About uncovery

Owner & admin of this server.

State of the upgrade address

Tried all I could to do the upgrade this morning. Failed on the essentials plugin which does stuff like /home and /spawn. I think I was able to fix that now, will have to do further testing but have no time anymore now. Please stand by for further info.

Other stuff that has been mentioned below should be fixed now. Please continue checking if everything works.

1.7 Test run!

While the 1.6 server will continue running on port 25564, I copied a current map to the 1.7 server and started it for testing. Please all get on the 1.7 server at port 25565 and check if everything works as expected. If this is the case, I will upgrade the server finally to 1.7 within the next 10 hours, provided I get positive feedback.

So please test and comment here if anything does not work properly! Things to check for among others:

  • Lot protection
  • Minecart setups
  • Darklands restrictions
  • Skylands permissions

Currently known bugs:

  • Portals have a loop effect
  • Someone reported that minecart pickups in the spawn building don’t work. They work for me, so someone else please test it.

1.7: Same procedure as every update [Update 2]

1.6 is on the brink of extinction and 1.7 is about to see the day of light on Uncovery minecraft. So we will be doing it like all the times before:

  • If you are VERY eager to try the new functions, do the upgrade on your client. I will setup a temp server on a port 25565 with temp map for the updaters. Once the upgrade is done, this map will be deleted.
  • If you want to access the current maps, build on your lots and are able to wait, please do not upgrade. The current server will continue running until I can guarantee that the protection etc works with 1.7

Since I am on holiday now (business trip is over since 6 hours, now traveling through China) I will most probably have the time to install the temp server within the next 24 hours (in case it is released then) but I will most probably not have the time (and fast enough internet connection) to upgrade the current server to 1.7 within the next 10 days.

[Update] 1.7 is out and running on a temp server & temp map as announced above on port 25565 (the standard port). ATTENTION: Whitelisting and bannlists work, but registering here on the server will NOT instantly allow you to enter the temp server since the whitelist there wirks different. I first have to logon and restart the server. Do not expect that to happen too often. So if you are new to this server, you better use the 1.6 version [/Update]

[Update 2] The environment which allows plugins (bukkit) was updated already for the current version 1.7.01. I installed it and along some 1.6 version plugins for testing. Chat-channels, user levels, IRC, minecarts and common commands like /home should work already. Please test them. I will be updating those plugins and testing additional plugins as I have time to when they hit the shelves. Please not that if there is another client update beyond 1.7.01 that requires an updated server and I do not have time to move with it, you might be locked out of BOTH servers. In that case, please wait until I upgrade the temp server or revert to the 1.6 version.[/Update]

Airglider6 banned for using speedhack

From the logs:
12:28:40 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (2,18,0)
12:28:45 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (7,23,0)
12:28:51 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (1,9,1)
12:28:57 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (4,20,0)
12:29:02 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (6,15,0)
12:29:08 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (1,9,0)
12:29:14 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (11,14,0)
12:29:20 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (8,24,0)
12:29:22 [INFO] §9[PLAYER_COMMAND] uncovery: /tp airglider
12:29:25 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (8,13,1)
12:29:30 [SEVERE] NC: Moving summary of last ~5 seconds: airglider6 total Violations: (3,7,1)
12:29:35 [INFO] g| airglider6 [Settler] (world): hi
12:29:38 [INFO] g| uncovery [I R 0nr] (world): hey
12:29:42 [INFO] g| uncovery [I R 0nr] (world): you are using a speedhack
12:30:09 [INFO] g| airglider6 [Settler] (world): so i cant use that?
12:30:17 [INFO] §9[PLAYER_COMMAND] uncovery: /ban airglider

For reference from the rules:

Do not cheat to get achievements or to mine blocks. This includes client-side scripts, mods, transparency texture packs or any other way that gives you an advantage over the standard and intended game play. I know its hardly possible to check on most of the things, so claiming that you are using such is already worth being banned.

Skylands Railways – Two warnings!

I want to give 2 warnings regarding the skylands railways. Please take those seriously.

  1. Do not obstruct the railway, build on the railway, change it or similar. I consider this as griefing. You can fix it if broken, remove fences along the stations, make a building around it or similar. Anything else without my permission will either result in a ban from the skylands or a ban from the server if serious. I just had to remove a structure built by Binkydude that had next to some water-elevator access to the center of the rails two blocks just over the minecarts and injuring anyone traveling there. So: Do NOT obstruct the rails or travel on them. This is a last warning.
  2. Do not walk on the railways. Wherever you walk, oncoming minecarts will push you off and kill you if there is no land next to it. It is smartest to make your access to the lot somewhere near one of the stations. They should not have fences near them. If they have, please remove them or ask someone who has permissions on the area to do so. I can also do it.

Off for Holidays – Citizen promotion suspended.

I will be leaving for holidays in 12 hours. I will be gone until July 10th. During this time I will have only very limited internet access.

Since there was a repeated bug where during an upgrade to citizen, the permissions file would not be written properly and all users would become guests, I will be suspending further citizen promotions until I am back. Current citizen will stay citizen of course.

So please be patient until I am back. I will try to find out where this bug comes from or how to fix it. Most probably I will convert the system from a “check when the website is loaded” to a scheduled check to avoid too many checks that might interfere with each other. I do not know when I have time for that though.

 

Forum allows img tags!

I wanted to inform you that the forum (not the comments on the blog however) allow <img > tags. You can therefore post your pictures there and show them immediately.

