Gamocosm is Free and Open-source Software. Gamocosm is free in that it respects your freedom and the community. Gamocosm doesn't accept payment, no ads, and no tracking user data. Read our Security and Privacy wiki page.
I pay for all the development and production costs out of my pocket. I do this because I want to make something useful. I'll accept donations later if costs start being an issue. I intend to keep everything as transparent as possible.
#gamocosm_Lobby
on the gitter.im
homeserver using any Matrix client).
This is the updated/preferred method of contacting me.
#gamocosm
on irc.esper.net
(web chat).
You can also direct message me on libera.chat
.
The source code is on GitHub. Feel free to fork and send a pull request!
Gamocosm sets up your server. Digital Ocean provides a bare linux server, so you/Gamocosm needs to install and configure it to be a ready, secure Minecraft server. If you're interested, check this wiki page for more info on the setup.
Secondly, Digital Ocean continues charging you when you just stop a server, because its resources are still allocated. When you turn off a server on Gamocosm, it snapshots (backs up), and destroys your server. When you turn on a server, Gamocosm recreates it from the snapshot. This way, you only pay when the server is in use.
#gamocosm
on irc.esper.net
/home/mcuser/
.
Sometimes this is shortened as a tilda (~
).
Minecraft is installed in ~/minecraft/
op
, deop
, or whitelist add/remove
players~/minecraft/backups/
.
However, it is recommended that you download backups (e.g. via FTP) from time to time,
and keep your own local backupsGamocosm works with a lot of infrastructure behind the scenes; a lot can go wrong that is and isn't Gamocosm's fault (we're working hard to iron out our bugs!). Autoshutdown is an especially tricky feature, and we can't guarantee that all cases are covered - especially when thing's outside Gamocosm's control go wrong. As much as feasible has been tested, but you shouldn't rely on it to shutdown your server before a month long hiatus, for example. On the other hand, if you play daily and check your email (for when Gamocosm tries to notify you that something went wrong), it's not really a problem if your server doesn't shut down one day.
Why did we introduce this experimental feature? Because it has been requested the most! :P We - or more accurately I xD - don't have the manpower to test and push an enterprise-grade feature like this. The only way I can polish it is with user feedback and support.
enable-query
is set in your server.properties
(sudo) firewall-cmd --add-port=25565/udp
and (sudo) firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=25565/udp
)
At this time, I do not feel worthy of donations :P If possible, using Gamocosm's referral link for Digital Ocean to subsidize server costs is appreciated. However, if you wish to support, I encourage everyone to support internet freedom groups such as Wikipedia. It's easy to gloss over their donation requests, but it is really important that we don't take them for granted!
After doing my own research, I personally set up monthly donations to the following organizations:
I personally like these quotes (tl;dr? Fight the good fight! Fighto!):
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Other good reads:First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.