IRC Channel

Internet Relay Chat
CraftEra has its own IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel on Esper.net. You can connect to the irc channel at any time on webchat.esper.net. CraftEra's channel name is #craftera. The channel has a bot, customized by dreadiscool, named CraftEraBot (and nicknamed Cera). The bot relays chat between the server and the IRC channel and from the IRC channel to the game. yekaa (known as Yekaman in the channel) is generally idling in the channel.

Other
The bot is not running a fork of any Java IRC based bot. The entire bot is custom-coded from the ground up to work well with Bukkit in the most efficient manner possible. Because it has not received the attention that other developers have given their IRC bots, the bot is not the best in service. However, it is the most efficient, as mentioned before.

Issues

 * Whenever a spammer joins the server, all the spammed text is sent to the IRC channel as well. This results in the IRC channel kicking the bot for spamming. Unless the server is reloaded with the /reload command, the bot will not rejoin the channel.
 * It is possible for someone to repeatedly spam the IRC channel and therefore, spam the game, because the bot does not kick anyone on the IRC for spamming.
 * Sometimes, the bot will not get it's Op status on the IRC channel due to packet race issues.
 * Sometimes, after reloads, the bot's name will be CraftEraBot_
 * Logging in and logging out would ping a user if they were in the IRC channel and in-game at the same time.