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https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/axedamagereduction.84014/ This only changes the attack damage with a percentage.

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You can change the percentage in the config.

Hello everyone, I'm a former server owner and now a plugin developer. I mainly code plugins for some of my server owner friends, but sometimes I publish them too.

I recently created a plugin that allows the creation of custom items, with a lot of built-in powerful tools.

I decided to make it free, open-source and to provide support for it, creating a small community around this plugin. And after a bit, I decided to post it here, since it might be useful to other server owners too.

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Features:

• Common mechanics (damage, healing, potion effects, ...)
• Conditional actions, loops
• Variables
• Runtime defined variables (entity health, entity location, ...)
• Extensive configuration GUI

If you are interested in this plugin, this is the link to the Spigot page.

Probably buy badlion's anticheat. Is the server pvp focused?

Also I think there is a plugin that detects certain clients:

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/%E2%9C%85-25-%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F-hackedserver-forge-mods-clients-detector.46485/

According to this MCF is an official Minecraft resource. Exactly what the hell that means nobody knows anymore since Mojang's legal team is as about as predictable as an eye floater.

• Why use a CLC over the stock cooler here?
• Why use such a mediocre 750w PSU over a known quality CX450M?
• X570 isn't useful here, you're better off with an Asrock B450/X470 motherboard thats known to work with ECC (so like most of them) and a good PCIe layout. Otherwise grab an X470D4U for validated ECC and IPMI (no GPU needed)
• Make sure the RAM is UDIMMs, you also didn't list anything useful about it
• 140 is a bit of a joke for an 860 evo, you're better off with one of these

This is normal for non-pregenerated worlds. Dynmap doesn't generate new chunks for you; it only renders existing ones. By default Minecraft only generates new terrain when players enter view distance of them for the first time. Those chunks didn't render because players haven't been there yet.

I'd recommend a plugin like ChunkMaster or Chunky to pregenerate the world a bit, then rendering with dynmap. This will additionally decrease server load in the long run as generating chunks is usually resource-intensive, so doing it in advance will prevent players from slowing down your server later on. (Chunkmaster IIRC also has a Dynmap hook and will add any chunks it generates into Dynmap's render queue.)

CoreProtect supports all the features you want, but I also may be a bit biased. 😅

However, it is the most actively maintained block logging plugin at the present time. Version 19 was our most recent major update, and added a bunch of fancy new features, such as hopper transaction logging. You can check out that changelog here: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/coreprotect.8631/update?update=344697

This is NOT correct:

>The main thing that breaks redstone in Spigot will NOT break in Paper because we removed that really bad system from Paper.So yes redstone will be more reliable in that specific regard

From Aikar himself.

https://papermc.io/forums/t/redstone-issues-in-spigot-will-it-be-the-same-in-paper/2730/4

1. Lower your render distance to 4
2. Use a mob limiter plugin and limit your mobs per chunk to 8-12
3. You need to use worldborder plugin and put your max border to between 6-10k, the lower the better.
4. Get this plugin, it helps with keeping mobs from lagging your server https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/entitytrackerfixer-fix-1-14-4-1-16-2-entitytick-lag.70902/
5. Make sure your friends are not creating zero tick spawners or making too many things with automated redstone contraptions.
6. I've never used fabric, but If fabric has any settings for limiting max entity collisions, lower that number to 2.
7. Restart your server 1-2 times per day

All of these things should help you get better performance out of your server.

The only thing really out of your control if you are on a shared host is if the host has lots of servers running on your box, because you will all be running on the same CPU

As a side note, we released ViaVersion last night for anyone looking for temporary support while waiting for Spigot / plugins to update. I'd advise you to update as soon as Spigot drops 1.13 to give players the full experience :)

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/viaversion.19254/history

Here's what I suggest:

• You absolutely need [Paper](https://papermc.io), not Spigot. Paper should let you have a playable experience without major issues, as long as you treat the server gingerly.
• You need to remove dynmap. Your Raspberry Pi is short on computation power and having a plugin that generates maps in the background (eating up CPU) isn't going to help matters.
• Ideally, upgrade to something more powerful.

It's not allowed by the EULA:

"Examples of things that may only be offered for soft currency (a currency that can only be earned in-game):

[...]

-A non-cosmetic item or perk that is dropped in an area accessible by everyone, whether other players are notified of the drop or not."

Source: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/eula-info-nugget-allowed-disallowed-perks-blacklist-bypass.159648/

Gotta make the obligatory Paper PSA, https://papermc.io is a great fork of spigot that helps with performance & general optimisation, it's great if you're running on old hardware like it sounds you will be.

