You guys are welcome to come and play. The server is not listed publicly and will also work with copies of minecraft that don't check in.

I helped my buddy configure his dedicated so he threw me a VPS. What else was I going to do with it?

184.82.88.251

do you mind if my boys login and give it a whirl? i don't play mindcraft, but the boys do play it alot.

Of course!

Updates!

I also setup a frontend so I can bind this website to your minecraft avatar and then you can talk to users who are playing while you are not able to login via the minecraft game.

http://184.82.88.251/multicraft


easier addressing should propagate tonight

website will be http://secondwife.hopto.org
game server login in minecraft will be http://secondwife.servegame.com

Hey Digital, one of the boys was playing today. I may of confused him a bit because I was trying to figure out who was on but he sorted it out. The web interface now has chat built in that does not require login so you can chat directory to the boys while you are at work or wherever.

yeah my wife just told me they were on it today. she is the one who answered you i think. she said the boys were arguing amongst themselves as to what to tell you..LOL

they said you had a nice house.

lol... I HAD a nice house until a griefer came in.

Anyway, I had to setup whitelisting security. You'll have to contact me specifically for an account now and because hackers can spoof other player names I had to turn on the thing that verifies a users ID with the minecraft.net servers

Okay I changed up a few things. I added staggering backups of the world every 6 hours in case something happens again.

I started a whitelist so only validated users are allowed in.

I am still going to allow non minecraft.net registered users in for now as long as they are on the whitelist. We'll see if the whitelisting works.

Friends of mine are running a dedicated server, somewhat less legit - and we call connect using a hamachi zeroconfig vpn. it's awesome, freeware, and best of all not visible to the external interwebs.

Okay so had some time to work on the server this weekend.

- Opened it up so anyone can join (turned off whitelisting)
- added antihack modules
- added permissions modules (users can only build or break blocks if they are part of the list)
- Added ichat modules for colour in chat for users
- added a dynamic map of the world
- Combined both web addresses for the web interface and game server into one address secondwife.servegame.com
- Setup hourly backups on 48 hour rollover periods
- Setup a Mumble voice communication server
- Documented howto's and troubleshooting on the website


TODO Still
- Monitor and test for malicious activity
- Document community building direction
- Document server commands list for registered users
- More interesting mods


Time to crack open that case of beer.

Don't update to 1.5 until my server updates to 1.5

threads on rolling back.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=295895

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=295406

Updated to 1.5 snapshot,

I have to say that the private server makes this game for me. It's way more fun to play survival co-op in a persistant world with other people i know.

It's really cool to build our own little community and hang out! Up until now I had owned a copy of mine craft, but never really got into it, private multiplayer makes it!

If anyone else here is on the fence, jump on in! You can come ride my recently opened mine railroad!

Seriously we are having a real blast now that I have everything running pretty stable.


The website has a lot of detail as well if you want to see what kinds of things you can do on the server such as commerce http://www.secondwife.ca

Jerk!

armour and weapons shops just went up