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Notch's Latest Update on Multiplayer

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This was copied from his blog. Posted November 1, 2010.

From Notch:
I just finished moving minecraft.net to a new server, and it’s looking fairly stable. I fixed a few bugs with creative mode, so that should be working now as well.

Now I will rest for a few days, as I’m utterly exhausted. After that, I will get cracking on Survival Mode Multiplayer, as it’s still the highest priority for the game.

There’s a bug in there now where the cpu usage will shoot up through the roof sometimes, and I think that’s related to lighting. Immediately after the release, there was a hang bug where lighting would go into an infinite loop sometimes on existing loaded maps. I “fixed” that by making the loop always terminate after a certain number of iterations. My guess of what’s going on now is that the lighting probably keeps going into that loop over and over again.

The biggest features that need fixing are;

* Fixing the performance issues
* Health and working enemies
* Finishing up the inventory code so the dupe bugs/glitches go away
* Figuring out how to run both the normal world and the nexus in parallel.

I also want to make the portals able to teleport players between servers, both on different IPs and just to a different port on the same IP. Player equipment will follow through the portal and everything! (that will be agreed upon between the servers, so they don’t have to trust the client)
 
So it sounds like he does care about the online portion, that's good.

It also sounds like the portal between servers can be controlled but we'll wait and see what he comes up with.
 
Nice! Do you think you will put creepers on the server when this comes out, or just zombies, skeletons and spiders? I like a challenge but i don't want to see my work destroyed :(
 
For sure! Health has to be a factor one way or another so we can take advantage of the food options.
 
If health is instituted, it needs to be VERY highly configurable by the admin. Can you drown in water? Can players kill each other? Do you lose your loot when you die? Can you just /home into water if you are burning?
 
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