I'd also recommend looking into LuckPerms, it'll allow you to create different groups each with different permission levels, so you could elect moderators which have the ability to forcibly unclaim land, ban/mute players etc

If you need any help setting it all up, I'd recommend joining the admincraft discord, you can find the invite in the sidebar :)

> You are very interesting for being able to detect it right away as the lighting engine. You must be very educated on console error messages.

10 years of experience hosting servers, and I'm a professional plugin dev, haha. Thanks for the compliment.

[16.11 19:45:35] [Server] [Craft Scheduler Thread - 35/FATAL]: Error executing task on Server [16.11 19:45:35] [Server] net.minecraft.server.CancelledPacketHandleExceptionnull

This message here (repeated many times) plus this one:

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index -1 out of bounds for length 129 at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.longs.LongLinkedOpenHashSet.rehash(LongLinkedOpenHashSet.java:1083) at net.minecraft.world.level.lighting.LightEngineGraph$1.rehash(SourceFile:52) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.libs.it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.longs.LongLinkedOpenHashSet.removeFirstLong(LongLinkedOpenHashSet.java:486)

Specifically the part about Index -1 out of bounds for length 129 mean that the issue is almost definitely a problem with the plugin itself, not something you did. Basically what is happening is something (probably aurora) is doing something with a list of 129 items related to the lighting engine, probably iterating through coordinates or something, idk. It's working through this list by index, basically the "address" of each item in that list, kind of like we say "A" is the 1st letter of the alphabet; it's index is 1. Well, the plugin is attempting to get something from that list by the index negative 1, which is obviously completely nonsensical. Nothing can be the negative first entry in a list.

Basically, remove Aurora, see if it resolves the issue. It probably will. Once you do, contact the Aurora devs for support, since you paid them.

Also, upgrade to paper. It's just plain better than spigot in every way. https://papermc.io/

https://papermc.io/downloads is the official site, no need to use a mirror :P (While we do trust yive, we don't recommend using mirrors for software, especially when they're already offered for download)

From what I know, those are caused by lighting not being generated in those chunks. Try running https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/light-cleaner.42469/ on the server.

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

Sales are still fairly strong; the game is still being developed. It's not useful to try to make a date.

First of all:

Move away from Contabo. Was there myself and this Hoster is one of the baddest ones i had. I moved throw multiple ones and found myself one with good price/performance solution. Most of these Hoster wants more then three times the Price for Hardware from over 10 years ago.

Like the Usage in Contabo Interface and multicraft shows differences:
The CPU can't keep up with the processes so java outsources them into RAM. Your only Solution:

Go to another Hoster. I found a good one for me cause they use CPU's that are about 2 years old or newer, with good support and the Server can run the hell of MC Server like they eat them for Breakfast.
https://www.hetzner.com

In Cloud the one for 8€ (German one here) are good for small Server. Or you can go to the dedicated ones for 40€ starting with:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600

64GB DDR4 RAM

2x512GB NvMe SSD

You also get 100GB Backup Storage to store your precious Files before you do something bad.

I think you would be interested in this:
https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/lorinthsrpgmobs.53568/
It doesn't increase the amount of mobs but instead makes them more difficulty as you move away from spawn.

That's an ancient processor that would be terrible for Minecraft due to its poor single thread performance. Why not just rent from SoYouStart or some place? That plus the slow disks would bottleneck hard.

I sincerely hope that you're trolling. That CPU is a good 25% slower than a 1230v2, and almost 40% slower in terms of single thread performance. You could rent a 12xxv2 machine with actual SSDs for ~$50/mo in most cases.

96GB RAM? Seriously, paired with that dinosaur processor?

Bit of a side note: The unemployment rate being low is a good thing!

But, to your post, it seems like you're just angry. Bashing those who have run their server a certain way for so long really is not necessary. I for one have run my server for the better part of two years and have not profited a single dime. Sure, there are donations / perks. We've had maybe one or two people donate just for the sake of donating. I created the plugin 'DonationPoints', people donate for points (even though points may be gained several other ways so you don't have to pay, but paying speeds it up), and then spend these points on various in-game perks (Such as the ability to set more than one home, (we set the limit at 2 homes), access an additional backpack, or change their element (We are a Bending server). I have never considered my server pay to win in the slightest, as everything available via some form of contribution can be gained without putting a single dime into the server.

And to anyone that has said this has always been the EULA, not really: https://web.archive.org/web/20111102174926/http://www.minecraft.net/terms

"Plugins for the game also belong to you and you can do whatever you want with them, including selling them for money. We reserve the final say regarding what constitutes a tool/plugin and what doesn't. "

I'm beginning to ramble, but I think my point is there.

