News

Fixed an issue causing the server to run out of disk space.

• Added support for Minecraft 1.19 and upgraded Java to version 19
• Added plugin for showing particle trails behind players
• Added new commands: /broadcastminimessage, /getjson and /particletrails
• Various fixes and cleanups for plugins

• Kaboom has been updated to Paper 1.17.1, bringing native support for Minecraft 1.17.1
• Kaboom now uses Java 16 instead of 15
• Schematics are once again restored after server resets
• Several plugin improvements have been contributed by community members

Experimental support for Minecraft Bedrock Edition has been reintroduced. Join with IP: play.kaboom.pw

Minecraft 1.16.3 clients can now join the server.

Minecraft 1.16.2 clients can now join the server.

Minecraft 1.16.1 clients can now join the server.

A few updates since the last announcement:

• Kaboom is now hosted on Hetzner’s new AMD EPYC 2nd Gen servers
• Kaboom has been updated from Paper 1.13.2 to Paper 1.15.2, bringing complete Minecraft 1.15.2 support
• Several plugin updates
• Several smaller stability and bug fixes

Redstone wire and repeaters work properly again. Command blocks are now allowed to run all server commands, but will no longer loop.

Several server plugins have been updated to their latest versions. Supported client versions from now on are Java Edition 1.9 to 20w08a, but 1.15.x is recommended.

An update on Paper 1.15.1 support: chunk generation performance is not on par with Paper 1.13.2 (yet), so we’re sticking with Paper 1.13.2 for the time being. Several performance optimizations have been applied to Kaboom in recent weeks, and more will be added.

Minecraft 1.15 clients can now join the server.

TNT explosions, large non-solid block areas and large lava/water areas have been optimized, and should cause smaller TPS drops than before. More optimizations are planned for the near future, in combination with Minecraft 1.15.

Kaboom’s brand assets are now published in vector and high resolution raster format at https://github.com/kaboomserver/brand

Vanilla Minecraft commands will now be preferred over plugin commands. This means that:

• Any Essentials commands that were previously accessible without a prefix (e.g. /give) now require a prefix (e.g. /essentials:give or /egive)
• Kaboom’s /tag command should be accessed with /prefix, /rank or /extras:tag
• Kaboom’s custom /tellraw command should be accessed with /broadcastraw, /bcraw or /extras:tellraw

If you don’t use the SRV IP (kaboom.pw) to connect to the server, you should now connect with play.kaboom.pw instead of play.kaboom.pw:53950.

A player’s inventory is no longer cleared when joining the server, unless a broken item is detected.

Large amounts of carrots and potatoes should no longer freeze the server. We used the wrong IDs for these blocks in our anti-crash feature after upgrading the server to 1.13.

Minecraft 1.7 and 1.8 clients can join the server again.

The server is now running on Paper 1.13.2, but will be updated to 1.14.4 once a few major bugs have been fixed by the Paper team (hopefully very soon). Minecraft client versions 1.9 to 1.14.4 can play on the server.

We’ve fixed a couple of large performance issues in our plugins that caused TPS drops and freezes in servers newer than Minecraft 1.12.2.

We’ve upgraded the server from Paper 1.12.2 to 1.14.4 to test performance. Things may be buggy for some time, but bugs will eventually be ironed out.

Two new weapons have been added to the server: machine gun and grenade. You can access them with the /weapon command.

Minecraft 1.14.4 clients can now join the server.

We’re going to start testing Minecraft 1.14.3’s server performance soon, to see if there’s any chance of upgrading the server in the near future. The server is currently running on Paper 1.12.2, with protocol support for newer clients due to bad performance in 1.13.

Minecraft 1.14.3 clients are now supported on the server.

The server is online again. Looks like a temporary outage at OVH rendered the server unplayable until the next server reset. We’ve made some changes to ensure the server doesn’t stay offline after short outages in the future.

We’re aware that the server is offline atm, not sure what the reason is yet. Will investigate.

A bunch of fixes and plugin updates have been made.

Minecraft 1.14.2 clients are now supported on the server.

Minecraft 1.14.1 clients are now supported on the server.

Minecraft 1.14 clients are now supported on the server.

Minecraft 1.14 Pre-Release 5 clients can now join the server.

The suspension was due to reaching the bandwidth limit. We’ve switched to a new provider, and the server is up again.

Our IP provider has suspended us. Looking into this asap.

The server was briefly updated to 1.13.2 today to test the stability, but sadly 1.13.2 still has too many issues. The server will stay on 1.12.2, with protocol support for 1.13.2 clients, at least until Minecraft 1.14 is released.

April fools.

Due to changes in server ownership, Kaboom will become a server network with minigames, survival and creative plots. Unfortunately, the current anarchy server will be removed.

A bug that sometimes caused the /clearchat command to freeze the server should be fixed now.

A bug that caused the server to keep restarting has been fixed.

The server is online once again. Apologies for downtime.

