Re: (PHCC)Minecraft server

[Necr0maNceR]

Uh, Adder? I want to get this sorted out so I can go to sleep. Are you afk or something?

I went to bed

Well, you were online for the entire hour between that post of mine and the one before it, and continued to be online till ten minutes after that post. Regardless, everything still stands. Tell me when you will be available on teamspeak, and we can finish discussing things.

[Necr0maNceR]

Well, the server has been down for a week. Why is that exactly? Did you just not bother to set it back up after you tried to fix it last weekend, and didn't have time to set it up during the week? Did you think it was actually up and running, and didn't know it wasn't? Were you waiting to see if someone would post saying that it was down before you bothered to fix it?

If the latter is the case, then the reasons I have not posted are:
1. I've been busy and haven't had time for Minecraft.
2. I wanted to wait and see whether you would do it without prodding, and whether anyone else would tell you to do it.
3. You weren't listening to me, and were actually going out of your way to avoid giving me the information I needed, and refusing to even talk to me.

As a matter of fact, I'm wondering why I am even wasting my time posting here now. You obviously have NO interest in what I'm saying, and you are starting to show a fair amount of apathy regarding the server as well.

I mean, maybe your plan was to just wait for the ultimate pack before doing anything? If that's the case, then it's a bad idea. The FTB team are waiting on Mystcraft to update and release it's new research system. That system, however, is a long ways from being finished. I heard that they are waiting on Xycraft to be more complete as well. If they keep waiting for everything to be perfect, then it will likely be several more months before the ultimate pack is released. Especially considering the fact that the old news post said that the Techworld modpack would be released in a week, and it's already been three weeks without any more news.

Fortunately, I've found one more possible solution to our Mindcrack + Mystcraft problem. It says here that if you copy the version AND configs for Mystcraft from the Direwolf20 modpack, then it should work with Mindcrack.

Give that a try, and if things still don't work, we can try something else. Regardless, can you kindly get the server back up and running again, or at least provide a reason why not?

[Cptadder]

Did you think it was actually up and running, and didn't know it wasn't? Were you waiting to see if someone would post saying that it was down before you bothered to fix it?

I spent the entire time on the road this week and was not home since Sunday when I had thought the server was up and running and no one posted anything to the contrary, until I saw your post today I had not touched the mouse once since I scripted the server restarts only to find a Windows update had rebooted the server. Thank you for telling me, I'll try and get the server up in the next half hour.

*Edit
See this post?
https://cloudsville.rpg-board.net/t836p780-grimdark-fallout-equestria-project-horizons-discussion#120917
That was the last post I made before today heading off to work, aside from playing WoT on my travel laptop I've not touched the forums except reading it from my phone at lunch... or TRYING to read it from my phone.

[Necr0maNceR]

No, I did not know you were gone. A post in this thread saying as much would have been a nice courtesy. So you're saying that you have created a script for restarting the server to deal with the fact that you formerly had to restart it manually twice a day or so? Nice, when did you do that?

So are you still on the road then? Regardless, what about the rest of what I've said? When will you be able to try what I've suggested for Mystcraft?

Let me know when you will be able to give it a try. Whether or not it works, I would like to talk to you on teamspeak then so we can make sure everything else is in order. I would still like to discuss what I mentioned earlier.

[tylertoon2]

Just want to pop in and thank you for all the hard work you've been doing to keep this server up Adder. I really appreciate it knowing that you've been having to balance a lot of shit to keep maintaining it.

[Cptadder]

No, I did not know you were gone. A post in this thread saying as much would have been a nice courtesy. So you're saying that you have created a script for restarting the server to deal with the fact that you formerly had to restart it manually twice a day or so? Nice, when did you do that?

So are you still on the road then? Regardless, what about the rest of what I've said? When will you be able to try what I've suggested for Mystcraft?

Let me know when you will be able to give it a try. Whether or not it works, I would like to talk to you on teamspeak then so we can make sure everything else is in order. I would still like to discuss what I mentioned earlier.

My work schedule is as such for the next three months I'm spending time dragging cables and sleeping in work payed for crappy hotel rooms every other week. The fact I did not post as such is my bad. Keep in mind every other week or every week I'll not be at home.

As for the script I cheated and asked a friend to write it.
(Also FYI next week I'll not be home till Wednesday)

[Necr0maNceR]

Alright. Perhaps there is some way I can help you update the server more directly? Unless I'm mistaken, the problems you have been having will also occur if you play the server as a single player world, correct? If that's the case, then you could give me the files and I could fix things for you. You could upload the files somewhere, then I could download them and fix everything. That would be way too much data to fit in an email, right? You could still keep the server running while I'm trying to fix the problem on my own. I could just mess with things until I find the solution, then tell you what it is so you can apply it to the server. That way you won't have to bother with finding the solution, since you are busy enough as it is and have little enough free time to have to waste it trying to fix the server.

