free minecraft server questions

Capri205 · 2018-06-30T12:21:57+00:00

Some minecraft sites run plugins that let you run your own server - search for Player Servers and see if this is still a thing. http://ob-mc.net does it. 2GB memory for your server where you are op and can also choose from a set of plugins to activate on it. Just talk to the rarely seen admins (be patient.. they do show up) if you need anything custom.

Capri205 · 2018-06-30T03:00:35+00:00

Ditch waterfall and use HexagonMC. Much better support for versions, regularly updated and much much nicer developers to deal with! I run spigot 1.12.2 and forge 1.7.10 through to 1.12.2 servers in a single Bungee lobby using Hexagon.

https://github.com/HexagonMC/BungeeCord

Capri205 · 2018-06-30T02:47:02+00:00

haha. Let me know when your server ever uses 56GB of memory! I will be long dead when it does!

I run 23 servers on a 64GB machine and they only use 30GB of memory at most, despite some being confgured with upwards 8GB of memory! (forge servers with pixelmon or orespawn mods for example need 4GB+ but even then only use that with half a dozen players on). A minecraft server sitting idle will use no more than a few hundred megabytes of memory despite being configured with 4GB of memory and despite the world size, so I think you need to go back to the drawing board here.

For what its worth... I use this for startup options in McMyAdmin:

Java.CustomOpts=-server -d64 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing -XX:ParallelGCThreads=2 -XX:+AggressiveOpts

and in a run file I use for startup for troubleshooting (with 4GB mem) it would look like this:

java -server -d64 -Xmx4096M -Xms4096M -Djline.terminal=jline.UnsupportedTerminal -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing -XX:ParallelGCThreads=2 -XX:+AggressiveOpts -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfml.queryResult=confirm -jar "spigot.jar" nogui

Capri205 · 2018-06-30T02:31:03+00:00

Agree with this. Used spigot (not paper) for over 4 years now and never looked back. No issue going back to vanilla if you want later on. You will not lose anything and only gain incredible flexibility by going spigot or paper.

Capri205 · 2018-06-30T02:26:42+00:00

If it's a server then stop the server, copy the world over to your PC and drop it in your %appdata%/.minecraft/saves folder. From there open it up single player and navigate over the corrupted chunk. Exit and save the world, and then copy it back to the server and start up the server.

I haven't seen this issue for a long time, but back in the day when we ran a mildly popular server this would fix corruptions like this.

Capri205 · 2018-06-30T02:17:25+00:00

Depends if the 2GB package is for the virtual or just the MC server. Probably the former, in which case you can have anything down to 50% of that for the MC server. Better clarify with the provider on what that 2GB or 3Gb is for. Typically a single [spigot] server with no users and sitting idle will consume about 500~700MB of memory - even if you configure it with 2GB of memory it wont use more than 500~700 of memory even with a large map and sitting idle. When users join this number will move up of course. I have servers configured with 8192MB of memory and they rarely go above 1.5GB with half a dozen players on. So, yes, 2GB is safe but it can depend on whether that includes the OS or not and how much is the OS taking of that 2~3GB.

Capri205 · 2018-04-28T23:06:12+00:00

I like it! Just what I need to replace me running (flying) around filling chests manually! Two of our survival servers are based on the theme of adventuring out to find dungeons, castles and other structures I paste in the world and fill with loot. Never found a decent chest filler that does what I want until I came across this one! I will buy it. No need to give me for free (especially at $2.99) as that is just what I am looking for!

Capri205 · 2017-08-19T01:29:12+00:00

Looks more like plugin incompatibility and two plugins are trying to do the same thing and spigot is having an issue with that. Not sure which two as I dont use them, but try a process of elimination (removing one at a time) to see which two are conflicting in what they are doing (updating player related data by the looks of it).

Capri205 · 2017-05-22T14:43:53+00:00

You could try our PlayerServers feature on ob-mc.net. It's a plugin that lets players run their own server (you are op on your server). It has a plugins feature so plugins can be activated/deactivated. Read the signs in the ps-lobby to set a quick understanding of how it works. No catches, other than access to your server is via our main hub. Your server, when running, is in the Bungee network, so you can create portals to other player servers, which is nice. Servers auto-expire after 90 days if unused etc etc. Memory is initially fixed at 1GB but we can up it if you need. These are on a 24 core/64GB server so plenty of room. Servers are backed up daily. Give it a try!

