Now that you have created these two plugins, you have a hang of how to properly use event listeners. You now have the required knowledge to create hundreds of unique plugins on your own. All that you need to get started is a cool idea. Why don't you try making one of the plugins that was suggested earlier in this chapter? For more ideas, you know where to look. The Bukkit, Spigot, and Minecraft forums or the API documentation are great for inspiration. For example, looking through the list of events, I saw the ExplosionPrimeEvent class, which is described as "Called when an entity has made a decision to explode". This event is called when a creeper makes that hissing noise that every Minecraft player dreads. When this happens, you can send a message to all the nearby players to make it look like the creeper is talking to them. First, you will create an EventHandler method for this event. You will want to return in case the entity is not a creeper. Then,...
Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition
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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.
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Deploying a Spigot Server
Learning the Bukkit API
Creating Your First Bukkit Plugin
Testing on the Spigot Server
Plugin Commands
Player Permissions
The Bukkit Event System
Making Your Plugin Configurable
Saving Your Data
The Bukkit Scheduler
Index
Customer Reviews