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Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

By : Cody M. Sommer
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Book Image

Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Cody M. Sommer

Overview of this book

Minecraft is a sandbox game that allows you to play it in any way you want. Coupled with a multiplayer server powered by Spigot, you can customize the game even more! Using the Bukkit API, anyone interested in learning how to program can control their Minecraft world by developing server plugins. This book is a great introduction to software development through the wonderful world of Minecraft. We start by instructing you through how to set up your home PC for Minecraft server development. This includes an IDE complete with the required libraries as well as a Spigot server to test on. You will be guided through writing code for several different plugins. Each chapter teaches you new skills to create plugins of increasing complexity, and each plugin adds a new concept of the Bukkit API By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge you need about the API to successfully create any type of plugin. You can then practice and build your Java skills through developing more mods for their server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using a third-party permissions plugin


You will most likely have trusted players on your server with whom you wish to share the use of the /enchant command. However, these players are not trusted enough to be an OP. In order to share the use of this command, you will need to use a permissions plugin. The permissions plugin will allow you to create multiple groups of players. Each group will have different permissions assigned to it. Each player that plays on your server can then be assigned to a specific group. As an example, you can have four permission groups, namely default, trusted, mod, and admin. The default group will have the basic permissions. A new player who joins the server will be put into the default group. The trusted group will have a few more privileges. They will have access to specific commands, such as setting the time of day in the server world and teleporting players. The mod group stands for "moderator", and it will have access to many other commands, such as kicking...