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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

Making and calling new methods


Let's create a new method which will broadcast a message to the server. The following diagram labels various parts of a method in case you are not familiar with them:

Create a new method named broadcastToServer. We will place it within our MyFirstBukkitPlugin class under the onEnable() method. We only want to call this method from inside the MyFirstBukkitPlugin class so the access modifier will be private. If we want to call this method from other classes in our plugin we can remove the modifier or change it to public. The method will not return anything and thus will have a return type of void. Finally the method will have one parameter, a string named msg. After creating this second method, your class will look similar to the following code:

public class MyFirstBukkitPlugin extends JavaPlugin {
  @Override
  public void onEnable() {

  }

  private void broadcastToServer(String msg) {

  }
}

We will write the code within the body of our new method to accomplish...