Project ARCHIVED.

Always Online aims at both: protecting players and simplifying the way they join lan worlds within your modpack.

It uses a host server part and client parts (client has to be configured).

What it does may seem fantastic to you: it allows to join players that have the same host server set up, if they share their world. It is similar to sharing world to LAN, but it also informs host server of your world, so others could join without knowing your IP. This also brings security issue, thus you may set password!

Now some Q&A to help you understand how this mod actually works:

Q: Okay, what is host server?

A: This is a bridge between clients. Host stores information about all running worlds and their owners.

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Q: How to configure clients?

A: Within your pack, you edit config/alwaysonline.cfg and specify IP and port of the Host Server. That way, client will know where to route those requests to get lists of players and to post own world, ofc.

To create a host server you need to either put this mod (and Hammer Core too, SORRY) on your hosted MC server. There you can configure host's port. Another option would be to download a runnable jar file. It has only that built in. Also, NONE of these solutions use ANY drive storage, since amount of data is tiny and it is enough to keep it in RAM. (I'm talking about kilobytes, or megabytes!)

Download standalone or/and plugin Host Server jar at Github from TehenoPengin's repository.

At last, yes. This mod requires Hammer Core. This is just one of those things that are pretty hard to embed, so it's a dependency.

I would appreciate if someone would host a Host Server as a default option! I will credit the one who will do this, in-game.

Thanks to SpaceNet we have a default host! Thank you <3

Permissions:

You can use this mod in your modpack.
You are not allowed to re-publish this mod to other sites without providing a CurseForge download link and my permission (PM to Zeitheron, or via Discord)
You are not allowed to include this (or any other mods of DragonForge team) in your own mod. Building addons, however, is allowed, but a friendly PM would be good.

Note:

The only supported version of minecraft is the latest one that this mod exists for. DO NOT ASK TO DOWNGRADE!

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