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I learned to today that setting MEMORY on your minecraft server causes the JVM to egregiously allocate all of that memory. Not setting it causes slow downs and potential crashes, but setting INIT_MEMORY and MAX_MEMORY gives us the best of both worlds. It is allowed to use more, but does not gobble it all up on startup.

In this economy we need to save all the memory we can!

Here is a non-working snippet for a minecraft server deployment in kubernetes.

containers: - name: dungeon image: itzg/minecraft-server env: - name: EULA value: "true" - name: INIT_MEMORY value: "512M" - name: MAX_MEMORY value: "3G"

and in docker compose

Microsoft has been addding features to Minecraft for over 10 years now. Idk if there was momentum from the mojang theme, but we’ve barely paid attention to any updates in the last five years. The ocean update was huge, caves and cliffs were huge then it trailed off to we play each release on release day, use commands to try out new features, then never touch them again either to play minecraft as we always have or to play a modded pack with crazy new features that really make an impact on gameplay.

Progress so far on the Funk server elytra track. It goes through two sea lanturn lit caves so far.

wondercraft session one

My son and I are starting a new Minecraft server today called wondercraft.

We are running a few mods on this server notably FTB Ultimine for less grindy resource gathering, Sodium for shaders, and Universal Shops.

We are runninng on Minecraft 1.20.1, I think this is because it was the latest supported by Universal Shops, its at least one major release old at this point.

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This is the best tree I have ever built in minecraft. It took at least 4 stacks of logs and leaves despite what it looks like.

It is placed where Welscraft’s island in the hermitcraft season 10 seed, but on our own server we call lonecraft.

We started this server a few weeks after hermitcraft season 10 started, and play on it a few times per week. It has a pretty successful day one iron farm that took us way more than one day to complete, and the farm behind this is our first ever villager driven farm. Somehow potatoes got cross contaminated and now its pumping out potatoes and some bread, but no carrots or beat roots.

World Seed: 5103687417315433447

Underground Bases with Wyatt

Playing minecraft with Wyatt today he started a server all on his own and had me join. All vanilla, only one rule, underground bases.

I spawned into the server and it was already night time. I gathered up some wood on my way down a tree, and was attacked by zombies before I could get any tools, so I ran up another tree and crafted a crafting table.

Now to follow the rules, it’s time to head underground to build my base.

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Minecraft Doc Day 18
A crows nest added atop the storage silo offers a high lookout.
Minecraft Doc Day 17
Construction of a floating base begins on Day 16.
Minecraft Doc Day 12
Farm animals gathered and penned on Day 12.
Minecraft Doc Day 12
Beet and pumpkin farm plots prepared near the main base.
Minecraft Doc Day 11
Standing on Wyatt’s freshly built dock overlooking the water.
Minecraft Doc Day 11
Wyatt joins to conquer a zombie spawner and build a dock together.
Minecraft Doc Day 10
Secret storage area built as part of a tiny base challenge on Day 9.
Minecraft Doc Day 9
Early storage silo construction begins with terraforming and chest placement.
Minecraft Doc Day 8
After leaving the world paused, a surprise death screen leads to a survival reset.
Minecraft Doc Day 7
A newly constructed animal pen expands the farm.