Me and my friend run a minecraft server for a small group of friends and everyone is asking us why isn't it 1.8 yet? We know how to update we're just nervous about it deleting everything. Will it delete anything on the world?
Back it up first, so in case anything does go wrong you can always restore to 1.7.
That said, when I upgraded my private server from vanilla 1.7.10 to vanilla 1.8 the only problems I saw were that some of the 2-high flowers broke themselves and that most of my Nether portals unlit themselves. I took care of the latter issue easily enough by going into creative, teleporting to every portal in the Overworld and relighting if necessary, and then taking one into the Nether (which fortunately wasn't one that needed relighting on that side) and doing the same there.
Note that going back to 1.7 after loading in 1.8 will delete all items from chests, inventory, and so on from anything that had been loaded in 1.8.
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Be careful if you have bukkit, the situation between mojang and bukkit is confusing. From some people I've heard bukkit won't update past 1.7.10 and from others they say that's wrong all I know is that I have a bukkit server and none of our plugins have been able to update to 1.8 yet. If you have a vanilla server ignore everything i just said because it wont affect you.
And listen to everything anomie has said we didn't back up our server and it had a major crash... It wasn't fun.
That said, when I upgraded my private server from vanilla 1.7.10 to vanilla 1.8 the only problems I saw were that some of the 2-high flowers broke themselves and that most of my Nether portals unlit themselves. I took care of the latter issue easily enough by going into creative, teleporting to every portal in the Overworld and relighting if necessary, and then taking one into the Nether (which fortunately wasn't one that needed relighting on that side) and doing the same there.
Note that going back to 1.7 after loading in 1.8 will delete all items from chests, inventory, and so on from anything that had been loaded in 1.8.
And listen to everything anomie has said we didn't back up our server and it had a major crash... It wasn't fun.