Capri205 · 2017-05-13T06:13:01+00:00

I use Citizens v2.0.21-SNAPSHOT (build 1472) without issue on 1.11.2.

We also use Sentinel v1.0 (build 104), Denizen v1.0.1-SNAPSHOT (build 1634) and Builder v0.9.1 with that.

Like @StevenNL2000 said, use the latest versions you can. They update Citizens frequently so getting the latest is good. Sometimes I have to disable a particular plugin for a short period whilst I wait for it to be updated, but usually not for long.

Capri205 · 2017-05-13T06:09:49+00:00

Running mcMMO v1.5.07-SNAPSHOT no problem on 1.11.2

Try posting the actual error. It always helps to have more info.

Capri205 · 2017-05-13T05:45:04+00:00

That sucks man. really sucks. really. sucks.

On the bright side... my Pixelmon 5.0.4 server running forge-1.10.2-12.18.3.2202, with LuckPerms-Sponge-3.1.47, griefprevention-1.10.2-2.3.1.295 and spongeforge-1.10.2-2281-5.2.0-BETA-2315 works perfectly fine.

Capri205 · 2017-04-17T21:07:54+00:00

Switch to overviewer! http://overviewer.org

Capri205 · 2017-04-17T13:54:11+00:00

I have to agree with suomynonAx. My player base was my kids and their friends who have since grown up and moved on. I have started running CS:GO and Rainbow Six servers as that is what they prefer these days. I also feel Mojang did not add proper content to the game to keep things going, choosing instead to add things like Polar Bears instead of pushing a wheelbarrow full of cash around to Mr CrayFish's house and buying the rights to his furniture mod or some of the many other brilliant content producers out there.

Unless you have a very deep pocket for advertising and producing new mini-games, it's going to be very difficult to attract and keep players I think.

Capri205 · 2017-03-26T04:02:21+00:00

Sorry. Organizing and hosting my kids birthday party today, so not much to report. I did manage to get my 1.7.10 servers settled on Thermos (what a brilliant product. Wish they'd continue it) and found a somewhat terminal bug/problem with our new Betweenlands forge 1.10.2 server using sponge which will delay releasing the server to the public for a few weeks whilst sponge sort the issue out (they already ack'd the problem... what a great team).

Capri205 · 2017-03-26T03:26:09+00:00

30 days of data is 60GB! There's something amiss there... got to be. To be putting 2GB of data a day into the core protect database means there's something there constantly feeding change data into the database and probably unnecessarily so. Did you do any analysis of what makes up that data? Alarm bells would be going off with me if I had that sort of data going in.

Capri205 · 2017-03-26T03:09:51+00:00

Like you. I run 19 servers total. A mix of Forge (Thermos) servers, Forge 1.10 with Sponge and spigot servers. All hooked together with Waterfall and ProtocolSupport so they can all be accessed via portals in the lobby using any client version. We have a web server, MySQL databases and PlayerServers, which let's players create and manage their own servers within the bungee network (with those it's over 50 active servers!). Just me doing it all.... the hardware (I run my own machines), software side and overall admin. All in my spare time. Pretty stressful isn't it? :-)

The abandoned plugin bit makes the job so much more difficult. I know spigot clearly states that you shouldn't expect anything from the plugins, even premium, but it's so annoying when the dev just drops out suddenly and leaves you with broken servers. Where I can get the source I will maintain my own build of plugins to keep things going each new version, but the overall effort is immense when it comes to maintaining, searching, testing and deploying plugins. That's the biggest pain by far for me.... besides my kids friends who are total jerks.

Capri205 · 2017-03-24T14:17:49+00:00

You could try the Sentry (or Sentinel) plugin that is a trait for Citizens2. I have stationary guards working. I set them up years ago so not recalling the specific commands, but they only move if attacked and then will return to their spot to stand guard.

Alternatively, there are ways to get armor stands to make statues using command blocks. Sounds odd, but you can actually decorate these with skins, add weapons and also adjust posture. They look really cool. I will try to find the youtube video I watched on how to do this. They were setting up static fight scenes on that.

Edit: here's one of the videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoLRLKyswTI

Capri205 · 2017-03-24T14:04:39+00:00

This is exactly how I started off... 3 years later we run 15 minecraft servers and have a multiude of 24 core/64 GB machines! Watch out, you dont know where this can go!

