For server-specific questions about Mojang's popular Minecraft game.
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How do you host a multi-player survival game in Minecraft?
I've downloaded all the required files in order to host an on-line multi-player Minecraft game on my computer, and successfully made a server. However, it seems that I can only make games in free ...
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Check a minecraft server's difficulty?
Is it possible for me to check what difficulty level is current set to on a vanilla (or almost vanilla) minecraft server?
I do have my own server, and I know I can simply check the server.properties ...
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A mechanism or CraftBukkit plugin to not allow building or mining in Minecraft?
I'm trying to teach students how to program JavaScript inside Minecraft with ScriptCraft. It's been amazing, except for the fact that even my most focused students get so distracted with playing ...
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How can I run a Minecraft Server on multiple CPU cores?
I am working on setting up a Minecraft server on a machine I have at home. This particular machine has two quad-core CPUs running at 2.0Ghz so I would like to take advantage of the number of cores and ...
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Minecraft Server: Everyone spawns in the ground
In the MC server I'm in, every player experiences a spawn issue; players spawn in the ground and start to suffocate. After a second or so you then spawn where you would normally spawn.The length of ...
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Script to determine Minecraft Server Jar Version
I'm trying to find a way to determine the Minecraft Server version (ie. 12w40b, 1.4.5, etc) of a given Jar file without needing to start up the entire server process? (I have full control over the ...
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Can the query.port setting be the same as the Minecraft server port?
There is a property in the Minecraft server.properties file allowing you to specify a query port for the server: query.port.
Can this be the same as the server's listening port?
If I have my ...
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How do I make an automatic server backup in Minecraft?
There is no built-in implementation in a Vanilla Minecraft server to force a save every X minutes, then back up the files into a folder. I know how to do log rotations and I can also do a normal ...
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Modding a Minecraft server from scratch
I've been hosting a couple of private Tekkit servers for some friends to play on. There are currently a couple of issues that are becoming frustrating for them:
Bugs in existing versions of mods ...
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Does disabling 'The Nether' improve server performance?
I am setting up a public Minecraft server and have no real use for The Nether.
I am wondering whether disabling this area will:
Make a large difference to the server backup size
Give a noticeable ...
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1answer
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Server-Friendly Minecraft Elevator?
Is there a server-friendly redstone elevator I can build in Minecraft? The "zipper" version doesn't seem to work, unfortunately.
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How do I move a Minecraft saved world from my desktop to my server?
I've been working a lot on my world on my computer in single player mode. My dad got me a server and so I want to transfer my world onto my server. How is this possible?
I noticed that in ...
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What might be ruining my mob grinder on the craftgasm server?
Ok so I have built a pretty typical mob grinder. (4 8x8 spawning pads with a "+" shaped water funneling system three vertical floors of that config water only at the bottom.)
So as I said pretty ...
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Minecraft constant internet usage
I recently started a minecraft server (locally, my server sits next to my desktop on my local network) and today I noticed that my 200 gb monthly limit is nearing, which is an 800% increase in ...
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Can I omit certain lines from the Feed The Beast console?
Whenever somebody logs into my server, I see all of these lines that I have no use for. I know what they are for, but I don't need them clogging up console space. Is there any way I can remove this?
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My minecraft server doesn't work when my computer is closed
I have a Minecraft server set up on Mac OS X. Whenever the lid on my computer is closed, the Terminal says, Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?
The entire server ...
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1answer
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Random parts of map on MC server dissapear/reset
I'm furious with what just happened, the (Bukkit) server I'm working on deleted almost half of something I spent hours building. Does anyone have any clue what could have caused this? I logged off and ...
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Minecraft Biome Editor for Ubuntu?
I need to change some biomes on my Minecraft server, but I'm on Ubuntu and all the biome editors I can find are for Windows. How can I edit the biomes of my world on Linux/Ubuntu?
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Minecraft Hamachi Server Problem
One day I went on my Hamachi server and it's the wrong map terrain & the spawn point had changed. Minecraft Server.exe keeps saying:
[WARNING] Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the ...
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Running the CraftBukkit Server for minecraft?
I recently download Craft Bukkit for running a multiplayer minecraft server, and according to tutorial I created a run.bat file in the note pad with following code to run the server
java -Xms1024M ...
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Minecraft can't connect to Lan: Operation Timed Out [duplicate]
Me and my friend are trying to connect via a LAN world on Feed the beasts Yogscraft, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with him being on a mac. I don't really want to start up a bukkit server ...
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How to import an mcedit schematic using world edit?
I made a very awesome mob arena that I want to put on a friend's server. We've tried using world edit to import it but it doesn't paste in the right location. Most of the arena is underground and the ...
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Plugin for max level of 50 in minecraft?
Finally upgraded to 1.3.1. Go the unpleasent surprise of max enchantment level dropping to 30 from 50. I will miss my 50. Anyway to get it back? Plugin?
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How can I run two Tekkit classic servers at the same time on seperate computers under the same network router? [closed]
I'm looking to find out how to run two separate Tekkit Classic servers on two computers to both be accessible online at the same time. For some reason, both computers have the same IP addressed to ...
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Not able to connect to a multiplayer server in Minecraft? [closed]
I was trying to access the multiplayer server of Minecraft but I can't. Every time I try it says "unable to connect" or "server full" or "timed out"
Can you help me to connect to a server? I would ...
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Installing Overviewer on Windows Minecraft server [closed]
I am having a lot of trouble setting this up, and I find that the instructions on the Overviewer site far too concise. I have the files dowloaded and I have a good idea about the scripting, but I ...
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Class Stomper in the Walls server [closed]
I got this class on Minecraft The Walls server called Stomper. When I tried to use it, there was nothing in my inventory. Is there a purpose of the Stomper, or is he just the guy you start out with in ...
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Can't login on my own Minecraft server? [closed]
I recently created a Craftbukkit server on my PC. I wanted to login and build some stuff on it but whenever I try to login it just says:
Connection lost, failed login: bad login
I don't know what ...
