Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Virtual Gladiators is proud to annouce a brand new MOD pack selector. Due to popular demand for an ever-increasing number of MOD packs, Virtual Gladiators has incoporated a much easier way to quickly find and select the MOD pack you are interested in: The main Server Type is now broken down into a handful of MOD packs, making it dead simple to quickly pick the server type: As...
Friday, June 19, 2015
A recent update of the MystCraft mod has added a new feature, supposedly for stability reasons. It can cause high CPU usage, TPS drop and lag to any MOD pack using MystCraft. This includes FTB Infinity and DireWolf, as well as many others. When a world is loaded for the first time, the mod will scan the entire world folder once in order to 'parse' it. This parsing can take 20...
Saturday, April 11, 2015
There is a new version of Pocketmine available, but it's for BETA testers only . It's easy to become a BETA tester if you have an Android device: 1) Join the Google+ community 2) Opt into the Minecraft Pocket Edition Beta 3) Make sure you have an Android device that can run Minecraft Pocket Edition. 4) You also must own...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The migration to the new Intel E5-based hardware has been completed. We hope you enjoy the new, blazing fast servers. As part of the migration we have separated the US and UK/Europe Multicraft control panels. The US control panel also now has SSD drives for the MySQL server, allowing anyone to use Prism or other block loggers via MySQL. The Multicraft control panels are now as follows:...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
This is what Mojang is calling "The Bountiful Update." It is now available in the MOD pack list. Just select it from the drop-down, click save, then restart your server. If you are running an older version of Minecraft, it will automatically be upgraded to 1.8.0. **** PLEASE NOTE: New mobs, world entities and blocks will NOT appear unless you start a new world, or had previously started a...
Saturday, June 28, 2014
We have updated all but a handful of MOD packs to Java 8. There are supposed to be performance benefits with Java 8, so restart your server to take advantage of the new version. The following MOD packs do not currently work with Java 8 and have been configured to run with Java 7 instead: ATLauncher: MC Reborn v1.0.0.1 MCPC+ (MC v1.6.4) - At least one mod is incompatible and...
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Just in case you missed the email, here are the old and new IP addresses for those of you with non-dedicated IP addresses: Existing IP Address New IP Address Timeframe for your move 216.158.80.218 198.52.168.133 05/16/2014 - 05/18/2014 (MST) 216.158.79.162 198.52.168.132 05/17/2014 - 05/20/2014 (MST) 216.158.68.106...
Monday, May 12, 2014
Over the next couple of weeks, Virtual Gladiators will be moving to shiny new data centers in the UK and US with upgraded hardware and 10 Gigabit DDOS Mitigation ! ** That's right, 10 full gigabits of the top of the line DDOS scrubbing service for no extra cost to all clients. Even though we haven't experienced very many DDOS attacks in the last 15 months since we...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Mojang has released Minecraft v1.7.6, which is the next major update before 1.8. Important notes: Minecraft v.1.7.6 is not compatible with v1.7.5 Server modes (online/offline) are not compatible with each other and cannot be switched once the server has been started for the first time. More details here: https://mojang.com/2014/04/minecraft-1-7-6/
Friday, October 25, 2013
That's right, they've just released Minecraft version 1.7.2, and Virtual Gladiators has it available as a one-click MOD Pack. It is also the default server version for new clients. We are still anxiously waiting for the devleopers at Bukkit to release v1.7.2. There is a spigot "hacked" jar available that will allow 1.7.2 clients to connect, but it is still v1.6.4 server. Ask us if you are...