FAQ

Basics

Why are you doing this? What’s wrong with the official Alpha server?
Plenty. The biggest architectural mistake is the choice of dozens of threads instead of NIO and an asynchronous event-driven model, but there are other problems as well.
Are you implying that the official Alpha server is bad?
Yes. As previous versions of this FAQ have stated, Notch is a cool guy, but the official server is bad.
Are you going to make an open-source client? That would be awesome!
The server is free, but the client is not. Accordingly, we are not pursuing an open-source client at this time. If you want to play Alpha, you should pay for it. There’s already enough Minecraft piracy going on; we don’t feel like being part of the problem. That said, Bravo’s packet parser and networking tools could be used in a client; the license permits it, after all.
Where did the docs go?
We contribute to the Minecraft Collective’s wiki at http://mc.kev009.com/wiki/ now, since it allows us to share data faster. All general Minecraft data goes to that wiki. Bravo-specific docs are shipped in ReST form, and a processed Sphinx version is available online at http://www.docs.bravoserver.org/.
Why did you make design decision <X>?
There’s an entire page dedicated to this in the documentation. Look at docs/philosophy.rst or http://www.docs.bravoserver.org/philosophy.html.
It doesn’t install? Okay, maybe it installed, but I’m having issues!

On Freenode IRC (irc.freenode.net), #bravo is dedicated to Bravo development and assistance, and #mcdevs is a more general channel for all custom Minecraft development. You can generally get help from those channels. If you think you have found a bug, you can directly report it on the Github issue tracker as well.

Please, please, please read the installation instructions first, as well as the comments in bravo.ini.example. I did not type them out so that they could be ignored. :3

Configuring

My world is snowy. I didn’t want this.

In bravo.ini, change your seasons list to exclude winter. A possible incantation might be the following:

seasons = *, -winter

Errors

I get lots of RuntimeErrors from Exocet while loading things like bravo.parameters, xml.sax, and twisted.internet.

Those are harmless.

Exocet is very, very strict about imports, and in fact, it is stricter than the standard importer. This means that Exocet will warn about modules which try to do weird or tricky things during imports. The warnings might be annoying, but they aren’t indicative of anything going wrong.

I have an error involving construct!
Install Construct.
I have an error involving JSON!
If you update to a newer Bravo, you won’t need JSON support.
I have an error involving IRC/AMP/ListOf!
Your Twisted is too old. You really do need Twisted 10.1 or newer.
I have an error TypeError: an integer is required when starting Bravo!
Is your Twisted 10.1 or older? This error could be caused by your Twisted not being 10.2 or newer.

Credits

Who are you guys, anyway?
Corbin Simpson (MostAwesomeDude) is the main coder. Derrick Dymock (Ac-town) is the visionary and provider of network traffic dumps. Ben Kero and Mark Harris are the reluctant testers and bug-reporters. The Minecraft Coalition has been an invaluable forum for discussion.

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