Minecraft History

[Floris]

Update September 2020:

We've completed the shift from Spigot to Paper and the plugins are up to date for 1.16.3 it seems. We hope this helps us make a stable base that we can play on until 1.16.4 or higher, or even 1.17. The changelogs have all the specifics.

Internal version is now 1MB 2.8.3, for Minecraft, running Paper 1.16.3, ready for end of year events.

 

[Floris]

Update November 2020:

Mojang has announced 1.17 for Summer 2021. This means we will be upgrading to that hopefully and using this time to enjoy 1.16.x as is, working on stability. This fall season we're doing events, and in between events we're doing hardware and software maintenance that help overall performance.

Mojang has also announced Minecraft 1.16.4. This means we since we're on 1.16.3 that we are looking into supporting this version soon. We might regenerate a couple of worlds, mainly our resource worlds. This will be part of 1MB 2.8.4.

Today we've had a network update and this benefits the 1MoreBlock Minecraft server. We replaced all the local cables with new optical cables and connections. Supporting newer frequences, speeds, etc. We've moved from docsis 3.0 to 3.1, helping us boost significantly. I've also taken the opportunity to update macOS Catalina prior to Big Sur to its latest release that came out today.

Now both hardware and software, apps, and involved services are on their latest (possible) version, tests are showing things are running smoothly. And that would sign off the end of 1MB 2.8.3, for 1.16.3, and our next update is for 1.16.4 this fall season, and otherwise this winter season update (there's no real rush).

Another dedicated 100/10mbit has been allocated towards Minecraft to deal with overhead. The Minecraft server now has access to the today's installed gbit docsis 3.1 connection. Due to Covid-19 coming back this November, we didn't want to wait installing this with the risk of a lockdown. So this is part 1MB 2.8.3 but it's kinda already 2.8.4.

Starting with 1MB 2.8.3 we will start to introduce support for the upcoming Mojang MSA Account Migration as also recently announced by Mojang.

 

[Floris]

Update November 2020:

We've finalized 1MB version 2.8.4, and have upgraded to Paper 1.16.4 today.

The server engines, core plugins, main features, and supporting plugins have been updated and tested (for what we can) on 1.16.4.

The hardware/software upgrade has also completed for now. I have no intention right now to expand or change this, but will make plans for the Winter update in January to nitpick/tweak the network and server configurations.

With the next version being 1.17 probably next year, and the upcoming MSA migration by Mojang, we are going to be on 1.16.4 for a while unless something unexpected happens or there's a reason to upgrade to 1.16.5.

Resource worlds might get reset today as well, we're still reviewing.

We will try to work on rebuilding /Souls and make it proper live.

We will announce that /Wild will be discontinued until 1.17.

 

[Floris]

Update January 1st, 2021:

We've updated the 1MB server to our internal version 2.8.5, to start the Winter Update for 2020/2021. This is also because this year we're a ten year old community.

1MoreBlock.com version 2.8.5, for Minecraft 1.16, running Paper 1.16.4, ready for Minecraft 1.17 later in 2021 hopefully.

 

[Floris]

Update January 16th, 2021:

Dupe, exploit, maintenance, villager, and other fixes, as well as crash fixes by Mojang and the community. We've bumped our version from .5 to 1MB 2.8.6, and our Minecraft version from .4 to 1.16.5.

Congratulations 1MB, for 10 years

 

[Floris]

Update February 4th, 2021:

There have been enough updated after cleaning up the January events, and preparing for the February ones, And we've updated our /spawn and other organized our plugins. That it justifies to bump the version number this Winter Update once more.

We've made fixes to the custom commands, extended the tab/welcome msg, and other elements of the game. We've updated the bentobox and cmi stuff, and processed a lot more player feedback. We're introducing soulbind and bedrock breaking pickaxe, and starting to take the first step towards custom model data items.

We are on 1.16.5, preparing for 1.16.6, and 1.17.x. And now on 1MB 2.8.7.

