Monthly Archives: July 2011

Minecraft Server 1.7.3

Posted by on July 10, 2011 No comments

Minecraft Server 1.7.3 Update
Minecraft was updated to 1.7.3 the following are from the change log for this update, it was just a bug fix release.

Bug Fixes:

- Corrected a block duplication bug when using pistons.
- Corrected a redstone torch duplication bug when using pistons.
- Corrected a client crash when placing a sign in front of the piston, powering the piston and then removing the block beneath the sign.
- Ice blocks are now pushed without causing water streams breaking everything.
- Booster rails are no longer being powered magically without a power source .
- Pistons connected to the end of a piston transistor via redstone are now properly closed when the power goes out.
- Doors no longer create purple particles.
- Hacking clients can no longer edit texts of placed signs in multiplayer .
- Changed so that paintings pushed by pistons will pop off.

Server News:

We have updated Minecraft Server to the latest version that was released on Friday by Mojang the server is now running version 1.7.3, this update was supposed to correct a number of piston bugs and it appears to have fixed some, but not all. We still experience read timeout errors under certain situations, after investigating the logs it still shows pistons are the cause of the crashes, so steps have been taken again to stop the use of them in game until all issues are resolved and the server is stable with them enabled. Just for players interest I have included part of the crash log below.

2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.TileEntityPiston.a(SourceFile:100)
2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.TileEntityPiston.g_(SourceFile:145)
2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.World.cleanUp(World.java:1124)
2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:447)
2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:361)
2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:422)
2011-07-10 20:08:04 [SEVERE] Unexpected exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.minecraft.server.TileEntityPiston.a(SourceFile:100)
at net.minecraft.server.TileEntityPiston.g_(SourceFile:145)
at net.minecraft.server.World.cleanUp(World.java:1124)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:447)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:361)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:422)

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Minecraft Server 1.7

Posted by on July 2, 2011 No comments

Minecraft Server 1.7
Minecraft server 1.7 has now been released, the two new key gameplay updates are the introduction of the pistons and shears,  along with a number of minor tweaks as listed below. The server has now been updated and is currently running the latest version of the Minecraft server 1.7.2 and the current released Bukkit build for 1.7.2, a small number of our games Bukkit plugins are not yet upto date however enough of our key plugins are working without any real issues so the temporary world map has been replaced with our original map, so login and have a play with the new features.

New Features:

- Added pistons.
- Fixed clay generation.
- Fire or redstone is now required to trigger TNT.
- Fences can be stacked.
- Added Shears.
- Redstone wire now will connect to a repeater
- Shears can be used to pick up leaf blocks.
- Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them.
- Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched, only from being killed when they are unsheared.
- New textures for Cobblestone and Brick blocks.
- Silverfish skin was added.
- When pressing F3 in-game, a value from 0 to 3 will appear to indicate direction.
- The gray textures in the breaking animation have been replaced with opacity.
- Spawn rate of Squids increased.
- Single slabs now use the bottom half of the full block’s texture.
- Cobweb now requires shears or a sword to be broken properly, and drops 1 string when destroyed.
- The bed side texture has been moved in the texture pack file, as well as the cake texture.

Bug Fixes:

- Crashed worlds now work again.
- Disappearing piston fixes.
- Piston machine that duplicates blocks is now fixed.
- Pistons that caused crashing for multiplayer servers fixed.
- Fixed piston bug.
- Fixed right clicking on a sheep empty-handed causing game to crash.
- Worlds that crashed are now loadable again.

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