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How to Setup and Use Iridium Skyblock on your Minecraft Server
Over the years, Skyblock has increasingly become one of Minecraft's most popular game modes, currently at its peak on Multiplayer servers. In Skyblock, players start on a small island surrounded by a void, with only some dirt, a tree, and a chest of essential items. It's certainly different from the standard Minecraft playthrough, but a major challenge for those who are up for a new experience. Iridium Skyblock is a plugin created to give the optimal Skyblock experience on a multiplayer Minecraft server. Allowing players to easily create, manage, and survive on their independent islands. Iridium Skyblock includes unique features such as: Island Menu, Island Permissions, a leaderboard, Island Quests, Island Upgrades, Island Bank, and customizable Island borders! --- Installing Iridium Skyblock To install the Iridium Skyblock plugin on your server, you will need to download the plugin and put it into your plugins folder. Thanks to our built-in plugin installer, this is easier than ever. Do note that to use Iridium Skyblock, you will need to use a server type that supports plugins. We recommend PaperMC. 1. Head to your server's Control Panel and navigate to the Plugins tab. 2. Search up Iridium Skyblock on our plugin installer, click install, and select a build you wish to use. 3. Restart your server. --- Plugin Configuration Iridium has many configuration options and files, too many to cover in this article. We suggest you take some time to explore the files to gain an understanding of the options you have available. The official Wiki does an exceptional job of explaining each configuration file. Iridium's configuration files can be found within your server files at . --- Creating your Skyblock Island Once connected to your server, players will be able to create their own Skyblock island. 1. Enter the command , and select a starting schematic. 2. To access the island menu, type . 3. To add a friend to your island, type .
How to Set Up Votifier to Allow Voting
Votifier allows server owners to link their in-game server to online server listing websites, then gives custom rewards to players for reviewing or voting for their server. --- Setting up Votifier (NuVotifier) You must have NuVotifier installed on your server for this tutorial. You can find out how to install plugins here: How to Install Plugins. If you already have NuVotifier installed, you will need to stop your server before you can proceed with the steps below. 1. Access your server's control panel and navigate to the Files tab. 2. Navigate to the Votifier folder, which you can find inside the plugins folder. 3. Click on the config.yml file to edit. In the file, look for the line that has the port number. Change the port number in the file to reflect the port you just opened. You must use the Additional Ports feature on your panel to open up a port to ensure that the port is not in use by any other server. 4. Press Save & Exit to leave the text editor. 5. Restart your server for the change to take effect. You can use an online tool called Votifier Tester to test if the plugin is working correctly.
How to Set Up the Biomes O' Plenty Mod
Biomes O' Plenty is an expansive biome mod for Minecraft that adds lots of new biomes to your worlds, including new blocks, plants, and more. After installing the Biomes O' Plenty mod onto your Minecraft server, your server will not generate a world using the new biomes without first configuring the level type option in your server properties. --- Enabling Biomes O' Plenty As mentioned previously, you will need to generate a brand new world with the correct level type to use the Biomes O' Plenty world generation. 1. Access your server's control panel and navigate to the Files tab. 2. Find the server.properties file, and click its name to edit it. 3. Set the level-type field to or if you are using Forge 1.12 or lower. 4. Change the level-name field to a new and unique world name. 5. Save the file, then Restart your server. That's it! When your server boots up, a new world will be generated with the name you specified, with the new Biomes O' Plenty biomes.
How to Restore Player Skins on an Offline Mode Minecraft Server
Offline mode servers allow cracked (non-premium) game clients to connect. Among many other downsides, one negative to Offline Mode servers is that they no longer communicate with Mojang skin servers. As a result, players will all appear as default Minecraft skins when they connect. Luckily, a plugin called SkinsRestorer exists, which does exactly as it sounds: it bridges the gap between Mojang skin servers and your offline Spigot server, restoring player skins. ::ProseNote{title="Please Note" description="This guide explains how to install a plugin on a Minecraft server. To install plugins, you must have a plugin-compatible server type running. If you are unsure if you are running a plugin-compatible server type, please visit this article for more information." appearance="danger"} :: Installing SkinsRestorer 1. Download the latest version of SkinsRestorer Navigate to the SkinsRestorer Modrinth page and download the latest version. You may need to download an older plugin version if you are using a really old version of Minecraft. 2. Access your server's control panel and navigate to the Files tab. 3. Select the folder. 4. Upload the SkinsRestorer jar file you downloaded. 5. Start your server. That's it! After your server boots up, Skin Restorer will be loaded up and working as expected.
