BuildCraft 2.2.5 – even better SMP

Posted on November 3, 2011 by SpaceToad

BuildCraft 2.2.5 is out! You may download it from the usual download area, or use the automated installation procedure.

The changelog is available here. The most notable thing is the reduced amount of SMP data transfer. There are places where more than 70% of the bandwidth could be saved! That doesn’t mean that you will not get disconnections, in particular for very complex worlds, but it’s much less likely. Also, have a look at the new configuration variable network.updateFactor. It’s set to 10 by default, increasing it will increase the latency factory for BuildCraft update messages, and may help in case of overloaded servers.

Now that this is out, I’ll take some time to finish the reviews of the worlds submitted for the world contest. Enjoy!

27 thoughts on “BuildCraft 2.2.5 – even better SMP”

Asdf1616 on November 3, 2011 at 10:55 pm said:

Wow finally we can play multiplayer without that much lag and disconects
Lets Build!!!!
- SpaceToad on November 3, 2011 at 10:56 pm said:
  
  Is that a confirmation that you’ve successfully tried it?
  - Asdf1616 on November 4, 2011 at 6:39 pm said:
    
    Yea.
    
    And could you please tell us when the world contest results will be revealed; i just keep pressing F5
    - SpaceToad on November 4, 2011 at 8:16 pm said:
      
      This weekend. Probably tomorrow.
      - Asdf1616 on November 4, 2011 at 10:35 pm said:
        
        Woooo Thanks!!!
        I cant wait to see who`ll win… and also the other competitors who probably made some awesome maps too.
Gazebo on November 3, 2011 at 11:05 pm said:

You sir… are a ruddy genius….. Fixed… Still a little slow but we have a REALLY complex setup now so its slow for me locally to the server at times!!

Thanks so much for your efforts and stunning product…. Oh and just for the record I am running it with Industrial Craft and RedPower AND the Advanced Pipes (teleport) mod…
- SpaceToad on November 3, 2011 at 11:52 pm said:
  
  Thanks for the feedback. I’m happy to hear that things run better now!
- alexthesax on November 4, 2011 at 12:15 am said:
  
  Your running the Zeldo’s AdditionalPipes r29 with 2.2.5? I seem to get a stream of errors on my server console, saying that modloader failed to initialize because it couldn’t find a few files, so I assumed that it was incompatible with 2.2.5, could you confirm/disprove my results?
  - musznik on November 4, 2011 at 1:58 am said:
    
    Zeldo’s AdditionalPipes r29 works fine with 2.2.5, read last pages on forum, or download this http://adf.ly/3XO4Y
    - alexthesax on November 4, 2011 at 3:00 am said:
      
      Thanks! I was using the version supplied in the OP, didn’t see that there was a different version in the last page.
Phurian on November 4, 2011 at 12:18 am said:

SMP – So far the only thing od thing I’m seeing is the liquid in most of my pipes are not showing full even though I know they are. (Lava and Water) There only showing in the bottom of the pipe. If I disconnect from the server and reconnect to the server I see the liquid climb in the pipe and once it reaches the top the graphic of the liquid will change and only show at the bottom of the pipe. It’s doing that on all my Lava and most of my water.
- Phurian on November 4, 2011 at 12:23 am said:
  
  Oh and I can tell you about that lag and crash testing tonight when people start connecting to my server.
- Phurian on November 4, 2011 at 12:48 am said:
  
  Steam Engines burn a stack of wood planks much faster now.
Krapht on November 4, 2011 at 12:50 am said:

Awesome!

Any news on the read-only svn access (non-web, I’m using TortoiseSVN)?, I haven’t seen a conectable URL yet =)
- SpaceToad on November 4, 2011 at 8:23 pm said:
  
  Try out https://buildcraft.svn.cvsdude.com/buildcraft/trunk/buildcraft
  - Krapht on November 4, 2011 at 10:23 pm said:
    
    Thanks, that worked like a charm
Phurian on November 4, 2011 at 3:33 am said:

I can confirm the lag is gone =D and the java crash shift+click into buildcraft stuff is gone.
- Xcom6000 on November 5, 2011 at 12:20 pm said:
  
  Does this mean you can shift click buckets into iron engines and cole in and out of a stone engine without a crash?
animalguy on November 5, 2011 at 12:01 am said:

Stupid question, but how do I update the mod
- nallar on November 5, 2011 at 12:16 am said:
  
  Download the new version from the downloads page. Now go into your mods folder, and delete the old buildcraft files, and place in the new ones.
animalguy on November 5, 2011 at 5:38 pm said:

