[Sandwich]

How do you make a backup without admin access to the server? Wait, lemme guess... a mod that backs up chunks directly from Minecraft's cache?

[KyadCK]

How do you make a backup without admin access to the server? Wait, lemme guess... a mod that backs up chunks directly from Minecraft's cache?

And we have a winner! (Although a cheater if you read PMs  )

In all seriousness though, I backup both the Fenris, Apollo, Herc, and Deimos every once and a while, make schematics of them, drop them in once place, and render (at SW_30*, for people who know dynmap's render stuff). Herc and Apollo never get updated (they are done after all), Fenris every few weeks, Deimos based on the amount of progress I make, anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks.

Shame you're never on IRC, or you'd have known about this like 2-3 weekks ago. 

[Sandwich]

How do you make a backup without admin access to the server? Wait, lemme guess... a mod that backs up chunks directly from Minecraft's cache?

And we have a winner! (Although a cheater if you read PMs  )

I actually didn't check my PMs until afterwards.

Shame you're never on IRC, or you'd have known about this like 2-3 weekks ago. 

I was on IRC and the server on a huge building spree for the longest time, but nobody was on so my motivation kinda just died out.

[headdie]

I love my graphics card sometimes

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[Mongoose]

That can't be good.  Though I shouldn't be talking...Minecraft has managed to crash my Catalyst drivers a few times.

[TrashMan]

Ouch. Looks like the lighting system is causing the mess...

[headdie]

My card seems to do funky things when it gets warm, especially when in OpenGL mode

[Grimper]

It may not be your video card...the new lighting system in minecraft is buggy by itself.

[headdie]

the card has done funny stuff like that for years and i am sure i have had that happen on several minecraft builds

[Akalabeth Angel]

Odd, the dynmap seems to indicate that some of the more extreme explored areas are degrading or something, or is that intentional?

[achtung]

Odd, the dynmap seems to indicate that some of the more extreme explored areas are degrading or something, or is that intentional?

I noticed that. Strange things are happening.

[Alex Heartnet]

The lighting bugs have been driving custom mapmakers nuts for quite some time.  It's supposed to get fixed in the next patch, though.

[Grimper]

Odd, the dynmap seems to indicate that some of the more extreme explored areas are degrading or something, or is that intentional?

Huh if that's a feature it seems kinda neat o,o (provided it doesn't eat areas which people have built in)

[achtung]

Odd, the dynmap seems to indicate that some of the more extreme explored areas are degrading or something, or is that intentional?

Huh if that's a feature it seems kinda neat o,o (provided it doesn't eat areas which people have built in)

I noticed an area that appears to have had a structure. Now only a small section of wall is left.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Odd, the dynmap seems to indicate that some of the more extreme explored areas are degrading or something, or is that intentional?

Huh if that's a feature it seems kinda neat o,o (provided it doesn't eat areas which people have built in)

I noticed an area that appears to have had a structure. Now only a small section of wall is left.

Well, I know I built some temporary tree house sorta thing on an island that's getting eaten up a bit. Not sure if it's affected or not, or whether I could even find it again if it isn't.

[BlueFlames]

Back when Minecraft used its original world file format, there were rampant issues with chunks saving incorrectly and getting regenerated, the next time a player came though.  Perhaps there's a similar issue with the current save format that just doesn't crop up, until you've got a massive world.  If it continues to be an issue, I'd recommend pruning unused areas from the world save and/or putting a moratorium on lengthy, exploratory expeditions.

[KyadCK]

Back when Minecraft used its original world file format, there were rampant issues with chunks saving incorrectly and getting regenerated, the next time a player came though.  Perhaps there's a similar issue with the current save format that just doesn't crop up, until you've got a massive world.  If it continues to be an issue, I'd recommend pruning unused areas from the world save and/or putting a moratorium on lengthy, exploratory expeditions.

I play on a server with a 16GB Overworld map file. This doesn't happen there, so it isn't a built-in feature/bug.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Maybe it's just an issue with the DynMap?

[Akalabeth Angel]

Though, if building far from the spawn is destablizing the map in some way, or, if those areas will eventually be messed up let me know. And I can move back close to the spawn somewheres.

[Aardwolf]

I read something on the minecraft wiki which might be relevant... Apparently chunk generation is a 2-step process. First it creates the chunks without any features (e.g. trees, mineral veins, etc.), then later it adds those features. Maybe something odd is going on with that?