All I want is a safe feeling of backing up what I hold dear.
\nWorld2 means the world to me right now. Yet no one seems to feel the same on minecraftforum.net. Why?<\/p>\n
It started yesterday, in SSP. Had some crashing\/freezing and in one part of the map, it kept on freezing. Viewing it in MCEdit showed “Malformed chunks”. I finally got it fixed, but the fixing caused that area of the map to be very slow in SSP. I was forced to, yet again, restore the backup of my server’s map to fix it.<\/p>\n
Later, I was in the Tavern (angry’s Skype chatroom), giving hell to one of them who was trying to “help” me kill off my addiction to Alpha. It wasn’t pretty, and he “won” the conversation. *sigh*<\/p>\n
Since then I focused on getting some kind of automatic map backupper. I found this Minecraft Backup Tool. It makes a backup of the map you’re playing on, but only<\/strong> when you shut down the client. This isn’t good enough for me. Last night, angry tried to get me into iCraft. It still uses the old Minecraft Classic (it’s like Mynecraft with added features). Instead of caring about this thing, I told him what was going on in Alpha and what I was trying to do. He mentions using Subversion (aka SVN), then told me to send a Remote Assistance Invite to try to get it going. Later on he tried to get my server’s map into SVN. However, it kept on saying that it was “corrupted or unreadable”. And couldn’t do it. Instead of knowing he did his best, I said “Thanks for wasting my time…”. Why? I waited two hours past my bedtime for him to do this, and he couldn’t do it. Today, I went to minecraftforum.net, and asked if there’s any auto map backup tools. To the time of this blog post, the only reply made was by me to bump it… from Page 3.<\/p>\n That thread about the Minecraft Backup Tool, I posted that if he could change the code to doing a backup when the user goes to the main menu instead of quitting the client. Someone else posted but it wasn’t for my response. Something about putting the .zip generated by the tool into Dropbox. And the author replied to HIM… ignoring\/didn’t see my reply.<\/p>\n And my last straw was to go to the main discussion page about Minecraft, and asked if it was possible to do a Subversion. I was hoping someone would respond of having done it and would tell me how. I swear, they are ignoring me for hating Notch. I have my fucking reasons why I hate Notch. I feel like this update has ruined my happiness. Notch stole my enjoyment. Angry told me that Notch isn’t forcing us to play his game the way it is designed, and I have to believe him because he’s usually right. There is so much… fear. I’ve never been this scared of a game in my life. But I have “what if” fears. They don’t see or care how serious this is to me. Then again, maybe I’m just overreacting. I’m hoping it’s that Minimap mod, but Nick isn’t having an issue with it. And he’s got like 30+ mods running.<\/p>\n I actually gave myself a migraine from all the stress.<\/p>\n I really felt like I was going to break down, until I decided to search one more time, in a different location. And a lone tool showed up. Minecraft Backup Assistant. I looked it over, and noticed it didn’t have automatic backup, yet didn’t force the player to shut down the client to back up. Seeing this, I knew I finally found what I’m looking for. The restore speed could be better, but.. since I’m not on my server, I don’t really need it to go fast. The peace of mind is all I ever wanted.<\/p>\n Now I can stop whining to Notch and my friends. I’m sure they have grown sick of it by now. It is stupid to be so stressed, over a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All I want is a safe feeling of backing up what I hold dear. World2 means the world to me right now. Yet no one seems to feel the same on minecraftforum.net. Why? It started yesterday, in SSP. Had some … Continue reading
\nIf it backed up the map when I quit to the menu, THEN it would work for me. Since that’s how I use INVedit.<\/p>\n
\nAt the time I didn’t know how in the hell it was going to work, but I did it anyway. He got control and started setting it up.<\/p>\n
\nThis morning I apologized to him via my phone’s voice messaging.<\/p>\n
\nAGAIN… no response!<\/p>\n
\nAll I want is my map to be secured from corruption! Is that too much to ask?! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
\nIt just feels now that ANY update out there is going to fuck my map in the ass. I cannot AFFORD another corrupt map chunk!<\/p>\n
\nWhat if it happens again? What if I’m not able to fix it? And then rage fills my mind of how uncaring people are.
\nIf those god damn fucking authors of those two map backup mods were more active, I wouldn’t be like this.<\/p>\n
\nI tried it out, made a few backups and saw it runs along side the client. I could backup whenever I need\/want to.
\nI tried simulating the event of a serious map corruption (like the one that happened) by deleting a shitload of blocks and causing utter chaos. Then I tried restoring the previous backup.
\nIt froze for a minute, then very slowly unzipped the map and put it into my saves, restoring the damage I did. For the first time in two days, a grin came over my face.<\/p>\n