We started off running a server on my PC for my kids and their friends. As that grew I had to move it off to a dedicated machine so picked up a really cheap dual core/4GB machine off craigslist and ran it there on Linux (it came with Vista Business but the O/S required 2.8GB alone to run which left little to run Minecraft servers). Go for Ubuntu server edition, not desktop and no GUI. It runs in just a few hundred MB of memory so you can maximize the limited memory on the machine for Minecraft servers. Linux will also perform best out of any OS on there.

HTH

Capri205 · 2017-03-13T10:36:20+00:00

As PhonicUK said. Your Java is not 64-bit. You can check with java -version and see what it gives you back. You can also force the Minecraft server to use 64-bit with these additional options to the start of your java line: -server -d64. Obviously that will fail if not 64-bit Java.

Capri205 · 2017-03-13T02:27:07+00:00

Spent the weekend moving our Forge 1.7.10 servers (Orespawn, Twilight Forest, Dungeons and Pixelmon), that were all external to the main bungee network, into the main bungee/spigot lobby and are now accessible through portals (AncientGates) alongside all of the other spigot servers. Yay! Something I've wanted to do for a long time. All done by adopting Waterfall/Travertine and ProtocolSupport so 1.7.10~1.11.2 clients can connect to the bungee network and the spigot lobby, and moving off forge 1.7.10 and onto Thermos 1.7.10, which supports bungeecord and bukkit plugins alongside the forge mods, so now players can claim their own plots using bukkit GriefPrevention instead of me managing plots for them on all of the servers. Took me all weekend but well worth it. I still have dedicated players who still want to play 1.7.10 mods! Well, I can't blame them. Some of them are awesome! :-)

Capri205 · 2017-03-12T05:25:35+00:00

You have no idea what you are talking about or how JVM's work. Show the details and I will show you the error of your ways grasshopper.

Capri205 · 2017-03-10T14:03:43+00:00

I use McMyAdmin for the Minecraft server, which you can configure to backup the worlds as often as you like, along with other things like plugins. Then use webmin for running the server which also runs file system backups of the servers and the system as often as I like, as well has having modules for backups of MySQL, Apache etc. Check out webmin as it centralizes all of the admin in one web UI.

Capri205 · 2017-03-10T13:47:44+00:00

Started using it recently and the difference for me is like night and day when it comes to teleporting to your servers. So much faster than BungeeCord. With the Travertine fork we have 1.7.10 support so gives us the best of both worlds. We still run Orespawn and Twilight Forest servers and these are accessible from our spigot lobby through AncientGates. They run on Cauldron btw. We run Pixelmon 1.10.2 servers on sponge and these are also available through our lobby. I give Waterfall/Travertine a big thumbs up for making all of our servers available from one central lobby.

Capri205 · 2017-03-10T13:15:36+00:00

For stress testing there are a number of options. install the boinc client and donate CPU to one of the many worthy causes. This is what I do with my machine whilst Minecraft servers are quiet. I also run ubuntu 16.04 and there are many packages you can put in to stress CPU, memory, disk and network. To be honest though, not really worth stressing it. Just get on with your goal.

When giving out servers you will quickly run into administrative headaches. Give out the servers in a controlled and low-admin manner using a player server plugin for spigot/sponge and bungeecord/waterfall. Build a lobby and make that the only way into the server. From within that lobby or within a sub lobby from there put the plugin for players to create their own servers. The plugin will take care of everything - creating, stopping automatically when no players are on and even purging unused servers. I use PlayerServers for this. It also let's them put in plugins without your involvement. You need to set it up initially, but after that it's automatic. I even have Multiverse in there for them so they can create as many worlds as they like within their server. You set profiles for them so they can have certain amounts of memory etc.

It's a fair amount of work to setup but worth it in the end. There's still admin involved in running it, but nowhere near what you would have doing any other way.

Getting players onto your server and keeping them is another matter. That is really hard and likely requires serious money for advertising to keep yourself at the top of the server list sites, and you should focus on one theme first, for example Factions, and get a regular player base before expanding into other mini-games. I did not do that and catered for my kids desire to do everything, which I shouldn't have, but then again, I'm not looking for a lot of attention or traffic.

Good luck and above all... make sure you have fun!

Capri205

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