How to Reset your Minecraft World
There may be a plethora of reasons to reset your Minecraft world, such as world corruption, a new Minecraft update, or simply looking for a fresh start. This guide teaches you how to reset your Minecraft world as a whole, so it includes both The Nether & The End. If you would like to learn how to reset each of these individually, we have guides on how to reset them both. 1. How to Reset The Nether on your Minecraft Server 2. How to Reset The End on your Minecraft Server Before starting with this guide, it is highly recommended that you create a backup of your world to make sure you have a copy on the off chance you change your mind. --- How to Reset your Server World You can reset your Minecraft world by deleting the world folders found in your server files. 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Access your server files and locate the world folders. 3. Select your world folder(s), and click Delete. The name of the active world folders will match what you have named the world in the level name option of your server.properties. 4. Confirm file deletion. ::ProseNote{title="Warning - Deleting Files" description="These steps involve deleting files. Deleted files cannot be recovered. If there is a chance you may want to recover the files, make sure you backup before deleting anything." appearance="error"} :: 5. Start your server to generate a new world. That's it! Once your server boots up, a new world will be generated.
How to Reset The Nether on your Minecraft Server
Players may wish for a fresh Nether to explore and to find new fortresses to loot and raid. Thankfully, resetting The Nether on Minecraft is very easy, and this guide will teach you how to do it. The method of how you reset The Nether will depend on the server type you are running, such as Vanilla Minecraft, or running Spigot, Bukkit or Paper. ::ProseNote{title="Warning - Deleting Files" description="These steps involve deleting files. Deleted files cannot be recovered. If there is a chance you may want to recover the files, make sure you backup before deleting anything." appearance="error"} :: Resetting The Nether with a Vanilla, Forge, or Fabric Server You can reset The Nether by deleting the DIM-1 folder found within the server files. 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Access your server files and open the World folder. 3. Select the and delete it. Do not be mistaken with the folder named with no dash (-), this is The End. If deleted, your End will be broken. 4. Confirm deletion of the folder. 5. Start your server. --- Resetting The Nether with a Paper/Bukkit/Spigot Server You can reset The Nether by deleting the world\nether folder found in your server's files. 1. Access your Control Panel and Shut Down your server. 2. Access your server files and locate the folder. 3. Select the folder, and delete it. 4. Confirm deletion of the folder. 5. Start your Server.
How to Reset The End on your Minecraft Server
Whether you’ve explored all of the End Cities or are struggling to find another End Ship, resetting chunks of the End will allow you to re-explore brand new areas! Not only that, you can completely reset the Ender Dragon and fight it multiple times per world. --- Why You Cannot Fully Reset the End In the past, you could reset the End by deleting the DIM1 folder in your World folder. This no longer works as of version 1.9, and doing so will result in a broken End. The reason this occurs is that the End Portal and Crystals only generate on the first portal entry. Thankfully, there is a method to respawn the Ender Dragon in-game and regenerate the islands surrounding the main island. --- Respawning the Ender Dragon You can respawn the Ender Dragon by crafting and placing end crystals around the exit portal. 1. Craft four End Crystals. 2. Place an End Crystal on each side of The End exit portal. 3. The crystals around the portal will explode once the process is complete. That's it! You can now fight the respawned Ender Dragon. --- Trimming Chunks in the End Trimming chunks is the process of deleting chunks that you wish to be removed from your Minecraft world. This allows chunks to then be generated as brand new chunks when a player explores the area again. ::ProseNote{title="Important Reminder" description="This is a dangerous function that can damage worlds if used incorrectly. Make sure to create a backup of all your server worlds before proceeding." appearance="danger"} :: We recommend using MCASelector for Vanilla Chunk Trimming, we have a tutorial on how to use MCASelector here. When trimming the End, you will want to avoid trimming any of the Main Island chunks. Removing these chunks will also break the End. It is currently impossible to reset the Main Island. Once you have removed the chunks and uploaded/saved your changes appropriately, you may then load into the End and ensure everything looks good. New chunks should generate outside of the Main Island, and the Main Island should be exactly how you left it. Now you can explore your newly regenerated End!