May 10th, 2025
It's been a while.
The Minecraft server has not gone anywhere. It is still running 1.21.4 as paper does not have a stable release for 1.21.5 yet, so I am unwilling to wager the risk for the sake of an update. The Minecraft server has also been moved to the secondary server in place of the Palworld server and now has significantly more breathing room in both performance and space to backup the over one hundred and fifty gigabyte world. I am also uncertain if spigot based plugins will continue to work with paper after 1.21.4 due to some of the announcements they have made regarding paper's derivation from spigot towards it's own codebase. I hope this does not mean the end of some of our plugins, but I cannot say for certain.
The Palworld server however has been permanently shut down, and it's monitor will be removed from Dhar Mann in a suitable time for viewers in the discord to realize it is not coming back. I never did finish the game, though the only reason I played it was to appease the Ark withdrawals that I have increasingly been having. There will be an Ark server in the future. Though to set up any more servers than the Ark and Minecraft I will need to go back to my old two server setup since the death of the Palworld server allowed me enough free memory on the secondary server to consolidate everything I had been running onto one machine. For the time being, I want to turn the old primary server into a full-fledged NAS for mass storage. If this Minecraft server comes back to life, we start a new one, or we start a modded one, I want more than enough storage to pregenerate more chunks than we will ever know what to do with. You may be asking, isn't the secondary server running thirteenth gen Intel and can keep up with the demands of chunk generation? And you would be right, as even the old primary server was able to, and it was slower than the secondary. But it is force of habit from my old scrapyard server days, almost a tradition at this point, and I will not fail to lie to myself about the benefits in order to justify the process. I did mess up the automatic restart for the Minecraft server in the transition between servers, but that is why you create backups, so it'll be back in working order very soon.
In more good news, this website, it's domain, and both servers survived two months of my neglect, without any unrecoverable crashes or ip changes. This means that never again should you try to login with the fancy domain name for the server and have it not work until you manually specify the port.
The Minecraft server is staying around.