World of Triddin

Triddin, What template are you using for this tumblr blog? I really like the design of it. Please reply to me as soon as you can. Kthnx bai (if you dont remember me, I am from WoM)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:27:23 +1000

The theme was called “Carbon” and I’ve slightly modified it.

WoM Game Client 2.0.6

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:01:52 +1000

As you’ve all probably noticed, the Minecraft Classic server list over at http://minecraft.net/classic/list has been lately getting spammed, and this was causing all sorts of lag when signing in and selecting servers from the list when using the WoM Game Client.

To rectify this issue the WoM Game Client now pulls down a validated list of servers from WoM Direct instead of the official list from Mojang (by default). You may toggle this behaviour by deselecting “Valid” at the login screen, which will likely cause your client to crash until this mess is sorted out Mojang-side.

Merry Christmas guys.

TF2 Warehouse

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:21:44 +1000

For a long time there’s been a need for a central trading system for Team Fortress 2, so we thought we’d give it a crack and see what we could do.

Introducing TF2WH.com

TF2WH is our new project to implement a centralized trading platform for Team Fortress 2 game items. When you trade items to the warehouse, you get credits, and then when you see an item you want, you buy it, using the credits you stored up.

It’s still a work in progress and will likely be in beta still for a while yet, but the system works quite well, allowing you to trade those things you don’t want in for stuff you do want.

If you’re interested in how it works, you can head over to TF2WH.com and give it a try, while we’re in beta we’re giving everyone 500 credits to start off with the first time you log in with your account.

When is "beta" not beta anymore.

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:45:05 +1000

A lot of software companies use the whole “beta” thing as a means to get out of any expectation of performance, accountability or merchantability.

And even though they’re sitting pretty, making millions of dollars a year off selling a product which is clearly “released” and funding an entire company, they still leave the beta tag on the product so that they can shrug off any complaints or any responsibility for quality control or even keeping of deadlines or promises.

We’ve seen this in the past with many other “free” products, such as ICQ and Gmail, but never have I seen it so blatantly done as Mojang have done it with Minecraft.

Here’s a company that is actually selling millions of copies of the product to kids, and at the same time, leaving the website broken for days, not delivering to schedules or keeping promises on features, all because it’s not “released”. They have this cute little statement on their website that the product has not been released and may never be actually even finished, so no guarantees.

But the reality of the situation belies the words that are used, because they’re selling bucket loads of copies, and have a current paid user base of just over 3.5 million accounts. At some point you can’t hide behind the “beta” tag anymore, and have to have some responsibility for your uptime, and be careful what you promise people because they expect you to keep your word.

This time has come Mojang.

WoM Game Client 2.0.5

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:45:00 +1000

2.0.5 Fixes a regression introduced by the support for GZip/Deflate compression in 2.0.3 which caused textures to no longer load when joining a server.

2.0.4 Fixes a movement update problem reported by spifkitten99, which was causing jerky movement / some servers to kick wom users for distance cheating. Thanks spifkitten99!

2.0.3 Added support for GZip/Deflate compression in downloads from minecraft.net and extended the read timeout to try and alleviate issues downloading server list when minecraft.net is busy.

2.0.2 Was a quick bug fix for the case where minecraft.net wasn’t responding, and you had no cached servers, it was only allowing you to retry or quit. Now it allows you to also continue with only WoM Direct servers as well.

2.0.1 Released the update for the WoM Direct and allow WoM to work with new minecraft.net website.

WoM 2.0 and WoM-Direct

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:55:25 +1000

WoM Client 2.0 has a new feature, and we’re calling it WoM Direct.

WoM Direct takes the concept of Direct Connect URLs to the next step of evolution… into the server list.

How does it work? Well, when someone uses the WoM Client to login to minecraft, it creates a token based on their username+password and sends it across to WoM. This way if minecraft.net authentication is ever down, they can still prove they are who they say they are (Important note: at no time does the user’s password ever get sent to WoM).

The second step is that any servers who wish to participate in the WoM Direct program can send a heartbeat, in the same format as you do to the minecraft.net heartbeat url, except you send it to http(s)://direct.worldofminecraft.com/hb.php instead.

Now you’ll appear at the top of the server list in the WoM client, and be accessible even should minecraft.net go down. Isn’t that groovy?