 

[Floris]

Update end of Winter, early Spring 2021. March 16th.

We've moved slowly to 1MB 2.8.8, trying to get stable and slowly prepare for 1.17 in the future.

And today, It's also Vloop's birthday. He turned 45, and he was celebrating this on the 1MB server, playing and live-streaming. And MrBeast joined the stream and donated 12,000 usd$ to him.

Crazy day.

Anyway, we're running okay now and the winter update is officially over. Next will be updates near the end of the month of March for 2.8.8 and we will call it the Spring Update.

 

[Floris]

April 14th, 2021:

Major bump this Spring Update 2021, legacy plugins finally got a major bump in their version or their player data. Purging old stuff that can go (details in changelogs) and we've bumped java to version 16, leaving 11 behind us.

We're now on 1MB version 2.8.9 for Minecraft 1.16.5, what's next? Probably a per-plugin maintenance while we continue to go through public and private todo lists. Prepping slowly for the Summer 1.17 update and Java 17 tls update this fall, etc.

 

[Floris]

Update June 8th, 2021

Mojang is to release 1.17 today, we've finalizing our updates on 1.16.5 and locking maintenance for anything big. The 2.8.9's latest version has been manually backed up, and the version has been bumped today to 2.8.10 and will be the last 1.16.5 until we upgrade to 2.9.x for 1.17.x

 

[Floris]

Update: June 25th, 2021

Spigot and Paper 1.17 are out, and 1.17.1 is pushed down a little bit. The 2.8.10 version of 1MB has been replaced with 1MB version 2.9.0, and our server got upgraded today to 1.17.0. The resource worlds have been reset.

This weekend we will have a grace period, in case of big unforeseen issues. But it looks right now like we're staying on 1.17

Summer update!

 

[Floris]

Update July 11th, 2021:

On the 7th of July we've upgraded to 1.17.1, fixing known exploits and dupes in 1.17.0 ~ We've reset our resource worlds.

 

[Floris]

September 6th, 2021,

2.9.2 update.

This includes all the changelog updates from the last month. Including the updates to Discord, Legacy world, preparations for /parkour and 1.18. and the Tuinity/Paper merger. I consider this .2 a maintenance release to 1.17.1

 

[Floris]

September 16th, 2021

Version 2.9.3 - Fall Season Update 2021 - Part 1 (Early Fall, Early Java, Early 1.18)

We're a week shy of officially starting the fall season, but that's okay. We're also early on Java 17 support, and early on 1.18 support. Today we've updated the server of 1.17.1 to work with Java 17 which has been announced by Oracle, and is an lts. And Mojang announced 1.18 via test experiments earlier, but now as an official public Snapshot. We've also looking to add further connectivity support for players who want to use the 1.18 protocol to connect to our 1.17.1 server (so stay tuned!)

 

[Floris]

September 28th, 2021

Fall Season 2021, Update 2. Protocol Support.

After enough maintenance to feel stable, we've added support for Bedrock Edition of Minecraft (1.17.10 - 1.17.30) through Geyser, and we've added Java Edition support from version 1.17.10 to 1.18.snapshot2 (and newer as they get released).

This is an experiment. We do not guarantee it will continue to support this moving forward. But hopefully things go well. Give it a try!

Known issues:

Spoiler

• Custom heads in inventories
• Clickable links in chat
• Glowing effect
• Crafting in the 2x2 menu while in creative mode
• Distinguishing between left and right clicks in inventories
• Redstone dot blockstates
• "Can be placed on/destroyed" tag for some blocks - for example, different colors of clay/wool that don't exist as separate blocks
• Potion colors implemented using NBT
• Various command arguments for any command that doesn't use the Minecraft Brigadier library
• Anything that relies on tab complete or typing in the chat UI (related to the above) - Bedrock sends no packet that indicates they are in this menu
• Unable to see banner layers past 6
• Movement issues around bamboo due to offset differences between Java and Bedrock
• Custom anvil recipes
• Heights lower than -64 or higher than 320 in the overworld with extended height enabled, and heights lower than 0 or higher than 256 in other dimensions
• Dolphin's Grace potion effect visuals (effects should still work correctly)
• Invisible item frames

After installing a resource pack, the following issues could be resolved, we do not support this resource pack; but you can give it a try.

