SKCraft Community

Posted April 16, 2012
Alice crashed again, this time seemingly to a new issue I haven't fully identified. I fixed the world auto-saver and now it should force a total world save every 10 minutes, and the server is back up.
Posted April 16, 2012
The paintball server is back.

The new password is lazuli
Posted April 15, 2012
  • New: Vincent has been updated to MC 1.2.5.
  • New: XP farms are no longer disabled on Vincent.
  • New: Both servers now have network tweaks to completely prevent block lag and reduce latency issues.
  • New: A New York mirror of the servers can now be accessed, which may provide substantial latency improvements for a small number of people (particularly Hawaiians). Access these mirrors by connecting to ny.na.vincent.sk89q.com:10000 and ny.na.alice.sk89q.com:10000 rather than the regular addresses. The need for port 10000 is temporary and the need will be removed in the near future.
  • Changed: The temporary addresses no longer work; use vincent.sk89q.com and alice.sk89q.com as normal.
Posted April 14, 2012
I've been working on some changes to Minecraft that should drastically reduce the lag or perception of lag for those who are not geographically near the server. Coming soon next week! Tests so far have been extremely positive.
Posted April 14, 2012
We figured out the problem and it should not occur again. All servers are up.
Posted April 14, 2012
Ruh-ro! Currently we are experiencing some difficulties with the server configuration (though the server and host are fine) and so they may be down for a while until I can figure out the problem (Java spawning too many GC threads / raising the proc limit).
Posted April 13, 2012
Good news:
  • Alice's mining world is back.
Posted April 13, 2012
I am not sure what the cause of Alice's crash was, but Alice is back up. I conjecture that it was possibly out of RAM, but it didn't say that until I forced it to shutdown. Anyway, I doubled the RAM and restarted the server.
Posted April 13, 2012
Most of the servers, including Alice and Vincent, are back up. Shared Chat is also back up. I'm not sure if there is anything else that must be restarted, but it seems like last night, the machine shut down completely, maybe a power failure?

We are sorry for any trouble this may have caused.
Posted April 12, 2012
Tonight, at 9PM Eastern, 6PM Pacific, there will be a paintball game happening on our Digital Paint: Paintball 2 server.

If you would like to join, more information is in this post here:
http://skcraft.com/threads/digital-paint-paintball-2-server.625/

Server: lazuli.sk89q.com (Find SKCraft in the server list)
Password: babies