BitMissile

Minecraft 1.2.4

jgeboski — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:15:36 +0000

This morning we got a “surprise” update from Mojang in the form of Minecraft 1.2.4. BitMissile has already updated to 1.2.4 and is online, running smoothly. The update was rather small all things considered, and did not effect many of our plugins. CraftBukkit, which BitMissile’s Minecraft server runs at its core, has already been updated. In terms of plugins, Dynmap seems to be the only plugin not functioning with 1.2.4. We suspect an update will come shortly but, until then, the dynamic map will not update.

A complete ChangeLog for Minecraft 1.2.4 can be found here.

As always with new updates, expect some updates to the server.

New World

jgeboski — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:56:11 +0000

That’s right! Once again, we’ve created a fresh world. Since 1.2 has come out, many people have been asking for a new world, and after much deliberation, I present you a new world. Do not panic, we have kept all of the existing worlds, and move the “BitMissile” world to “BitMissile-10″. This allows us to keep all of the worlds live while we transfer everyone’s belongings to the new world.

If you need anything transferred from either “BitMissile-18″ or “BitMissile-10″ to the new “BitMissile” map, please submit a ticket. Transfers will be handled in the order they are received. If you’re not online at the time we start doing transfers, we will move along to the next person in the list. It is worth noting that on May 25, 2012, we will be taking down “BitMissile-18″ and “BitMissile-10″ and making them available for download. Our nether world, “BitMissile_nether”, will remain intact.

If you’re thinking ahead, and wondering if we’re going to have to get a new world for the next update, you must note the new map formatting. Mojang has created a new map file format, Anvil, which if everything is correct, should stop us from ever having to create a new world.

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, comment below or contact us via ticket system.

Minecraft Updated to 1.2.3

jgeboski — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 05:00:06 +0000

BitMissile’s Minecraft server has been updated to 1.2.3. Please note, several plugins are still not up-to-date, and are disabled due to the fact. Currently, all portals are offline, and will continue to be until Transpoter is updated. Spout has just recently been updated, and due to the current traffic on the server, updates will be pushed to the server tomorrow morning.

Also, due to the fact there are still a lot of bugs that need to be worked out, expect a lot of updates in the next week or two.

UPDATE: Transpoter has been temporarily patched, and portals are now back in action.

Minecraft 1.2

jgeboski — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:13:53 +0000

As most of you probably know, Mojang released Minecraft 1.2.2 on March 1st. If you’re one of those people who rushes to click the update button, you’re out of luck for now. Currently, we’re waiting on a plugin called Spout to update, as it is a dependency for Logblock and mcMMO. You can track the development of Spout along with us via GitHub. Additionally, Transporter, the plugin that handles the portals and our multi-world setup, still has some kinks that need to be worked out. Finally, there are some internal configuration issues with mcMMO.

I know there was lots of concern over what was going to happen with the maps. As of now, we are not going to be creating or removing any maps. If you want the new biomes, you can look at our dynmap and go to the map where no terrain exists. This will allow the terrain generator to generate new terrain, and eventually you should hit the new biomes.

Just a side note, don’t worry if you receive the message: ”Internal exception: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset” on connecting. It’s due to the server being outdated. The Minecraft protocol changed, and it now gives you that error rather than a message telling you the server is outdated.

The server should be upgraded to 1.2.2 tonight or tomorrow. Please stay tuned to our website and IRC channels for updates.

UPDATE: We’re still waiting on Spout.

New Forum System

jgeboski — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:03:01 +0000

As you’ll notice if you’re a forum user, we’ve gotten a new system, bbPress. We have switched to keep everything integrated into the main website. Additionally, it stops us from having to maintain two separate websites. Also, there are currently no good converters for SMF 2.x to bbPress, and as a result we will not converting the old forums. We could write our own converter but, we do not feel it’s worth the time and effort. We will be leaving the old forums so everyone can transfer anything over they deem necessary. The old forums can be found at: www.bitmissile.com/old-forum. Keep in mind, we will be shutting down the old forums on March 30, 2012.

All Upgrades Completed

jgeboski — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:51:16 +0000

All of the server upgrades have been completed. The upgrades began on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, when we switched to a new server with a Xeon E3-1230 and 8G of memory, leading to downtime all morning and into the afternoon. The memory was then upgraded to 16G the following day, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at around 11:30 A.M. causing around an hour of downtime. Today we concluded the system upgrades by upgrading our kernel to 3.2.7 which gave very minimal downtime.

New Server Specifications
Location	New York, New York, United States
CPU	Intel Xeon E3-1230
Memory	16G DDR3 1333 MHz
Motherboard	Supermicro X9SCD
HDD	2x 500G 7,200 RPM
Network	Dedicated 100 mb/s

BitMissile’s Original Worlds

jgeboski — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:46:08 +0000

If you’re one of our longer-standing players, you probably remember our original (pre-1.8) maps. Now that we’ve moved on, and have a 1.8 world and 1.0.0 world, we decided that it was time to retire the old worlds. If you haven’t noticed yet, these original BitMissile maps have been taken down. We’ve also made them available for download to anyone who would like to mess around on them. Enjoy!

BitMissilerOld: zip | tar.bz2

BitMissileOld_nether: zip | tar.bz2

New Website

jgeboski — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:20:40 +0000

Well, as you can see, BitMissile’s website has changed quite a bit. We were trying to jazz up the forums and the old website, but things just weren’t clicking. It looked too much like other dull and boring sites. The purpose of the website is to inform users of what BitMissile is, however, we wanted to take it a step further. We wanted to keep our existing players involved on the website, as well as delivering essential information. The website needed to be more about the community and the players, and we think we finally have something that gives us that. As you can see, the website now has more of a social aspect to it. We hope this will help group players together throughout the server.