Spigot News + Full 1.8?

Hey guys,

It's been about a week now since MCFun Central updated its server jar from Bukkit to Spigot. We did this because Spigot was exactly like Bukkit and just as easy to use, but it offered expanded support for large servers with many worlds and plugins (that perfectly describes MCFun Central). As you remember if you read the last post, we ran into a few problems upon updating to Spigot 1.7.10 (with added support for 1.8, but not the 1.8 blocks). The first problem was that the Citizens plugin broke because it didn't support a 1.7.10 jar. Fortunately, the developers who made Citizens were hard at work making this, and they had a hidden but publicly released Citizens 1.7.10 dev build. If you are running your own server on a 1.7.10 jar (this does not mean Bukkit or Spigot 1.7.9, check your jar) and Citizens doesn't work, update your Citizens plugin manually by downloading the Citizens 1.7.10 dev build from their Jenkins website and Citizens will work again: http://ci.citizensnpcs.co/job/Citizens2/1168/

The other problem we ran into was that our hologram plugin, HologramAPI was secretly broken (A.K.A. it appeared green when you typed /plugins, but you were unable to make holograms and no holograms showed up) for the same reason: it did not offer support for a 1.7.10 jar. Fortunately, another plugin called HolographicDisplays did offer 1.7.10 support.

However, the hologram problem still isn't completely fixed. You are able to create and view holograms when your Minecraft client is on 1.7.10, but when your Minecraft client is on 1.8, the only thing you can see if you look up and look closely is horses up in the sky with the holograms going through them. So they don't really appear. There is a fix for this but that involves downloading a ProtocolLib hack, and I don't want to do that. I'd rather wait for one of the plugins to update with 1.7.10 jar support.

Overall, things have been going really well on MCFun Central after the update to Spigot.

We also have one question that we want to ask you: what do you think of full 1.8 support on MCFun Central? Just a side note, this would mean that the only way you'd be able to access MCFun Central would be if you had a 1.8 client, but it would also mean that everything on the server would be about 1.8, so you would have support for 1.8 blocks as well. What do you think? Tell us on Twitter @MCFunCentral or in the comments!

~ Matthew