Minecraft! (The QT3 multiplayer thread)

Marcin · 2010-10-30T15:28:57.000Z

checkers:

Sadly, it seems like portals don’t work in multiplayer yet :(. You can build them, but not teleport through.

Yeah, he mentioned that in his twitter. It would mean a server running two instances of the world, so it’s a bit of a hurdle.

GuildBoss · 2010-10-30T16:25:18.000Z

Jason Townsend:

I can’t get the client to connect… hopefully just mad updating and not more ddos stupidity.

Can’t connect to my server right now either, says “user not premium”, which I assume really means “we can’t authenticate you now because minecraft.net is down”…

chequers · 2010-10-30T17:10:45.000Z

Yeah, I got on so probably just authentication fail.

Heads up: the google map is going to be screwy until support for hell is added. You’ll see what I mean when it next updates.

pg1 · 2010-10-30T19:31:26.000Z

Anyone know what has been added to or fixed in multiplayer?

chequers · 2010-10-30T19:43:53.000Z

You can’t use portals, still no damage model. Not sure about fishing.

Mazuo · 2010-10-30T21:43:56.000Z

Requesting access to the MP server as Mazuo.

chequers · 2010-10-30T22:00:00.000Z

Added

Xaroc · 2010-10-31T08:44:46.000Z

Requesting access as Xaroc.

Pogo · 2010-10-31T10:43:42.000Z

DENIED

wintermuse · 2010-10-31T14:03:11.000Z

Access as wintermuse? Pretty please?

Fugitive · 2010-10-31T14:18:37.000Z

Is anyone else having trouble with the server? I get to “Logging in…” and then it waits for a while and times out.

Edit: Just checked the overview map and that loop in the upper-right is my journey yesterday to find new biomes! There’s lots of weird sand ones where entire mountains suddenly switch over to being made out of sand, or it’s obvious that a lot of sand has collapsed below and pock-marked the landscape or underwater region.

Pogo · 2010-10-31T14:29:15.000Z

Yes, deserts are awesome.

pg1 · 2010-10-31T15:10:53.000Z

I can’t get on it either. I went exploring as well, as did badneighbor and we found some new biomes but overall it just seemed to be different grass color in most.

chequers · 2010-10-31T15:58:11.000Z

Oh damn, the Minecraft partition ran out of space! I have shut down the server – it’s possible some work you did in the past 10-12hrs is lost because of this. I should have the server up and running in another 10-12hrs. Might have to upsize the Linode it’s running on again too, yeesh!

datter · 2010-10-31T17:27:13.000Z

ugh. Thanks for all your efforts with this checkers.

lordkosc · 2010-10-31T18:36:05.000Z

damn how much space has the game taken up ?

Fugitive · 2010-10-31T18:54:24.000Z

I don’t think the game itself takes up much space, it’s probably the data generated for the overview map.

Marcin · 2010-10-31T19:39:09.000Z

Fugitive:

I don’t think the game itself takes up much space, it’s probably the data generated for the overview map.

When you think about that, it’s … kinda funny.

karnisov · 2010-10-31T19:52:10.000Z

pg:

I can’t get on it either. I went exploring as well, as did badneighbor and we found some new biomes but overall it just seemed to be different grass color in most.

i’m kind of thinking the biomes i have encountered so far should be bigger.

chequers · 2010-10-31T19:53:09.000Z

The world files are small, about 400mb. Fugitive is right, the issue is with the map.

Each layer (surface, surfacenight, cave) of the map is stored twice: once for a chunk cache and once for the actual map tiles.
The three chunk caches take up about 19gb, and those are what have filled up the Minecraft partition. As you suggest, the tile images erved by the webserver are on another partition. For reference, they take up around 3gb each.

EDIT: when I get home from work today, I’ll be doing a few things:

Upgrade the machine. We’re starting to run into RAM issues with 1.5gb total. The game server uses exactly 1gb, and the map generation runs use about 300mb total each. When you add on all the other webserver-y bits running on that machine (it’s a LAMP stack) that’s pretty tight! I’ll upgrade to the 2gb Linode and see how we go.
Set up a new discrete storage partition for the chunk caches.