My Server No Longer Works

[Stidrvr]

Ive been running my own Minecraft Server for a few months now. I rencently moved to Tekkit, along with a buddy of mine. We are the only two that play on the server and have it hosted at my house, my buddy connects via the internet, myself, locally, obviously.

It has been running for a week with no issues except when I first started running 3.1.2 I had to add the "-nojline" to the Lanch.bat to get it to run. Other then that, flawless. We arent running any mods, strictly vanilla Tekkit, or what came with the server.

This morning when I tried to connect, I was able too, but as the map loaded via the chucnks showing up on the minimap, it only loaded maybe 5-8 chunks, and stalled. I tried exiting out, but everything was locked up. I CTRL-ALT-DELETED to close Java. Now I cannot connect to the server, and my buddy cannot either.

Ive tried a new server install, with the same world, and the same thing happens. But if I generate a new world its fine. Im guessing my world is corrupt somehow. I put the world into MCedit and everything seemed to load. I removed as much of the world as I could to get it to regenerate, but that didnt work either. Any ideas on how to fix it?

[Stidrvr]

Heres a screenshot of the errors:

[Torezu]

This isn't really the right place for errors. Yours could be anything from items spilled all over the ground to a corrupted world from a power loss on the server. Try typing "remove items -1" in the server console, and see how many items it says it removed. If it was a lot (over a thousand, say), you have a leak somewhere. If that doesn't work, go stick a report in the Bug Board.

[Stidrvr]

its says unknow command when I type that.

[Torezu]

Okay...I thought WorldEdit was installed on the Tekkit server. I think I'm losing my mind...

If the server still runs fine, but gives you "Can't keep up!" messages periodically (or even if it doesn't), it's probably item dumping, and should be relatively easy to fix with a plugin or map editor. WorldEdit's not a bad one, and it'll let you clean up stuff like this in the future. You should be able to install it by just dropping it in your server's plugins folder (while the server's off, of course).

Edit: I just noticed the 'Can't keep up!' on your console screenshot. That's probably the issue, then. Your world should be safe, but you'll need to clean it up before you try to log in again.

[Stidrvr]

Actually you helped me alot. Although the command didn't work, another thread I found mentioned that the item drops show up as red dots in mcedit. I deleted various parts of the map that had a cluster of red dots 8-10 in a 1-4 chunk area. After deleting 8-10 of these cluster, I can now join the map.

I added world edit to the plugin folder and then tried the command. Remove items now works, but when I ran it, it only removed 27 items. Either way, it now works so I'm happy.

I know this isn't the right section, but incase someone else has the same problem, at least th solution will be here. Thanks again Torezu!

[Torezu]

Actually you helped me alot. Although the command didn't work, another thread I found mentioned that the item drops show up as red dots in mcedit. I deleted various parts of the map that had a cluster of red dots 8-10 in a 1-4 chunk area. After deleting 8-10 of these cluster, I can now join the map.

You may want to figure out why those clusters were there. The usual culprits are quarries and BC pipe systems that are out of room to put stuff somewhere.

[Stidrvr]

The server was laggy a little today so I ran the command again and it removed 3033 items. I'm not sure what's causing this as all the quarry's dump cobble stone gravel dirt and flint into a energy condenser. Everything of value goes into another chest. All the quarries are set up this way. I think it's drops from mobs. I looked but can't find how to disable drops from mobs. I found how to disable orbs just not items.

[Torezu]

Do you have any idea how many mobs it would take to drop 3000+ items before they started disappearing on the 5-minute timer? What other pipe arrangements do you have on your server? Keep in mind that energy condensers can only use 10 items per second, so you may have filled those and start spilling there. You'll probably need to visually inspect your quarry piping systems. Another common place for pipes to dump is processing machines, like recyclers, macerators, and furnaces, when the machine is full and the pipes are trying to deliver items.