Modacity Minecraft Server

[Pooky]

Well I found this thing called Optifine which claims it can give people up to triple framerates over vanilla, but it's not updated for 1.8.1 yet :|

Reminds me of when I first got gmod. It was right after the Orange Box engine update and I couldn't even play it for a while because online was so unstable.

[n00b1n8R]

I tried that and only saw marginal improvements. It'll be a while before it's updated to 1.8.x because of the big changes to the lighting engine.

[chrisk123999]

Optifine really helps a lot. I can't get a playable framerate in Minecraft without it.

[jcap]

Ok, so here's the deal...

The Bukkit server we're running right now is loaded with mods and lots of cool buildings. For the most part, it's become a creative server because the traditional ways of playing Minecraft got boring and gay as hell. Minecraft 1.8 actually introduces experience now, so maybe it adds a little more to the survival aspect of the game, but I'm still critical of it. It also adds the new ocean method of terrain generation, which we will most likely NEVER see in the current world on the server.

Each time Minecraft is updated, members ask me to set up a vanilla server so you can all play on it together, before Bukkit and the plugins update to the latest version. If you guys really want the new features and a reliable server to play on, I would consider setting one up. However, what would happen to the current server? Would it become strictly a creative server? Would two separate servers be segregating the players too much?

Also, another important issue to consider is what to do about the current server's world. We have a lot of sweet stuff in it like the rail lines and Sampson's palace (I'm so jelly) that I don't want to get rid of. We could potentially move individual structures to a new world, but things like railways and almost everything underground wouldn't be able to be moved.

[Pooky]

For the most part, it's become a creative server because the traditional ways of playing Minecraft got boring and gay as hell

How so?

Also what does 'for the most part' mean.

[Zeph]

it means that everyone just uses a hack to spawn anything because it's too much effort to mine.

I'm all for restarting the server on 1.8 just to generate a new set of terrain features.

[ThePlague]

We need to find an amazing level seed if we're restarting.

[Donut]

jcap i read somewhere that pre 1.8 maps wont work with post 1.8 maps. idk if thats true or not though. could definitely be an issue for the server though.

[chrisk123999]

It works, you just get an endless ocean biome.

[EX12693]

If we're restarting I want my white city to be saved.. :\