Please be aware however what you are doing there. If you post dozens of high-res images you won’t make any friends on the server. So please use this feature with care.

Anyhow, all images that exceed 600px width are shrunken to that size in display.

All western rails in skylands fixed

I just finished all western rails in the skylands. They should be free of lava, water, gravel, holes and have working rail stations every 200 blocks. They also should be in the right location to make sure both lots north and south of them are accesible. If you see some problems on other’s lots, please tell me. If you see stuff broken on your lot, please fix it.

Skylands Rail station & tracks

The skylands central rail station seems to be 100% functional now. Please report if there are any issues.

The tracks however are flawed still. I am not sure what it is but there are no stations on the copy-pasted tracks and some holes. I will have to try again but I might be running into the limits of the system by trying to paste a 3200 x 5 x 3 large block into unloaded chunks and hoping that it works as expected.

Business Trip & Summer Holiday & Contest

Since I will be leaving Monday afternoon for a business trip, then for a 10 day Holiday, then another couple of days for another Business trip. So I will not have the time to work on the contest. Therefore I postpone it for 2 weeks until the 10th of July. Sorry about announcing this so late but some stuff has changed on my schedule recently that makes that an option just now.

I also will try to move the lot application to an fully automated process. It has been running 90% smooth so far with me only controlling the process, but there are still some smaller hickups that I have to check on before having it run unattended.

Skyland Railway finished! … sort off.

I have just now finished to build the skylands railway. This is how this works:

  • Unless you live on lots that end in 11, take the north/south rail until you reach the lots with your number. Then take the east-west rail until you reach your letter
  • If you live on a lot ending with 11, you can directly take the east-west railway at the gate.
  • Since I copy-pasted the east-west rail in one single piece, I have not traveled on most of them. This means that there can be holes, lava & water spills etc. Please be careful when you travel, there is no insurance! The copy-paste is not 100% reliable, so it has to be checked.
  • Since I am quite busy recently, I do not have the time to fix the railway in case there is something broken. Lot owners are responsible for the railway on their lot to be functional and free of lava & water.
  • Lot owners can remove fences, add platforms etc. Do not change the position of your station or build deviations that would lead commuters away from the normal track.

Server upgrade! NEW WORLD! [Update]

Upgrade

I have just upgraded the server. The only changed plugin is the one that makes the gates. Since the old one was abandoned, I switched to a new one. You should not feel any change. This plugin also defines the different worlds and now also the border for the normal world. If you live on the outer border of the world and it has changed for you, please tell me.

Anyhow if anything changed or does not work, please tell me!

New world! Skylands!

We have a new world, the skylands!

This is an early announcement. Not everything is 100% setup yet. Please be patient.

You will be able to reach it from a portal on the roof of the central administration building. This world consists of islands floating in the air. This world is also split into lots, but 200 x 200 sized to accommodate the fact that there is not that much surface per lot. Also only citizens, architects and VIPs are allowed to reserve a lot or build in this world. Otherwise the settings and commands are identical with the normal world.

Since the islands are not connected, it is currently impossible to reach lots since they are protected: You cannot build yourself a bridge to cross lots. I am about to build a transit railway in that world. I also still have to write the reservation mechanic for that world. In the meantime, you can ask me to reserve lots for you manually. [Update] There is a form now in the Server access menu where you can reserve a lot![/Update] Please have patience though while I am exploring the whole map and building the railway. There is 2D map and a 3D map available.

Street names!

Since the city is getting larger and larger and therefore also more confusing, I followed the advice from Riedi to install street names. We decided to name all the north-south leading streets “1st Street West”, “2nd Street East” etc. with the center at the eiffel tower (and east-west coordinate 0). The street signs are already installed at every corner of the city.

The East-West facing streets will be named preferably after VIPs where a building from them is located. So as a start, the street between the cathedral and the Conservatory (both built by Plutomaster) is called “Pluto Lane”. More streets will be named and signs attached in the coming days!

New Cross-map Rail line

I created a new rail line which goes through a couple of occupied lots. It affects all lots with the number 18. I chose this place because it affects the least users but is still reasonably in the center of the map. The affected users are:

  • jamistador
  • crossbreed23
  • fingermouse
  • enickcnln
  • tcorbin
  • samoli
  • jaedinator

Currently I only built the actual railway in empty lots. It goes on sea level (63-66 height) on the north edge of the lots (200-204). I already protected the area so you know exactly which blocks will be affected. As an affected user, please check if this crosses any of your important constructions. The please reply here with one of the following answers:

  • I don’t care, if you drill the hole it won’t affect me
  • I don’t care but help me relocate some of my stuff that’s in the way
  • I am fine but I would like it higher/lower/further south
  • I don’t want that at all

Banner Screenshot contest….

Sadly, despite there being some people really got at this stuff (at least according to their own words), not many people had really time to come up with anything at all. While there have been some entries to the contest, there have not been nearly enough to call it a competition worth a stack of diamonds and more so comparable to the buildings we see standing around. Guess it’s a minecraft server and not a banner design server after all.

So how to proceed? I will work together with the best entry (rthurber) to improve on it and make a final banner. Of course he will get the diamonds, too.

New MTR (Mass Transit Railway) Page & Map

Since the Railway in the city is getting more and more stations, and the connectivity is getting better, I now created a new page for the Uncovery MTR together with a map that shows the stations and locations of the public railways. The map will be updated regularly.

Please take a look. I am always open for suggestions on station and railway names.