Altitude Blog

Some of our plugins, including WorldEdit, have updated and we are now able to begin working on the new server. There are still many bugs – teleportation causes visual glitches, worldedit causes chunks to not generate, and ChestShops started throwing some errors that I haven’t looked at yet. This all means we are NOT ready yet, but progress is being made.

We are currently pre-generating the new world. Because of how large it is, it looks like it’s going to take about 4 days to complete the pre-generation. During this time we will continue to work on the plugins and fixing as many of the bugs as we can.

Thank you all for your patience and support!

The team over at <spigotmc.org> have released their first 1.13.1 compatible version. Spigot is the code that runs our server and was the primary reason we weren’t able to update sooner. With this version now being released by the Spigot team, we should be able to update very soon. However, during my initial tests, I found that there are some plugins that are not compatible with 1.13.1 – this is something we did not expect, and we will need to wait for these plugins to update before we can release a 1.13.1 server.

We are waiting on the following plugins:

WorldEdit – This is necessary to be able to transfer the new spawn into the new world and set up our 1.13.1 server event.

WorldGuard – This is necessary to be able to protect the spawn and make sure that mobs don’t spawn in spawn and players don’t die in spawn.

CoreProtect – This is necessary to track everything that players do and be able to rollback damage if someone griefs

Essentials – This partially supports 1.13.1, but currently does not support item names – this means no economy and no starter kits.

Dynmap – This one is _not_ necessary and we will update without it, but the 1.13 version does not work with 1.13.1, sadly. (We will add it once it’s working)

PlotSquared – This one is _not_ necessary and we will update without it, but without this plugin there will be no creative world and we (staff) will need to manually transfer the transfer plots over. (We will add it once it’s working)

CrazyCrates – This is _not_ necessary and we will update without it, but without this plugin the vote crates will not work. (We will add it once it’s working)

We will be watching these plugins throughout the day and hope that they will update very shortly. Once they do, we will begin working on the 1.13.1 server and once the server is ready we will give everyone a 24 hour notice.

Some of you may have already noticed some new ranks in chat today. Earlier today we renamed all of our regular time-based ranks, as well as all of our premium purchase-able ranks. The decision to change these was made due to the lack of consistency and theme that the old ranks had. (The old ranks’ order was a bit subjective and the premium ranks’ names had nothing to do with anything else on the server.)

These new ranks are based on Medieval social classes and professions, giving them a theme and a clearer hierarchy. The first three ranks (Drifter, Nomad, Peddler) represent the progression of someone who has just arrived on new land and has no association to a town. Once you become more established you will probably take residence in a town, at which point you will begin working up the ranks in town (Settler, Resident, Esquire, Knight). Finally, those of you who have donated will be nobility – our Barons, Counts, Dukes, and Archdukes.

If anyone has any concerns or suggestions regarding these new ranks, I’d love to hear it! I’m definitely willing to make adjustments because this is a major change.

Since we’ve upgraded the server we have a lot more hard drive space to work with now, and we’ve decided to make our new world a little bit bigger than originally planned.

Our original plan was to have the world start at 18K by 18K and expand by 1K in both X and Z every month until we reached 30K by 30K. We’ve decided instead to expand by 2K in both directions every month until we reach a maximum of 50K by 50K.

(Current world is 22K by 22K)

It’s been a few days since our last update, so I want to let everyone know how the 1.13 process is going. As you all know, **we are waiting for 1.13.1** before we release a public server because 1.13 has some world-breaking and server-crashing bugs. Once 1.13.1 is released we are hoping PaperSpigot will update very soon after (we are _hoping_ for 1/2 days) and then as long as our plugins still work, which they should, we will release the server a 2/3 days after that.

Most of our plugins are ready to go. They are compatible and have been configured. However, the following plugins are still **not** working:

– GriefPrevention (land claiming in survival)
– dynmap (the world map on the website)
– PlotSquared (the creative world)
– PvPManager (toggleable pvp)

We will continue watching these plugin until 1.13.1 is released, but they will **not** stop us from updating once it is released. We will find a way to work without them until they are updated and we can add them back. (PvP will be always off and all raiding/griefing/etc will be prohibited until the claim plugin is back).

Update: GriefPrevention has updated and should now work!

Hey everyone! You may have noticed a lot of new new merch being released recently. Here’s the situation: with so many new players joining recently we are frequently hitting our server’s player limit and we’ve been faced with a tough decision: should we reduce some settings to improve server performance, or upgrade our hardware?

It looks like in order to support more than 50 players online with our current hardware we need to reduce view distances, reduce mob spawn rates, or limit some of our features (frequent teleporting causes lag). Before I resort to changes that could effect everyone’s experience on the server, I first want to try upgrading our hardware. I’m not sure how much it will help, but I think it’s worth a try.

In order to do this, though, I need some help in covering the cost of the new hardware. The rent for our server will go from $48/m to $125/m. If anyone has been considering becoming a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/alttd, now is the time to do it. Thank you all so much for your support.

Current hardware: https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/game/171mc1.xml

Propose upgrade: https://www.ovh.com/world/dedicated-servers/game/171mc4.xml