Minecraft @ 3decibels.net

Yaaas.  I like this idea.   and from watching youtubers there are TONS of mods we can do are a server for fun!

Would other people be interested in doing creative build contests? I think it could be a fun break from the normal need to survive.
I was also thinking there could be small rewards for winners.

Let me know what kinds of themes you would find interesting.

The main Minecratf server has been updated to version 1.13! This version represents a major overhaul in the Minecraft code base which will put the map out of commission for a while until the mapping program we use is modified to understand the new chunk format.

With the big change in the ocean biomes the map has been wiped to give us all a brand new start.

Enjoy!

This has been completed. Enjoy!

Yes, the map will be reset for 1.13. That being said, I don't really have any plans as to when to pull the trigger. The 1.13 update is the biggest rewrite ever done to the Minecraft codebase. Rumblings are that performance took a big hit as part of the overhaul. Not that we need to care about performance when having 2 people online at a time would be considered busy these days, but I don't really know what to expect the impact to be. My inclination is to wait for the custom versions with performance enhancements to catch up (Spigot, Paper), but that could be a few months down the line.

Also worth considering is the mapping software we use doesn't support 1.13 and the developers have no plans to update it. There are people on github discussing contributing the updates needed, but it's a large undertaking. The software itself has been upstaged by other more real-time systems that are popular now so it doesn't get the love and affection it used to. For us it's still everything we need it to be. We've built tools around it, contributed code to it and built some of the site architecture to work with it. I'm not really interested in spending the time to move to something else.

What will most likely happen is I will start the new 1.13 world using the vanilla minecraft server at some point. I'll move the old world to a secondary port as usual and keep the map running on that world. When the tools catch up we'll move the map to the new world. When will I do this? Hopefully within the next few days, but we'll see what life has in store =)

Are we looking at a World Reset now?

Server is back up. It's sitting in a temporary spot so it'll have to go down again to move into its final location but it should stay up for the most part.

The move went... Well it's still going. In the unpacking phase now, taking longer than expected. The server is sitting under a pile of junk and I'm not entirely sure where I'm going to put it as I haven't fully reconstructed my networking shelf. I'll try and have it back for the weekend, even if I just dig it out and plug it in quickly. It could still go up and down a bit though as I move things around. I'm also still not entirely thrilled with my new ISP, we'll see what happens.

Today is 4/4.  How did the move go?  (I'm asking because I can't get into the server....)

Server is down as of 03/25, I anticipate having it back up late tomorrow, the 26th.