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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

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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 config.yml file


Now, it is time to start writing the config.yml file. Create a new YAML file in the default package of MobEnhancer. The name of this file must be config.yml in order for it to be properly loaded by Spigot. The following is an example of how the config file for MobEnhancer will appear. Note the comments in the example indicated by the # character. Remember to always include comments so that users know exactly what each setting is for:

#MobEnhancer Config
#Set the health of each Mob below 
#1.0 is equal to half a heart so a Player has 20.0 health
#A value of -1.0 will disable modifying the mob's health
#Hostile
ZOMBIE: 20.0
SKELETON: 20.0

#Passive
COW: 10.0
PIG: 10.0

Tip

Only a few mobs are included in this config file, but the names of all the mob types can be found in the API documentation for the EntityType class at https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/spigot/org/bukkit/entity/EntityType.html.

This is a simple YAML file because it does not contain nested keys. Most of...