Tech Admin blog
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
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
- 2019-10-07: totemo updated CommandHelper in the lobby, fixing
/suggestion-box there.
- 2019-10-09: totemo implemented a script automatically update a server to the latest Minecraft snapshot.
- 2019-10-09: totemo set up the snapshot server.
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
Posted by totemo on Oct. 13, 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
- 2019-10-06: totemo accepted SafeBuckets PR #18 from Bermudalocket and released it as v1.1.20. Fixes:
- A dispenser containing an empty bucket cannot pick up water from a waterlogged block.
- Bubble columns cannot be flowed / bubble columns do not form from a single flowed water source.
- 2019-10-06: totemo fixed SafeBuckets bugs and released v1.1.21:
- Bukkit API 1.14.4 compliance (recognise the new sign types).
- Fix incompatibility with RecipeManager by making the custom glowing buckets fully comply with the API.
- Fix flowing bubble columns with unsafe buckets and the /flow command.
Web Site Change Log
- 2019-10-01,2,3,4: totemo worked on rendering BeastMaster configuration in HTML tables, as an exercise in learning Clojure and Cursive (IDE).
Creative Change Log
- 2019-10-06: totemo updated SafeBuckets to v1.1.20. Fixes dispensers with waterlogged blocks and bubble columns with
/sb flowsel.
PvE Change Log
- 2019-09-30: totemo updated PvE to PaperSpigot build 207, which improves a few things, in particular noting elapsed time for some things that were not previously acknowledged by the Timings facility.
- 2019-10-06: totemo updated SafeBuckets to v1.1.21. Fixes dispensers with waterlogged blocks and bubble columns in all cases.
- 2019-10-06: totemo added RecipeManager and enabled the crafting recipe for Heart of the Sea (8 heart fragments in a ring).
Posted by totemo on Oct. 6, 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
- 2019-09-25: totemo spent a little bit of time moving old schematics into a folder structure. We have 809 schematics.
- 2019-09-28,29: totemo worked on restoring function to some performance measurement graphs. Renamed NerdStats (a stripped down JSONAPI work-alike) to NerdPerf, largely just to free up the former name, and started work on a Python script to query performance metrics and plot them with
rrdtool.
Web Site Change Log
Creative Change Log
PvE Change Log
- 2019-09-26: totemo spent some time looking into the current state of WGRegionEvents and enabled it on PvE to support various NerdFlags features. The
warp flag was removed from the NerdFlags documentation since the code was removed some time ago. We'll probably address the deficit by adding a way to run commands in console, similar to the EasySigns opcmd action.
- 2019-09-26: totemo clarified the documentation of the EasySigns
opcmd action.
- 2019-09-27: totemo had to disable WGRegionEvents again because NerdFlags is locking the weather to rain in the overworld.
- 2019-09-27: totemo did some more investigation of performance measurements and incorrect entity counts showing up in timings reports. Chunks are a bit more complicated in 1.14. They are kept loaded by "ticket levels" which are explained a bit here and here. While on the subject, a few days back, a player complained about items despawning even though the chunks were not within the view distance. I guess that reinforces the idea that view distance is a separate concept from what the server loads and ticks. In the case under discussion, the player was about 125 blocks away from the dropped items (slightly less than 6 chunks) and they despawned.
- 2019-09-27: totemo did nothing to help this but, in 1.15, horses and boats will no longer vanish on dismount (unless Mojang manages to break them again before release). Just gotta hold on a little while longer.
Posted by totemo on Sept. 29, 2019 in Tech Admin