WoM Game Client 1.9.0

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:10:47 +1000

Overnight, a change was made to the way that minecraft.net processes authentication requests. This change caused all current versions of WoM Game Client to be unable to authenticate your accounts and download the server list from minecraft.net.

To address this, we have had to make modifications to the way that the game client authenticates with minecraft.net and are releasing a new version 1.9.0 which uses this new authentication method. All versions prior to 1.9.0 are broken and will no longer work.

I was a little disappointed to see that some people chose to be quite abusive on our forums. Regardless of the fact that this was not our fault, we are providing this FREE of charge to you guys. Quite honestly the reaction made me want to leave it broken to teach you a lesson, but this would have punished all our many patient users who outnumber you quite substantially. So to the rude pricks: Get FUCKED. If I could ban you all from using it, I would… Oh wait, I CAN… how about you think about that next time, or I will.

Moujave and I give you a quick demo of the new WoM SMP...

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:29:49 +1000

Moujave and I give you a quick demo of the new WoM SMP server’s features, including the store and titan power usage.

WoM Realms: Open source?

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:13:51 +1000

Well, not quite, but we have open-sourced our scrips.

The scripting engine in WoM Realms was always designed to allow user contribution from our user base. There’s many cool new features that could be added to the realms server if we have time. However time is always such a precious commodity. Chances are if there’s a feature you want added but it’s not on our list of priorities, it won’t get added… at least by us.

Enter WoM Realms: Scripts github repository, where you can see all of our realms scripts, how they work and potentially use your own skills to develop new scripts.

If you have an idea for a script you’d like to write, make a post on the forum, and if we think it’s a good idea, we’ll give you the go-ahead and access to a test server maybe.

SMP Server: Missing chunk fix

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:20:19 +1000

SMP Server: Missing chunk fix:

As part of the process of setting up and stabilizing our new WoM SMP server, I managed to keep bumping into areas of the world that for some reason just hadn’t loaded. Being relatively new to SMP servers, I was shocked that people just accepted that this happens and when it does, you just reconnect to the server and it’s all fine again.

Anyhow I had a look at the code to see if I could find out what was going on to cause this issue and stop it from happening on WoM SMP. I managed to find a fix for the issue, and if anyone is running a vanilla server and wants to get rid of missing chunks forever, just grab the mod, and replace le.class in your minecraft_server.jar with the new one in the linked zip file.

SMP Server: Arrow crash fix.

Mon, 30 May 2011 22:34:57 +1000

SMP Server: Arrow crash fix.:

This is a quick patch fix for the Arrow crash bug in the Minecraft SMP server. The bug results in an error like:

[SEVERE] Unexpected exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
       at ll.o_(SourceFile:128)
       at dh.a(SourceFile:1160)
       at dn.a(SourceFile:43)
       at dh.g(SourceFile:1136)
       at dh.e(SourceFile:1115)
       at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(SourceFile:374)
       at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:307)
       at bo.run(SourceFile:422)

If you get this bug and your server crashes, it’s because someone fired an arrow into a burning block and the arrow is now sticking in mid-air. The server then crashes every time it loads the chunk with the stranded arrow.

The linked file contains a replacement ll.class. If you know how to replace your class files in minecraft, this new ll.class will check for stranded arrows thus avoiding the crash. If you’re standing close, and see the stranded arrows, your client will still crash, but by the time you reconnect the server will have dropped the arrows to the ground and all will be right with the world once again.

WoM Realms Contest Results.

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:47:40 +1000

The WoM Realms contest has now been officially judged. During building, all participants gained 90x building bonus for any building performed on their contest worlds.

Of the 14 entrants who made entries on the forum post, there were 8 finalists chosen:

Artful
bad3007
Buttonpresser
Imran_zulkafli
mikee369
Moufisto
Skyara
vjugalde

Each of the finalists received 250k bonus reputation points for making it to the finals and from here, the judges each came into the realms and gave a vote from 1 to 10 for the realms, and an average score was taken.

We have now completed the tallying of the votes, with the following results:

Coming a tie for third place were Skyara and Imran_zulkafli with their respective entries “Runed Frost Wyrm” and “Behemoth”, each will get a prize of 1 million bonus points.

Coming in at second place was Artful with his entry “Mouh4x the orange eyed panda” who gets 2.5 million points.

