#minecraft plugins

[modrinth]

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[octal-codes]

Hi! I'm a Minecraft modder, and I can explain

You mentioned slimefun, which is a spigot plugin, so I'm assuming you're using a bukkit derivative

Bukkit and it's derivatives are *super old*, with the first CraftBukkit versions being in beta Minecraft.

Bukkit and derivative servers try to keep backwards compatibility with their APIs, so something you write on, say, 1.8, will likely run on recent versions

This causes an issue as Mojang makes more and more changes to Minecraft's codebase (1.13's "the flattening", 1.18's worldgen overhaul, etc)

So the maintainers of the server software need to choose between keeping compatibility with old plugins or removing broken APIs. Most of the time they choose the former.

This has lead to a very big compatibility gap and general instability that can cause problems if not treated carefully.

An ever-growing alternative to Bukkit derivatives is the server-side Fabric and Quilt ecosystems. (Henceforth referred to as "fabriquilt")

Fabriquilt has the advantage of being newer, so they've seen the issues with older mod/plugin systems and addressed them in some way, the biggest thing being the separation of Loader and API.

If Minecraft makes a change that breaks one of the APIs, it's much easier to change or outright remove that API than it is for Bukkit derivatives.

If you ever need any functionality that isn't provided by any current mod, there's always someone willing to take on a commission! (Including me, sometimes)

For those who don’t know, I am the technical admin for a Minecraft server. Now I have slightly above average skills with computers, but nothing to call home about, since computers generally act weird around me. That said I was the best equipped for it so me and @the-seelie-court-official started it up together, me for technical stuff and Dion for community stuff.

Now let me tell you about the Haunting on the Minecraft server.

One of the things I wanted to set up was NPC shop keeps. Now these shop keeps look like players, and I can code them to type in chat and to walk around, but they aren’t players. They aren’t counted in the server list, they only say the words I’ve given them. One of these Npcs was Herb, the Herbalist. They sold plants.

This was their skin, by the way.

Now one day herb stopped talking, this was odd so I tried to select them, like I had done so many times before, but it wouldn’t work. Whenever I tried I was met with error messages. I couldn’t select them, so I couldn’t delete them, I couldn’t move them, they had cut their strings and I the puppet master was forced to place an end portal beneath them and drop them into the void.

I thought this would be the last of it.

Fast forward a couple months and the server is up and running for public use. The players got into the end to find the end dragon missing, and upon building out to make an enderman farm we found herb. They were hovering, in the void. Easily accessible, I still couldn’t select them to change them or edit them so we just let them stay, floating above the yawning void that was meant to get rid of them.

Over time the server got more and more glitchy, chunks were being loaded by the thousand with only one or two people on at a time. After some serious sleuthing we (me and my team) found that the server recognized a ghost player. One that wasn’t listed when you pressed Tab, but was listed on the server side. The console of the server was filled with error messages almost constantly, cascading errors of Null, of Not Found despite the fact herb was right there.

Eventually it came to a head, the corn plants and slimefun crops went Wrong. Corrupted just like herb. And with fields of Steve heads staring back from what should be a farm we agreed that we would completely delete the world. The world that herb was in, that whole dimension. In hopes it would finally get rid of them.

We thought it worked, that we had finally be rid ourselves of this beast of my own creation. An hour later Herb Appeared at the world spawn. As if nothing had happened.

Finally I had to resort to burying them in a bedrock box directly under world spawn, because while I couldn’t move them I could break the blocks under them to make them fall. They sit down there trapped, vomiting error messages any time they are looked at or touched. Waiting for the chance to destroy what we have built.

[mrsterlingeverything]

Forgot i took a little bit of adderall today and ended up spending three full hours locked in trying to set up a dynamic map for our minecraft server

[fivepebble]

tumblr unfortunately limits the amount of videos you can put in one post so here's another one of his updated idle animation, still need to tweak some things and add tail movements but ya

[quietwingsinthesky]

shoutout to that time my friends and i had a minecraft server and they specifically downloaded a plugin for me so that i could look at endermen without them attacking me. because i love endermen.

[emcapi-gaming]

Fort9

Arkose definitely liked video games as a kid, before they lost too much motor control in their fingers to reliably hit the buttons.

We will say, for the purpose of this combination character study post + shitpost, that Solution 9 has a game very similar to Fortnite.

Arkose played Fort9 for a grand total of one day.

...and then they could barely sleep that night because something about the way the map shrank over time scared the everloving shit out of them, and they couldn't explain why.

They have recurring stress nightmares for years afterwards about the dome shrinking.

