Official Minecraft Server thread

[jonny5v]

Here is question to notch about recent problems:

@notch Is the "Took too long to log in" message related to the web servers being overloaded?

And here is notch's response:

@iMineServer yes

So it seems as if the servers are being overloaded. They must still be migrating the servers over to their new housing. They stopped last night according to this:

We weren't able to finish the migration today, so we're taking a pause to sleep.

Anyways, hope this helps.

[Jeimuzu]

Appreciate the info Jonny.

Anyways, seems like Minecraft.net is down for the time.

[jonny5v]

NP

Here is what was posted 2 days ago that could be affecting everyone:

Once again, minecraft.net is more popular than the poor old server can keep up with, so we’re upgrading. I’m not quite sure how long it will take to get done as it’s mostly Tobias doing the work (thank you, sir!). We’ve got a huge amazon cloud server which we’re moving the main server to. We’ll be able to replicate this as demand grows, and we’ll have a load balancer set up in front of it all. Skin downloads will almost certainly be migrated to S3 downloads instead of going through resin as it does now, and we’ll have a separate server just to handle game logins and auth requests.

In other news, we spent the day today out of the office in various cafés, as the floor was getting fixed. And we got the Machinima.com IGA awards! They’re pretty!

If you want to see some pics from the office and Mojang in general, Carl has a photo album here. It gets updated every now and then.

For Minecraft development, we’re working on the new file format, and a new game launcher. The file format is still in early testing, but it’s looking somewhat promising, except for it taking up a bit too much space. It’s faster, though.
The new Launcher will be a bit prettier, will show release notes and other news, will send login requests over https (finally), and will ask if the user wants to update to the latest version or not. In the future, we’ll add support for playing the previous installed version (after warning the player that there might be unexpected bugs) and the ability to choose what work directly to save the level files, but that’s not coming in this version.

We’ve got a meeting planned for tomorrow with some community members to discuss how to best implement the modding.

This actually happened late last year and everyone was going crazy. The game community just keeps growing and growing so this might be a common occasion throughout minecraft until it is actually a done release.

[Christmas]

am after xmas's house towards the east (left if coming from tower on blade's obsedian road...)

It's not a house.

[Steamer]

I have a hobble near blades house. I just get lost half the time looking for it... lmao

[acolyte_to_jippity]

me and my friend have a place past james' place (mountain w/ lava going down it, which is past underwater area near spawn) follow valley between that mountain and the pyramid (maynard i presume?) an you'll see the tall-ass flaming log i have as a marker. oh, and i say this in a stay-the-fuck-out kind of way.

we see anyone in our mine (except for a certain 4 people who know who they are) we'll remove you an take your shit. no questions asked

[taz1stP]

we just need to make alliances and make areas that they rule and who is and isn't allude in it.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

we just need to make alliances and make areas that they rule and who is and isn't allude in it.

i'll give you a hint: you're not one of the 4.

pass overhead all you want, we on't care if you walk OVER our mine on your way to paths unknown. but don't go inside

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

or taz. we can all have integrity and keep our noses out of each others shit. all this "keep out" talk is bullshit we shouldn't have to be doing any of it.

its fuck heads like you taz, that everyone starts to lose trust in people they are perfectly fine trusting.


Treat it like your RL neighborhood, do not go into there house without permission and everything will be dandy and minimal hostility will be present in our server/community.

[&&toasties]

It's Heaven's.

Yeah, it's nothing compared to my badass castle, but hey.

Nor soon to be my just as badass castle.