How do you add the plugins?

[MajickTek]

I'm playing this with my friend (it's the only way we got alpha to work)

so we need the OnlineChecker plugin to use the official Minecraft launcher ( I used MultiMC before and it worked but there was no sound and it was buggy as heck so I decided to switch)

so how do you install the plugin?

[stonar96]

Sorry for the late answer. I was quite inactive lately.

Actually it should work fine to play on the Vanilla Minecraft Alpha server with the official Minecraft launcher. However the server must run in offline-mode (online-mode=false in your server.properties file) because Mojang doesn't support the old versions in online-mode anymore. The actual problem with the official Minecraft launcher is that you can't choose your username, respectively your username won't be your usual username. Instead, everyone who uses the official Minecraft launcher has the name "Player524".

So if you plan to play on a Minecraft Alpha server with your friend(s) you need to use another launcher or solve the "Player524" problem somehow different (just Google "fix Player524").

Also note that my plugin "OnlineCheck" doesn't solve any of these problems. The server is still in offline-mode. What this plugin does is to kick players which try to join the server if there is already a player with that username online on the server (The default behavior is that the player which was already online gets kicked if someone joins with his username). So it has actually nothing to do with the online-mode.

Installing plugins is actually easy. If you have managed to build the server as described in the README.md file you have to run the server (and configure online-mode=false). Then you can download the plugins and put them into the plugins folder which is generated by the server and then restart the server.

I hope this helps you. If not, please don't hesitate to ask more questions.

[MajickTek]

Ok thanks :)

the only problems are that there is no "plugins folder" in the final_output directory and the server has a TON of lag and latency issues which do not happen in Singleplayer mode. keep in mind me and my friend both have really good internet connectivity so I don't know what the issue is

[stonar96]

Multiplayer in Minecraft Alpha is laggy and has many bugs. Sorry, but I can't do much about it except fixing some of the bugs which is the aim of this project.

First I want to make sure that your building process has finished successfully. Assuming that you have installed all prerequisites and executed build.sh, do you have both files (minecraft_server.jar and minecraft_server_unobfuscated.jar) inside your final_out directory? If yes, can you please tell me the exact size of these files in Bytes?

Also note that it's generally a bad idea to run the server inside the final_out directory. What you should do is to copy minecraft_server_unobfuscated.jar to another directory for your server and then just execute the jar file. When you execute the jar file it should generate all the files (e.g. the server.properties file and the plugins directory) at the same directory as your jar file.