Hi smogcraft.
I've been hosting my own little vanilla server at a cheap german provider for a couple of weeks now, and it's running really smooth, lag-free 99% of the time, online 24/7, and I'm playing on there with 4 RL friends at the moment.
I thought about this for a while, so here I am: I know you guys restarted smogcraft on Sal's private server, but how many of you would be interested in playing on a real server again? This is not meant to be a dick move against you Sal, you'd probably save a bunch of power by not having to leave your PC on every night. Tell me what you think about it guys.
A little info about my server:
- 2 GB of RAM dedicated, so far has proven to be more than enough and provides 40 player slots.
- Currently running vanilla 1.6.2, nobody has ventured out too far yet because I told them not to, I want 1.7 terrain to be as close as possible when it's coming out. I might even cut out some border chunks before the release of 1.7 to make the terrain border prettier and the new terrain overall closer.
- Spawn has yet to be made pretty; however, we already have an Iron Trench built that provides 1600 iron / hour, so plenty there to get everyone started quickly. A friend of mine named "TFXX" is responsible for spawn design in the future and has his base set up there, but is of course willing to collaborate with anyone who has ideas regarding making a town. Center of the spawn town will be a giant Iron Golem statue just because we can. Wooden doors are forbidden within a marked out area because they will disturb the functionality of the Iron Trench.
- My own base is centered around a Witch Farm, currently running at around 98% efficiency with all caves lit up and surface flooded in a roughly 270x270 area. It sorts the drops into chests automatically and the whole farm turns itself off once all chests are filled up. Take any items out of the chests and the farm starts spawning Witches again to fill them back up. Of course, everybody is allowed to grab stuff from the chests, just don't take it all.
- Aside from that, we have a Blaze farm for relatively quick leveling.
- The map is almost brand-new, it was generated in 1.6.2 when I started the server. Horses have yet to be found, but like I said, we didn't venture out too far yet.
- The server creates backups automatically, but so far we didn't need any of them because it has yet to crash.
- I also do manual backups of the map on a somewhat regular basis and save the on my hard drive.
The only server rules are:
- Stay as close to spawn as possible because of 1.7 terrain.
- No wooden doors close to spawn.
- The dragon is still alive, don't solo it. Will be a community event later on.
- A Wither also has yet to be killed, I'm planning to do that as a community event as well.
I will be on vacation for the next 2 weeks, but I will be able to check this thread every once in a while. Tell me what you think! Of course I'd understand if you don't want to give up the map you have on Sal's server, but I think bringing smogcraft back to life on a real server would be awesome.