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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

Summary


You now have a useful plugin to play with on your own server. You can build this plugin, as discussed in the previous chapter, and put it on your server to test. Try it with different items and observe how it works. There are many plugins that can be created and which solely function by using commands. With this knowledge, you have the potential to create numerous plugins. You can try a few plugins, like a plugin that teleports you to the spawn location of the world using /spawn, a plugin that plays the Creeper Hiss sound to a specific player using /scare <player>, and a plugin that strikes a player with lightning using /strike <player> by yourself.

Tip

There is a strikeLightning method within the World class.

For the plugin, you will have to use arguments. First, you will need to check whether you were given the correct number of arguments. Then, you will have to get the first argument, as explained earlier in this chapter. This argument will be the name of a player. There...