Thank you
MarijnS95 on November 5, 2011 at 10:43 pm said:

It doesn’t work. Every time we tried to place a pipe, we get disconnected.
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java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
at buildcraft.transport.BlockGenericPipe.createPipe(BlockGenericPipe.java:392)
at buildcraft.transport.BlockGenericPipe.createPipe(BlockGenericPipe.java:411)
at buildcraft.transport.ItemPipe.a(ItemPipe.java:74)
at hm.a(SourceFile:87)
at qh.a(ItemInWorldManager.java:222)
at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:358)
at fr.a(SourceFile:57)
at ma.b(SourceFile:272)
at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:45)
at dr.a(SourceFile:108)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:369)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:287)
at ce.run(SourceFile:417)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: buildcraft.api.TileNetworkData.intKind()I
at buildcraft.core.ClassMapping.(ClassMapping.java:110)
at buildcraft.core.TilePacketWrapper.(TilePacketWrapper.java:33)
at buildcraft.transport.Pipe.(Pipe.java:52)
at buildcraft.transport.pipes.PipeItemsObsidian.(PipeItemsObsidian.java:42)
… 17 more
2011-11-05 22:08:45 [WARNING] Failed to handle packet: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at buildcraft.transport.BlockGenericPipe.createPipe(BlockGenericPipe.java:412)
at buildcraft.transport.ItemPipe.a(ItemPipe.java:74)
at hm.a(SourceFile:87)
at qh.a(ItemInWorldManager.java:222)
at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:358)
at fr.a(SourceFile:57)
at ma.b(SourceFile:272)
at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:45)
at dr.a(SourceFile:108)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:369)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:287)
at ce.run(SourceFile:417)
- SpaceToad on November 5, 2011 at 11:09 pm said:
  
  I can’t even start to guess what the problem might possibly be. Tons of people have sucessfully managed to run this, so I suggest starting over with a clean install & world, and if you still have problem, post on the forums.
- pacas00 on November 6, 2011 at 4:06 am said:
  
  Hey MarijnS95, Quick Question, Are you using MineFactory by any chance. Reason is, i’m getting the same error on my linux server, but removing minefactory (version 1.32) fixed it.
  
  Dunno if this will help at all.
  - pacas00 on November 6, 2011 at 4:18 am said:
    
    Whopps, forgot to paste this
    
    java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at buildcraft.transport.BlockGenericPipe.createPipe(BlockGenericPipe.java:392)
    at buildcraft.transport.BlockGenericPipe.createPipe(BlockGenericPipe.java:411)
    at buildcraft.transport.ItemPipe.a(ItemPipe.java:74)
    at hm.a(SourceFile:87)
    at qh.a(ItemInWorldManager.java:222)
    at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:358)
    at fr.a(SourceFile:57)
    at ma.b(SourceFile:272)
    at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:45)
    at dr.a(SourceFile:108)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:369)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:287)
    at ce.run(SourceFile:417)
    Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: buildcraft.api.TileNetworkData.intKind()I
    at buildcraft.core.ClassMapping.(ClassMapping.java:110)
    at buildcraft.core.TilePacketWrapper.(TilePacketWrapper.java:33)
    at buildcraft.transport.Pipe.(Pipe.java:52)
    at buildcraft.transport.pipes.PipeItemsWood.(PipeItemsWood.java:39)
    … 17 more
    2011-11-06 06:03:14 [WARNING] Failed to handle packet: java.lang.NullPointerException
    java.lang.NullPointerException
    at buildcraft.transport.BlockGenericPipe.createPipe(BlockGenericPipe.java:412)
    at buildcraft.transport.ItemPipe.a(ItemPipe.java:74)
    at hm.a(SourceFile:87)
    at qh.a(ItemInWorldManager.java:222)
    at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:358)
    at fr.a(SourceFile:57)
    at ma.b(SourceFile:272)
    at iw.a(NetServerHandler.java:45)
    at dr.a(SourceFile:108)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:369)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:287)
    at ce.run(SourceFile:417)
    - pacas00 on November 6, 2011 at 4:43 am said:
      
      Sorry for the third post, Ignore what i said about MineFactory. Check if any of the mods you have installed, contain a copy of the API. For my server, MineFactory had the Buildcraft 2.2.4 API in it.
      
      Hope This Helps.
  - MarijnS95 on November 6, 2011 at 3:01 pm said:
    
    I will try this.
    I already thought it was minefactory, but we are trying to make a shopping mall, with escalators. then i will make 2 servers.