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Server Promotion
Ah, the most difficult part of setting up a server. People won't join if it's uninhabited, but it's uninhabited if people don't join. Catch-22 in it's best form.
Getting the initial feet in the door is probably the hardest bit - rather like starting a new SE site - once the critical mass is there then your server will be (mostly) ...
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Bukkit is a developer API - it basically provides hooks and functions that developers can use to plugin to Minecraft.
Craftbukkit is the server component you download that lets these plugins work with the official Minecraft server.
Craftbukkit is not yet a package manager, rather a server wrapper - plugin installation and managed updates are planned ...
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In this thread on Reddit, I found a command line script that will generate terrain by repeatedly restarting a server with varying spawn points until the area you specify is filled. This seems like just what you're looking for.
There's also a Bukkit plugin named WorldGenerationControl which can do it on a live server.
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Everything will be saved and shut down when you close your Minecraft server with the X button - nothing will be lost. If you want to feel extra safe, however, simply type stop into the command bar (or /stop into the chat window) to bring it to a graceful halt.
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Have you moved away from your spawn point? The area around the spawn point can only be altered by administrator ("op") players. Either move away from spawn (about 20 or 30 blocks), give yourself op, or disable spawn-protection by adding spawn-protection=0 to your server.properties file.
If you have done any of these, then your connection to the server is ...
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Start by downloading Minecraft_Server.exe from the official minecraft website.
Place it in an empty folder somewhere on your computer and open it. You'll see the world being created, and when it's done, it'll tell you so. As long as that program is open and running, your server will be available for connection.
Any computer on your LAN will be able to ...
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One thing you should definitely do is make a thread about your server on the Beta Servers section of the Minecraft Forum. It's unbelievable how many members frequent it; if you make a good enough post, it'll surely attract many members.
Also, if your server runs on Bukkit, you can install a plugin that automatically puts it on sites like Minestatus, where ...
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Under normal conditions, you simply can't. You can't use the Desktop version of Minecraft on iPad because you can't run the Java files on iPad. A non-jailbroken iPad will never allow Java to run like that.
Some people are trying to get this to work with jailbroken iPads which can run java. It's still not working, and only an iPad 3 would yield remotely ...
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I think this is what your looking for : Minecraft Server Status Checker
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Though I am not a Minecraft player, I was intrigued by this bug, so I went on a forum hunt. Conclusions:
Am I the only one with this problem?
Seems the problem is common:
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/socketexception
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1013&t=104695
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=107007
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With this plugin for bukkit -> Exile v2.0 - Banish from the server or world on death!
You can set a timer on how long they can be banned before they can come back to the server or set it to eternity.
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Short: You can't.
Long: You can if it is your server. If you have f.e. Bukkit installed, you can install/write a plugin which will allow you to temper with the names of the players. This brings two problems:
Only the chat-name can be easily altered.
If you want to alter the name above the head, all settings of that user will be moved to a file with the ...
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The closest you'll be able to get to this is to create a custom game in the client where your teammates and the other team are all bots (or it's just you by yourself). You can't host your own LoL server as all legitimate LoL servers are owned by Riot.
To create a custom game on the Riot servers:
Click the big red Play button.
Click "custom" in the list of ...
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Those are absolutely player coordinates — the .62 in the middle (y) coordinate is a dead giveaway. If you check your position using F3 while standing on any full block, you'll see your y coordinate always ends in .62000… (or occasionally .619999…). This is because the player's coordinates are reported from the "eyes" — the point where the camera sits in ...
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Short Answer: There will be but no one has written it yet.
Long Answer: As 1.5 has recently released no one yet knows how the file-format for a player has changed. However I expect it to be quickly reverse engineered after it is released. Keep an eye on the Programs and editors page of the minecaft wiki and the Alpha and Beta file format to see how it is ...
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Welcome to the catch 22 problem of getting a social service up and running. People will come back if people come back... how to start the cycle to begin with?
Most server farms fill in the maps with bots, without advertising this in the server browser. That's really awful, especially because you tend to have dumb, but accurate enemies. Bots can be ...
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You might want to take a look at Minecraft Wiki's article on server setup. They also have a very useful tutorial on setting up a server as well.
If you're wondering about something more specific, take a look at the article on the server.properties file, which explains how you can customize your server to fit your needs.
As for what exactly server-ip does, ...
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Peer to Peer servers. As seen in games like Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. These are difficult to administrate.
Provide value to donators. This can be in the form of admin privs, reserved slots, statistics ( e.g. kill to death ratio over couple months, leaderboards etc ), special events, etc.
Offer to setup video game servers for free. Some ...
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With a server-side mod, you can have up to 10 player slots. However, only five will be able to play - this is hard-coded limit in the game.
There is a mod which allows for up to 8 players, but it requires both the server and all the clients to use custom .dll's (you cannot join normal servers using these dlls, so make sure to backup the default ones!). Of ...
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Essentially, it's a package/plugin manager for Minecraft servers. Rather than installing addons separately, it allows you to do it through a central interface.
Bukkit's 'About' page actually does a great job of listing its selling points in relation to alternatives:
lower server footprint
increased performance when adding mods
easy mod installation
easier ...
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First of all install steam, or the Half Life Dedicated Server (a.k.a. hldsupdatetool, see This site)
wget http://www.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin
Install it ./hldsupdatetool.bin after chmod +x if necessary. It will put steam in the current directory.
Check the tool is at the last version with ./steam (multiple times if necessary, until it ...
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There are several pieces of information you need to take into consideration when hosting a game server;
How many people you want to be able to join
The specifications required to host that many people
The bandwidth required for that many people
Whether the hosting solution you go for allows that kind of hosting
This article states that the system ...
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Your server needs to connect to minecraft.net so it can verify that everyone who connects has a legitimate and unhacked version of the game. You can test this by using the ping minecraft.net command from the Command Prompt.
However, another option which would open your server up to hackers is to turn off the authentication. In your server configuration ...
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tMod is dedicated server software that allows you to write plug-ins that hook the events that you describe, their forums have some tutorials that get you started. Given that you directly log the hooks and only need single conditions on perhaps the mobs being killed, it shouldn't become to complex...
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The wonderful thing about virtual machines is that they are "virtually" identical to real machines. Assuming the host is a powerful enough computer, there should be no problems. However if you run it alongside other virtual machines you may run into the obvious problems such as bandwidth starvation (if multiple machines share one network adapter) or CPU ...
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In the server menu is an option to search for VAC-secured servers
There are NO official steam servers, There are only induvidual gamers and communities who run these.
Just looking for VAC secured servers should be enough to prevent having to deal with hackers.
Othwerwise consider joining a community that has some good servers (I will not name any)
Most ...
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Tip: If you want to spare more memory, you may set the -Xms parameter even lower, say:
java -Xms32M -Xmx512M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
The parameter controls how much memory is reserved on startup. Your server will start with 32MB RAM and whenever it needs more memory it will allocate some until it reaches the maximum of 512M. However, this will ...
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There is a method for doing this on a listen server that GameSpy describes by creating a .cfg file, and then exec'ing that config file from the console in the full game. That article also has a sample .cfg that you can edit if you want different options than the ones they used.
Config files must be placed in baseq3, which is a subdirectory of the main ...
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