So I attempted to run Cauldron 1.7.10, but there were some problems. The good news is the server started up fine (after a little bit of tweaking) and the world didn't seem to cause too much corruption, the bad news is something ELSE did.
Seems like 1.8 renamed or introduced new player items, when connecting to the server, some of the player items cause problems. I'm gonna do some more testing on the server, but if we want to do a change, we may need to replace all our player items or get rid of them altogether. Not an exactly nice choice however! Because that'd mean we'd lose all items everywhere, including in chests! This might not be the case, but either way as is, players will be stuck in the "login" screen when connecting to the server, they'll also have to revert their clients to 1.7.10, which is not difficult thanks to minecrafts launcher.
While I figure this out, I have another little idea to test, to see if it gets rid of the corruption. I'm loading a different version of Spigot, rather than directly craftbukkit, it's a different jar altogether so may get rid of the corruption, but that's just a guess. For now, I'm gonna remove the player data from the world, I've backed it up though so don't worry, just keep in mind that all changes you do now may be replaced eventually as I load the backed up world!
UPDATE: Alright I can't reconcile the "stuck in logging-in" problem, it could be caused by a plugin, in which case I'd need to remove all plugins. I'll try that tomorrow, for now, I'm loading spigot and the backed up map.
So to summarize:
- Tried to load up Cauldron, map works but joining server doesn't. Not entire sure why, server chucks an error on loading about essentials so it may be an error ther, may need to find a different essentials plugin to use, will do that tomorrow.
- For now, we're running Spigot, Spigot is a different plugin to craftbukkit but it's very similar. Not entirely sure if the corruption will remain, but for now it's a good test to see if it goes away then, so if you still see the corruption be sure to tell me.
Oh and server will be offline for about an hour while I restore the worlds state, in case any (unknown) corruption occurred.