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

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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.

Please see the Mojang service status website for updates!

Seems like some ridiculous kid is running a DDOS attack on the mojang servers….

You can see a users Username history including the dates when they changed usernames when you open that users userpage on the website or by using the /who command.

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I have just implemented a new process to download larger amount of files from the same source. Before we used to simply loop through single download processes. This was not ideal in terms of performance and also I would get spammed with tons of errors if something went wrong.

We use these for the user icons and for the block icons in the shop manager. Now we start one process, pipe all the the urls into it and then process them in one go.

Advantages?

• It’s closer to best-practice coding standards
• it’s friendlier to the server where we pull the data from
• we know get 100% of our user icons from our own server once the user sees them, so it’s faster and more reliable. We used to pull them partly from external server
• I found some other bugs along the way and fixed those
• I get less but more meaningful errors from the system in case the external source of the data fails.

By the way, I won’t be online for the coming 3 days a lot, so if you need something, please submit a ticket or send an email.

I have just completed our own custom forum widget (the elements on the sidebar). The issue with those that are offered with the forum are that they either show new posts or new replies to posts, but not both. In the past, users posted something and then immediately replied to their own post in order to make it visible on the frontpage since I was showing only the replies widget in the past. Showing both was also not really ideal since posts and their replies would have been shown in 2 different sections then.

So I have created one that shows both posts and their replies together. I hope this makes everyone’s life a bit easier.

I have now enabled the command

/lot warp <lot>

for guests. The command cannot be used by settlers of course. It teleports guest exactly into the center of the chosen lot. The idea of course is to make it easier and less frustrating for new users to become settlers.

It seems the minecart system is causing crashes when mobs using it. So we now disabled the functionality when mobs are riding it. This means that a mob entering a minecart will not be able to use any of the woolblock functions.

Sorry about this, but it seems to be a major complicator to safely enable mobs for now. We will let you know if there is any change to that.

There is an issue somewhere around (World: kingdom X: 2443 Y: 12 Z: -425) with the minecart system. I tried to reset some of the area to the most recent backup but it did not help. So either the issue is older than that or there is a fundamental issue with the minecart plugin. Unfortunately it’s very late for me (1:15 am) so I do not have the energy to now unpack an older backup and test (it’s gigabytes large and takes a while) so I resorted to disable the plugin for now.

We will see if we can either revert the area or fix the plugin to not crash the server over the weekend. Please stand by until then.

Thanks to the blazing support from floored, nether spawners now will be reset to spawn blazes. If you have any spawners left now that actively spawn passive mobs, please let me know the world and it’s coordinates.