Nelefa Minecraft

Okay, so it’s currently unknown if 1.8 will play nice with pre-existing worlds so here’s the plan for release.

DottyLand (default port) – will NOT be updated to 1.8. It’s a creative only server and won’t benefit at all from the new shinies.

LNSLand (16384) – will be shut down and the world folder made available for anyone who wants to download it to play offline. This is purely in the interests of making the best use of the server’s resources.

Republic (16385) – will not be upgraded immediately – going to hang off a bit and see what the reports are with regards to people doing the upgrade on a pre-existing world. It WILL be upgraded in the fullness of time.

EpicVille (16386) – this will be a brand new world, created specifically for adventuring. Configuration will be the same as Republic – monsters and no admin powers – but will be on DIFFICULT. Just for the LOLs.

Any questions, drop me a note on jmd at nelefa dot org, or tweet me a pm on johnmdow.

Couple of things: firstly, I've added a hotspare to the RAID1 array to give us a bit of resilience in the event of a disk failure. Secondly, I've updated all three minecraft servers to 1.7.3. Let me know if there are any issues.    

Hello all. I'll be taking the server down for thirty minutes or so late on this afternoon, so I can add another disk to the RAID array.

Sigh. Update to 1.6.1 complete. Bad Notch.

All servers are now updated to 1.6! Get thee to the Nether!

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Upate 1.6 is expected around lunchtime today, 26/5/11. I'll be keeping an eye out for it and updating the servers right away.

Flight has been disabled on Republic. This is because it's a MAN GRIT server. If you want to float about like a little fairy, do it on either DottyLand or LNS Land.

The Peoples Republic of LNS has been formed! From the sweat of our brows we have thrown off the shackles of the oppressive server admins and forged a new frontier! No more summoning, no more teleporting, just MAN GRIT! See the server page for connection details.

The image cache for the mapping software has been moved out of the world folder. This should result in significantly smaller backups, which can therefore be run more often than the current four times a day. Theoretically, they could be run hourly. I've also added the --lighting switch to the mapper, so tomorrow's maps should contain pretty shadows.

Both servers have been updated to 1.5_02 as of 14:30 GMT today. I'll be planning some maintenance, probably tomorrow evening, for an hour or so to add another disk to the RAID array. Outage should be less than half an hour, but performance will be degraded for an hour or so until the array rebuilds.