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[jemofthewest]

So, I recently mapped my entire island on my server (repurposed Dell Dimension 2400 running Ubuntu Server 10.04). So I pretty much explored everything. Suddenly, this monster appears:



As you can see, that is a tower of random blocks including note blocks, window panes, bedrock, lava, water, melons, you name it. As I said, it wasn't there previously (I would've noticed the lava). It seems to continue like this all the way to the top of the world and down to bedrock.

I don't have any mods installed. My java is up to date. I believe those were the main questions I needed to answer first.

Is this my server or is this a bug? I had a power outage soon before this happened... I don't know if the world half corrupted or what. Its not urgent... it actually works quite well as a landmark but I wanted to know because I don't want my server screwing up more chunks if its a local issue. Thanks forum!

[voordal]

Its a bad chunk. Use chunkster

[HundredsAnd100s]

I would back up your world onto another drive just to be safe, but it doesn't look like the kind of thing you'd expect from a software or underlying hardware issue like a hard drive about to die. I'd guess the power interruption did it; maybe it screwed up journaling on your filesystem and this is the result. I bet the column is in the part of the chunk that's written to disk last.

My only concern would be if the chunk's actually corrupted. If nothing's built in the chunk, you could use the WorldEdit bukkit plugin to have it regenerate. The column would disappear and you wouldn't have to worry about the (very slight) risk a later version of Minecraft wouldn't know how to handle the mal-formed chunk.

[jwpve]

Look in your program bar at the bottom of the screen, it says: Random Tower of Ass...