Tech Admin blog
Welcome back to Modification of the Month where if you placed bets on how late I'd be this time around, you all owe me money! I'm now 1 moneys richer (Thank you one person who knows these blogs exist)!!!
We're entering the final phases of the first phase of the overhaul project. This project will be modernizing critical backend infrastructure and mod tools, while also removing the cage that the modern server software landscape has placed around me. Please help me.
This is a major change to the servers and there will be a decent bit of downtime involved to get everything in place, reconnect all the thangs, and make sure it all works properly. We're hoping it will be sometime during November, but in any case we'll provide you with plenty of heads up.
And since this is the tech blog, this is where I'll repeat what the HAdmins have shared in discord. Please do not contact any of the TAdmins directly for each bug you find. Please make a modreq and we'll load it into a new system we have to keep my pebble of a brain from forgetting it exists.
Additionally, until this big overhaul is released, bug fixes will no longer be put out for any of the servers unless they're genuinely critical. That doesn't mean you shouldn't report them to us, though! Phase 2 will be a lot of bug fixing and I'll need whatever you come across. Just make sure to provide as much information in these modreqs as you can.
General Change Log
- October 23rd - Pez252 - Set up HelpHelp to be way easier for server admins to update server info whenever they need to.
- October 27th - PPGOME & Pez252 - Introduced new system to streamline the bug/feature/documentation process.
Web Site Change Log
- October 27th - PPGOME & Pez252 - Introduced new tools for admins to keep better track of tasks across their respective domains. Gome's ADHD approves.
Creative Change Log
- Nothing much. Your time is coming C, I promise
PvE Change Log
- [pretend there's crickets here, the website doesn't like emojis] Cricket noises intensify
Yours truly, the guy down there ↓↓↓
Posted by PPGOME on Nov. 1, 2024 in Tech Admin
Welcome back to Modification of the Month where we predicted my inability to catch the date correctly from the get-go! We're only a week late, though. Taking bets on how late we'll be next time.
Not much this month, either, as we continue to work through infrastructure improvements and cool new things.
General Change Log
- September 2nd - PPGOME & Pez252 - Moved the development servers to their own network under a new proxy that's being tested.
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
- September 1st - PPGOME - Updated MobLimiter to now house the mechanics of KeepBabyMobs and LimitSpawnEggs under one roof.
- September 1st - PPGOME - Removed KeepBabyMobs.
- September 1st - PPGOME - Removed LimitSpawnEggs.
- September 20th - PPGOME - Managed to carry dragon fight over without crashing the server in horrendously terrible ways!
Posted by PPGOME on Oct. 7, 2024 in Tech Admin
Welcome back to Modification of the Month, where we're only a day late! Not too much happened this month as a lot of the tech work right now is bigger plugins.
General Change Log
- August 8th - PPGOME - Added /tableflip, /unflip, and /cheer
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
- August 29th - PPGOME & Pez252 - Bluemap is added, replacing Dynmap.
PvE Change Log
- August 8th - PPGOME - Updated MobLimiter to avoid culling allays holding items
Posted by PPGOME on Sept. 1, 2024 in Tech Admin
Welcome to Modification of the Month! We're changing up the formula a bit from Totemo's Tweak of the Week blogs, as not many updates happen between weeks and so PPGOME has an excuse when he forgets to publish these!
General Change Log
- July 12th - PPGOME - VehicleControl is fixed for 1.20.
- July 13th - PPGOME - Updated NerdMessage to only stop alerting players of new mail once they run /mail inbox, instead of their first join after receiving it.
- July 14th - PPGOME - Fix, clean up, and add a few CommandHelper commands.
- July 19th - Pez252 - System patches.
- July 20th - PPGOME - Removed Rifle's Chairs due to how broken it was. Replaced with GSit. Same functions, but now with /sit and /lay!
- July 20th - PPGOME - Added some new moderator commands and made links clickable again in a variety of message formats.
- July 28th - PPGOME - Added /pants.
- July 28th - PPGOME - Modified some moderator commands.
Web Site Change Log
- July 19th - Pez252 - Forums are updated.
