It was 10 years ago today that MCAU began, as it was also 10 years ago that SMP got released!
Sure, numbers are much lower than what they were in the first 4 years but that’s to be expected. I’m just surprised we still have anyone come around!
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Hi guys, quick write-up for some small things that have been going on.
If you want the technical solution (and backstory) to how I fixed the old maps, keep reading…
As we moved from 1.12 to 1.13 how blocks get stored in region files changed. Blocks are no longer stored as numerical IDs, but rather now as words. For example, “1” is now “minecraft:stone”. Now, the conversion for this was supposed to be pretty straight-forward, chunks get converted as a player steps into the chunk for the first time prior to conversion. Except, this was causing the server to crash.
So, after months of this happening I was getting pretty frustrated. I tried converting the maps in single player to the new world formats, or using “MinecraftRegionFixer”, but all they did was cause the chunks to completely regenerate to nothing. Up to 25% of the maps were getting regenerated.
Then I found out that Minecraft servers have a –forceUpdate flag (From this link) that can be used to convert worlds, so I tried that using Vanilla. Same problem. Then I found something else that said maps that were generated when running SpigotMC (An extension of Bukkit) had to be updated using SpigotMC. But, this is what we were doing originally, and it was crashing the server…
If your server is/was a Spigot server you will need to use CraftBukkit/Spigot to convert the world. Spigot in 1.12 didn’t set the “LightPopulated” flag, so that vanilla Minecraft will reset those chunks.
The solution was to use SpigotMCÂ and the –forceUpdate flag on all of the old maps since 1.5 (When we started using SpigotMC), and 72 hours later, all the maps are good to go.
Rant over.
Enjoy 🙂
Hey gang, so we’re almost ready to release the new 1.13 map!
This Friday around 7pm AEST we’ll open the doors and you can jump on in! Not every plugin is updated yet, but we have everything we need to launch, missing plugins will come later.
Things that have changed include:
– increased region sizes
– ranks reset
– new /glow command for donors
Hope to see you all there 🙂
We’re getting closer to being able to release the new 1.13 map. There’s still some crucial things that haven’t received an update yet, so currently there is no planned date for release other than “soon™”. A new map means that the current map will go into read-only and your inventory will not be transferred over.
Full details on the update will come later when we have an official date.
Confirmed changes for 1.13 so far:
We are now running Minecraft version 1.12.2, so you’ll need to use the latest client version to connect to the server. We’ve also increased the map size by 10%!