Spoiler

• Custom armor stand poses
• Illusioners
• Iron golem cracked texture
• Hit particles and other miscellaneous particles not natively in Bedrock
• Offhand animations
• Shulker invisibility
• Spectral arrow texture

GeyserOptionalPack

A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. - GeyserMC/Geyser

github.com

 

[Floris]

Version 2.9.5 - Fall Season Update 2021 - Part 3 (Late Fall / Early Winter, the end of era 2.0)

We have come to the end of an era for 1MoreBlock, and we're ready for the next season. Era 1.0 was 2011/2012 is period with Mikey and our group of friends. Then 2.0 was after the dark era and when we took the server back online more seriously, with 24/7 hosting and daily maintenance. We had new world heights, new aquatic updates, new npc villages, new features, said by to old features, we welcomed the new nether and introduced resource worlds for those casual gamers, and so so much more. We've made it to 10+ years of running the server with 1MB version 1 and 2. It's time for a change, "Winter is coming", we're ready for a new era, 1MB version 3.0 and it starts this Winter 2021.
We are finalizing 1.17.x, have said bye to Java 8, 11, and 16. We've moved to fully 64bit, and we have a decade of experience now. All the plugins are running the best they can, and we're enjoying all the gametypes, worlds, adventures, survival and creative gameplay, as well as events.
And 1MB 2.9.5 marks that moment. It's the end of Era 2, and moving forward with 1.18.x we will be ready for Era 3 with more community helpers, more world chunks, a new wilderness, and we're preparing to improve our connectivity, dedicate more resources to hosting it 24/7 and spread the workload, tweak our survival gameplay, clean up the history of accounts, statistics, and continue mining, pvp-ing and building fantastic gameplay experiences and builds. Stay tuned if you want to be part of our history, our lore, and our community.

 

[Floris]

Version 3.0.0 - Winter Season Update 2021 - Part 1 (Early Winter, the start of era 3.0)

Converted the server from 1.17.1 to 1.18.1

 

[Floris]

Version 3.0.1 + patch (December 31st, 2021) update;

ViaRewind, ViaBackwards, ViaVersion, ViaStatus and Geyser uninstalled for now. This might return.

Other maintenance patches have been applied to increase stability.

[edit] early january we were able to resolve a few issues and have returned via* plugins and geyser.

 

[Floris]

January 6th, 2022:

Today we've removed temp worlds and installed new perm worlds.

/wild
/end
/nether

internal version bumped to 3.0.2

 

[Floris]

Update, Feb 15th, 2022:

- kernel patches
- macOS update
- java 17.0.2 update

- plugin maintenance
- prepping for 1.18.2 and spring update.

 

[Floris]

Update

1mb 3.0.4, bbox and pyrofishingpro updates, they were pretty big updates.

 

[Floris]

Update:

1MB 3.0.4 -> 3.1.0
Minecraft 1.18.1 -> 1.18.2
Spring Update part 1.

 

[Floris]

3.1.1 update.

End of Winter Update
Start of Spring Update 2022

1MB 3.1.1 (up from 3.1.0) - has all the maintenance updates, patches, security patches, java updates, etc from the winter update that we've tested running live now, and the last 2 missing plugins (shopchest and auctionhouse) work (for the player)

We're ready for the Spring update. Meanwhile, Mojang's released first snapshot of 1.19.x

 

[Floris]

3.1.2 (2nd spring update)

1mb 3.1.2 - all about maintenance.

 

[Floris]

I am done with the spring update #2

1mb 3.1.3 is what we run now.

includes java 17.0.3 security update, plugin maintenance, configuration maintenance, and trying to process player feedback. and introducing support for 1.19 snapshots.