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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

Installing the plugin


The installation of the new plugin is quite simple. You need to create a copy of the .jar file from the directory that you chose earlier in your server's plugins folder. Then, start your server as you normally would. You will see the output of the console informing you that the plugin is loaded, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you do not see the Hello World! message when your server initially starts, don't worry. This behavior is normal because at this point, there will never be players online for the message to be broadcasted to. For now, we are only concerned with the messages that were highlighted in the previous screenshot.

Every time you make changes to the code, you will have to build a new JAR file and install the new version. To install the newer version, you can simply copy and paste it into the server's plugin folder and overwrite the old file. This can be usually done without even shutting down the server. However, if the server is running, you will...