Here's the CSS: https://hastebin.com/xuyufetaji.css. Thought it might be useful to some of you. I've always found the way the top bar scrolls sideways very uncomfortable to use, so I decided to make this. Tested on Chrome, using Stylus. :)

From spigotmc.org:

tab-complete

Default: 0

Type: Integer

Description: You can now specify how many letters of the command must be typed before it will be tab completed this will help deter people from just spamming round all the commands to see if there is one incorrectly set up.

0 will tab complete all commands

-1 will disable tab completely

1 will mean you have to type the first letter

2 will mean you have to type the second letter... etc...

Had this same question on Spigot a day or two ago: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/most-effective-form-of-advertisement-youve-ever-participated-in.377920/#post-3438015

A lot of people with high-count servers say word of mouth is the best form of advertisement. I personally have a decent budget to advertise with as well and am stuck at that amount of players.

Recently I've just been investing in new features, and plan to put some leftover money into advertising to hopefully boost this whole word of mouth process.

Would love to see what some more people who have actually been through this before have to say though!

Do you realize how silly this is?

... do you?

Ok, so lets say I have a server that I'm willing to dole out pieces of for free. I would have already left this thread.

Not only are you asking someone for a huge favor, you're rude while asking it.

> It has to be free, no questions asked.

People don't give things away for free normally, and I feel like if someone is willing to give you a free service, they better be able to ask as many damn questions as they would like to.

Well, I suppose /rant, and I'll try to be helpful now.

You can get a free server that supports plugins for no questions asked.

Here's how:

• Go to the [spigot BuildTools jenkins page] and download BuildTools.
  
• Follow the installation steps on the Spigot page.

You now have a free server, no questions asked.

I wonder if something like Crafty Controller can be set up to run inside this. It would be cool to give it a web interface so you don't need to access the console through Putty.

Since Crafty also runs in a VM, I guess you would need to creat a nested VM as well. I'm gonna mess around with it when I get the chance.

Wow, genuinely correct use of 'lag'.

So Bedrock uses UDP rather than TCP for its communication, my assumption it would be either the router is doing something silly with TCP traffic or possibly something similar is happening on your host system. Maybe bufferbloat?

This is going to be a pain to figure out, but for now I can suggest two things:

1. Install https://www.netdata.cloud/ & see if it reports anything suspicious under its few network sections.
2. Fiddle with your network compression settings.

the person he's talking to this is the co-founder of the forum software nodebb https://nodebb.org/
I assume OP wants to get something custom done from them, I don't think their rates are unreasonable pretty standard rate in the western world

I've been coding a Bungeecord support update for Player Analytics

Progress this week:

• Rewrote Database queries (3k lines)
• Rewrote event listening system
• Merged a branch that added a connection pool to the database
• wrote a Theme system
• Started work on the Bungee part of the plugin.

Some testing concluded that Mysql, with the new connection pool could execute one million individual queries in 4 minutes (20s with a batch insert)

I'm not sure how effective this is but I thought I would link it anyway. https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/tutorial-how-to-start-a-succesful-server-without-a-big-budget-unique-advertising-methods.259940/

Yay! Spigot's 1.12 Pre-5 Release :D

Network Updates:

I spent quite a bit of this week gathering information and errors on various plugins, helping to create this helpful list of Spigot 1.12 plugin compatibilities.

Server-wise, I've updated it to Spigot 1.12 pre-5 and now I'm just waiting on a number of plugins to be updated. I don't want to do anything else in fear that it will break with 1.12's full release; even though it really shouldn't.

Just like the last two weeks; here's everything I've done in a nice list:

⦁ Updated FastAsyncWorldEdit

⦁ Updated to Spigot 1.12 pre-2

⦁ Updated GriefPrevention to v16.7.1

⦁ Came close to finishing BarrelWatch Punishment System then got bored and worked on updates for Minetrack Light.

⦁ Updated Mentioned to v1.14

⦁ Updated WorldEditExploitPatch to v1.2

⦁ Updated Tablist to v1.3.2.8

⦁ Updated Gamebox to v1.3.1

⦁ Updated 2048 to v1.2.0

⦁ Updated GemCrush to v2.2.0

⦁ Updated to Spigot 1.12-pre5

⦁ Updated BetterChairs to v0.9.1

⦁ Updated GadgetsMenu to v3.7.3

⦁ Updated Whack a Mole to v1.3

Minetrack Light:

I updated Minetrack Light to v1.2.2 this week with the changes which Cryptkeeper added to Minetrack. They're small changes but I quite like them.

I worked on a plugin using PaperSpigot today that increases the render distance for a player if they're in a specific WorldGuard region. This way we can show our spawn in it's full glory but keep the render distance everywhere else low to prevent chunk generation lag.

I hope to have my server continue to grow this year but I will need to really think out a few issues before it can scale bigger.

