LogBlock
Works 100% with 1.7 / 1.8
The best block logging and rollback solution for the savvy server administrator.
LogBlock is the best block logging plugin for Bukkit server. Not only is it awesomely powerful, it’s blazing fast! Everything is logged into a MySQL database, allowing developers to hook in and produce things such as player stats and even administrative panels. Every loggable action can be logged with LogBlock: WorldEdit, leave decay, fire, sign changes, explosions, chest changes, player and animal deaths, chat, commands and more!
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.
LogBlock will very rarely break between Minecraft / Bukkit updates, however if you find it does, please be sure to try a development build from above, as we generally test new releases there until deemed stable.
What is LogBlock?
LogBlock is a tool which allows you to keep track of almost everything on your server, while also giving you the ability to rollback (revert) or redo changes made by users and natural occurrences such as liquid flow or leaf decay. Additionally, LogBlock is able to log and rollback chest contents, sign text and more! LogBlock was originally created by bootswithdefer for HMod, ported to Bukkit by DiddiZ and is now actively maintained by md_5, ammar2 and the community of developers on Bukkit. We accept pull requests on GitHub frequently which means that community developers can add features they wish to see quicker than LogBlock developers are able to from tickets. All database actions are run not only in their own threads, but are queued into a consumer to minimize lag on the main thread. This is great for larger servers! All optional features (not dependencies below) are enabled and disabled from within the config file allowing complete control over what is logged thus ensuring database size is kept to a minimum.
Notices
Most virtual chest plugins are not compatible with LogBlock. Because they do not set the player who is opening the “chest”, LogBlock can’t do what it’s meant to be able to do, thus, making errors in your console. Please report these issues to the fake-chest plugin developer, NOT LogBlock developers.
Issues are read more frequently on the GitHub Issues page as compared to the comments below. When updating to LB1.57, if you already have a large database and have changed your columns to MEDIUMINT, INT or LARGEINT, you do not need the updater to fix this for you automatically. To stop this behaviour, simply change “version” in the configuration to ‘1.57’.
If you are experiencing an error such as this please read the FAQ for answers.
If you're receiving errors regarding players from the consumer such as "[Consumer] Failed to add player <playername>" then change all `playerid` columns to MEDIUMINT or INT in each table that contains them. This may take a long time if you have a lot of rows.
Optional Dependencies
- WorldEdit (Recommended)
- Permissions plugin
- LogBlock Questioner
Need help?
Found a bug or an issue? Please report it (and attach code if you know how to squash it) on our ticket manager.
Just need help in general or have an urgent, more private bug? Join us on IRC at irc.esper.net #LogBlock and ping a +o or +v for faster help. Webchat is available here if you don't have a client, or prefer to use it.
As always, check if your question is on the FAQ before asking!
Installation
More Information
- FAQ (read me first!)
- Command reference
- Configuration
- Helpful Commands
- MySQL Connection Problems
- MySQL Schema
- SQL Queries
- Parameters
Are you a Developer?
If you wish to contribute to the LogBlock project, head on over to the GitHub page, fork the project and submit your pull request(s).
If you wish to develop a plugin that interacts with LogBlock in some way, read up on the API here. Support for API and more can be found in the IRC channel, which is listed above.
Developer builds can be found here. (These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.)
Still need help? Join us on IRC at irc.esper.net #LogBlock and ping a +o or +v for faster help.
Please do not post comments requesting support. Report bugs here or, alternatively, talk to a real person. Commenting below is a surefire way to not receive help.
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Posted Sep 30, 2012@Ducky_333
Don't use free database sites, I've seen people use them and they had the same problem. If you have a hosting service with a Minecraft host they will give you free MySQL databases, if you have a VPS/Dedi, setup MySQL locally.
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Posted Sep 30, 2012I'm getting some fairly serious Queue overload issues with my server. there's also a large delay, of up to a minute, between using the look up tools, and the results being printed.
I'm using http://www.db4free.net/ for my database, though my server is hosted on my home PC (WAMP refuses to work). I've also tried tweaking the config a bit, after looking at similar issues.
