I’ve gone on and bought my own modded Minecraft server from BisectHosting. The reasons why I did instead of waiting on this, are as follows;
\n1. Something I can control (said this multiple times).
\n2. As a “side project” incase Kovo and Nova get bored with the server, and I don’t feel “it’s just me”.
\n3. It’s honestly reasonably priced.
\n4. Cave’s creating his own modpack, that’ll have a new world (which makes it feel pointless to join).
\n5. Shrugging off all the haters, who say “you do realize you’re wasting money when it’s just you on that server, right?”<\/p>\n
I’ve learned quite a lot from this, even having to deal with a few server “hiccups”. Also the server has a sub-domain, which would make it easy for members of this site to join me if they wish. So as for 3, 4, 5, and 6.. hoo boy. But their latest response actually makes sense to all questions things.. but it sure as hell took a long time to get them. Eesh. . I’ve gone on and bought my own modded Minecraft server from BisectHosting. The reasons why I did instead of waiting on this, are as follows; 1. Something I can control (said this multiple times). 2. As a “side project” incase … Continue reading
\nIt’s called: benies0server0blog.modded.fun<\/span>
\nI originally wanted it to be: ‘benies-server-blog.modded.fun’, to have a little fun to keep the theme of this site (with the hyphens). But sadly, no special characters allowed. No hyphens allowed. Boo. \ud83d\ude1b As for the ‘.modded.fun’ at the end, it’s one of the things you can use. You sadly can’t customize it, else I would be ‘redirecting’ it to this site. Heh.
\nBut anyway, with that out of the way, time to talk about what I’ve learned and those glitches I dealt with.
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\n1. The way the auto server restart system is setup by Bisect, it doesn’t work (as shown in Cave’s server). I had to completely rebuild the schedule, which was fairly easy to
\ndo (thanks to them having a tutorial<\/a> on how to do it). It’s almost as if they say “the way we did it is trash, you can get it working with this video!”… a bit sad with how professional they’re supposed to be here.
\n2. Learned how to set the server.properties file (via their ‘Server Settings’ section). But having never done a server in a very long time, there were certain things I wasn’t familiar with. Thankfully they were able to help me with that.
\n3. Learned how instances work.. and why they’re they’re not<\/em> similar to how MultiMC handles instances (to the point they’re kind of pointless to me). More on this later.
\n4. Had my world reset on me once, and the settings in the server.properties file get reverted on me twice.. and not know how in the fuck it happened.
\n5. Had the server fail to stop properly, one time.
\n6. …The fuck is this ‘OPed’ they speak of? I can’t seem to turn off the ‘[Server: Saved the world]<\/em>‘ message from appearing. I didn’t see this in Cave’s server. Very confused here.
\n7. They only do one world backup per day (and depending if you paid the $3.99 for a week’s worth of backups). This means instead of setting up a backup every Wednesday at 6pm EDT, it needs to be every day<\/span> at 6pm EDT.<\/p>\n
\nBasically in the initial world, I finally found a spot that I want to be my base. But instead of working on it – I was working on the server instead – setting up the auto restart system. I also saw that instance thing which intrigued me. Again I assumed it was similar to how MultiMC handles it– multiple different installs of different worlds and content that I set. So I did. And having got the auto restart system configured I restarted the server.
\nWhen it came back up, and I joined it, I expected to show right back where I was… but I ended up in a new world instead. What the fuck HAPPENED?! All I did was do the instance thing! Yes I also set up that sub-domain but surely that wouldn’t had fucked up anything like this!
\nPlus the server settings somehow got reverted back to their defaults! …Not happy right now. But, I made the best of it, looking for another potential place to call my base. Never found one.
\nThe only good thing that came out of this was the server restart actually happening at 5am EDT. So that proves to me what was going on with Cave’s server. Stayed up to almost 6am typing what I wanted to say to Bisect’s ticket support thing, but saved it and went to bed.
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\nNext day I sent it. This time I waited for over a half an hour (with my ticket on Medium priority). If you’re trying to impress me, you’re doing a bad job of it. But I got answers what certain server setting features do (as I said before). Issues 3, 4, 5, and 6 took a lot longer, but I finally got them (except 5, which is likely just a ‘server hiccup’ of it not properly shutting down).
\n#3<\/strong>, it is<\/strong> similar<\/em> to MultiMC, but with a few extra steps. When you restore an instance, you have to click on a dropdown and pick “Load files to server and keep instance” instead of default to the other, which deletes the instance<\/span>. This caught me by complete surprise when I no longer had access after a fucking Creeper decided to say “HELLO!!” and blew up a small part of my developing base. Not that big of a deal as I can fix it in Creative, but.. the instance deleting made me feel “what’s the point of having them?”
\nNow I realize it. And honestly, the only time I really should ever need to use instances is if I want to switch to a new modpack entirely. This should never be used as an alternative for a world backup. I understand that now.
\n#4<\/strong>, finally got explained to me. Though it still doesn’t make any sense why the server settings got reset after the server failed to shut down properly (and I never got an answer for it.. when I made NO changes since the auto restart), having them reset on me the first time does<\/em> make sense. Human error. Never ever edit the server settings while the server is still running. It will not ‘save the changes’. That’s sadly not how Minecraft servers
\nwork, and never have.
\n#5<\/strong>, is still unexplained. But again, all I can think of is a ‘server hiccup’… it just better not happen again when I need to shut it down for maintenance. That’s all I can say, or I will be making another ticket (especially if it causes world corruption).
\n#6<\/strong>, makes sense to me. The reason why I never saw that message on Cave’s server is it only shows up for people that are OPed (though my eyes saw them saying ‘QPed’, like it was kind of hidden server setting I didn’t have access to). Anyway, there is no way to disable the message (except de-OP myself and uncheck ‘Announce World Save’ in the Advanced Settings of the server control panel (though it should state “OPs can still see this”)). This is a thing with Minecraft servers.<\/p>\n
\nAnyway, there’s no more issues that I can think of. So, back to what I wanted to originally say about this whole idea of buying my own private server.
\nThis has nothing to do with ‘relying on Cave to keep the server up”… but it sure feels like that with the way I’m acting, doesn’t it? But whatever, it’s done and I do not regret my purchase.
\nI’ll still play on Cave’s server while Kovo and Nova are around, but I’ll have mine when they’re not. Especially when Cave finalizes his modpack and then switches everything. Since I said for #5 (the original things I said at the beginning of the post), that there’s no real point (IMO) to do anything progressive when the world is going to be backed up and replaced when Cave uploads the new pack.
\nAlso I’ve noticed Cave’s being a bit “meh” of this entire thing. Yes he’s still trying to keep us together in the same server, but how I found out why the auto restart isn’t working.. he almost seems uninterested in keeping it up. I dunno. He hardly talks about the server anymore. But.. when it comes to modded Minecraft, it’s hard to find a pack that pleases everyone. And I have told him this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"