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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

Testing your plugin


As you may recall, the purpose of the first plugin was to discover when a plugin is loaded. Issue a reload command by typing the following command into the console:

>reload

You will see that Spigot will automatically disable and re-enable the plugin, as shown in the following screenshot:

This time, you will see the Hello World! message once your plugin is enabled. If exactly one player is online, then it will say hello to that player. Let's observe this by logging onto the server and issuing the reload command from in-game. Open your Minecraft client and connect to your server. From in-game, first issue the following command:

/plugins

You will be given a list of all the plugins that are installed. For now, there is only one plugin, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now that there is one player on the server, we can test the plugin by reloading the server. Issue the following in-game command:

/reload

Note that in both the game and console, you will see the Hello Codisimus...