Minecraft Heads
Ok lets summarize what happened:
Mojang deleted thousands of skins from their skinservers without any announcement or explanation. We reported the problem to Mojang, but even if they will react to our request, we hardly doubt they will restore the skins since it's unlikely they only deleted skins from this database.
Right now, 28% of the custom heads don't work (about 4000 heads).
So since an easy solution from Mojang will probably not happen, we've to prepare for the worst case. Since we don't have a backup of Mojang's skinserver available, we need to collect skins from the guys who still have it - and that's where YOU CAN HELP!
How YOU can help to save the database!
Every player stores skins he once saw on a map in a cache-folder on his harddrive. This means - you guys might have skins on your harddrive which are lost on the Mojang skinserver and our database. So we need you to send us this folder so we can restore the database. To do so, follow those stept:
1. Enter the Minecraft-Folder: Type %appdata% in the explorer and enter the folder ".minecraft"
2. Enter the folder "assets"
3. In this folder you find the folder "skins" - compress the folder using Winzip, 7zip or Winrar
4. Upload the file to some filehoster and send the link to us
Beside this, if you're a skindesigner who made skins which are already submitted, name the skins after the ID and the name used in the database, pack the skins into a zip-file and send it, too.
We'll do our best to quickly restore the database and hopefully get some input from Mojang, too.
Thanks for your help!
