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Building Minecraft Server Modifications

By : Cody M. Sommer
Book Image

Building Minecraft Server Modifications

By: Cody M. Sommer

Overview of this book

If you have ever played Minecraft on a public server then the chances are that the server was powered by Bukkit. Bukkit plugins allow a server to be modified in more ways than you can imagine. Learning to program your own server mods will allow you to customize the game to your own liking. Building Minecraft Server Modifications is a complete guide that walks you through the creation of Minecraft server mods. From setting up a server, to testing your newly made plugins, this book teaches you everything you need to know. With the help of this book you can start practising for a career in software development or simply create something awesome to play with your friends. This book walks you through installing your own Minecraft server for you and your friends. Once your server is running, it will aid you in modifying the game by programming Bukkit plugins. You will learn how to program simple plugin features such as player commands and permissions. You will also learn more complex features including listening for events, creating a configurable plugin, and utilizing the Bukkit scheduler. All of this will be accomplished while writing your own server mods. You will become familiar with the most important aspects of the Bukkit API. Additional API features will become a breeze to learn after tackling these more complicated tasks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Joe Clark is a software engineer with eight years of experience in the enterprise software industry. Joe is fluent in Java, .NET, Python, and JavaScript. He also spends a lot of time playing Minecraft.

As a developer support engineer for Australian software company Atlassian, Joe spends much of his time teaching other developers how to build plugins for JIRA and Confluence. He also speaks regularly at Atlassian Summit and AtlasCamp, and was thrilled to be selected as a speaker for MineCon 2011 in Paris, France.

Joe is the author of the Minecraft JIRA Plugin and contributes regularly to the world of open source software. You can find him on Twitter at @jaysee00.

Joe lives and works in San Francisco with his beautiful wife, Kate.

Thomas E. Enebo is co-lead of the JRuby project, author of the Ruby Bukkit wrapper Purugin, and a contributor to many other open source projects. He has been practicing Java since the heady days of the HotJava browser, and he has been happily using Ruby since 2001. Thomas has spoken at numerous Java and Ruby conferences, co-authored Using JRuby published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf, and was awarded the Rock Star award at JavaOne. When Thomas is not working he enjoys running, brewing beer, and drinking a decent IPA.