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It's called the bystander effect. Everyone just stands around and hopes someone else will pitch in. A few people may take responsibility, but not enough.
Then I guess that just sucks for them when the server is gone. Life is like that. Maybe they'll learn something. I have been on one server that needed donations to keep going. As a reward people got stuff like a color for their name in chat, no gameplay-changing perks. People donated anyway. It can work.
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Servers cost thousands of dollars to maintain, and if they don't have enough funding to make ends meet, poof.
The giant servers cost thousands to maintain. I've never stepped foot on one and I bet a lot of Minecraft players haven't either or didn't stay very long if they did get on. A server capable of handling a couple hundred players or less (the capacity for the vast majority of the thousands of servers in existence) can be had for $100 a month or less. Even cheaper if you have the ability to host from home. Plus not everyone requires income from a server (Minecraft or otherwise) to run it. Some of us have disposable income from other sources like a job or possess the hosting resources already.
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Your online experience is eviscerated and Mojang has to start all over again with their next game. Maybe it'll also be blocky.
I call melodrama on this. I've had several servers I play on die for varying reasons over the years. It sucks but I just go hunting for a new one and keep playing. So did most of the other players. I suppose some people are completely tied to their favorite server and without it there's no point to playing Minecraft at all anymore but I haven't met very many so far.
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Server was up for a while but is down again. At least Whiffle seems to be alive and well somewhere out there.
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Looks like the server is down.
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Server appears to be down.
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Minecraft servers tend to get unstable during a long uptime even with minimal use. Mostly memory leaks and such. It's much better than the early days and things like Paper help but it's still a problem. Every time I've run a server I set up an automated daily reboot to keep things fresh.
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Looks like the server is down again.
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You're good to go.
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You're good to go.
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Ventured to the jungle south of spawn. Confirmed there are parrots present if anyone is looking for a few.
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Well there's a dragon now, apparently. Block destruction is off so I guess spawn and kill as many as you like.
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The ceiling tunnels in the nether have two "rings". One is a radius of 1k and the next is 2k. 2k wasn't dug until much later so if you go to that second ring and dig outward there should be plenty of quartz. And a good chance it won't take long to encounter other new nether stuff like magma blocks since spawn was far away for a couple years.
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Cool. How is this version on server load though? Trying it on a test server it uses a lot of CPU (more than even Far Lands) especially when flying.
Edit: Ok, it seems to just be debug mode. Normal mode is fine.
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Unfortunately most vanilla(ish) servers low activity now, even new ones. Years ago vanilla servers were everywhere and had little problem pulling in many players. Over time the interests of players changed... mods and minigames are the popular thing now. Some of us are still in it for the basics, though.
Also for whoever died near my cow pen in the Valley of Pink Sheep I put your stuff in a chest there.
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Built a storage area for mining leftovers (cobblestone, gravel, etc) so people can drop off or collect blocks as needed, instead of dumping them or having to use a ton of chests just to store it all. It's about x: 5000 z: 5370
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If I recall Whiffle was using a separate plugin/function at one time to handle the whitelist and I can only guess it didn't translate very well or something else happened when updating. Trying to list it claims there's thousands of names and then client crashes lol. Adding new ones seems to work but we probably need to wipe out or debug the list sometime. I have a list of current names since this thread began so that's available if needed.
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This week has been busy and troublesome. Taking the weekend to relax since Legends of Equestria is up for a few days. Will probably be back on more next week.