Beacons and 1.8

[Rourke750]

I believe that the tick limiting option we are running is having an affect on beacons.  Really wish that beacon api would get commented on because we could just increase how long they last.

[Jacob Sokora]

Or we could just implement the beacon api into a custom version of spigot for ourselves

[Rourke750]

Which is a lot more work.

[Matthías Valdimarsson]

Could we move beacons over to how minecarts and such are treated by the tick?

[Arieh Kovler]

Minecarts are entities and beacons are (i think) tileentities. Different type of thing. 

Implementing a custom beacon API and maintaining it across spigot updates doesn't sound like a good idea to me. 

[Matthías Valdimarsson]

Right now beacons are glitchy and hard to use, given how critical they are to gameplay it might not be unreasonable to try and find a solution ourselves and push for an api

[Rourke750]

I've been pushing the past 3 months.  I havent so much as recieved a comment.  Well I got one but it didnt really say anything or help with moving anything along.

[justin kilpatrick]

hmm, I can play around with increasing that again, but its doing a lot of the work of reducing lag especially considering mustercull is broken and hoppers are worse, if we could get that hopper tunnel factory and fix mustercull we might not even notice turning them off.