tools for cleaning up item entites on the ground?

[monotonehell]

I've been running a FTB server for a few weeks now, and twice I've had a player accidentally break a pipe or have an chest overflow from a quarry that causes client-crashing lag in the area.

We've only been able to fix it so far by walking in (at a painful one frame every few seconds) and trying to pick up as many items as possible before the connection is closed. Last time this took about 6 runs before enough items were removed.

Has anyone any tools or tips for this?

If it doesn't already exist some kind of mod that either has a command that lets OPs remove entities (Something like Bukkit's WorldEdit's remove entity command.) Or even some creative solution like EE's Catalyst black rubber "pokeball" which collects many item entities on the ground into a single grouped entity would be good.

Right now it's a bit of a server crippler.

 

[b0bst3r]

Yeah this is a problem and so is quarry's filled with water, both cause client/server crashes when you try and remove the items/water.

Edit - try sticking down an obsidian pipe into a barrel, I know it will be slow to almost impossible but you might get it done, you can then leave the area and let the pipe do the work.

 

[monotonehell]

Edit - try sticking down an obsidian pipe into a barrel, I know it will be slow to almost impossible but you might get it done, you can then leave the area and let the pipe do the work.

Both times it was too laggy to place any blocks, the only thing we could do was go in one at a time and stand as close to the pile as possible until the inventory was full or the client crashed.

This will become an issue, I'm sure, it'll turn into a way to grief a server.

 

[b0bst3r]

The other thing you could do depending on where the items are is take a bucket of lava and burn it all, you'd probably die in the process so don't take anything else with you.

 

[monotonehell]

We also tried that, but couldn't place blocks due to lag (lava included).

 

[Wondrej]

You can use MC edit to clean the entities, you will probably do some mess there because MC edit (as far as I know) is not really compatible with FTB mods, so try to edit as little chunks you can, but its still better this way then deleting map.

 

[Nozart]

Creative and magnet mode, just gotta do it a few times?

 

[MrZwij]

Steve's Carts has a Cleaner module that sucks things up. Maybe you could make one with a Railer and a Cleaner to go in for you like a bomb-defusing robot. I'm mostly kidding here ... I think. Unless it actually works.

 

[MrZwij]

This might be more useful - never tried it, but NEI's options have an Item Drops: Enabled/Disabled toggle. According to the documentation from chicken_bones:

If Item drops are disabled any EntityItems in the world will be deleted. So mining a block or dropping an item will give you nothing. Someone said they must have it for lag removal so I added it.

 

[monotonehell]

This might be more useful - never tried it, but NEI's options have an Item Drops: Enabled/Disabled toggle. According to the documentation from chicken_bones:

This is interesting, sounds like a single player feature... but worth looking into.

 

[monotonehell]

Good news everyone /Farnsworth
Simplemod by dries has a /items killall command which removes all items in render distance.
http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/board,74.0.html

 

[kurzninja]

I've tried installing SimpleMod on my server to solve pretty much the same problem, but when I stick the SimpleMods jar file in my Coremods folder, the server console won't come up when I try to launch the server. I can see the process just sitting there in my task manager, but nothing ever happens.

I've tried editing the world in MCEdit, using Minecraft Region Fixer, and (unsuccessfully) installing SimpleMods, but nothing has worked yet. I log in, about 5 or 6 chunks around me load (in an L-shape, curiously enough), and then after about 20 seconds I get booted with a Read Timed Out error. I'm about to just delete the dimension (Twilight Forest) and let it regenerate naturally and start it from scratch. I'm pretty much at a loss at this point, unless you guys have any bright ideas. I can upload my server folder somewhere if anyone wants to poke around in it and see what they can find out.