Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition电子书

Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition

Table of Contents

Building Minecraft Server Modifications Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Deploying a Spigot Server

Introduction to Spigot

Installing a new Spigot server

Setting up a new server

Minecraft/Bukkit server commands

Port forwarding

Summary

2. Learning the Bukkit API

Introduction to APIs

The Bukkit API documentation

Navigating through the Bukkit API documentation

Understanding the Java documentation

Exploring the Bukkit API

Summary

3. Creating Your First Bukkit Plugin

Installing an IDE

Creating a new project

Adding Bukkit as a library

The essentials of a Bukkit plugin

The plugin.yml file

The plugin's main class

Making and calling new methods

Expanding your code

Summary

4. Testing on the Spigot Server

Building a JAR file

Installing the plugin

Testing your plugin

Testing new versions of the plugin

Debugging the code

Learning from your mistakes

When researching is not enough

Reading the stack trace

Breaking down the code

Adding debug messages

Referring back to the Javadoc

Fixing the bug only after you understand it

Summary

5. Plugin Commands

Adding a command to plugin.yml

Programming the command actions

Assigning the executor for the enchant command

Summary

6. Player Permissions

The benefits of permissions

Understanding permission nodes

Adding a permission node to plugin.yml

Assigning a permission node to a plugin command

Testing player permissions

Using a third-party permissions plugin

Using permission nodes throughout your plugins

Summary

7. The Bukkit Event System

Choosing an event

Registering an event listener

Listening for an event

Canceling an event

Communicating among events

Modifying an event as it occurs

Creating more plugins on your own

Summary

8. Making Your Plugin Configurable

Configurable data types

Writing a config.yml file

Saving, loading, and reloading the config file

Reading and storing the configured values

Using configured settings within your plugin

ItemStack within a configuration

YAML configuration hierarchy

Storing configuration values as variables

Accessing variables from another class

Summary

9. Saving Your Data

Types of data that can be saved

Which data to save and when

A sample teleportation plugin

Writing a ConfigurationSerializable class

Saving data to a YAML configuration

Loading data from a YAML configuration

Summary

10. The Bukkit Scheduler

Creating a BukkitRunnable class

Synchronous versus asynchronous tasks

Running a task from a BukkitRunnable class

Running a task later from a BukkitRunnable class

Running a task timer from a BukkitRunnable class

Writing a repeating task for a plugin

Adding a delayed task to a plugin

Executing code asynchronously

Summary

Index