I was asked and volunteered to review an eBook from Packt Publishing titled, “Instant Minecraft Designs How To” by Mephisto Waltz.
Due to the fact that Minecraft and more specifically CraftBukkit had been updated to 1.5.1 and the book was written using 1.4.7 I had a few issues installing the server and plugins.
First off, in the book the instructions say to use the author’s website found here for server installation instructions. On the site there is a new video titled, “Minecraft Server Install Guide Video” and while the video is very useful and instructional if you try to install the VoxelSniper plugin for the server from the link provided you will get an error when starting the server and wonder why. The first day trying to install the server this one misstep cost me hours or wasted time when I could have been going through the materials.
To successfully install the server to follow along with the book, at the bottom of the author’s website on the home page you should see the following image and click the “Learn More” for a successful, one time, and frustration free install.
After clicking learn more, if you go to Step 3 you will find direct links to all the downloads needed for a successful server install. For time sake and to help others out I will post the links below as well.
Download VoxelSniper Server Plugin
Download WorldEdit Server Plugin
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