Author: alfonsojon

Due to an issue caused by a certain user regarding excessive amounts of TNT in the flatlands, I am left with the only option of reverting the flatlands progress to a backup from November 13th, 2013. I can restore any important builds recently with Prism, but these must be requested personally and a location provided. I will try to make this as quick as possible. The backup has been successfully restored.

– Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

mcMMO, the plugin which enables MMO-like features in Minecraft, is currently non-operational. It may not be working until I can repair the database, or until the server migrates to Minecraft 1.7. Until then, mcMMO will not work as intended. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Looks like I fixed it faster than I wanted to. Enjoy.

– Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

As some of you may or may not know, Ubuntu 13.10 was released earlier today [October 17th, 2013]. I personally strive to keep the server up to date to ensure maximum performance and security, so I will be upgrading it at 10:00 PM EST.

You should not notice any changes.

All changes are being made on the backend of the server, so you will not notice any changes in your day-to-day game play. The server may be down for a period of up to 45 minutes.

 

Regards,

Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

Edit: All upgrades done, everything running smoothly.

Unfortunately, the server’s main CPU fan is not working, resulting in the server overheating (and a LOT of noise). As a result of this, I have given up my personal computer to serve as the main server for now. The CPU is faster, but there is less RAM. I advise any Architects or staff who are using WorldEdit to NOT perform large operations at this time, as the server only has half of the RAM it used to. Things will be back to normal once I am capable of replacing the fan, but until then, this will have to make do.

Regards,

Jonathan Alfonso

I have updated the server to Minecraft 1.6.4. For a short time, both mcMMO and TrainCarts will not function. Once these plugins are updated and work on 1.6.4, everything will be back to normal.
Edit: All updated and ready to go.

Minecraft 1.6.2 had an exploit which allowed someone to steal someone else’s session and log into a server as if they were that user. This affected us directly, and someone logged as me (alfonsojon), giving them full access to the server. Fortunately, David (Drak1234) restored the server, but this should not happen in 1.6.4

The only major reason this update was released was to fix this major security flaw.

Regards, Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

I will be updating the theme used on the website. I aim to improve screen space usage while making the website better to look at. All changes are purely cosmetic and will not affect how the website works.

Regards, Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

I will be making changes to how the registration system works. Already registered accounts will not be affected by any of these changes. The goal of the changes I am making is to have an account-to-website verification system along with support for users with underscores within their usernames (shadow_painter, etc.)

Regards, Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

The long-awaited forums are now online. I will be adding content to the forums, but for now we have three basic forums: Rank Applications, Bug & Exploit reporting, and Off-topic. Feel free to utilize them properly. Do not ask for ranks in game anymore; instead, make a post in the forums.

Regards, Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

Hi, I would like to inform you about a major issue which happened recently. Livecraft used to use developer-build plugins, which are reportedly unstable and buggy. Although no major issues have occurred because of this, I figured it was better safe than sorry to downgrade.

How wrong I was.

Now, there seems to be considerable lag and memory usage coming from virtually nowhere, and I can’t find out why. Furthermore, Multiverse Inventories had a configuration change which resulted in each world having an individual inventory setup. In order to fix this, I had to reset Multiverse Inventories. As this plugin controls inventories, you may have noticed that your survival inventory is now empty once you join the main world from either the flatlands, end, or nether. This issue can be resolved by restoring your inventory from a backup.

If your inventory is missing, please email support@livecraft.net with your Minecraft user name so I can restore your inventory.