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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

Testing new versions of your plugin


A player may not notice this message when the message is white in color. We can change the color of our message using ChatColor Enum. This Enum has each color code that is supported in-game so that we can easily add them to messages. Let's modify the plugin and install the newly modified version on the server. Choose your favorite color and place it before the message in your broadcastToServer method, as shown in the following code:

Bukkit.broadcastMessage(ChatColor.BLUE + msg);

Before you build your new jar file, change the version in plugin.yml to 0.2 to indicate that this is an updated version. Build your new jar file using either the build icon or F11. Copy the new version to your plugins folder if you did not set up build.xml to do so automatically. Issue the reload command again to view the results, as shown in the following screenshot:

The plugin has been reloaded and the message is now in color, as shown in the screenshot. Also note how the version...