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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

Adding a command to plugin.yml


Create a new Bukkit plugin as you did in Chapter 3, Creating your First Bukkit Plugin, but name it Enchanter. Next we will inform Bukkit that you will be using a command by modifying the plugin.yml file of your plugin.

As mentioned in Chapter 2, Learning the Bukkit API, Bukkit reads the YAML file in order to find out the necessary information about your plugin. This information includes all of the commands that your plugin will handle. Each command can have a description, proper usage message, and aliases (similar to how rl is an alias for reload). The command we will use for our plugin will be enchant. It is typical to use all lowercase letters for commands so that players do not have to worry about capitalization. The following code is a sample of how our plugin.yml will look with the enchant command added:

name: Enchanter
version: 0.1
main: com.codisimus.enchanter.Enchanter
description: Used to quickly put enchantments on an item
commands:
  enchant:
   ...