SKCraft

As promised a week ago, the mining world has been reset.

If you do not know what the mining world is, it did not affect you. See http://skcraft.com/wiki/mining-world/ for more information.

I've moved the New York mirror server to a new server in the same area, which seems to have a 20-30 ms faster connection to the real server in Germany. The change may not take effect for you for 1-2 days.

You can connect to the mirror using:
ny.alice.sk89q.com

It is the exact same server as the main Alice -- it is merely a proxy. This is how it works:


Note that if you are east of the proxy, you should not try.

Dark blue removed from chat name selection.

As some of you probably guessed, we are planning a mining world reset. The reset is currently scheduled for sometime on March 12, 2013 (Pacific time, GMT -0800), which is around 7 days from today.

Please retrieve anything that you would wish to save from the mining world before this date. This reset does not affect any other world.

Thank Pyro for this update! You will have to update your client, which you will be requested to do on the launcher's start.

• Updated Thermal Expansion to 2.2.2.2.
• Updated Charge Pads to build 66.
• Updated Forestry to 2.0.0.11.
• Enabled GregTech Quantum Tank.
• Added Applied Energistics RV9.

On an unrelated note, if you ever cared about what goes on in an MC server, I wrote a long post about it:
http://www.sk89q.com/2013/03/improving-your-minecraft-servers-performance/

About the JVisualVM tip on that page, you can also use it on the client, which tells you why your FPS is so low.

LogiPipes is now hitting 30-55% of the server's CPU usage.
Frame borers are using ~16% of the CPU.

We have to do something drastic about it.

Down at the moment. I am not sure what happened. We will keep you informed.
EDIT: Up for now. Seems mega slow.

Modular Power Suits had to be removed as we have identified it as the cause of the increased bandwidth usage. It was added in the last update of a few days ago (Alice patch 9a) and provided higher-tier armor above IndustrialCraft 2's Quantum Armor.

1. It easily consumed a sustained excess of 50-100 kilobytes/sec of bandwidth per player. For comparison, Minecraft usually does not hit a sustained 10-20 kilobytes/second for most areas.
2. It used a disproportionate of CPU for the purpose of the mod.

I'm afraid that we will not seeing it return at this time. If you made the items already, please post in this forum.

After the last Alice update, the server seems to be sending a substantially larger number of packets to people, and when the given connection between the server and a user cannot handle it, the common experience is overall lag and eventual forceful disconnection. I am looking into the cause of the increased bandwidth usage.

The only change in 9b is that the default font for Minecraft was restored, as the new one broke a few things.

You will be prompted to update your client upon logging in. The changelog is as below.

• Enabled Quantum Chests, Charge-O-Mats, Jack Hammers, the LESU, Gas Turbines, Player Detectors, and UUM Assemblers from GregTech.
• Enabled TNT.
• Enabled the BuildCraft quarry (only usuable on the mining world!).
• Updated the ComputerCraft modem range to 10,000 blocks.
• Re-generated Aura nodes from Thaumcraft.
• Added skcraft.dump() to ComputerCraft.
• Bundled new font with the game. To undo it, steal the font/ folder from vanilla Minecraft and put it into your texture pack.
• Added Inventory Manager 1.2.3.
• Added Modular Powersuits 0.2.2-139.
• Added OpenCCSensors v0.1.4.
• Added PortablePeripherals 1.0b.
• Updated Additional Buildcraft Objects to 1.0.1.88.
• Updated BuildCraft to 3.4.3.
• Updated ExtraBees to 1.5.0.3.
• Updated ExtraBiomesXL to 3.9.0.
• Updated Forestry to 2.0.0.10.
• Updated Greg's Lighting to 1.7.1.
• Updated GregTech to 2.79c.
• Updated IC2 Nuclear Control to 1.4.6.
• Updated Immibis Core to 52.4.3.
• Updated Jammy Furniture Mod to 4.1.
• Updated Logistics Pipes to 0.7.0, build 82.
• Updated MiscPeripherals to 3.1.
• Updated OmniTools to 3.0.2. Your wrench got turned into a Lexicon, so put that Lexicon into a crafting grid to turn it back.
• Updated Railcraft to 6.15.3.0.
• Updated Steve's Carts to 2.0.0.a58.
• Updated Thaumcraft to 3.0.3.
• Updated ThaumicBees to v1.4.1.
• Updated Thermal Expansion to 2.2.1.0.
• Updated TubeStuff to 52.2.2.
• Updated Xfel's Peripherals to 1.4.1.