Back up

Server should be running more stable now.  Hopefully the issue is fixed.

Server issues

We are taking a look at the recent server issues and have shut down MC temporarily.

Pigmen farm complete… mostly.

I finished up the pigmen farm finally.  Only took ~1000 pistons.  goldfarm

 

Ran into an SMP glitch which messes up the spawn rates the longer the server is up.  Resetting the server doesn’t seem to help it either.  After some tinkering I realized I could fix it by setting the server to peaceful then back to normal.  As soon as I did that I had tons of pigmen in the machine within seconds.

 

lotsofpigmen

 

This could easily explain why sometimes we rarely see any spawns roaming around at night.  It could also be the issue with the witch farm.  Jared went into the blaze spawn area and ran into tons of mobs (15 or so) on one of the spawning pads.  Hopefully this makes it easier to hunt down wither skeletons as well.

Server OS Updates

The MC server and IIS server will be down from 1330 – 1430 MST for Updates please plan accordingly. Please comment on this if we need to push the time.

Thanks!

 

1/21/2013 – 1323 – updates went faster than anticipated, server is fully operational.

Wither Test

withertest

 

This is what happens when testing wither traps.