That's the plan. Maintain Bukkit when we can, while working on the new API primarily. That's an awesome idea. I'll give it a thought! It's not...
As I've said just a few posts above yours, bukkit is not dead.
Everything will be rewritten. It may be compatible with the current way, which is fine and doesn't breach GPL, but the implementation (which you...
As I said in the FAQ, we will try to keep as much compatible as possible, but there are no guarantees and you will have to recompile. That said,...
The new server that they're writing from scratch? That'll be why! :D Singleplayer would spawn a small version of a server in the background....
1. see above 2. as I said in the FAQ, I'll try my hardest but it's a huge change so no guarantees!
Okay, this is tricky to put into words, and remember that it's just an idea and not official! Have you ever played WoW? The "addons" for that...
What will happen to the community? Will there be a new one? We can't control communities! :D But, I'm hoping it will slowly move to the new API...
Okay some FAQ in the order that I read them from this thread. Will this new API reuse Bukkit code? No, but it will be compatible to an extent....
Beta is a new release channel that we are introducing - check out http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/beyond-craftbukkit-1-1-r4.60377/
http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/get/latest-beta/craftbukkit-beta.jar for download...
thehutch is correct. A NPE is only thrown if you actually try to use null for something like it were a real object, and never any other time. You...
For stopping chat going to one player: Listen for PlayerChatEvent, then event.getRecipients().remove(player). For stopping chat coming from one...
It was not removed, and this is in the wrong section. Moved to Plugin Dev from BukkitDev Feedback.
You will be able to change the sea level, and in 1.2 the default is not worldheight/2.
Access it for what? As I said, we've added a lot of new API and it's extremely possible you don't need to use CraftBukkit/nms anymore - we really...
Probably not. But that's a discussion for another time and place! :D
That'll probably be an exception.
Do you use the world height anywhere? Bukkit has a method "getMaxHeight()" that will guarantee your plugin will work with either the current...
I'm going to leave such an exercise up to the reader - we'll gladly link to a class if anyone wants to contrib it. The website isn't written in...
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