Tag: dynmap

• LiveAtlas – a Custom Frontend for Dynmap
  Recently, I spent a lot of time diving into the Minecraft mod/plugin Dynmap.

  It’s an awesome tool and if you run a Minecraft server and don’t know about it, you should check it out!

  While trying to figure out how to setup a standalone web server for Dynmap, I came across LiveAtlas. It’s an alternative frontend for Dynmap (and also supports Squaremap, Pl3xmap and Overviewer) that adds a much sleeker interface to the web ui, as well as some cool features like being able to right-click on the map and get a context menu:

  

  

  These kinds of things are big part of why I love the Minecraft community! The amount of high quality tools/plugs/mods that people have poured their time and skills into for the community are immense.

  Installation

  Installing LiveAtlas on your Minecraft server is extremely straightforward and easy. It literally functions as a “drop-in” replacement for Dynmap’s web GUI.

  1. Download the latest release of LiveAtlas
  2. Extract that into your dynmap/web folder
  3. Prevent Dynmap from overwriting the LiveAtlas index.html by changing the update-webpath-files to false in Dynmap’s Configuration.txt file (verions of Dynmap older than 3.3.2 need to set the index.html file to read-only)

  The index.html file can be modified to add custom favicons and additional customization.

  Are you using Dynmap or LiveAtlas on your server? How do you have it setup? Drop a comment below and let me know!
  14 August 2023

  Blog, Tutorial

  dynmap, minecraft

• Self-Hosted Headaches with Caddy, Dynmap, and Docker!
  As some of you may know, I love Minecraft!

  I run a Forge-modded server for some friends and use a mod called Dynmap (which is also a popular plugin by the same name). This mod allows players to view a map of the entire Minecraft world in their browser and see the locations of other players.

  This had been working out beautifully until our world started to grow rather large in file size. You see, Dynmap renders/generates map tiles based on chunks in your world and the larger your world is, the more map tiles there are. For some context, my world is about 9GB and the Dynmap files that make up the map come in around ~43GB.

  That’s a lot of space! And I knew that was going to be an issue as our world grew.

  I manage my Minecraft server using AMP and it lives within an Ubuntu virtual machine dedicated to Minecraft, which lives on a node in a Proxmox cluster.

  I could have just assigned more space to the VM and called it a day (which is what I did as a short-term solution), BUT I have a NAS with lots of space hosted on another node within the same Proxmox cluster, on the same local network, and I began to wonder if there was a way to offload the storage component of Dynmap from the Minecraft server to the NAS.

  As it turns out, there is!

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  5 August 2023

  Blog, Tutorial

  caddy, docker, docker compose, dynmap, minecraft