Minecraft Server for SH users

[Dec]

Getting <80ms ping everywhere is just physically impossible, no matter how "good" or "robust" your server connections are

Not with one server, no. That would average 250~300ms, assuming no infrastructure incidents that would require rerouting.
However, it's not that hard to combine multiple smaller servers in local areas, controlled by a larger main server that handles information flow between them. This allows players to have lower ping (as they connect to their "local" machine), even if they are half of the world away from the main server, while keeping the game relatively lag-free.
Some blocks might disappear/appear later after interaction (as the servers need to sync up), but the fight and movement itself are usually seamless for the player making the action, based on my experience.
This is perfectly fine for a small minecraft server, but totally not scalable for bigger things. Main reason why MMO games have regional servers.

@Alski I've tested stuff and based on pings to the University of Auckland, you should be around 220~240ms to the main server, and this isn't that bad for MC, as far as I can tell. However, I'm getting random spikes to 600ms+ soo... Your underwater cable is kinda rusty.
I have a relay in Japan, so your real latency to the game server should be below 150ms if we go via there.

Edit;
Maybe I can plop a relay in Australia, that would drop it below 50ms... Gonna need to read about their laws first. Will see.

 

[Alski]

Not with one server, no. That would average 250~300ms, assuming no infrastructure incidents that would require rerouting.
However, it's not that hard to combine multiple smaller servers in local areas, controlled by a larger main server that handles information flow between them. This allows players to have lower ping (as they connect to their "local" machine), even if they are half of the world away from the main server, while keeping the game relatively lag-free.
Some blocks might disappear/appear later after interaction (as the servers need to sync up), but the fight and movement itself are usually seamless for the player making the action, based on my experience.
This is perfectly fine for a small minecraft server, but totally not scalable for bigger things. Main reason why MMO games have regional servers.

@Alski I've tested stuff and based on pings to the University of Auckland, you should be around 220~240ms to the main server, and this isn't that bad for MC, as far as I can tell. However, I'm getting random spikes to 600ms+ soo... Your underwater cable is kinda rusty.
I have a relay in Japan, so your real latency to the game server should be below 150ms if we go via there.

Edit;
Maybe I can plop a relay in Australia, that would drop it below 50ms... Gonna need to read about their laws first. Will see.

Im unlikely to play on the MC server fyi, so you dont need to go out of your way for it.

 

[Dec]

Im unlikely to play on the MC server fyi, so you dont need to go out of your way for it.

I want to have a machine in this area anyway, as it is useful for my own network I'm building. So it's not like I'm doing it specially for you or anything, hmpf!

 

[Alski]

I want to have a machine in this area anyway, as it is useful for my own network I'm building. So it's not like I'm doing it specially for you or anything, hmpf!

Decs grand botnet to combat skynet when it appears (and ddos the forums).

 

[Fairemont]

I wanna play the block game. I yearn for the mines!

 

[Anonjohn20]

About 15 years ago at a local LAN one of my friends built an underground villager breeder farm, we wondered why the server was sporadically lagging took us a while to find it and a few of the potato computers crashed when they got to close to it

The funniest thing about my accidental lag farm was that the only guy repeatedly crashing was the guy with the best computer; he had an Nvidia 5080 and was stuck crashing or staring at slideshows.

 

[LuoirM]

I want firework multishot crossbow

 

[Dec]

he had an Nvidia 5080 and was stuck crashing or staring at slideshows

That's because MC is heavily dependent on a single-core CPU performance, much less so on a graphics card.
You could have a 12+ year-old GPU while running with something like AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and it would totally shred everything.

 

[Anonjohn20]

That's because MC is heavily dependent on a single-core CPU performance, much less so on a graphics card.
You could have a 12+ year-old GPU while running with something like AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and it would totally shred everything.

So you're telling me that the guy who constantly brags about his build probably has a crappy CPU?

 

[Dec]

So you're telling me that the guy who constantly brags about his build probably has a crappy CPU?

Yep.
Well, perhaps not crappy in an overall sense, but not suited for single-core needy titles like Minecraft.

 

[Alski]

So you're telling me that the guy who constantly brags about his build probably has a crappy CPU?

Hes likely running a good AMD cpu, they typically have more cores than intel, but he cheaped out on not getting the X3D chip so he should be mocked relentlessly.

 

[Fairemont]

Did we shelve this idea?

 

[Dec]

Did we shelve this idea?

No.
The poll was set for a week, so I'm waiting for everyone interested to cast a vote before doing anything else.

 

[Fairemont]

Ooooh! Okay!