I’m happy to announce, SilCraft is coming back (on a quasi-permanent basis)!
For now, and perhaps indefinitely, it will be a private server - in that I won’t be advertising its existence. It’s also ephemeral, meaning it won’t be on-line 100% of the time just yet. But perhaps eventually. There are some non-technical hurdles there. I’ll try to have it on during the day, for the time being.
At the moment it’s just a basic Bukkit 1.7.2 server, but I’ll be working to partially restore the old settings. I may also run a poll to see what - if any - maps you’d like to see restored.
I’ll definitely get some basic permissions set up to block any random griefers that might somehow stumble upon this domain.
Woohoo! Now to rally the ol’ troops. If only I had as much time to play as I did a couple years ago. Would be sick. Still, looking forward to what this might bring.
Spent more than a little time tonight setting some things up.
Permissions are a bit up in the air. I have 3 creative and 3 survival worlds, but just barebones permissions. Sadly, I seem to have lost the old SQL databases in the OS changes I’ve been through. So, it mostly has to be rebuilt. But I have all the old config files - and even the old worlds which I may make into museums.
I’m planning to lock out any players as Plebians by default. Plebs will have little to no permissions. Everyone else is a Legend and will be fairly free to do whatever. But I’ll try to divide up creative and survival so it makes sense.
Could take a while to tweak it to a good place. Right now you can probably just wander around world and do whatever. It may or may not be Creative mode. Lots to do to get it up and running in a decent place. Permissions take a while.
Okay, Plebs should now be restricted to chatting in world. I’ll probably get a plugin which allows me to kick Plebs to make room for Legends. Still need to set up creative vs survival permissions.
A lot to do there. I have to dole out WorldEdit permissions, teleport permissions, Lockette permissions, LavaFurnace permissions, and all kinds of shit. And set up a halfway decent system to go between modes. It would be great if somehow it could remember your previous location, and I could just set teleporting to creative on a timer (no get out of jail free cards).
Please remind me your minecraft usernames, so I can give you legend status. I may allow Legends to promote people, though I’m not sure how to handle that just yet. PEX doesn’t let you promote to your own level by default, or maybe it does.
Going to allow free teleporting for now. If someone can recommend a good teleporting plugin with warmups/cooldowns, I’d prefer to just allow teleports between worlds. It would be cool if it saved your location in the other world.
WorldEdit perms are set. It actually should log actions via LogBlock now, meaning I can see and undo bad worldedits. So tread carefully! Also commandbook permissions and such. I’d say see the wiki but I lost the old wiki text, and it would be out of date anyway.
Oh, I realize it’s slightly risky because whatever, but I will probably give Legends the ability to promote, just in case I’m not around. Theoretically, that would leave the server completely exposed if one person decides to be an ass - but with my currently logging capability - I should be able to revert whatever might happen.
