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

like this ~

This explains so much.

 

Hint: He wasn't trying to put the flames out.

At least you didn't get a picture of when the cross caught fire too...

I'm keeping that one as insurance.

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What are you making now, you madman :'D

There are two right turns in it :|

:C

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/132841/javaw%202011-02-17%2002-58-37-91.jpg

:'D

I don't know. Again.

Is that too many? Maybe there should be a third one? Or maybe a left turn for variety?

That's unpossible! :O

mr kos

could you list a breakdown of server specs and software used please?
I am not about to run off with all your hard won info, but Jake really misses the monsters and I have explained it's not happening on tehmine so he wants me to see if I can make a little one just for us
I have several spare PCs, though the 'best' is maybe a P4 with (max) 2GB RAM

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Teh Current Server is:

 

Core2Quad Q6600 running at 3Ghz.
6GB of RAM, 3GB reserved for the Java server.
Windows 7 ultimate.
The unofficial Hey0 mod that works with the new server version.

 

I've never managed to get monsters to work reliably on the server, although I've not really tried with just local LAN players. I really don't know if it's inefficient/bad code that slows it down or just raw Bandwidth - there is a /shitload/ of data that is constantly going out to the clients, even moreso with mobs turned on.

 

There really shouldn't be any need for such a (relatively) high spec machine to run the server, and hopefully it will get better with the next version.

 

Notch stated somewhere that he was going to change the single player setup so you're actually playing on a local, same machine server. Hopefully this also means that server code will be vastly improved in the process.

 

No harm in trying out a server locally, go for it and you might be pleasantly surprised if you're playing on a LAN.

 

EDIT: I also use Backup Plugin (from HMod Wiki pllugins page) and the mapping program is called MC Map, can't remember where that's from though :D

Might have been easier to just start by going in that direction... :D

 

Anyway, I've stopped for now, Just blew my way into (with TNT :$ ) the underground works by the teapot. Will leave it as is to let you work out where it's going from there.

Underground works? Teapot? How bored were you?

 

Fantastic, though. I think maybe a train track. Maybe. Or a couple more right turns.