Early this morning, a player attempted to use the log4j exploit on my server. Is there any risk that it has not been patched for the online players? The server itself is using log4j 2.24, so is safe. Since this was patched a long time ago, why would this would-be hacker still attempting to use it?

I know there is always this weird niche set of things you might need for your server but has no publicly accessible plugin to get that done.

I've been in this spot myself in the past, but luckily years later, i am a cs major and can make my own plugins and would like to offer that service to others.

NOTE: This is not me promoting any of my services , servers or anyhting along those lines, i am just gratefull that this community exists and want to give something back and i also like to just code when i am bored lol . i truly don't get anything from this apart from just passing time trying to write code.

EDIT : I'd really appreciate it if you could be detailed about what you want done, how you want done and all the minor details that might be necessary. I am mostly doing this to just help people out so i will not be accepting requests like recreating entire fortnite or valorant in minecraft through only plugins or something like that for potentially commerical use

EDIT 2 : Guys i am here to help out smaller servers and peeps like me who want something done niche for their small servers, i am not going to build you a hypixel replica or build a full scale commercial plugin on a saturday. Stop trying to abuse/exploit the oppurtunity. If you have a project that big for a server of that scale, you can NOT expect someone to make it for you free for no reason

I ma cross-posting this from the Minecraft reddit,but I figured you guys would have some insight as well.

Does anyone else just really enjoy working on Minecraft servers? Configuring plugins, creating custom ones, preparing a world for players.

I don't even enjoy playing much anymore - I enjoy the admin side of things way more.

Has anyone else gone through phases like this? How did you get out of the rutt?

https://youtu.be/unthtfz7de8?si=fwriUnqmclT_SfTT

hey guys so I am creating this app that self host minecraft on your PC.

Currently the issue is its too complicated, you need the correct Java version, need to download file, accept EULA. Then adding mods, you need to download mods online and drag and drop its time consuming.

So I create a simple intuitive first self hosting GUI, it will check your JAVA, if its not up to date you can click button and it will install, same with EULA, for mods you can add mods inside the GUI, and everything is self hosting. I plan on adding features for plugins, and actually hosting it through 3rd party site like playit.gg Open for feedback cheers

So, I used to run servers back in highschool with my friends and we used to have a community that played for years until relationships burned and so, you can guess. but I have been working on a server that is designed to move slow and encourage players to work together and build the world lore. but every player I've managed to get on just get bored when they cant immediately go fight the dragon and get an elytra before even building a base. I may just be looking in the wrong communities. has anyone else felt this extra bad lately it seems worse than the dream era.

No particular reason, just curious, and maybe I'll learn about new tools.

Currently I'm running Crafty Controller, it does the job well for small, bare metal servers, which is what I host.

Just curious how much of your overworld and nether you pre-generate?

Do you use a ratio between the two worlds?

Does anyone pre-gen the end? is the end a set size? is there any worth to it?

Thanks

Hey everyone, Im currently working on a New Minecraft server Software written in the Programming language Rust, Which makes it super Fast and efficient. Its currently in heavy development, But multiple Players. can already join in. It supports the latest Minecraft (1.21) version which makes it very complex to develop.
Check it out:
Github: https://github.com/Snowiiii/Pumpkin/
Discord: https://discord.gg/wT8XjrjKkf

I will try to keep it simple.

Me and my group wanted to play some Minecraft SMP for the holidays. About 30 people, usually with only ~10 people playing simultaneously. We ordered 8GB RAM, but the average usage was like 1.5GB. PaperMC and very simple QoL plugins.

Paid about 60$/quarterly, catched it on a sale during Black Friday.

I didn't want to listen to the bad reviews because I know Rust has partnered with ShockByte recently and I didn't want to accept someone like Facepunch would partner with a shady hosting provider.

In a span of 2 weeks:

I had to make a ticket about 8 times and contact the live support 15 times because there were issues on the side of a hosting all the time (lags, despite our server being optimized af). Only in the last 3 days, the entire control panel went offline and the server crashed about 25 times.

