 'short' view distance without it becoming unplayable.

 

It has plugin support (teleport, items, lists etc) and a better file format that's more efficient and doesn't spawn 100K files for a level. Also allows for a web-interface for server admin stuff, which'd be good if the server needs tweaking/restarting when I'm not about.

 

The downside? It doesn't really work yet beyond letting you connect to a world and walk around. :( Also, the guy that writes it seems to be a bit of a cock judging by their forums. There's also no useful information/documentation (less than the offical server :S) and no indication of when it was last updated. The file format is also incompattable with the existing world and there's no import/conversion tool.

 

 

 

So basically of no use to us, however it does hopefully point to what will be available in the (hopefully not too distant) future. If only Notch would move the official server to a proper language we could have Mobs and everything on :(

If you could make it so it outputs as VRML so I can wander about inside, that would be perfect. :D

Failing that, I'll just have to use my imagination a bit. :(

Can't do VMRL, but there is a new map up for you now (kiss)

 

Shouldn't you be in bed?

I can't sleep without seeing the blocks. :(


I just tried connecting again, to the Reddit server, and had the same problem - local block loads and a few other random ones, before it cuts out and shows the Java exception again.

So yeah, that confirms it's not Teh server doing it. Oh well.

Oh my, I fear I may have been a bit optimistic with my Main Entrance :&

Would it be wrong to play at work?

Not if you can get away with it.

Arrgh, first bug that's proper annoyed me.

 

Doing the cabling on the suspension bridge, and suddenly a big section of the fence post cables have decided to become invisible :'(

fence posts do that a lot :(

first time they've done it to me.

 

It's weird - it's like a big rectangle where they've gone. Above and below it they're fine :S

You should have built the bridge 4 times bigger, then a regular block would have been the right size for the cables.

(giggle)

Maybe for the scale of the bridge, but not the scale of the world :C

oh, that is wierd, I've only hard of them doing it pretty much at sea level

just built two towers of sand up to the bootm of the invisiible bit and they've come back,

Since when did scale really matter?

Since caer suggested I made my bridge 4 times bigger :((

Pah, you just lack Ambition, young man :{)

does minecraft have some kind of memory issue?
I'm asking cos mine seems to crash after about an hour, with a DOS screen full of comments, but relaunching the .exe makes it all work again for another hour

Where's the dos screen coming from? Oh do you mean the ingame thing with the white background? Make a note of what it says next time (or take a screenie).

Shouldn't be a memory thing I think cos java's supposed to be sandboxed. Minecraft crashes for lots of reasons though so could be just you get a crash every hour or so from statistical chance or something.

Anyway yeah, note down the error. Though java errors can be a bit uselessly generic.

nah, not ingame, like a dos prompt box with a load of stuff, I'll do a screen shot next time