Eagleworld.net Minecraft Blog More Minecraft than ever before!

Minecraft Server is back up…sorta

Well, it's day 3 with no Minecraft, the only thing that's even remotely close to a solution to bringing the server back up is kMod. This mod is basically a fork off of hMod, done by a guy called hclewk, who decided to take it upon himself to attempt to ressurect the mod. He has been working hard on the mod so far, and plans on continuing to do so, at least in the short term until Bukkit is complete.

Anyway, I have decided to adopt kMod now, despite the fact that it is risky to do so. I do have full backups of the map and the server configs, just in case corruption occurs due to the unofficial, buggy mod.

PLEASE keep in mind this is a BUGGY BUGGY BUGGY release. Just to give you an idea about how many bugs there are, these are the ones that have been reported so far (as per the list I took from the kMod site below):

1. Open anything and you'll place a block on the object you opened. i.e. Chests, Furnaces, Doors, Signs. This can result in a torch destroying the block beside a door in order to be placed there.
2. You can place blocks on yourself. This duplicates the block, by putting one on the ground, but keeping the one in your inventory.
3. Lava buckets do not work. You place lava and it disappears. The same occurs with water.
4. You cannot use food except cake. You cannot throw eggs. (Probably the same for snowballs)
5. The HUD is slow on updating when you drop items (Or from what I experienced)
6. Stargate doesn't work (Fairly known one and is confirmed to not work)
7. Animals aren't spawning.
8. Monsters aren't spawning.
9. Ladders don't work.
10. Can't place new blocks? (i.e Noteblocks, Sandstone)
11. Sheep dye doesn't work.
12. Levers won't flip up or down and they sometimes move the block but they work.
13. Craftbook doesn't work.
14. The HUD doesn't have the extra effect from the patch update where the items grow larger then shrink back to normal size to indicate you picked something up.
15. If you lay a birch tree, the white trees, they'll come out as normal brown trees.
16. Can't place torches on snow.
17. Any other block placed on snow floats.. (Guessing this happens with steps too and floor plates.}
18. Cuboid doesn't work.
19. Stairs and torches are somewhat broken. I place one on the wall (torch) and there's a block next to it, it will instantly move to the other block. And stairs won't work at all. I try to place them, and they face the opposite direction.
20. Using a bow with arrow in your inventory makes the shooting sound and decreases the number of arrows you have, but the arrows are not shot, or if they are, they are invisible, do no damage, and cannot be picked up.
21. Boats cannot be placed, but can be ridden.

I do not wish to be informed that these bugs exist. As you can see above, I am aware of it. "Letting me know" is not necessary, and will be promply ignored. Complaining about it will get you a kick. I am really not in the mood to deal with complains over a matter that I have no control over. Surely you can understand my frustration in the matter, but please realize taht I do not have control over the matter, and I am simply attempting to make the best over a bad situation.

However, since the server IS back up, I would like to reward those of you that are taking the time to deal with my long posts. If you log on the server either today or tomorrow and see me online, send me a tell with the word "malcom" when on the MC server (type /tell Eagle malcom) and you will get 500 Talons!

While I wouldn't call the server "up," I would definitely call it functional enough to let us work on our projects again, at least until kMod gets more stable over the next few days. Enjoy!