Issues Installing Server

[Senshaij 0]

A friend of mine introduced me to TFCraft, and we want to setup a server to play on. I've gotten mod working on my client with no issues, but I can't seem to get the server installation to work. I'm not getting any errors, simply the server still thinks it's vanilla, and our clients think they're TFC, so there is no traversing leaves, for example (the client thinks you should walk through them, and the server thinks they're 'solid'). No mods folder was generated by the server, and I've searched for a 'recent' (within the last month of so) tutorial for setting up a server and I cannot seem to find anything.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: So, I'm not sure exactly what did it, but I managed to get it to work.

A lot of trying to run the jar through Command Prompt, and re-downloading and re-installing the mods in different orders generating and not generating a new world in between. I think that somehow my META-INF folder became corrupt, but I'm still not sure.

Thanks to those who tried to help!

Edited 24 Sep 2012 by Senshaij

[cedenjr 14]

Put forge, and then player api,and then i put in the Guiapi mod in the minecraftserver jar Google Guiapi and you'll find it, Dont delete the meta folder, Then create your own mods folder throw in terrafirma craft, and It worked fine for me. But i only run a server for myself so my crops grow faster, if it doesn't work i'm sorry.

[renadi 258]

As nice as it is to state extra things that you like when someone is having trouble you should stick with the basics.

Install forge and player api into the server.jar just like you did with the minecraft.jar, make a folder called mods right next to it, put TFC in it and run the server, you'll likely have to run it use the stop command and run it again to get it settled properly in place.

Bioxx is such a machine when updates come that videos relying on old versions are quickly out of place, use google to find here are the most recent versions of Forge and Player API.

[cedenjr 14]

As nice as it is to state extra things that you like when someone is having trouble you should stick with the basics.

Install forge and player api into the server.jar just like you did with the minecraft.jar, make a folder called mods right next to it, put TFC in it and run the server, you'll likely have to run it use the stop command and run it again to get it settled properly in place.

Bioxx is such a machine when updates come that videos relying on old versions are quickly out of place, use google to find here are the most recent versions of Forge and Player API.

Sure basics is good i only put in Guiapi because it was the only way i could stop minecraft from just picking vanilla over TFC, but thats just me, i hope that he gets it working though.

[Senshaij 0]

Thanks for the quick replies!

Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same issue. I've tried adding the GuiAPI, but I'm not seeing where I can force it to choose TFC over vanilla.

I forgot to mention before that I'm using Win7 if that has any affect on this? In order to run a server, I run the executable, not the .jar, and I cannot seem to add these mod files into the .exe.

[cedenjr 14]

Thanks for the quick replies!

Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same issue. I've tried adding the GuiAPI, but I'm not seeing where I can force it to choose TFC over vanilla.

I forgot to mention before that I'm using Win7 if that has any affect on this? In order to run a server, I run the executable, not the .jar, and I cannot seem to add these mod files into the .exe.

Put forge,Player api ( And then Gui APi if the basics dont work) in the jar, and run the jar not the exe, and it should automatically force to TFC, At least it did for me.

[Senshaij 0]

That's what I figured, but how? =/ I have attempted to, but with no luck.

[cedenjr 14]

Okay i'll try my best to explain this step by step.

Step 1: Open your minecraft server jar with win rar, Drag files from Forge universal and stick the files in first, Then extract Player api into the server jar Dont Delete meta if.

Step 2: Create a mods file in the same directory as the server jar.

Step 3: Put TFC in mods folder

Double click jar file

Thats about as basic as it gets, If the Above still doesnt work, Put in Gui API after player api.

[Senshaij 0]

I understand all of that. The issue I'm having is running the jar. Double-clicking it does nothing. I've done some google searches to try and figure out what's funny about running jars on Win7, and I can't find anything that's helped so far.

[cedenjr 14]

i can run jars on win7 just fine. :/ I dunno whats wrong.

[cedenjr 14]

* Crap i double posted on accident*

[Senshaij 0]

Okay, thanks for all the help!

[renadi 258]

hmm if you can't run it directly you could try opening notepad, pasting this in

"C:Program FilesJavajre7binjavaw.exe" -Xmx2048m -Xms2048m -jar "Minecraft_Server.jar"

and going to save as run.bat and putting it in the same folder as the server.jar, that's how I run mine.

[Senshaij 0]

"The system cannot find the path specified."

I tried setting a JAVA_HOME as well and making sure all of the paths are correct. When I try to run the jar from the command line, I get an error message saying: "Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from minecraft_server.jar". Google hasn't been too helpful with this either, unfortunately.

[MDub 68]

If you had installed it correctly the first time around, and you started it, and it ran as vanilla, I think that means you deleted your META-INF folder (which you dont do for servers).... I could be wrong but I vaguely remember another post where this exact thing happened, and this was the only issue

[MDub 68]

Also, to make the bat file, (explaining what renadi said) create an empty text file and type in

@ECHO OFF

"PATH TO JAVA INSTALL" -Xmx2048m -Xms2048m -jar "PATH TO MINECRAFTSERVER.JAR"

here its a bit easier to read, the first part in quotes is the path to your java.exe (if your on java 7, its in the location renadi has in his post). -XMX is the max heap size for java, and -XMS is the starting size (just dont make these greater than the amount of memory installed on the computer) and the last part is the full path to your minecraft server jar file eg "C:UsersMarkDesktopServerMinecraftServer.jar"

[VegasGoat 51]

"The system cannot find the path specified."

I tried setting a JAVA_HOME as well and making sure all of the paths are correct. When I try to run the jar from the command line, I get an error message saying: "Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from minecraft_server.jar". Google hasn't been too helpful with this either, unfortunately.

The Main-Class error means you deleted your META-INF folder from the jar file, which is where the manifest file is that specifies what class to run when double-clicking the jar file.

So download a fresh minecraft_server.jar and try again, this time not deleting the META-INF directory and you should be able to double click to run.

Personally, I've never run it that way, I have a batch file that calls the main class directly, something like this (I'll have to check when I'm home later):

java -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -classpath Minecraft_Server.jar net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer

I'm not sure on the class name but I think that's right.

EDIT: FYI, when I run it this way I do delete the META-INF folder...