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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

The Bukkit API documentation


Documentation of the Bukkit API can be found at jd.bukkit.org. You will see several links regarding the status of the build (Recommended, Beta, or Development) and the form of the documentation (JavaDocs or Doxygen). If you are new to reading documentation of Java code, you may prefer Doxygen. It includes useful features, such as a search bar and collapsible lists and diagrams. If you are already familiar with reading documentation then you may be more comfortable using the JavaDocs. In the following screenshot, both API docs are side by side for comparison. The traditional JavaDocs are on the left and the Doxygen documentation is on the right.

The following figure is the inheritance diagram for LivingEntity from the Doxygen site. Take note that on the site you are able to zoom in and click a box to go to that class.

I encourage you to browse through each documentation to decide which one you prefer. In this book we will be using Doxygen but keep in mind that both...