Opalcraft: Community Minecraft Server

will you be making a modpack file for this?

 

I will definitely try it out, I'm not sure if I'd actively play it though. I love the direwolf one too much. Good job though! List looks solid!

 

Looking good, definitely doing a 100% move over to the new server when it comes out. Looking forward to a fresh start to do some things a bit differently.

Side note: Oh Gawd The Spice of Life mod... I hate prepping food variety haha.

 

I hope direwolf server doesn't die ;-;, i love that server. Do you plan on keeping both?

 

Opalcraft Modpack crashing on startup?
Just thought I would mention this here: I was using the twitch launcher and had the modpack crash 3x while trying to launch the pack. I figured out that the twitch launcher defaults to 2,000 MB of Memory allocation, which wasn't enough to load up all the mods in my case. In case anyone else is having this problem, the fix is to simply increase the memory allocation - I've set mine to 4,000 MB.

 

Tons of suggestions added, lots of key mods missing in this pack so far

 

oh boy, i hope we're willing to change the mods after launch since we're missing stuff

 

In regards to Opalcraft, I did a small fly around on a solo game. Not a big fan of the dynamic trees... Maybe it's just me.

Spoiler

 

No Flans Mod?

 

Flying aircrafts, cars, and hand nades sounds laggy lol

 

It seems the modded Factions idea is not sitting well with many of the players (read the discussion in our Discord for more information).
With this in mind, please vote here to help decide our next steps: https://www.strawpoll.me/15964037

Or, if you have any other ideas, post them here/Discord.

 

Well you should find a main direction that is desired for the server, be it a PVP server, build only, expert, etc. A vote on the main direction would help deciding how to customize the server.

 

I already said it but I firmly believe that PvP and FTB dont mix well. Especially with longevity of the server in mind. It is 100% going to be a gear based war, meaning people with most time to play will dominate while people with less time to play will probably not even bother or lose motivation fast, as they have no way of keeping up with the others.
Yeah I guess you could say that you can just be a friendly faction , but I honestly don't think we should do what we did with SMC and start mixing up PVP and SMP elements together, because that's just going to end with neither party being satisfied with the full result and the server dying.
Yea we CAN still have PVP on the server in the form of minigames or small arenas, but it should absolutely not be a priority when setting it up.

 

I agree.

I also had these concerns. And I also had the idea of passive factions. But when we discussed these Ideas in Discord there were some major flaws I hadn't considered yet.

I think having a build-focused server with the option of PvP on the side would be out best bet.

The poll currently also shows that there's a lot of interest in a server with a focus on building.
I think combining building at the core with a custom, not too content heavy modpack an optional PvP would definitely be the best option.

 

Yo, is IndustrialCraft2 not being added to this? That's like the best mod in direwolf!

Edit: this is also a suggestion I guess?

 

I’ve never played modded Minecraft, and don’t have Minecraft installed. Will I be able to run it good with my low end pc? And would it be hard for me since I’ve never played modded? Or can I just jump in

 

Will you be able to run it? If you have 4 GB and below of ram you're going to have a hard time playing.
Can you just jump in? It can be hard for the first timer, but you have to start somewhere. You'll find it confusing as hell if you look at all the mods as a whole at first, which is why I'd suggest picking one mod at a time to try on your first go around.

 

If we are not using Factions can we use anti grief plugin and change it from using the golden shovel to paper.
The current FTB system we are using the direwolf server is not flexible.
anti grief plugin is useful for creating towns which is one of things i would like to do.

The grave system on direwolf20 is buggy.

 

Seeing the results of the poll, it seems the dominating options are modded build/survival and modded Factions. However, as we already discussed, both ideas just don't work together. If we are to cater to both of them, we will have to do it separately.

My suggestion, therefore, is as following:

• Curate two different custom modpacks: one centered around survival and building (we could probably use one of the FTB packs as a base and add/remove what's needed - I personally like the idea of a hard pack like Continuum), and one centered around PVP gameplay for Factions.
  
• Launch the Factions server first with the dedicated modpack. It will be running alongside our current Direwolf server. It will be purely Factions based and will encourage PVP gameplay in various ways.
  
• Once the demand for the Direwolf server declines when people are mostly done playing with it (or if the majority of players agree to shut it down earlier) AND ONLY THEN, we will shut it down (the map will be available to download for anyone who wishes to continue it on their own) and launch the new survival/build server instead.
• The survival server will offer both a regular survival world and a creative world, based on our custom survival modpack. The survival world will also offer shops, a global market, and player-ran economy (meaning trading only between players). We will also use better claims management and administration tools than what we have so far as they are obviously fairly broken.

This means we're also rebuilding our modpack, so suggestions are once again taken in our spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SNN-xzu1OcGIYQiAka2sS_-0b5txeeuEs6s3Mfw19_Q/edit?usp=sharing
Notice I've split it into two sheets: one for survival/build and for Factions.
A lot of you asked "why isn't X in the pack" - this is exactly why we're taking suggestions. If you won't add it here we won't know about it.

I personally think that the current Direwolf server is too bloated and buggy, and also very difficult to manage. However, people have spent a lot of time and effort into their current builds/projects, and therefore they deserve to finish their playthrough before we go with something new.

What do you think?