Is it just possible that the mySQL service i'm using is bad/slow?
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Posted Sep 29, 2012I banned a player and afterwards I got this "2012-09-29 12:36:54 [INFO] [LogBlock Consumer] Queue overloaded. Size: 35450" we don't want it to rollback banned players.
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Posted Sep 28, 2012LogBlock is buggy :\ player's onlinetime is waaaaaaaaaay off:
http://aciid.net/snapr/img-QVbEY.png
And some players have 2000+ hours played also which isn't true.. How does this happen..?
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Posted Sep 27, 2012Is it possible to record TnT explosions like who triggered these, like how creepers are logged on who blew them up?
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Posted Sep 26, 2012I've never got the hide logging of a specific player(name) to work.
How to fix that?
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Posted Sep 26, 2012@dreadnogh
When you go in to the plugins folder on your server look for the Logblock folder, then inside you should see a 'YML' for each world in that file you have to turn on and off what you want Logblock to do and not to do.
So in this case you will what to enable or set to 'true' the following.
BLOCKPLACE: BLOCKBREAK:
This will means Logblock will log the following Placement of block and the breakage of blocks.
You can also enable and disable what you want and don't want. To enable something set to 'true' and to disable set to 'false'.
hope it helps.
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Posted Sep 26, 2012When I accidentally mistyped the command, it only rollbacked the world a few days. But there was millions of blocks placed within those days, and was un-redo-able. Luckily I had a 12 hour old backup, but lots of progress was lost during that time. I will look into logblockquestioner, thanks!
Edit: by the looks of it, people are saying logblockquestioner is not updated.;\
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Posted Sep 25, 2012I have installed Wamp and made a Database, installed logblock plugin, and when i type /lb tool it gives me a pickaxe and when i left click it breaks the block and if i right click nothing happens, i can see that it created some tabels in the mysql database and it looks like everything was done correct ? why doesnt it work ?
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Posted Sep 25, 2012I know some people were asking for queries on getting certain stats, i've just created a query for getting counts of all ore destroyed by all players. (make sure you replace #intDays# with the amount of days you want to check over and replace the table names to match your own.
http://pastebin.com/Y5zdZXRJ
The query takes a while to run, if anyone's got any tips on speeding it up i'd appreciate it :)
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Posted Sep 25, 2012@YMRD
If your running windows try WAMP, if your running linux, install webmin and install the mysql modules - easy peasy. Dont use the 'root' user (or at least set a password on it!)
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Posted Sep 25, 2012@YMRD
There are a couple of good tutorials out there. Just google for it. MySQL is free. So download it for your server system, install it and start the service. For installation, user creation and configuration -> Google or look on Youtube.
@w0s
Is there a error message on startup? Make sure your new configuration is pointing to your existing database and that the login information is correct. Also check your world-configs. They should use your old tables, or your old data will not be accessible and the default tables will be generated and used.
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Posted Sep 24, 2012where do i get MySQL? and what do i do from there?
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Posted Sep 24, 2012My LogBlock doesnt work anymore. Since the update all is gone. It doesnt log blocks. Then i put the old version. Old block are shown but new (with the old version) arena shown :/((((((
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Posted Sep 24, 2012@JonRetribution
Well, how do you set up the database?
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Posted Sep 24, 2012@iArren
You can enabled those logging actions in the world files, /plugins/logblock/[worldname].yml then you can edit exactly what stuff you want logged.
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Posted Sep 24, 2012@soaringeg127
Do you have mySQL installed? If so create an empty database, create a user for it, paste those details into your config file and restart your server.
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Posted Sep 24, 2012I have some questions:
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Posted Sep 23, 2012Thanks for the update! I was asking myself if i should try some other plugin but now i have a reason to use the new version :-p
btw: Is LogBlockQuestioner still up-to-date/useful? I currently have v0.0.3
Thanks :)
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Posted Sep 23, 2012@JonRetribution
how exactly do you set up the database with the MySql username/password? like what do i need to put in?