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Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

By : Cody M. Sommer
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Book Image

Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Cody M. Sommer

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing a repeating task for a plugin


We already have a BukkitRunnable class. Therefore, in order to run a task timer, we just need to determine the delay and the period by which the task is delayed. We want the delay to be 0. That way, if it is night when the plugin is enabled, the time will be set to noon right away. As for the period, we can repeat the task every second if we want to keep the sun always directly above. The task only contains one simple line of code. Repeating it often will not cause the server to lag. However, repeating the task every minute will still prevent the world from ever growing dark and will be less of a strain on the computer. Therefore, we will delay the task by 0 ticks and repeat it every 1,200 ticks. This results in the following line of code:

runnable.runTaskTimer(this, 0, 1200);

With this, we started a repeating task. It is good practice to cancel repeating tasks when the plugin is disabled. To accomplish this, we will store the BukkitTask as a class variable...