Hi, I need to block "player.dat" from being generated/made as it's useless on my server. Is there a way to block it or remove it ? After like 1K people it starts to take a bit of space %_%.
xD Easy doing (on linux): touch player.dat chmod 0444 player.dat chown root: player.dat (as root) Then the minecraft user couldnt change the file On windows it is the same. But not chmod etc. There you must change the Security Settings and start the server with other user!
Bubelbub, player.dat isn't 1 file, it's a folder with each player's name with .dat. He'll need to set permission on the players folder.
I don't think there is a way to block the creation of the files... is there? Like stated above you can always delete it... But don't do it while that player is online.... however a plugin can check for offline players, and delete the files. (not sure how that would effect the server while the player is offline. Don't think anything weird would happen...)