Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• bigunga (from Citizen to Architect)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

Today Teamspeak clients were found to have a bug that is quite dangerous. The latest client version does not have this bug anymore. I have followed the instructions from Teamspeak and locked out older clients from the server.

I wanted to give a quick status update since I have not been online a lot in the recent weeks.

So first of all, everything is fine. I am however very busy with my job and need to travel almost every second week and I have telephone calls almost every 2nd evening with Europe. Together with a 1 year old kid it just takes a lot of time. On top of that, there is nothing really urgent with the server right now so I am just not around a lot. I am fixing the one or other thing in the background, but there is not a lot of new developments right now. I have not worked on my other programming projects for 4-6 weeks either, so it’s not really a preference issue, it’s just lack of time.

Since I spent most of my time coding so far to make sure that the server can run without me being there 24/7, I do not think this is a big issue so far. If there is any issue, just let me know through the normal channels and I will see what I can do to fix it.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 97, Do not allow inactive users to be added to a lot (  code upgrade  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 96, Add in-game mail to /money send (  enhancement  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 95, Add spawn eggs back to the shop (  enhancement  )

As you have probably realized, the user icons were broken repeatedly over the last weeks. I was using an external service to get the icons. I now re-wrote the system to get them directly from Mojang themselves. The advantage is that the old service provided default icons when something did not work. When going directly to Mojang, I can check when a single user’s skin was updated the last time, compare that to the date of the skin on the server here and only update if it actually changed.

We will be downloading skins for users who join us the first time as soon as they login and everyone else once a day to keep the requests to Mojang at a reasonable level. Also, we currently do not (yet) render the overlays like helmets and so on. This might come later.

We have a new server list to vote on: minecraft-servers-list.org

Some bug creeped into the voting system. If you voted for a user recently, please check if the vote registered. If not, please vote again.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 94, featherfalling boots do not offer protection. (  bug   In-Game  )
  • Issue No. 93, /who online check broken (  bug  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 91, Fix usericons ()
  • Issue No. 46, Allow settlers to operate redstone in the city (  In-Game  )
  • Issue No. 33, Username Change is not identified correctly (  bug  )
  • Issue No. 32, User downranks (  bug   Priority 1  )

I got some reports today that in the flatlands usage of pressure plates and so on was not able for non-members of a lot. I fixed that now. This is world-specific, and it’s supposed to work. If you find that anywhere on the server you are not able to use a redstone enabled device, please let me know and I will fix it.

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 92, Fix code inclusion in icon class (  bug   Priority 1  )

As you might have realized, we are currently only showing the 2 default user icons on the server, Steve and Alex (the blonde one). This is due to the issue that the minecraft server providing these is frequently down recently.

We do not request these live from Mojang but rather request them periodically in a batch from them and store them locally. I have to wait until the server is back up and then re-request the icons. You can check their status updates here: https://twitter.com/MojangStatus

[Update] The servers work again and I now enabled a daily request of the icons.

So I am back from my holidays and I wanted to share some of the nicer photos that I took:

Since most of you probably had the opportunity to upgrade to windows 10 by now, I wanted to share with you this article on what to disable in windows 10 to protect your privacy and save resources. If you have other articles regarding windows 10 setup and configuration for first-time users, please post to the comments:

• What to disable in windows 10

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• floored1585 (from DesignerDonatorPlus to MasterDonatorPlus)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

Here is a small impression from my vacation for anyone who like underwater stuff :)

After having 2 quite stressful weeks at the office, I am finally off for summer holidays from tomorrow on. Expect some more diving pictures once I am back!

If there are any issues, do not hesitate to send me a mail, I will be reading them. If there is something urgent I will be fixing it, otherwise it might take a while.

I created a new forum sidebar in which we group new replies by post instead of just listing it by post title. The advantage is that you get a better picture how old the posts are and that there is less to read since it does not repeat the post title for every reply.

The disadvantage is that you have it a bit harder to find the latest replies across several posts since they will be further down in the list.

There is an open question if we should limit the list. Currently I list the latest 20 posts and their replies.