I call Mayor!

On what server is this city going to get built? And I hope you are careful with the IP because I don't want a bunch of griefers "raiders" nuking it to smithereens with hacked in TNT and paint the world black with obsidian. :/

Until the new map is generated, which will probably happen when all the issues are worked out

decepto, your server went down shortly after you left for work... :/

If bamccaig wants to host the game more permanently, he has more memory available to him. Should he need it, that is.

If someone buys the game for me I can host a server on my laptop, I'm out all day anyway

Yes, I'm lurking the Minecraft thread even though I don't have the game. I do it because it seems like a really cool game :X

Where is this extra memory coming from???

You! Muahahaha! With you coming onboard we were able to upgrade the RAM (I thought you knew this). Which means we all get a bigger share of memory, or at least I think we do.

/beaten

Me? Muahahaha! Excellent <wrings hands>

Notch is adding banning support!

I'd say wait until most of the bugs are fixed, inventory is server-side, and mobs are in.

In other news, I'll be gone for the next four days, so I won't be able to log on. No massive city building without me! (Unless you really want to )

Can someone PM me bam's server IP? Thanks!

Unfortunately, the give command seems to max. the give count parameter at 64 (one full slot). That's still substantially more than you could get the honest way, but when you're used to distributing 256 or 512 items at a time it's a real slow down.

** EDIT **

The server isn't configured specially (JVM wise). What I posted above is basically what is running now, except that the memory has increased from 400 MB to 700 MB (and for cleanliness the launcher script now changes to a hidden directory to control the current working directory). Note that I'm running OpenJDK (IcedTea on Gentoo), not the Sun JRE as Notch recommends, and at least with the Gentoo configuration it defaults to running with the -server option, which is allegedly faster.

I still experience the same pickup bug though (even alone on the server) so I'm not sure that anything has really improved with the extra memory. I'm also not convinced that it's a memory deficiency. Even with the server freshly started I seem to experience the bug. It's possible that it's a side effect of the existing world. I also experience toggling blocks now when laying them, but the server seems to get it right after a second has passed. It just resets your position relatively regularly, slowing down your progress slightly.

I suppose the server might last longer now with the extra memory. It might be a good exercise for me to add a restart mechanism to cron, but the hard part is figuring out how to do a "safe" restart. I think currently it will require a buffer program between stdio and the server. I'm not even aware of whether or not the latest version still suffers from what we believed to be a (slow) memory leak. It's certainly playable though. I am using quite a lot more CPU time than the other server members, but until they use it I guess it's free to use.

You can build stuff without any serious problems. That part is stored fine server-side. Though, as indicated, the existing world will likely be replaced by me when the inventory bugs are fixed (I can publish it if anyone wants it), so in that sense current progress is somewhat futile (though experimenting now is a lot cheaper than later). Inventories are what is lost. Until next week, when those bugs are presumably going to be fixed, I'm happy to give any respected members operator privileges which basically lets you execute console commands. That will let you grant yourself inventory on a whim (I can publish my current name => id map if anyone is interested). Someone helped me determine that operators do not get feedback with server-side commands so you'll need to just have faith that they worked.

help
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO] To run the server without a gui, start it like this:
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO] Console commands:
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    help  or  ?               shows this message
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    kick <player>             removes a player from the server
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    ban <player>              bans a player from the server
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    pardon <player>           pardons a banned player so that they can connect again
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    ban-ip <ip>               bans an IP address from the server
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    pardon-ip <ip>            pardons a banned IP address so that they can connect again
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    op <player>               turns a player into an op
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    deop <player>             removes op status from a player
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    tp <player1> <player2>    moves one player to the same location as another player
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    give <player> <id> [num]  gives a player a resource
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    stop                      gracefully stops the server
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    save-all                  forces a server-wide level save
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    save-off                  disables terrain saving (useful for backup scripts)
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    save-on                   re-enables terrain saving
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    list                      lists all currently connected players
2010-08-13 01:36:01 [INFO]    say <message>             broadcasts a message to all players

As hinted above, when operators currently execute commands (in the form /command args...), the output is displayed on the server console, not to the operators/clients. With that in mind, I have a log of everything you do.

Can someone PM the server's IP to me? Thank you