EDIT: Plugin is available now here: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/dynamicrenderdistance.16622/

Spigot has Orebfuscator included with it. There are different modes for anti-xray, and ores exposed to air aren't hidden.

You can change the mode to create tons of random faux-ore blocks in the world instead of replacing hidden ore with stone, but there are potential problems with that.

Read more on the wiki (near the bottom of the page): https://www.spigotmc.org/wiki/spigot-configuration/?redirect=spigot-configuration-spigot-yml

• Use Paper which is better optimized than Spigot. It also fixes a bad memory leak in vanilla Minecraft with tile entities, which might be causing your memory issues.
• Use Aikar's flags which are specifically tuned for Minecraft.

1) Bedrock could potentially be a platform that is used, however scaling and performance of Vanilla Bedrock isn't as favorable as Java Edition.

2) Ubuntu Server is easier to manage as it is headless and focused on what task you wish to complete. It'll be a small learning curve to move into strictly command line. However, many deployments roll out with Ubuntu Server rather than Ubuntu Desktop. You may consider installing a Control Panel (Pterodactyl) or simply running the server off screen/tmux.

3) While I'm not best at determining hardware, i7-2600 feels a bit more comfortable.

4) If you choose to slide over to the Java Edition, I'd suggest starting with Paper, as they have optimizations and allow plugin compatibility.

First plugin is CoreProtect as it's a must-have for logged changes and conducting rollbacks. GeyserMC can be used to allow a fair bit of Bedrock Compatibility. Keep in mind, there are some limitations.

If the server reaches outbound, make sure to enact a Whitelist or use DiscordSRV linking.

Backups are always recommended. As for protection plugins, consider using GriefPrevention, Towny, Residences, the list goes on!

I've documented a fair bit of content tailored to numerous School Related Servers, feel free to view them here. Feel free to continue asking questions! It's nice to explore different perspectives.

Most performance plugins suck. ViewDistanceTweaks is good though, I think.
But apart from that, I'd rather try optimizing your server configs, this way you gain a lot of performance. Another thing that I would recommend is having some rules on things like how many animals a player can have at a base or if automatic (/afk) farms are allowed.
Oh, and of course use Paper or a fork of it, but that should be pretty obvious.

Your screenshot is illegible. Please upload console logs to https://hastebin.com/ or similar.

Please provide more information. When does this come up? What OS are you on?

If this error appears after hitting run.bat/start.bat/.sh, a simple google search will tell you that you have the wrong jar linked. Edit your run/start.bat/.sh to start the correct jar (minecraft_server.jar or forge_server.jar or similar)

I managed to find it! "Advertising must be limited to the resource page itself. You may not use resource updates, the resource itself (eg console or in-game messages), or any other location for any advertisement whatsoever."

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Here's the link. https://www.spigotmc.org/wiki/spigot-rules/

I made this plugin to do essentially what you are describing. It basically just adjusts view distance so that the number of player-loaded chunks is always at or below a threshold set in the config

Dupe Fixes: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/dupe-fixes-illegal-stack-remover.44411/

I can't say how effective it is since I don't personally use it, but looking at the code it will definitely address #1 #2 and #4 on my list. #6 can be achieved by simply disabling the option in spigot.yml to allow pigman spawns from portals.

1. You're going to need to be running your server with a plugin API such as Paper/Spigot or Sponge.

2. You will need a permissions plugin like LuckPerms to manage groups and permissions.

3. You will need another plugin like WorldGuard (requires WorldEdit) to make regions and restrict building to these regions. This can work with your permissions plugin to restrict access to certain groups.

4. Whitelisting can be toggled with /whitelist on and /whitelist off, no restart required.

> Intel NUC

Don't expect wondrous performance since it uses a mobile CPU

> My question is whether it's better to run a Ubuntu container and have everything setup from scratch or if I should move to MineOS especially if it just makes it a lot easier to work with

The former, MineOS being based on debian is generally pretty outdated for no real advantage. I'd consider an alternate panel (pufferpanel) or LGSM instead.

> should I run Spigot or migrate to Paper?

Paper

There is a plugin for separate inventories, so survival and creative gamemodes get different inventories.

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/per-world-inventory.4482/

Just set share-if-unconfigured: true in plugin's config.yml

A quick search of Spigot yielded Sddls and ZHorse. I haven't tested either, but ZHorse says it has 1.12 support, and they both seem to do what you want.

Asynchronous WorldEdit

Up to date, designed for people with large stuff to paste without crashing the server. Separates a paste into sections that it individually adds in to minimize swallowing all the resources in one go. It's a premium plugin, however.

EDIT- extra info based on ram reqs taken from their faq:

> How many blocks can I queue? > All tests ware done in a controlled environment. Using the official spigot, only AWE and WE ware installed and there was 1 player on the server. The AWE config was not changed.

