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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

Understanding the Java documentation


Let's look at a method that is included in the World class to see what information it provides us. Click on the link to view the createExplosion(Location loc, float power, boolean setFire) method. You will be brought to a method description that is similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

The screenshot explains each parameter and the return value for the method. This method requires that we pass three parameters to it, which is explained as follows:

  • Where the explosion should take place

  • How powerful the explosion should be

  • Whether the explosion should cause the surrounding blocks to ignite in flames

If the returned value is void, then the method will not send any information back to us. In this example, the method returns a boolean value. On reading the documentation, you will learn that the returned value is whether or not the explosion actually occurred. If another plugin prevented the explosion from happening, then the createExplosion method...