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ComputerCraft FTP server fixed

Posted April 2, 2013

I believe the ComputerCraft FTP server has been fixed.

SOMEONE TEST IT.

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Fixed the New York mirror

Posted April 1, 2013

So, it TURNS OUT, the New York mirror for Alice (ny.alice.sk89q.com) stopped being a mirror because I mixed up IP addresses, and therefore ny.alice.sk89q.com was the exact same as alice.sk89q.com, meaning that it didn't fix any latency problems at all.

But now I have fixed it! It may take up for a day for the change to take effect for you. You can check to see whether the change has taken effect for you by going to http://ny.alice.sk89q.com and seeing if the page says "Hi"

If you are in the United States, I recommend connecting with the address ny.alice.sk89q.com (instead of alice.sk89q.com), which should give most people a better connection to the server.

Also, I still have to re-enable mining lasers and stuff this week. And read 40 PMs. Annnd push a client update.

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Mining lasers disabled temporarily

Posted March 19, 2013

As many of you may have known, IC2 mining lasers bypassed chunk claims. Unfortunately, I've been too busy to actually fix the problem, so instead I have temporarily banned them entirely.

When I get a chance (possibly this Wednesday), I will see if I can find time to re-enable them.

Note: Someone entirely decimated someone else's base with a mining laser. We were able to restore it, but it is not feasible for us to fix these kind of problems every time they came up.

UPDATE: The mining laser might return this Wednesday.

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Mining world reset

Posted March 12, 2013

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.

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NY mirror moved

Posted March 11, 2013

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.

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Dark blue removed from chat

Posted March 10, 2013

Dark blue removed from chat name selection.

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Planned mining world reset

Posted March 5, 2013

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.

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Alice patch 10

Posted March 5, 2013

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.

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If you ever wondered what goes on in a server

Posted March 4, 2013

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.

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LogiPipes is a significant problem

Posted March 2, 2013

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.

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