> On a minimum server (512m) free memory ~200m I managed to queue up to 1 000 000 blocks. But after the queue reached 500 000 blocks TPS started to dropped drastically because of the garbage collector. Therefore I do not recommend to queue more then 500 000 blocks on a server that has 200m free ram.

> On a server that had 1g ram, approximately ~700m free, I managed to queue up to 2 500 000 blocks. After the queue reached 2 000 000 blocks the TPS started dropping because of the garbage collector.

> Adding additional ram resulted in increase of the maximum number of queued blocks approximately by 1 500 000 blocks for each 500m of additional free ram. When I disabled the blocks freeze function I managed to queue additional 20% blocks, (1 800 000 for each additional 500m of free ram).

Alternatively, you could use one of the map editors out there for pastes, I think MCEdit has support for that functionality.

Bukkit still exists, but it is maintained by the Spigot team instead. However, you can't just download pre-built like before. Now, you have to download BuildTools, put it in its own folder, run it, wait about 10-20 minutes, and finally upload either spigot or craftbukkit to your server.

I would recommend EssentialsX which is a fork of Essentials with some new features. https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/essentialsx.9089/

Note that there are a couple permissions differences than Regular permissions but it should work with your Essentials config and everything.

The differences are listed here. https://github.com/drtshock/Essentials/wiki

I used FluxBB. It was very light and simple. Looks just like every other forum out there. I even wrote my own player stats widget that parses the world/stats json files. Not a single player registered.

I haven't used iOS in a while, but from what I remember, voice apps will work in the background, much like a phone call runs in the background. You might find it inconvenient that status bar turns red and gets a little bigger (to remind you that an app is recording audio), but that's just how it is.

I strongly recommend Mumble (https://www.mumble.info/) and its server component murmur. It has iOS and android apps as well as your standard desktop program, and all of it is Free (as in freedom) Software. Your Linux server should very easily handle murmur.

I can fully assure you, I have, and I can assure you that you don't know what you're talking about.

1) Anti VPNs can, and are being bypassed by people using alts. PIA for example have coroporate routed IPs. NordVPN has an ever-growing server list, and can even dynamically change your IP per-program.

2) Bot attacks are incredibly easy to block, and an AntiVPN will not entirely block it.

3) A real attack would be a direct distributed denial of service attack, to which an AntiVPN will do absolutely nothing to protect against.

There are multiple ways to download a copy of your server.

• DriveBackupV2
  • Install this plugin on your server and set it up to upload a copy of your server to an external storage provider (GDrive, OneDrive, SFTP, etc)
• FileZilla and/or ZIP.
  • Stop your server and manually download all your server files using an external File Transfer connection.
  • It would be preferred if you had your server pre-compressed into a single jar file to download less small files.
• Asking your Host for Migration.
  • A fair amount of Hosting Provider allow you to migrate your server from your old provider to your new server.

Anti-VPN by Egg82

I made a free alternative to these plugins a little while ago if you wanted another plugin to consider.

My understanding of the difference between the two plugins is that MobFarmManager limits the number of mobs in a chunk, whereas FarmLimiter limits the number of mobs that can exist in groups (i.e. mobs that are close to each other). FarmLimiter's approach is probably better since with MobFarmManager players can spread their mobs out across chunks

yea its doable,
I actually did it for my server although depending on your needs I recommend using something like Multiverse it allows you to have multiple worlds on a single server

It worked on my server, make sure you're using the latest version released with 1.16.3 support:

ViaVersion: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/viaversion.19254/update?update=360204

ViaBackwards: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/viabackwards.27448/update?update=360200

Check out ConsoleSpamFix, I use it to filter sponsor messages like this along with other annoying messages that tend to crowd up in my logs

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/console-spam-fix.18410/

based on your title you only have one server, why do you plan on running bungeecord?

Also we need your CPU, plug-ins you want to run, how much ram the whole computer has, and your upload speed (use speed test websites)

Piggybacking off your comment - for 3 players you probably don't need a dedicated Minecraft host - something like Digital Ocean, Linode, Amazon EC2 works fine

And disclaimer - I'm the dev of this - but if you're looking to set up a server on Digital Ocean I think you should check out gamocosm.com. It automates setting up a server (although you can do this yourself), and also helps you start/stop the server on digital ocean such that you don't pay for it when you're not using it. Digital ocean charges by the hour so you could be looking at just a few cents a month. I use it myself for my survival world and various adventure maps I do with friends

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/mob-farm-manager-supports-1-7-10-up-to-1-15-hopper-support.15127/

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/griefprevention.1884/ players can claim lands themselves, and have a maxium area that they can claim. A 10 by 10 area would need the player to have 100 "claim blocks".

