Dale s

Does not happen in survival.

My mistake. I got excited, and forget i was in Creative.
Delete this please... DUH.. LOL

OK..i upgraded to the new SnapShot 14w31a. But i get alot more lag info.
"[20:29:16] [Server thread/WARN]: Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 8861ms behind, skipping 177 tick(s)"

It used to always be "skipping 53 tick(s)" now its aways higher then 53.
No one has complained about block lag yet. That might be a Temp fix for now. But something is causing alot of lag on the server.

Thanks.

Update: It took any hour to crash. Crash the same way.
I will make the max-tick-time=360000000

does this tell you anything?

[21:04:01] [Server thread/ERROR]: Encountered an unexpected exception
u: Ticking entity
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.y(SourceFile:610) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at pk.y(SourceFile:303) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.x(SourceFile:530) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:446) [minecraft.jar:?]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [?:1.7.0]
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at aay.l(SourceFile:207) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at aay.k(SourceFile:155) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at xl.bE(SourceFile:450) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at xk.l(SourceFile:1430) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at xl.l(SourceFile:316) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at afc.l(SourceFile:39) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at afm.l(SourceFile:151) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at xk.j(SourceFile:1298) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at xl.j(SourceFile:194) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at afc.j(SourceFile:44) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at aqh.a(SourceFile:1410) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at qo.a(SourceFile:601) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at aqh.g(SourceFile:1388) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at aqh.i(SourceFile:1281) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at qo.i(SourceFile:479) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.y(SourceFile:606) ~[minecraft.jar:?]
... 4 more

what about the lag. with the other snapshot.. all i get is 53 tick skipped. How much tick are you skipping with the new snapshot. are people able to play.. are they having lots of block lag??

I also have the same problem with 14w31a. Any one knows how to fix this?
I went back to 14w30c. I get the lag 53 ticks, but crash maybe 1 time a day.

Are we just going to have to wait Aug 5. when they have the offical 1.8?