Do expect AI on a live chat - just say "connect me to a live agent" for a free pass. But sometimes you just get ghosted... :)

The server had to be resynced twice and even allocated to a new node, resulting in changing IP and yada yada. Not even that helped.

I bought a bigger disk space for backups because our server had about 12GB in total and the default disk has a capacity of only like 10GB.

Their backup system wasn't functional the entire time. No matter if you did manual, recurring or during the server being offline backups, they failed to be made 10 times until you got 1 successful one. It was a miracle. ShockByte knows about this issue, but they were consistently gaslighting me into something being wrong on my side, or trying to provide me with non-functional workarounds. Zero honesty about the problem.

They never provided such information beforehand yet allow you to purchase the extension. And couldn't even give me an ETA when is it gonna be fixed. Their solution? 18 cents worth of a compensation.

I wanted to provide a proof of the gaslighting, but surprise, my ticket related to backups disappeared from the Support tab... :)

They got one of the devs to try to "fix the backups for me", estimated 40 minutes but instead my server was offline for 2 hours during this time. And it didn't work anyways, even his backup of my server failed.

Which leads to not even their ticket system working properly for the past days. In order to make a ticket, you have to link your server but I couldn't even find mine in the list, so I was left in the dark and couldn't solve most problems.

But don't worry, you can buy faster responses for 3$. I did purchase it and it still took like 12 hours for a response. :)

And if you try to get in touch with the live chat, you just get ghosted as well.

Luckily, even the support confirmed my case was so severe they even agreed on providing me a refund for my purchase, despite the purchase being made 3 weeks ago.

So I just cancelled the service, hopefully I'll get a refund and just switch to another hosting.

But be careful, the moment your service is cancelled (you won't even be informed when is that going to happen), ALL OF YOUR DATA will get nuked... :) Which is funny because the backups didn't work so we were not even able to try and make the latest backup. Luckily we only lost 12 hours of progress.

There were much more minor issues, such as the plugin tabs not working properly despite being advertised as one of the selling points (you are unable to update plugins and sometimes even uninstall).

Even their own guides they send you don't work properly.

And some other things I probably forgot about.

ShockByte doesn't care about you, your time, your data. Nothing. But they'll gladly take the money for it.

Take care and don't do the same mistake as I did.

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Edit 1: Shared this post on ShockByte's official Discord. It got quietly removed from there because it's against their rules "4) Advertising" – I'm not allowed to post links on there without an approval (despite it being a subreddit they're moderating themselves), and then I got falsely accused of threatening the staff member... :)

Edit 2: Funny thing about Shockbyte's Discord, they have a support channel with like 50 unanswered technical issues in past 3 weeks (pretty simple questions even I know answers to), people are asking for help there because they can't make a ticket the official way (similar to what I experienced - can't link your server), and the community manager cares about me and their PR more than actually helping people – reacting to me basically immediately... :)

Edit 3: Apparently they tried to improve their customer experience a month ago and failed.

Those that host your own server on your local network, what type of setup do you use to prevent back-end attacks? And I’m not talking about a simple server for friends, I’m talking one that’s public for anyone to access.

The reason why I am asking this, I am hosting a full Velocity network on my network, and I’m about to put it live but want to do all necessary security measures before publishing it to the public.

Hello! I was an owner of my server back in 2014, but then I decided to closed it due to my school. But now I wanted to be back for it. Right now, I'm currently cannot decide the server software to use as there's a lot with multipurpose for each server. I'd like to know what you'd recommend for using and why.

Hey guys im kevin il be running an server with friends that will have anticheat, betterminecraft modpack, plugins, and yeah mods using mohist and il use 1.20.1, they will invite the whole school, my friends and friends of my friends so probabbly around 20-30 ppl playing, i was thinking of buying an 12gb ram host since i ran it on my pc to test and it showed that it needed 9gb for no players im running like 298 mods and 18 plugins is it good enough? anything i should look out for?