I use a voucher plugin so players can buy an item that will grant them more claim blocks when used.

Yes, ShopChest is exactly that. It does exactly what you're asking for, you setup a chest and then prices are displayed as a hologram on top of the chest. You fill the chests manually.

Here is a working version for 1.13: Download

It's not an issue really, in that it does require players executing it themselves.

The theoretical attack, though, is that the skin can be downloaded by the game itself (but, again, not run); that's how it would get to players. However, it would not be run; the user would have rename it and manually run it. It's a lot of fear-mongering over what really is a tiny issue (that still should be fixed)

EDIT: More official statement, from the community manager:

> “Mojang has addressed this issue and put additional measures in place to prevent the sharing of malicious content on our service. We encourage players to report any suspicious activity to feedback.minecraft.net” > > - The affected skins were not official Minecraft skins, and were generated by third parties. > > - The affected skins did not affect any of the Bedrock versions as these versions do not call that API > > - The affected skins were never available on the in-game Store in any version of Minecraft

EDIT 2: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-skins-issue-update

I'm not familiar with that generator but you can sometimes fix broken chunks with MCEdit (http://www.mcedit.net). Just download your world, open it in MCEdit and trim out the bad chunks so that new ones will generate.

Gamocosm snapshots your server, then destroys the server. You don't pay DO when the server is gone. When you restart, Gamocosm recreates the server from a snapshot.

It takes a 1-5 minutes to start or stop and your IP may change from time to time, but it's the tradeoff for paying much less over a month of year

Edit 2 on snapshot pricing: I got home and took a closer look - it seems like Digital Ocean is not charging for snapshots yet (will be $0.02 per GB). I also checked my invoice and don't see any charges for my 7 snapshots. You can find "Backups and Snapshots Explained" here.

Also, from a comment on that page on June 5, 2014 by an employee, The plan is to only charge for the actual disk space used. I checked the disk usage on my server - 3.6GB, so the overhead of saved snapshots should be negligible.

Thanks supermariobro! Correct me again if I'm mistaken :P

I'd recommend using the Spigot jar file (even if you plan on playing "vanilla"), it provides some optimizations even if you don't want to use any plugins. Here's some instructions if you've never used Spigot before: https://www.spigotmc.org/wiki/buildtools/

EDIT: Your .bat file looks okay to me. I believe you can use straight up G for the GB of ram you want to use, instead of converting to MB. For reference this is what I use for my server:

java -Xmx6G -Xms6G -jar spigot-1.12.2.jar pause

Hope this helps!

CoreProtect isn't unmaintained, it's just not being updated when it doesn't need to be. It will be updated when 1.13 comes out (source). The developer is also a moderator of this sub and last posted yesterday.

For the jar, you are looking for CraftBukkit, which is what Spigot was built upon. The process of getting it is identical.

> multiverse-inventories

Please note that this plugin is no longer supported. https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/per-world-inventory.4482/ is a good replacement, I used it on a public Survival server for 8 months and everything was good

gizoogle that mate:

http://gizoogle.net/index.php?search=spigot+setup+dedicated+server&se=Gizoogle+Dis+Shiznit

You need to learn basic linux magic

Also check out https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/best-practices-for-minecraft-linux-in-general.4223/

My server runs fine with the dev builds. I would only use MV-Core, MV-NetherPortals, and (maybe) MV-Portals from there though. I also swapped out MV-Inventories for PerWorldInventory.

Look into ultra cosmetics, great open source plugin for pets, trails, hats, emotes and more. You can disable the effect gadgets have on players and turn off mounts. Also includes chests that players can unlock to get cosmetic items out of by buying a key.

You could have some sort of player group plugin as well, and let players create groups and have a private chat. I wrote suffixcommands, an open source badge plugin that does just that.

I'm anxious to hear what people say to this. Right now we are just using text, which is mostly fine, but it's a huge pain to setup and update. Fortunately most of the time we have awesome community members that help new players.

I tried to use this plugin, but it doesn't work: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/server-tutorials.5281/

So we are just using ServerSigns with text for now.

Almost definitely caused by a hack that allowed players to place signs with more text on them than they're supposed to, which crashes a client that tries to read them.

It was fixed in 1.8.7, and this plugin will automatically detect the signs and fix the text.

Pro tip: Google your errors

NoCheatPlus would do this for you.

Note that certain plugins are broken by NCP. If you have mcMMO, for example (however McMMO can be made compatible with CompatNoCheatPlus)

If you have any plugins that alter vanilla mechanics, list them.

I have lots of little kids that don't get how to claim with Grief Prevention either, so I've been looking at alternatives too.