[Cptadder]

Here is where we are and what I plan for today (And I'm on TS)

Step 1, Remove all mods, upload a current copy of the server sans the mods onto someplace so there's a more permanent copy.

Step 2, ????


Step 3 Profit!

Step 4, Try and get the server running using your method

[XT Vengeance]

Hey Adder, I have a question for you. Would it be okay if we used the server for some minecraft game nights? I mean that we will erect an arena for spleef and Capture the tower and such. It won't be fore a whil, but I think it would be a good addition to the town as well as for a game night.

[tylertoon2]

Hey Adder, I have a question for you. Would it be okay if we used the server for some minecraft game nights? I mean that we will erect an arena for spleef and Capture the tower and such. It won't be fore a whil, but I think it would be a good addition to the town as well as for a game night.

He said it's fine on the Teamspeak.

[XT Vengeance]

Very good. Next time I am on i'll have to work on clearing out an area to build it.

[Cptadder]

So here is where we are at.
The server is up and running using the Minecrack pack. Be sure to select Mindcrack as your option instead of the default old 1.4.2 thing. Minecrack.

Once you have download and installed Minecraft you'll need to over write one file one is the Forgeloader, one is adding in Myscraft to the mods folder.

Forgeload is in\MindCrack\instMods
Myscraft is in \MindCrack\minecraft\mods

Overwriting Forgeload, Adding Myscraft. You can get the files you need from the Direpack or from this link here
https://www.box.com/s/fpmp50jy2q3ivjg3zib9
This goes to a file called install over, for PC users just unzip it, and copy it over into Minecrack (The file structures are the same you can open up and compare if you don't understand) for Mac users you'll want to do it manually as Mac will delete the file not just add things in.

[Necr0maNceR]

Things are working alright. There are a few issues I've ran into so far, though. One, I try to break blocks, and they just immediately reappear. This was fixed by disconnecting and reconnecting, though. Secondly, a clone of myself appeared after I disconnected and reconnected. It had my skin, armor, and name. I couldn't kill or move it though. It's basically just like that frozen zombie glitch from a while back. Also, world anchors now require ender pearls to run. One ender pearl will buy 12 hours, but we might as well switch to chunk loaders, which are adjustable.

Also, the server crashed, or something. I think I read about why this might have happened somewhere before, so I'll go look for that.

[Cptadder]

Server restarted, odd it showed you as still on the server.

[Cptadder]

I've had to disable your Myscraft machine for now Necro, the books are in the steel wool chest, with it running the server was crashing every four minutes and nine seconds. With it disabled we get all the way to seven minutes. Going to be pasting up the logs later tonight and hoping for a reply from the team.

[Necr0maNceR]

It probably showed that I was still on the server due to that clone bug I mentioned. I haven't found the reason for the crashing yet, but I'm sure I read about it somewhere, and it had to do with mystcraft.

[Necr0maNceR]

I think I may have found the problem. According to this and this having carts go through Mystcraft portals crashes the game. Updating to 1.4.7 and installing forge 493 supposedly fixes this problem. Updating to 1.4.7 supposedly still works even if the mods are all 1.4.6.

[Cptadder]

Found 1.4.7 http://www.mojang.com/2012/12/minecraft-1-4-7-pre-release/
Not having any luck finding Forge 493 but I can get 1.4.7, mind hunting me the link?

*Edit
Think I found it, wait one, trying to install both now
*Edit 2
@#$@#$@#$@$ Minecraft Forge, oh you only need to run install.cmd... buuuuulllllllllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, any time your directions say "oh just run install.cmd" and your acutal directions are "extract these 3 things to this folder which you put in a rar then move to your minecraft directory then you click on install.cmd" you know you've team has become to insular. No one has ever told you, your directions make no sense, you know steps 2-9 so you don't bother telling the user them because you assume everyone already knows them. It's not like new people ever want to start using Minecraft Forge for anything right?

Frigging Programmers I hate and love them so.

[Cptadder]

Useless... uselesss. useless tutorials, all expect you to have done this before. Forty minutes of time wasted, unhelpful bastards.

[Necr0maNceR]

I don't know what forge 493 is either, that's just what it said in the thread. This seems to be the most recent version of forge though, for 1.4.7. That could be what you found, though. Do you want to talk about it on Teamspeak?

