1.9.2 is LIIIVVEEE!

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Todays the day, Im going to move us to 1.9.2; this will take me hours, so please be patient; Everything will be saved, nothing should be lost in the transfer.

The first thing people have said is “how do we get the elytra”; read the damn forum posts where its already covered! we have had a 1.9 master-thread for months:

PirateCraft Minecraft 1.9 Master Thread

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PirateCraft 1.9 changelog/notes:

• We are now all on 1.9! 13/47 16/04/2016
  
• We are now LIVE and open! Thank you to CallieMav, Dagersh & vapecloudbear for helping test. 16:00 16/04/2016
• Name tags above heads will now disappear with invisibility potions; this means full invisibility.
• Expanded the end to 2000 block radius & pre-generating all chunks to avoid this bug that was supposedly “resolved” but im not taking chances. https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-98994
• Voting may be broken again, we changed the plugin.
• Main World hasn’t been expanded (yet) this will be decided after adding a new world (future project)
• Gapples have not had their effects disabled (Yet!) I want to give people about a month or two to use up their stash before they are completely disabled and offered up a trade sign at the cove; the reason behind this is now they are impossible to obtain by the new default minecraft 1.9 mechanics, and wealthy players have stashes and stashes of them horded, which would make them extremely overpowered.
• Elytra; Yes there’s one in the end, nobody has it yet, No there isn’t another way to get one (yet), no you cannot have one; we will decide how these are obtainable at a later date.
• The End; Is still closed, until there is a busy server, hopefully tonight! Then we will open the end up for a mass-event to kill the dragon and raid of the new end islands to make it fair; we cant have the first people that come on directly as we take the whitelist off looting the end, that would be very unfair, so stop asking to be whitelisted to loot early! Event created, we open at 10pm BST tonight! be there or be sqaure! http://piratemc.com/topic/piratecraft-fresh-1-9-end-opens-up-today-at-2200-bst/
• The ends main island is claimed; but all smaller islands will be claimable.
• Added coupon code scurvyshulkers for 15% off /donate and piratemc.com/donate/
• After getting 30+ players on the server, we have had a massive tps drop from a solid 20/20 on 1.8.8 to about 14/15 on 1.9.2; Poorly written code I assume, and I know there were hopper issues; our actual server had plenty of resources, but its still getting held up somewhere.

Still open issues with 1.9 default minecraft issues that Mojang/Microsoft needs to fix.

• Chunk swapping: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-74762
• Block breaking / doors / pressure plates lag https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-89262 (Resolved? Will need testing)
• Entities missing after upgrading to 1.9 / Entities become invisible under certain conditions https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-65040

General minecraft 1.9 FAQ:

Source:  https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/48ktct/19_faqs/

2. Intel Integrated GPU and Random Crashing

Some people with Intel integrated GPUs may see the game crashing from memory access violations. The crash log looks like this:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007ffb84b1172c, pid=7928, tid=9892
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b18) (build 1.8.0_25-b18)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.25-b02 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [ig8icd64.dll+0x60172c]
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

This is because of a memory leak caused by Intel’s drivers (i.e. faulty drivers). This mainly affects 7th to 9th Generation Intel HD Graphics (ig7xxxxx.dll, ig8xxxxx.dll, ig9xxxxx.dll) which ships with 3rd Generation to 6th Generation Intel Core Processors. In layman’s terms, if your Intel CPU is Ivy Bridge (Model number ix-3xxx), Haswell (4xxx), Broadwell (5xxx) or Skylake (6xxx), you may be affected.

Until Intel fixes their drivers, to work around this issue, make sure you have the latest drivers installed

and set VBO and VSync to On in Video Settings (Options -> Video Settings). Additionally, try allocating more RAM to Minecraft.

(Bug report here)

 

3. OpenGL Requirements

The OpenGL requirement for 1.9 stays at OpenGL 1.3 (according to internal sources). Please report back if you have a OpenGL 1.3 only system that refuses to run Minecraft even at very low graphics settings.

4. Graphics Glitching For No Reason After Upgrading

Minecraft 1.9 makes use of even more advanced OpenGL features than before. If your graphics suddenly started giltching since upgrading to 1.9, chances are that your graphics drivers are out of date.

Make sure you have the latest drivers installed

and set VBO and VSync to On and set Mipmap to 0 in Video Settings (Options -> Video Settings -> Use VSync/Use VBO -> On) If you are on a laptop with switchable graphics, you may also want to check that your computer is indeed using the dedicated graphics card.

Nvidia Optimus Instructions

AMD Switchable Graphics Instructions

(Bug report pertaining to AMD GPUs here)

5. Getting random block lag?

If you are suddenly getting block lag in 1.9, try lowering your render distance in Video Settings (Options -> Video Settings) to something below 16 chunks. Also, try allocating more RAM to Minecraft.

Lets have some fun

Lets see who can come up with the best shield designs, lets see who can pull off the best invisibility heist, lets see what unique ways we can now use lingering potions and these fancy new arrows!

Lets do an event; hopefully tonight, we will have a mass-end opening ceremony, where everyone will be able to all tackle the dragon together and raid all the small end islands.

Future planned event; we want to do a tournament to win an elytra; sadly the tournament plugin hasn’t been updated to 1.9! so we are trying to find a decent working plugin to manage this.

It took a lot longer than expected, but were there, were on 1.9.2 and we have all our plugins, data and were playing!