This is to anyone actively playing on public Blockland servers, as one or more hosts (or a backdoor) has been spamming client commands to create thousands upon thousands of meaningless cached font files. I discovered this by chance after seeing my base/client/ui/cache folder is a quarter of a gigabyte in size. It could be happening without you noticing. And this is recent, just over 3 days old, so it's likely still happening.
Your first guess was probably the same as mine. "Doesn't that accumulate over time, like cache.db?"
These are all from December 2, between 1:49PM and 1:55PM.
(notice the scrollbar)
3,849 files with random numbered names, 217 MB in size.
217MB in only 6 minutes. That's around 2.2 gigs an hour if you stay on an affected server for that long.
Unfortunately I don't remember what I was playing this exact time on Saturday so I can't point fingers, but I really doubt it's just one person.
Right now, my suggestions are:
- Check your cache folder to see if it's already happened
- Keep an eye on the folder until this gets patched
- Post in this thread for any updates and tell your friends to make sure their hard drives aren't filled with this trash
If you notice it's happening, please type trace(1); in your console, close Blockland, and upload the end of your console.log.
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