[Cptadder]

I don't know what forge 493 is either, that's just what it said in the thread. This seems to be the most recent version of forge though, for 1.4.7. That could be what you found, though. Do you want to talk about it on Teamspeak?

Tomorrow, don't have the energy for it tonight

[Cptadder]

For those wondering here's where we stand on the server. We migrated to Mindcrack but carts cause crashing and we need to update forge to fix it. Still unknown ETA on that fix because updating forge is... Mind stompingly complex because nothing is explained.

[Necr0maNceR]

NAILED IT! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

After much frustration, I figured out how to manually update Forge AND update Mindcrack to 1.4.7. Just updating forge wasn't enough, you need to update both (I figured as much). Anyways, only updating Forge would not fix the crash caused by sending a tank cart through a Mystcraft portal. However, updating to 1.4.7 as well does fix the problem. I'm even able to go back to worlds where the game previously crashed and they won't crash anymore.

Now to explain everything.

First, this was the tutorial video I used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBudlpOXoI

This is the video I used to figure out how to open minecraft.jar on a mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLYRf6S3y2Q

Okay, now to explain it in my own words:

1: Update vanilla minecraft to 1.4.7 if you haven't already.
2: Go to Library>Application Support>Minecraft>Bin and copy minecraft.jar to your desktop.
3: Download Forge here http://adf.ly/673885/http://files.minecraftforge.net/minecraftforge/minecraftforge-universal-recommended.zip.
4: Find a program that will let you open minecraft.jar. I'm using a mac, so I got myself The Unarchiver. How to get and use The Unarchiver is described in the second tutorial video I posted. If you are using Windows or something else, WinRar will probably work, but I don't know. If you google how to open minecraft.jar on your operating system, then you should find an appropriate program.
5: Open minecraft.jar and copy all the files from minecraftforge-universal-1.4.7-6.6.0.497 into it. Then, delete META-INF. Now the minecraft.jar file is ready. The program I used, The Unarchiver, makes a new folder called minecraft after it extracts minecraft.jar. If you used The Unarchiver, you will need to rename this folder to minecraft.jar in order for it to work.
6: Run the MindCrack modpack at least once if you haven't already, so it will create the folder called MindCrack on your desktop or wherever you specified it to go.
7: Open MindCrack, then go minecraft>bin to find minecraft.jar. Delete it, and replace it with the new one you made.
8: That may seem like everything, but if you try to run the Mindcrack modpack right now, it will fail to load. To fix this, you must go back into the MindCrack folder, then go to the instMods folder and find MinecraftForge.zip. Open it, and copy all the files from minecraftforge-universal-1.4.7-6.6.0.497 into it. When you are done, delete the original MinecraftForge.zip (if you are using The Unarchiver) and put the new one there, and make sure to name it MinecraftForge.zip.
9: And that is everything! Launch the MindCrack modpack. On the MindCrack opening window in the lower left corner, it will say it is minecraft version 1.4.6, however, if you put your cursor over it then it will show that it is actually version 1.4.7 with Forge version 6.6.0.497.

Aaaannd that is everything. You will still need to download the files for Mystcraft from the link Adder gave in order to use that. If you have any questions, then let me know.

EDIT:
@ Adder:
Ok, GregTech has to go. If you can't get rid of it, at least go into the config file and turn off hard mode and the alternate IC2 recipes. As things stand, you can't even make iron/gold/etc. blocks normally. You have to use a compressor. GregTech's hard mode and alternate IC2 recipes screw with everything.

[Cptadder]

Okay I'll give this a shot tonight and RD into my server.

[Cptadder]

Ran out of time to do this, this evening, tomorrow morning hopefully.

[Necr0maNceR]

So what's the news? Also, I found this thread which gives some information that you may find useful for reducing lag on the server.

[Cptadder]

I'm going to try RDing in about twenty minutes, getting on TS and the like.

[Necr0maNceR]

I'll be there.

[Necr0maNceR]

Adder and I worked on it, but we couldn't fix it. It turns out that servers use a different .jar file than clients do, so my guide only works for players, not servers.

SO

Adder uploaded the server files, so I could work on them and try to fix things.

THEN

It turned out the Mindcrack, Direwolf20, Magic World, and Tech packs had all updated to 1.4.7 without us knowing. @@#$#@#%#$!!! If we had known that, we may have been able to get the server running. The reason we didn't know, is because they were Dev updates and don't automatically show up on the front page of the launcher.

