Just a thought, but have tried playing in Offline Mode (not single player, but not logging in to MC? I just had issues connecting, restarted Minecraft, couldn't log in to minecraft.net so did play offline and can connect to the server fine now :/ )

EDIT: never mind, i still can't log in :$

So you can see what you're missing out on? :D

Generating one now, but it takes a while :(

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 :(

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

Shouldn't you be in bed?

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 :'(

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