Category: Website Updates

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Hello, Betacraft, and hello again to our old domains!

I wanted to say hello to the Betacraft community! Livecraft’s Beta 1.7.3 server was recently added to the Betacraft Launcher‘s server list. The Betacraft launcher provides a very convenient way to play Beta Minecraft online as it was meant to be played. Mojang has not fixed the login and server authentication issues despite promising to do so in 2022! The launcher has some extras, including the old door, arrow, and egg sounds for full beta immersion.

Betacraft’s newest 2.0 launcher is currently in alpha, and one of the changes made is adding support for modern Minecraft versions. I will be looking to add Livecraft’s modern server to that list once I have the opportunity to do so.

Welcome, Betacraft community! I hope you enjoy our server as much as we have.

Also, I have some exciting news! After years, our old domains livecraft.us and live-craft.com have finally been given up by the domain parkers/scalpers! I was able to acquire them for a very reasonable price and have configured them to redirect to livecraft.net. Anyone out there with live-craft.com or livecraft.us still in their server list will see it light up for the first time in years. ❤️

I’ve also made a few changes to our website that should prevent minor issues if you access it through mc.livecraft.net or livecraft.net. We now have a redirect that will take you to www.livecraft.net, preventing any odd sign-in issues or issues with browser extensions such as Dark Reader not remembering your preferences.

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What’s New: Week 517

Saw my old “What’s New” weekly-ish posts and decided to see how many weeks it’s been since then. 517 weeks! We’re old.

I’m introducing a new page which will be coming soon, with the goal of documenting available commands, what they do, and who has access to them. This will include Livecraft-specific features, such as the poke command.

Update: I’ve launched those pages! They can be accessed by expanding the About category, or by clicking one of the links below:

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Livecraft Archives!

We’ve added a section to the site for archives from Livecraft’s history. You’ll be able to find world downloads, old content, and more to come on this page. You can visit the Media and Archives category to see the content available. If you’d like to make any suggestions, have anything to contribute, or want to comment, please reach out by leaving a comment on the page, this post, or on Discord.

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Update #3

I have bought a new domain (livecraft.us) and we will be online by the end of the month, hopefully sooner.

Regards,
Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

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New Backup Site

Hey, everyone.

As a result of some down-time, a simple backup site has been pulled up. The backup website will contain basic information on what’s going on when the server’s experiencing difficulties and whatnot.

You can reach this site here: http://bck.livecraft.us/

It might be a good idea to bookmark that as a convenience.

~ David (Drak1234)

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Cloudflare Services Enabled

Hey, Livecraft is now backed by Cloudflare. The server will work the same exact way, but we’re behind Cloudflare’s network, preventing attacks on the website and server.

Enjoy,

Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

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Livecraft’s back online!

As you should have noticed, Livecraft died. We had a hard drive failure; however, the hard drive survived. The data, however, did not. Everything was wiped, including the website, server, and everything. Me, Evil, and Medius have spent the last week getting Livecraft online and working nicely. It should be a lot faster than it used to be.

What’s new:

  1. Craftbook replaced Essentials
  2. Craftbook replaced TimeLock
  3. PermissionsEx replaced Essentials GroupManager
  4. ChatManager replaced Essentials Chat

Command differences:

  1. No more /tpa. Use /call instead.
  2. /back = resume from /afk.
  3. Use /return to go back to a location you were just at.

Other changes:

  1. Website died. D:
  2. Everything else died
  3. Server was totally reset.

I know many of you probably lost items from the new map, but there was no possible way to recover the lost data. Even if I could have recovered the map, it would have been severely corrupted and just not worth fixing.

Regards, Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

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Test Livecraft’s new website!

shushker and I (alfonsojon) have been busy developing a website to replace this one. It might look a little different, but what powers it is extremely different.

The new website is home-made, but the one you’re reading this on is powered by WordPress.

You can see it by clicking the “Test website!” link up in the navigation bar.

Plans for the new site:

Check if the user actually has a minecraft account before registering
Be way faster
Have forums and other neat stuff
Better website chat
Make it easier to use

Current status:
Layout made and designed
Begin working on news functions
Begin working on user registration functions

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Minecraft 1.3, Map reset

Due to the HUGE amount of changes with Minecraft 1.3.1, we’ve decided to reset the map so that everyone can have fun with the jungle pyramids and better NPC villages. The Flatlands were not reset, and neither were the Skylands. It’s going to be a while until the Bukkit team (the people who develop our server software) make a version compatible with Minecraft 1.3.1, so we figured we’d use this time to make the new spawn. Please don’t tell us to upgrade, we will as soon as possible but until then you can participate in chats to the server through our IRC channel (The chat page, up in the top). There might be a few plugin tweaks in the following week in order to accommodate Minecraft 1.3.1 (such as a planned re-colouring of the user prefixes) and possibly a spleef plugin. Other than that, the server experience should be the same, aside from the map.

Hope this clarifies things,
Jonathan Alfonso (alfonsojon)

Bukkit homepage:
www.bukkit.org

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Busy Jon is busy

I’ve been busy the last 3 days working on the site. I’m trying to tweak the theme so it looks great while being even more functional than ever. There will soon be a photo gallery for promoting epic builds, you can pm others, and even upload your own screenshots.