BUT

I figured that out, and was able to GET THE SERVER UPDATED AND RUNNING!!!! THAT'S RIGHT!!! EVERYTHING WORKS NOW!!! 100%!!!

We need wait no longer. Balkon's WeaponMod even works without trouble!

Here's how to update (we'll be using the Direwolf20 mod pack, by the way):

1: Run the FTB launcher, then select (but don't run) the Mindcrack pack. Above the mod pack list, there are several buttons. To the right of the Download Server button there is a button that says Recommended or a number. Click this, and choose 8 from the list. Now run Mindcrack. It's possible that Mindcrack and/or Direwolf20 will fail to load the first time, but you will still have the necessary folders.
2: Once it has fully loaded, close Mindcrack, then run the FTB launcher again, and select (but don't run) the Direwolf20 pack. Click the Recommended (or a number) button again and choose 5 from the list. Now run Direwolf20. Once you have fully loaded it, close it.
3: You should now have a folder named Mindcrack and a folder named Direwolf20 on your desktop (or wherever you assigned them to go). Even if you have played the Mindcrack and/or Direwolf20 modpacks before, it is important that you follow the instructions above to download the latest versions, or things won't work.
4: Go Mindcrack folder>minecraft>mods and copy advancedmachines.zip to your desktop.
5: Go Mindcrack folder>minecraft>config and copy AdvancedMachines.cfg to your desktop.
6: Delete Mindcrack(unless you have a singleplayer world you would like to keep). You won't be needing it anymore.
7: Go Direwolf20 folder>minecraft>mods and place advancedmachines.zip here.
8: Go Direwolf20 folder>minecraft>config and place AdvancedMachines.cfg here.
9: Now the Direwolf20 modpack has all the mods that are currently on the server. Time to get rid of some things.
10: Go Direwolf20 folder>minecraft>mods and delete ee3.jar, compactsolars.zip, and gravisuite.zip.
11: Go Direwolf20 folder>minecraft>config and delete EE3.cfg, CompactSolars.cfg, and GraviSuite.cfg.
12: I have not confirmed if we can use it with Adder, but Balkon's WeaponMod is awesome and several of you, including me, want to have it installed on the server. It's not hard to install, either. Just go to http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/211517-146147forge-balkons-weaponmod-v110/ and download it (leave it as a .zip, don't unzip it. If you have a mac, you will have to disable the auto-unzipping feature). Then, go Direwolf20 folder>minecraft>mods and place it there. That's all.

Once you've done those things, then you'll be ready to play once Adder has updated the server. It's possible that it might fail to load the first time, but if you close out completely and do again, it will definitely work. It will then work the first time whenever you use it again.

@ Adder:
To get the server running:
1: Download the Mindcrack and Direwolf20 folders as described above (and Balkon's WeaponMod).
2: Open the Direwolf20 folder and copy all the files, then paste them in the PHCC (Minecraft Server) folder.
3: follow what I said above to get the mods and configs all in order.
EDIT: 4: I almost forgot the Thaumcraft config. Open the config folder and find Thaumcraft.cfg and open it. Then find this section:

####################
# world_regeneration
#===================
# If a chunk is encountered that skipped TC worldgen, then the game will attempt to regenerate certain world features if they are set to true. CAUTION: Best used for worlds created before you added this mod, and only if you know what you are doing. Backups are advised.
####################

world_regeneration {
B:amber_ore=false
B:aura_nodes=false
B:cinnibar_ore=false
B:infused_stone=false

# This key is used to keep track of which chunk have been generated/regenerated. Changing it will cause the regeneration code to run again, so only change it if you want it to happen. Useful to regen only one world feature at a time.
S:regen_key=DEFAULT
B:structures=false
B:trees=false


Edit everything that says false to true. As it says, things could get screwed up, with trees inside of buildings or something like that. I'm going to test it out and see if anything is messed up, and let you know. You still might want to check it out yourself, though. EDIT AGAIN: I did a quick check, and didn't notice any disturbances. Things were lagging pretty bad for me though, so I wasn't able to do a thorough check. The worldgen did work though. I believe you will need to change S:regen_key=DEFAULT to any other word than DEFAULT, though. You will also need to set things to true and change DEFAULT before you log on to the server to check worldgen, or anything else. You can also use the goggles of revealing to see if there is an aura charge bar, and to see if you can find any aura nodes.

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And that's everything! We will now be able to play on a fully updated and running server!

[Necr0maNceR]

So, what's the news?

Edit: I apologize, I just started reading your 1000 posts thread, so I see that you are busy, but will get to the server shortly.

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