I'll give you a different perspective that you might not have considered. PlotSquared. It hooks into WorldGuard for flag support, would easily allow you to assign a number of plots/claims by group, and claiming an area would be as simple as using /plot claim.

>As usual, we do not provide support for minor releases of MC, and ESPECIALLY for this tiny one, so 1.16.2 is no longer supported. Please update to 1.16.3 ASAP as this should not break any plugins, as the NMS revision was not changed. -- Aikar @ PaperMC

Last Build of 1.16.2

I'd wait for paper to pop up here:

https://papermc.io/downloads

The developers will know better about its current state, but added complexity increases the likelihood of problems. They can increase stability over vanilla is by fixing vanilla problems, but with 1.14.1 in the pipe, I doubt there's much motivation to do so right now.

Hey,

It seems you're running a 1.12.2 server, and your Multiverse is for version 1.13+(?). Either downgrade your Multiverse version or (preferred) update your server to 1.13.2, also consider using PaperMC.

Also, try to avoid ever using ConsoleSpamFix to hide errors, it's better to fix why the errors are there in the first place. :P

I am going to call out pterodactyl as a free and OSS control panel for unlimited servers. It's not just minecraft either. There are guides for a full CentOS install.

One thing to call out is that it doesn't run on OpenVZ VPS's due to requiring docker for the daemon.

Being open I am on the project team.

1. The nether roof is a feature at this point, but there are plugins to remove it.
2. X-ray glitches like this are client side rendering glitch so I dont believe there's a way to fix it.
3. Paper and/or Dupe Fixes / Illegal Stack Remover probably fixes this, idk for sure though, I'll test it in a bit.
4. I dont know if there's any way to fix this, but I doubt it'll ever be encountered.
5. See answer 3
6. This wont happen for players, but answer 2 also applies sort of.
7. See answer 2
8. Paper may fix this, I can test this in a bit as well.
9. See answer 2
10. Paper may fix this, otherwise there may be other plugins that do as well. I'll test this with the other two.

Note:

The Xray glitches are related to the way minecraft renders block faces and when a player clips into a block. Its the same reason that when you use spectator mode to fly into a block you can see through the world.

>Spigot/Vanilla does not provide any level of protection against packet spam. As such, individual players can send as many packets as they want.

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/packet-limiter.70217/

The "facts" I was referring to were the copies sold. And like I said, I prefer java over all the other editions and I believe it's the best edition, I'm just being real. And if what you said about only 30 million/100 million copies were from java is true, then that is some pretty solid evidence that bedrock edition has more copies sold. I think you are the one blindly defending your beloved player base.

Edit: Minecraft.net displays the amount of copies sold, so yeah about 32m/150m copies sold are from java.

I have been having fun with https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/worldgeneratorapi.77976/

And I just re-read your post. You said 1.15.2. My bad. Please disregard this.

I think that's a great idea, and I look forward to seeing what you are going to make!

Do keep in my mind that other than minetrends you are also competing with other plugins like Plan Player Analytics, which I currently use.

If you can make something with the same or even more information/stats, I believe the project can become very succesful!

Please, have some respect for the people trying to help you, this isn't a prank youtube channel, don't put your title in all caps.

Here's a plugin I found: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/lobby-afk-afk-server-for-networks.56781/

In the future, try doing some research yourself. This was found by typing "afk move server plugin" into google

Luckperms is one the best plugins for setting up ranks at the moment. If you wish to grant them extra permissions that is. Check out the installation and configuration links on their plugin page: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/luckperms.28140/

Feel free to DM if you need a hand.

EDIT: The web UI functionality is included and super handy btw. There are also more options but this is what I've had the most experience with!

That's awesome. You'll for sure want to go with server-side so that things run smoother, and less of a hassle for her.

For W/E or FAWE, go with FAWE. Make sure to go to their Jenkins builds, as they are more up to date than on SpigotMC. There aren't any downsides that I have found about it. It works great and is more stable.

As far as a selection visualizer, I recommend WorldEditSelectionVisualizer ( https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/worldeditselectionvisualizer-1-7-1-15.17311/ ) I believe something like this is what you're looking for. It supports both World Edit and FAWE, so it should work fine.

As far as a GUI plugin, I haven't seen any for commands, but you could probably make something using DeluxeMenus or similar plugins.

It's likely done with a GeoDNS service like AWS Route 53.

It can also be done with an anycast network that directs clients to the nearest point of presence, but since they use OVH I doubt they are doing this. It's likely just GeoDNS.

Sounds like there's a dupe on your server. All it takes is 1 skull and then they can use an exploit to duplicate the item as much as they want for infinite withers. Download this plugin to fix it. And "massive water/cobblestone structures" are just a vanilla game mechanic. They are called lava casts and can be created extremely easily. Use this plugin to fix it or disable water/lava flow entirely on your server.

