MCServer
Infrastructure
game server
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Lua plugin API is very good and extensible
From 1 comment
Yes. The API is very good, and we already have some plugins that work quite well - for example a copy of the Bukkit WorldEdit mod: http://forum.mc-server.org/showthread.php?tid=870
bearbin on HN
Frugal with system resources compared to official server
From 1 comment
I tried out MCServer for a while. I put it back on the shelf after discovering that the redstone simulator was not as functional as the official server, and there are subtle…
logfromblammo on HN
Objections
Redstone simulator less functional than official server with behavioural differences
From 1 comment
I tried out MCServer for a while. I put it back on the shelf after discovering that the redstone simulator was not as functional as the official server, and there are subtle…
logfromblammo on HN
Yet another Minecraft server when mineserver already exists
From 1 comment
Why yet another one? There is already https://github.com/fador/mineserver which could use more people working on it.
poizan42 on HN
Requests
Support for Forge mods
From 1 comment
Any plans to support Forge?
Filligree on HN
Questions
Forge support for Java mods
From 2 comments
Any plans to support Forge?
Filligree on HNforge is java. unless they somehow manage to run java mods, I doubt it.
thecatspaw on HN
Alternatives named
mineserver
From 1 comment
Why yet another one? There is already https://github.com/fador/mineserver which could use more people working on it.
poizan42 on HN
Minetest
From 1 comment
This is an interesting project. There DOES exist Minetest, which is c++ based, and uses lua entirely for running the worlds it serves. It's GPL for server + client. See…
jasonjayr on HN
Bukkit
From 1 comment
One thing that Minecraft has been missing, and that servers such as Bukkit tried to implement is an API for plugins. Looking through the docs, the LUA API[1] makes it seem as…
jamescun on HN