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Building Minecraft Server Modifications

By : Cody M. Sommer
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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

Introduction to APIs


API is an acronym for Application Programming Interface. An API helps to control how various software components are used. As mentioned in the previous chapter, CraftBukkit includes the Minecraft code in a form that is easier for developers to utilize in creating plugins. CraftBukkit has a lot of code that we do not need to access for creating plugins. It also includes code that we should not use as it could cause the server to become unstable. Bukkit provides us with the classes that we can use to properly modify the game. Basically, Bukkit acts as a bridge between our plugin and the CraftBukkit server. The Bukkit team adds new classes, methods, and so on, to the API as new features develop in Minecraft, but the preexisting code rarely changes. This ensures that our Bukkit plugins will still function correctly months or even years from now. Even though new versions of Minecraft/CraftBukkit are being released. For example, if Minecraft were to change how an entity's...