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Where Did Surf Go?

I got a bunch of e-mails asking if I was dead. Not dead...playing skyrim! :)

I'm severely, severely addicted. 5+ hours a night. I will be back though...to give you an idea of where I'm at, look at this checklist I built: Checklist

Just to fill you in, I have 6 lovely houses, 2 more in construction, I have married my beautiful wife Aela the Huntress and we've adopted a daughter (Runa Fair-Shield) and are considering adopting a son. I have earned the title of Thane in 9 holds, am the Harbinger of the Companions, Guild Master of the Thieves Guild, Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, and have fully realized my identity as the Dragonborn as I defeated Aludin in the plane of Sovngarde.

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Server down

As you all have notice the server is not available. Naturally Surf decided it would be a great time to go visit family in Southern California so he can't manually reset the server. I will be able to manually reset the server this evening after I get off work at 8pm PST. In the mean time find something else to do and hopefully we will be up and running tonight.

Update: Server is now up

Update 2: It appears the reboot has caused people to lose some items. Please list the items and quantities you were missing in the comments. Do no list items you did not have!!!

World Corruption Error

THe server is running in a blank world on my test machine right now. Why? Read below! Feel free to fuck around in this dummy map.

Unstable bukkit is causing dramatic world corruption errors. Working on a fix, may take some time, we'll be offline for a while. CHeck here for updates.

Since everyone deserves more info: Bukkit is having a problem where the cached chunk isn't getting written to the save, so it's reloading from the save, with the wrong coords, then writing that back. That's balls. So there's a utility to fix this, linked here: Fenixin which I am running...which on a world our size oculd take HOURS.

UPDATE: After like 32 hours, I got the following result:

############ Trying to fix wrong located chunks ############

-------------------- New chunk to fix! ---------------------
Backup region file found in: /Backup/backup.1000/world/region/r.1.0.mca
fixing...
Chunk fixed using backup dir: /Backup/backup.1000/world

-------------------- New chunk to fix! ---------------------
Backup region file found in: /Backup/backup.1000/world/region/r.1.0.mca
fixing...
Chunk fixed using backup dir: /Backup/backup.1000/world

-------------------- New chunk to fix! ---------------------
Backup region file found in: /Backup/backup.1000/world/region/r.1.0.mca
fixing...
Chunk fixed using backup dir: /Backup/backup.1000/world

-------------------- New chunk to fix! ---------------------
Backup region file found in: /Backup/backup.1000/world/region/r.1.0.mca
fixing...
Chunk fixed using backup dir: /Backup/backup.1000/world

4 fixed chunks of a total of 4 wrong located chunks

Then, I booted it up, logged in...and got this:

10:31:34 [INFO] Chunk file at 52,24 is in the wrong location; relocating. (Expected 52, 24, got 36, 23)
10:31:34 [INFO] Chunk file at 54,23 is in the wrong location; relocating. (Expected 54, 23, got 35, 19)
10:31:34 [INFO] surfrock66 [/192.168.1.20:54221] lost connection
10:31:36 [WARNING] Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?
10:31:38 [INFO] /192.168.1.20:54260 lost connection
10:31:41 [INFO] surfrock66[/192.168.1.20:54261] logged in with entity id 1269 at ([world] 756.9894146231807, 126.45365615855602, 416.88230313021995)
10:31:44 [INFO] Chunk file at 38,25 is in the wrong location; relocating. (Expected 38, 25, got 36, 21)
10:31:44 [INFO] Chunk file at 52,24 is in the wrong location; relocating. (Expected 52, 24, got 36, 23)
10:31:44 [INFO] Chunk file at 54,23 is in the wrong location; relocating. (Expected 54, 23, got 35, 19)
10:31:52 [WARNING] Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded?
10:31:56 [INFO] Chunk file at 36,18 is in the wrong location; relocating. (Expected 36, 18, got 41, 13)

Right back where we started, broken chunks. I don't know what to do, elite base is all fucked. It's for sure the beta bukkit. I think what'll have to happen is when RB comes out, we'll have to run this again and re-try to fix it...until then I'll look at manually editing the region files to fix it since the coords ARE there, pulling from a backup from like Nov 5. I'm sorry this is happening, and there's no clean fix for it.

I'm gonna try one more thing...in case that backup # 1000 had the bad chunk errors already written, I'm gonna run this one more time with the oldest backup we have, see if it fixes it. Stay tuned...I figured how to multi-thread it so it'll go faster.

teh3l3m3nts National Museum

Sup fellow 3l3m3ntals! The demons possessing Surf were vanquished and sent back to the void. Surf himself had to die, but we all live in Minecraft where death is only temporary, so no big deal. Surf's possessed body, when it was destroyed, dropped some artifacts. I have collected these artifacts, and I intend to start a server museum near spawn. There's one problem though. I don't have the materials or the time.

If you'll remember, Pirate was in the same situation a while ago. What I'm asking is if I can temporarily be made an admin while I finish this project so that I can switch in and out of creative. While I have been pestering Surf to make me a full-time admin for quite a while, I would only need temporary admin for this project. (I've been part of the server for a year and 11 months, so don't worry about me going berzerk and griefing everything. I promise I won't.)

The second thing that I'm asking is whether anybody has anything to donate to the museum. It can be anything from a book that helped defeat Surf *cough cough* Omo *cough* to the first sword you ever made. Also, if you have any ideas about the museum, let me know.

Tell me what you guys think of my propositions in the comments!