Peon

Peon 1.4.10 — the server fix

An idle mining game that runs inside Minecraft. You get a plot, a rock face and a pickaxe; everything else you build.

If you run a Peon server, update. 1.4.9 and earlier could hang for a full minute on a player join and get killed by the watchdog, over and over. This build fixes that, and two ways an honest player could be kicked for nothing.

Fixed

• The avenue is no longer rebuilt on every restart. It was laid again from the first plot to the last on the first join after each boot — on a world with a hundred plots that is four kilometres of terrain written on the server thread, forcing chunk generation far from any player. The watchdog killed the server at sixty seconds, every single time. The world now remembers how far the avenue reaches, and only the new stretch is built.
• Lag no longer looks like cheating. When the server freezes, your client keeps queueing what you do and sends it all at once when it wakes up. The rate guards saw that burst as a script and kicked real players. Cadence rules now stand down for three seconds after any long tick — every correctness check stays on.
• Warnings fade. The guard's fault counter never decreased, so enough small hiccups over one long evening eventually kicked an honest player. Faults now expire.
• A tighter doorman. Login attempts are limited to three per address per minute, after a login flood was seen in production. Refused, not banned: the disconnect screen retries on its own.

Still in, from 1.4.9

• Fabric API bundled — drop the jar in mods/ and play.
• A hand-painted sky, cartoon water, warm grading and a lit-up aimed block, all switchable from the pause menu.
• Grass that grows over its neighbours, the four-wagon Alley train, the kit-built HUD and rank strip, eight readable disconnect screens, and rank tags in chat.
• A ground sweeper that clears dropped items every five minutes, with two warnings, and says in the log what it picked up.