Server down?

[Heffernan]

Greetings Salemites,
The last 3 crashes all appear to be from the same bug which is not presenting itself in a manner that is making it easily recognizable. As such, you can take this message as a 'heads up' that until further notice we are going to be 'limping' along a few hours at a time until the bug can be identified and squashed. The unfortunate reality of this situation is that each time the server crashes, we get a new clue as to what/how/where this bug live. We also run a very real risk that this bug could crash us in a 'nasty' way that would be more damaging than a simple restart.

These are the kinds of bugs I hate. However, as originally stated in this patch we once again did some modifying of the more sensitive areas of the server code. I'll let you know when we catch this one and you can expect longer periods of play without interruption. Let us continue to pray that the server crashes in a less than lethal way so that we are not forced to take drastic measures.

dont forget to make a Backup

[JohnCarver]

There is a hard-backup in place from when the patch was dropped. Given the 'compromised' status we won't be making another hard-backup until we are sure the state is once again healthy. However. it is important to realize that everytime a map deloads or a character logs out he is also saving himself and creating a mini-backup. The 'worst' thing I see at this exact moment is a situation where players are restored to previous crashes when they were all logged out etc. etc. But lets just stay positive. I simply wanted to alert the community to what is going on so you could know the volatility of things going forward here.

[LOMS]

Well, have you checked burning dynamite/pinecone for logout characters (it's not about putting things into leanto. Logout with boomstick) and stalls?
Does anyone got to their 2+ level of mines? Maybe, server crashes instead of making a hole in the floor (or how does it looks like)?

[JohnCarver]

Yes we did fix boomsticks on offline players, and some players have hit level 2.

It does look like its the fineryforge again.

[JohnCarver]

The latest restart very well could have been the bug. we may be out of the woods. We will see how it holds up.

[RedVIII]

Crashed.

[Necrobane]

[HasseKebab]

Guys! Guys!

The developers are sleeping, lets crash the server!

[anfros]

Who though it was a good idea to crash the server this time?

[Hose]

why the ***** is the server always offline when i try to log in?