[mooonspectr]

Me and my friends are playing on this empty MC server, and there seems to be some plugin installed, but we couldn't say which one (even Seth doesn't know).

Can anyone help? It gave my friend this item when he joined the server for the first time. "Venatum Fruit". Any ideas??? We just want to play on a fully vanilla server, so if this item is like, from a plugin which adds some new dimension or game changing mechanics, I don't want to stay there.

[hoarderofliterature]

so I have this minecraft server

it's a homebrew server that has the Dynmap plugin running on it, just for a few friends on a Discord server.

the way that Dynmap works is that you walk around, and the places you've explored show up on a webpage that you've set up through the plugin, kind of like Google Maps.

so I'm just walking around, and then I decide, well, hey, I guess I'll open up the Dynmap page for my server and see what I've explored so far.

hey, that's pretty cool.

wait.

hold on.

what is that.

that right there. no, not the split in the mountains. not the huge peaks.

what the fuck??

What The Fuck??

that's an Ancient City portal.

I walked right over an Ancient City without realizing it.

I don't think I ever would have realized it if I hadn't opened up the Dynmap at just the right time to catch the slice clean down the side.

that's cool as hell.

[modrinth]

Modrinth Servers now has Paper and Purpur Support

We've added native support for installing Paper and Purpur with Modrinth Servers.

You can install plugins to your server directly through the familiar Modrinth search interface, just like you can with mods.

Plus a bunch of other fixes, especially with the console and backups!

[loveletterworm]

what do you mean blockbench used to have a noise brush but they removed it...because some people use it poorly so they wanted to banish the tool altogether...I would know how to use this power tastefully. Put it back

[mrsugarlane]

SMP Sign UP form

teehee

[peppermintprism]

I got a voicemail once from a local number claiming to be my credit union’s fraud prevention department. I checked their website, and that number didn’t appear on it, so I called the number that was on the credit union’s site. Turns out both numbers were legit, but the main line was able to resolve the fraud check, (I’d just bought something over $40 from out-of-country online) so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by being careful.

oh my god do not click links in emails that tell you to verify your data or your bank account gets locked or click links in messages telling you your safety protocol is ending, like, tomorrow, you will get SCAMMED SO BAD AND YOU WILL LOSE A LOT OF FUCKING MONEY never ever let anyone pressure you into giving away login information especially to your online banking by creating a sense of urgency oh my GOD

some things to look out for

1. spelling mistakes. do you know how many rounds of marketing and sales experts these things go through? if theres a spelling mistake dont click it

2. not using your name. if an email adresses you with "dear customer" or, even worse, a generic "ladies and gentlemen", it is most likely not actually targeted to you

3. verifying or login links. even IF your bank was stupid enough to send these to customers, dont EVER click those. look at me. they can legally argue that youve given your data away and thus they dont have to pay you anything back DONT CLICK THAT FUCKING LINK

4. creating a sense of urgency. do this or we lock your account next week. do this or your ebanking stops working tomorrow. give us all your money in cash or your beloved granddaughter will get HANGED FOR MURDERING BABIES. no serious organisation would ever do something like that over email or sms. ever. hands off.

5. ALWAYS CHECK WHO SENT YOU THE EMAIL. the display name and the email adress can vary a LOT. anyone can check the display name. look at the email adress. does it look weird? call the fucking place it says its from. you will likely hear a very weary sigh.

6. if its in a phonecall, scammers love preventing you from hanging up or talking to other people to have a little bit of a think about whats happening. there should always be a possibility to go hey i wanna think about this ill call back the official number thanks.

7. do not, i repeat, do NOT a) call a phone number flashing on your screen promising to rid your computer of viruses after clicking a dodgy link and b) let them install shit on your computer like. uh. idk. teamviewer.

7.i. TEAM VIEWER LETS PEOPLE USE YOUR COMPUTER HOWEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEYRE CONNECTED. IF YOU DONT KNOW FOR FUCKING SURE YOURE TALKING TO ACTUAL TECH SUPPORT DONT GIVE ANYONE ACCESS TO YOUR COMPUTER.

fun little addendum: did you know a link can just automatically download shit? like. a virus? an app you can't uninstall unless you reset your entire device? dont click links unless youre extremely sure you know where they lead. hover your mouse over it and check the url.

thanks.

[ray-fantasia]

making Stardew Valley scarecrows and rarecrows for a server I'm in

looking at it now, Radish Head might be a little out of scale compared to the others, might have to redo him

[viky-somebody]

wjat is my life

[scraemoo]

0 days since I didn't plan complicated projects above my skill level