Cant keep up issues are mostly CPU related because the game cant keep up with the game ticks. I'm guessing youre using somewhat dated Xeon processors, which probably dont have the highest single core performance. The fact that it has 12 cores per CPU doesnt matter. Minecraft is almost completely a single core instance, and can not take advantage of multiple cores and scale if needed.

I'd suggest installing Paper, running timings when it lags and optimizing your configs with this guide..

Ontop of that pregenerate your chunks with a plugin called WorldBorder with the /wb fill command.

Also install VillagerOptimiser and LimitPillagers. Sadly 1.14 is horridly optimised, and what I stated above is what you can do to make it somewhat runnable, or ofcourse getting a new CPU that excels in single core performance, but optimising the game first is a better option.

use PLAN
https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/plan-player-analytics.32536/

Works great, gives you a webpanel to look up all stats from your Members. For stuff like mobs and ores set up Scoreboards in game! :)

This is the latest post on the SpigotMC website, by the developers: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/bukkit-craftbukkit-spigot-bungeecord-1-14-development-builds.369724/

You'll notice it clearly says "Development Builds". Getbukkit can call it whatever they like but that doesn't make it a stable, production release.

If anybody here wants to still support 1.14 players while they're waiting for Spigot etc, we've updated ViaVersion

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note: I have a bias opinion because I made ViaVersion

Go for this bad boy: https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

Unfortunately you don't have any other options than a VPS at that price point.

OVH does ok, for 5-10 players you'll be totally fine at the 13/mo vps

http://ggservers.co/

A little detail on the website will explain it very well: OVH reselling

Take a look at the OVH website for the OVH price, add some what reseller discount, the price is somewhat legit.

Spigot (what paper is built on) has more info on their site:

https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/bukkit-craftbukkit-spigot-bungeecord-1-13-1-development-builds.336415/

https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/bukkit-craftbukkit-spigot-bungeecord-1-13-development-builds.328883/

>As for general server stability we expect that this update will fall into three key "waves" for those looking to update. We are currently in the extreme caution wave and expect to advance through them as 1.13.x versions are released by Mojang. >Extreme Caution (1.13 - Current): This version is stable for those looking to run a public server based on Minecraft 1.13, but only if an entire reset of all worlds and data is performed, and all plugins in use have a Native Minecraft Version of 1.13. It is not safe to use on existing worlds. There are known Vanilla bugs that will irreparably delete data from your old world, or otherwise render it unusable. You may use this version to test conversion of your world, but you will NEED to restore your world from a 1.12.2 backup before moving onto the second wave.

Per this:

>It is not safe to use on existing worlds. There are known Vanilla bugs that will irreparably delete data from your old world, or otherwise render it unusable.

You either have to wait or wipe.

Question for plugin creators and server owners with custom plugins: how is your 1.13 update coming along? Are you / your developers finding that they need to rewrite almost everything for 1.13? Reading this thread did not give me high hopes for forward compatibility. We're running into some pretty annoying issues on my server as well.

They use proxies so try a plugin like this: (Free) https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/anti-proxy.38084/

or this: (Paid) https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/antibotdeluxe-%E2%80%BA-the-revolution-of-anti-bot-systems-anti-vpn-proxy-1-8-1-12.31700/

There's a whole bunch on Spigot.

Almost everyone uses Spigot or Paper (Spigot with even better performance). Courageous ones use Sponge.
There are also modded servers, running Forge.

Depends on what exactly you need, but I guess you are looking for something like McMMO. This is a really complex plugin though. If you want just quests, check out https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/quests.3711/

https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/essentialsx-is-being-discontinued.289409/page-5#post-2792428

Here's my best summary, as I understand it:

The primary issue is the clarity of plugin status as a free plugin on a premium page, since they're offering free binaries. This is especially confusing for a plugin that was previously free for years. This bites users, which in turns takes up the Spigot team's time, regardless if you think those users are stupid or not. Apparently they experienced this with the other plugin's mentioned and so no longer allow this. They don't want to make exceptions. They gave him an alternative that would keep the plugin status clear, but he didn't like it.

A second issue is profiting off the foundation built by dozens of other contributors over seven years, who might not have contributed under these new conditions. As far as I'm aware, this is not a legal thing though, as the GPL allows commercial distribution.

~~I tested this on my server from a very recent PaperSpigot build and it was active, I updated to the very latest PaperSpigot and im not able to reproduce it again, so im not sure if its been recently patched or if im getting unlucky with the glitch. Can anyone find a changelog entry where this has been fixed?~~

Edit: Nope. A staff member of mine was able to do it still on the latest.

Edit Edit: There is a plugin to patch it! https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/exploitpatcher-1-12-related-150-downloads.44447/