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The time has come to put FTB: Interactions to sleep. Sadly the server died on it’s own due to no players. It’s been almost 2 weeks since a single sole has logged onto our servers. As always we don’t shutdown our servers for fun when we feel like it but when there is no one left to play it.
Thanks for everyone coming out and playing and will see you at our next server launch!
We have decided to Shutdown GTNH 2020 Server. Sadly it was a rough year for GTNH Community itself it went through a lot of changes. We also made some mistakes with this server changing too many things and using a strange dev build that never saw the light of day for a very long time. Because of this we never got on the Server List as well as everyone had to use a Custom client to play on our servers to fix a few issues and bugs.
Do to this mistake we sadly lost our playerbase overtime and we promise to make a better server with less modifications and using only release builds of GTNH in the future.
Hopefully will be Back Late Spring Early Summer of this year and make our best GTNH Server Yet! Stay Tuned!
We thank everyone who did join us it was a lot of fun. Here is the top players who had no life 🙂
Hey everyone, our Feed The Beast Interactions Minecraft Server for 2020/2021 is Now Online!
Main Server Info:
Current Version: 2.0.10
ModPack Download: Link
Supported Launcher: MultiMC
Server Address: mc.stonelegion.com:2222
Other Server Info:
World Border: 16,500 x 16,500
Whitelist: None
Discord: wxDbeChemx
Please note we are using the latest version of FTB Interactions found from the FTB Discord in the FTB Interactions channeled Pinned. Right now the Latest Version FTB / Overwolf seems to offer is only 2.0.9.
Just Download and Run MultiMC. Make sure you setup the correct Java Paths. Once you do this all you have to do is Drag and Drop the FTB Interactions ModPack Zip File onto MultiMC Window and it will start to download / install automatically.
Pretty much the Only Changes made was to rebalance dungeon loot. Outside that the Pack is as Vanilla as it gets.
Please make sure you check out our Discord if you need any further help or like to just chat with us!
Our Brand Spanking new GTNH Server is launching Friday August the 21st in the Afternoon!
This is going to be a Long Term Server and for that we spent over $3000 in all new Hardware. Including 12 Core Server, UPS Backup System, and much more! We also have a much better Fault Tolerance Backup System.
More Info:
https://stonelegion.com/gtnh-2020/
We hope to see everyone there!
We have some wonderful news to share with you today. We are planning on running a GTNH 2020 Dedicated Server Next Year (GregTech New Horizons).
What is crazy about GTNH is that it’s still running 1.7.10 Minecraft but has more updates then most of the biggest packs on the market and continues to evolve and grow as time goes on.
The reason we decided to run our third GTNH Server is simply it is one the best packs out there. Enough content that most people can’t ever make it to endgame and challenges where it feels great to accomplish something even as small as bulding a farm.
Last post we talked about building a new server and it’s still planned. Were now more focused on the Ryzen 9 3900X with 12 cores for the ultimate performance for this and many of our future servers.
We hope to have our new servers built in the early 2020 and Launch GTNH once 2.0.8.0 is out and our new server is built!
Our Current Planned Specs:
We plan on doing a few changes like nerfing Rogue Dungeons and Loot Games and a few other tweaks. Nothing game breaking more just smoothing it out so people not rushing to pillage everything to have a upper hand.
Please check out our discord from the top of our site to stay informed with our latest developments!
It’s finally time to consider new Hardware for our future servers. It’s been harder and harder to run our servers using so many weaker hardware and the power consumption is through the roof as well.
Right now our Server potential is 8 x 2600K’s if they were fully up and running and operational. If they were hitting there max TDP (Thermal design power) they would be 760 Watts (95 Watts Each) In Theory for their maximum power consumption. We normally don’t look at TDP and calculate our Hydro costs but rather use it to help compare the usage to other cpu’s on the market.
More Modern CPU’s are also using between 60-95 TDP, but their modern and providing more cores and more single thread performance. Now keep in mind this does not also include other things like PSU overhead / loss, Ram, Hard Drives, etc eating even more power up.
If we Use PassMark to Bench our CPU’s we have a CPU Mark Score of 8434 and a Single Thread Score of 1,941 and that is still considered decent in 2019 for most servers. That being said there is a lot of games becoming very creative that ends up pushing the bounds of that single core performance that makes it more difficult.
Now if we take that main score and x 8 we get 67,472 score and now you have a decent small cluster of CPU Power but not amazing for 8 Servers that are now eating 760+ Watts of power.
Now let’s compare it to a more Modern CPU and we are going to actually compare it to AMD as AMD in 2019 has really come in fierce by providing some the best CPU’s for the best value and keeping their TDP down quite a bit.
The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is one of Ryzen new Flagship CPU’s that runs a TDP of 65W but not only that it runs a single thread performance of 2,908 and a overall score of 23,862 with it’s 8 cores. That is quite impressive for both those very heavy server applications on a Single Thread and those other applications that let you run on multiple threads. The best part you can put multiple game servers on this and still have room to breath.
So if you were to buy 3 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X you would end up at a score of 71,586 vs the 67,472 and your max TDP would also become 195 Watts compared to a whopping 760 Watts and this day of age where power is insanely expensive that is a very very good thing.
Not only would our Power Usage and costs go down but we can actually add proper updates that would increase our speeds overall in so many areas like Ram & Hard Drives. Right now were using basic SSD’s but we can finally move to NVMe where we can get 6-10 times the Read / Write Speeds compared to our past SSD’s and our Memory from DDR3 to DDR4 and not only that prices would go down as DDR3 is quite expensive where DDR4 is quite cheap now on the market and continuing to drop.
With this setup as well we be able to fit in 4x16GB of Ram so each box could be running 64 Gigs of Ram and that is quite awesome for our ram needs and usage. Compared to our current Mix of 8-24 Gigs we have now due to costs and lack of decent supply of DDR3 on the market.
So calculating the Cost for fun I put in a 1TB NVMe, 64 Gigs ram, 550W PSU, 4U Rackmount Server Case with 8 Internal Bays, The 3700 with a Decent Cooler, MSI Gaming Motherboard we come to a total of $1324.26 Canadian or $995.57 USD and that is with Tax. Not bad for a Modern Day Beast of a Server. Clearly this me throwing all quickly on Amazon to get an idea what we are dealing with.
This investment will not be something I make right away. It will be something I start doing sometime Next Year it could be in the Spring or even the Summer time, but it’s something I’m highly considering doing and honestly I doubt I will not do it as long as I can keep growing with my other projects.
I thought it be fun to document this and be a little more open about the costs of building a server and even the Power consumption of a server. Keep in mind I was sharing max value’s and the servers don’t just sit there eating away a 100 Watts an hour idle.
Right now we have no plans on Forums as we use Discord 24/7 For most things. But I think it’s important have a proper place to post information, links, updates, etc. So unless there is a demand we don’t see a need.
Hopefully will update more information sometime this year!