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Bonn89
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Join Date: Nov 2006
 
2010-12-17, 21:17

Brad: Holy hot damn. :O 2 dungeons so far (both within such a small area) AND huge cave systems? This server rocks.

torifile:
The server is persistent; everything you do saves and it waiting whenever you log back in.

When you join a server, think of it as logging into an MMO such as WoW. Everybody can come and go as they please, and interact with either other while logged in.

Time in Minecraft progresses on a day/night cycle that takes somewhere around 18 minutes (10 minutes of day, 8 minutes of night, I believe). Normally, when playing single player Minecraft, if you quit the game during the night, the game resumes at that exact moment the next time you play.

However, on the server, since there are potentially more than 1 person coming and going, the server keeps track of the day/night cycles, and thus when you log in you drop in at whatever time of day the SERVER tracks it as being, no the time of day you last played at.

Hopefully that helps clear it up a bit.