Changes This Morning

I have made several changes to the server configuration this morning including patching Lockette, below is a list detailing what has changed from a players perspective:

Lockette:

The following chests may now be protected:

Copper, Iron, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Crystal, Alchemical & Energy Condenser.

Teleport Suite:

Teleport timeout increased from 15 to 20 seconds.

New Features:

Pumpkin Scuba - Drowning damage is disabled if the
player wears a pumpkin helmet.

Players cannot be harmed by lightning.

Maximum Players:

The player capacity of the server has been increased from 24 to 26 without impacting performance by tweaking certain processes and reducing memory overheads.

Mumble Voice Server Now Available!

We now have a Mumble voice chat server at the following address:

IP: 178.239.166.19

Port: 64066

At present this server supports a maximum of 30 users.

These details have also been added to the Server Info page!

Enjoy!

Iron Shovel Bug Fixed!

After an inspired moment and digging around in various mod related files I finally managed to pin down the causes of the Iron Shovel bug!

Fixing it completely involved several configuration changes to two of the mods included with Tekkit, which have now been implemented and tested. The changes do not noticeably affect the functionality of any other items and should not create any additional problems. The nature of the fix means that this problem should not re-occur at all in future.

Enjoy!

Server repaired and back up!

The server is back up and the regenerated chunk is loading fine!

Server Down

The server is currently down, this appears to be due to malicious actions which have caused serious problems with a map chunk and are causing the server to be unstable.

I am working on resolving the problem now but may have to do a partial restore as well as removing the chunk, word data (excluding the chunk causing the issue) and player data (including inventories) should not be affected but it may take 20-30 minutes to get the server back online.

I'll update here as soon as possible, please bear with us!

UPDATE: 22:05 - This is going to take a while longer, progress is slower than I'd hoped, I'll post another update soon.

UPDATE: 22:15 - The chunk has been removed and the server is back up!

New Security Page

I've just added a new page to the site detailing our policy on griefers, what steps players should take to protect themselves and how to report incidents:

http://diggyminecraft.blogspot.co.uk/p/griefing.html