And the winner of this months competition is Moufisto with his entry “Shadow Dragon” and gets the first place prize of 10 million bonus points.

There’s a new command on WoM Realms. It’s a bit of...

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:47:24 +1000

There’s a new command on WoM Realms.

It’s a bit of a tricky one, so I thought I’d post up a bit of an explanation for you guys. The command is called mirror, and basically it does what it says. It mirrors whatever you do on one side of the region to the other side(s) of the region.

There’s 6 different modes, and they would do as you expect. They define which sides of the cuboid region get mirrored. The modes are: x, y, z, xy, xz, yz and xyz.

WoM Realms server move.

Thu, 19 May 2011 16:53:28 +1000

WoM Realms has just been moved to a newer, more powerful server farm at a new dedicated facility (at HE.net).

This is part of our long-term plans to keep upgrading our hosting platform to state of the art systems.

The new facility supports IPv6 internet and more, higher quality bandwidth as well.

This does however mean that our server ID has changed at minecraft.net, which means that anyone trying to connect to us via the resume or cache features in WoM Game Client will not be able to connect. You must either get a new Direct Connect url from the WoMRealms.com website, or do a full sign in via the server list.

WoM Realms, Official Contest

Wed, 18 May 2011 14:22:12 +1000

WoM Realms is pleased to announce the first official contest.

Anyone is free to create a contest realm and to build something in it, however in order to enter this contest for judging you need to go to the forums and make an entry post at the following URL, and someone will come to your realm to judge it. If it’s good enough, it will get entered into the finals.

http://womjr.com/entry

Make sure you visit the URL to view the contest rules before you start building!

New character banners.

Fri, 13 May 2011 02:16:46 +1000

We’ve just implemented character banners in WoM Realms.

To get your banner for your realm, just go to womrealms.com and login. Click the edit button on the player you want to get the banner for and it’s right there.

Here’s a quick example of what they look like; they contain your skin, rank, rep, stars, position, clan name etc, so you can show everyone how your realm is going.

WoM Game Client 1.8.8

Wed, 11 May 2011 19:42:59 +1000

A new version of the game client has been released with a secret new feature. I only made this version because moujave ordered me to, and he’s forsworn me to secrecy about the new feature. If you look hard you’ll be able to find it though!

WoM Game Client 1.8.7

Tue, 10 May 2011 08:52:00 +1000

I know I said that there would be no more releases for a while, but this is mainly a bug fix version that fixes a crashing bug when downloading a new texture while joining a realm.

Also it contains an incidental new feature that I’ve been working on. If you use it on WoM realms, you will see join and leave messages appear in a new alert area to the right of the screen.

If other server operators want to implement this new feature, you can send “^detail.user.*” messages to the client (once it has identified itself via /womid, see server.sendwomid parameter)

The following instructions exist:

^detail.user.reset
^detail.user.here=NAME
^detail.user.join=NAME
^detail.user.part=NAME
^detail.user.alert=TEXT

Respectively they, reset the internal user list, enter a user into the userlist without an alert, add and alert a user into the list, remove and alert a user from the list, and just send a text alert.

You may add colors to the NAME fields, but otherwise the name should be the exact name of the user without punctuation, as the client will later use these names for auto complete, teleporting, whispering, etc. (bit of a spoiler here for future features!)

Sharing your WoM Realms textures.

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:49:46 +1000

There’s a new ability to share you uploaded textures with other WoM Realms users. Simply sign in to your WoM Realms control panel and view your uploaded textures on the main page,

Once logged in and if you have uploaded textures, there will be preview and share links beside each texture you have. Simply give the share link to anyone you want to be able to use your texture. It’s that easy.

Here’s my high resolution texture pack I use for my example videos (It’s based off Brown and Bloom):

http://womrealms.com/share.php?type=terrain&id=f3dac271d7bce9954baad46e183a6a910a30d13b&name=TriddinsHighRes

Happy Mother's Day

Sun, 08 May 2011 18:03:09 +1000

To all the mothers out there; Have a really great Mother’s Day!

We’ve changed the text color in WoM Realms to be pink to remind you all that it’s Mother’s Day and to take some time off from playing minecraft during the day to spend some time around the house helping out your mother with some of the housework, let her have some time to put up her feet and relax, and tell her that you love her and appreciate everything she does for you, every day of the year.