A few more crash issues related to WorldEdit should hopefully be fixed now.

Bot attacks should no longer cause extreme server lag.

A few common server crashes have been fixed, and more will be looked at in the coming days.

A new weapon and a couple of bug fixes landed in the Weapons plugin.

The website has received a redesign.

A new plugin, EchoPet, has been added. Use the command /pet help in-game for more info.

Two new weapons have been added to the /weapons command. They are slightly unfinished at the moment, but mostly work fine.

For the time being, 1.13.2 protocol support has been enabled. 1.13.2 clients can connect to the server, but no 1.13 features are present.

If the performance improvements in Minecraft 1.13.2 are good enough, we will attempt to upgrade the server 1.13.2 once a new Paper version has been released.

An issue that sometimes caused players being unable to chat and use commands has been fixed.

We’ve added a few failsafes to ensure that the server restarts after a crash/freeze. Skins are also fixed.

The server is up again.

The iControlU plugin has been ported over from the old server.

We’ve rolled the server back to version 1.12.2, due to 1.13 being unusable in its current state. 1.13 clients can still join, but 1.13 features are missing for now.

Server data no longer resets after every server restart. This was a mistake on our part. We will look into why the 1.13 update has made the server almost unplayable.

Worlds will now reset if they exceed a certain file size limit, instead of resetting weekly.

I’ve found the reason for the recent downtime, and I hope to have it fixed by tomorrow.

Weapons from the old server are back. The command is /weapons or /weapon. More weapons will be added in the future.

We’ve migrated to a new hosting provider, Heroku, which should be much less laggy than the previous provider.

The /username command is back.

The /destroyentities, /enchantall, /jumpscare and /unloadchunks commands from the old server are back. The CommandSpy plugin has also been rewritten from scratch.

Did some under-the-hood cleanups and tweaks for the server, or something like that.

Minecraft’s /kill command is back, but this time it only kills entities other than players. We will look into general server lag issues and try to sort them out.

The server now uses Paper instead of Cuberite as server software.

Recently we’ve moved the server to Uberspace to test what their hosting is like. Other than this host change, not a lot has happened in recent months due to us being busy. Notable changes since the last post in April are:

• New separate hub world
• A lot of plugin tweaks and fixes (memory leak fix in Extras plugin)
• Updates to support Minecraft 1.12.2
• ICU plugin testing

We moved the server to ArubaCloud about a month ago, and the experience has been great so far. Many thanks to them for a great VPS.

We’ve finally bought a domain name instead of relying on a free one. If you want to play on the server, you should start using the IP kaboom.pw instead of the old flame.ga.

Issues regarding large amounts of downtime should hopefully be fixed from now on.

We’ve finally put the source code of the server’s custom plugin, Extras, on Github. Feel free to use any part of it in your plugins.

We’ve added a lot of new features, including God Mode and InventorySpy, and fixed some bugs.

The server has been updated to support Minecraft 1.10 clients.

We are here to stay! The server uptime may not have been great lately, but we’re working on it.

Players can once again join with Minecraft 1.8.

The server has been updated with support for Minecraft 1.9.3 and 1.9.4.

Snipers have been added to the server. You can get a sniper by typing “/sniper” in chat.

The server has been updated with support for Minecraft 1.9. There are still a few bugs which will be fixed in the coming weeks.

We’ve added a CommandSpy plugin to the server. You can enable it by using the “/commandspy” command.

You can now download copies of schematics on the server, perfect if you want to move your buildings outside the server.

A new hub world with portals to four different worlds (the Overworld, Flatlands, Nether and End) has been added. We’ve also created a /username command that allows you to change your username on the server.

We’ve created a new plugin that allows players to broadcast mob sounds at their current location. The commands are /mobsound and /mobsoundtool.

DisguiseCraft has gained some new features. The plugin now supports baby disguises and custom disguise names. Additionally, mobs don’t die anymore.

We’ve added downloads for the server’s worlds! These downloads will update every five minutes.

A long overdue update for the website is now live. The website is more responsive than before. These are the changes:

• Converted px to em to make the website more responsive. A lot of ugly code was eliminated as a result of this.
• Removed unused and unnecessary code
• New crisp icons with proper spacing

We’ve created a new spawn for the server and added a Flatlands world for easier building.

The server has been moved to a new host with better specs! It should also restart much faster than before after a crash.

Players can now get a few ranks/tags using the commands /rank and /ranks.

We’ve unblocked another command! You’ll have to find out which one it is though. ;)

A “News” section has been added to our website. We’ve also created a contact form to make it easier for you to send us messages.

The server should once again run 24/7, after having to solve a few problems. Apologies for the recent downtime.

We’ve migrated to a new hosting provider with better server specifications!

Recently, DisguiseCraft stopped working due to a new issue in the server software. We will push a fix for this tomorrow. Another little detail; you will also be able to spawn and disguise as a Giant.

A few new commands have been added to the server.

Our website has been updated.

The server was created.