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
- July 12th - PPGOME - Moblimiter is fixed for 1.20.
- July 12th - PPGOME - /maps is updated to remove the unused carto map link.
- July 14th - PPGOME - Attempted to fix Rifle's Chairs as sitting was broken and players were clipping through chairs into the ground below.
- July 14th - PPGOME - Fixed perfect farmers to now include cookies.
- July 14th - PPGOME - Fixed various bugs, including the notorious fall bug that caused players to die mid-air.
- July 16th - PPGOME - Changed /dynmap hide and /dynmap show to now be /bmap hide and /bmap show. Can also use /bmap to toggle between the two modes automatically!
- July 16th - PPGOME - Updated some moderator commands.
- July 16th - PPGOME - Increased the shulker cull limit in Moblimiter to avoid breaking shulker farms.
- July 17th - PPGOME - Fixed bugged states in Moblimiter where some mobs had cull values but the plugin never acted. Includes foxes, axolotls, and frogs.
- July 18th - PPGOME - Tested and discovered that the new death pile item radius is a new in vanilla and is meant to explode that far out. Nothing will be changed.
- July 20th - PPGOME - Added a Xaero's minimap waypoint message to /place, so players with that mod can now click to add the /place to their maps.
- July 20th - PPGOME - Updated KeepBabyMobs to make tadpoles stay tadpoles when named.
Posted by PPGOME on July 31, 2024 in Tech Admin
Tweak of the Week is our weekly roundup of server configuration changes where we list everything we changed during a specific calendar week.
There were no technical changes to report for the weeks ending December 1 and 8, 2019.
General Change Log
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
- 2019-12-12: totemo updated the server to PaperSpigot #236, which is the final update in the 1.14.4 series.
- 2019-12-12: totemo updated BungeeCord and in the lobby ProtocolLib and ViaVersion to support 1.15 client connections to the lobby.
- 2019-12-14: totemo set up a Trello board and began planning the 1.15 plugin updates. PaperSpigot has started producing 1.15 builds.
- 2019-12-15: totemo began work on 1.15 updates.
pve-dev is currently running 71 plugins on 1.15 and it seems reasonably happy. ModMode has problems with the new LuckPerms API and it has unresolved issues from the 1.14 era, so I'll resolve that with a rewrite. CommandHelper has changed a lot, again, as it does often and many scripts will need some fixes to keep it happy.
Posted by totemo on Dec. 15, 2019 in Tech Admin
Tweak of the Week is our weekly roundup of server configuration changes where we list everything we changed during a specific calendar week.
There were no technical changes to report for the week ending November 17, 2019.
General Change Log
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
Posted by totemo on Nov. 24, 2019 in Tech Admin
Tweak of the Week is our weekly roundup of server configuration changes where we list everything we changed during a specific calendar week.
General Change Log
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
- 2019-11-09: totemo fixed bugs and added new features in BeastMaster v2.11.0 and improved the BeastMaster documentation for mobs.
Posted by totemo on Nov. 10, 2019 in Tech Admin
Tweak of the Week is our weekly roundup of server configuration changes where we list everything we changed during a specific calendar week.
General Change Log
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
Posted by totemo on Nov. 3, 2019 in Tech Admin
Tweak of the Week is our weekly roundup of server configuration changes where we list everything we changed during a specific calendar week.
General Change Log
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
- 2019-10-25: challenger2 and Deaygo debugged some problems with the BungeeCord proxy, apparently triggered by issues with Mojang's servers.
PvE Change Log
Posted by totemo on Oct. 27, 2019 in Tech Admin
Tweak of the Week is our weekly roundup of server configuration changes where we list everything we changed during a specific calendar week.
General Change Log
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
- 2019-10-14: challenger2 started work on a 1.14.4 updated for creative.
PvE Change Log
- 2019-10-14: totemo disabled WorldEdit commands in mapworld until BlocksHub can be updated to implement WorldGuard region restrictions there.
- 2019-10-20: totemo added more documentation to the BeastMaster wiki.
Posted by totemo on Oct. 20, 2019 in Tech Admin
