[INACTIVE][FUN] HigherExplosives v2.0 - Configurable multiworld explosion control [860]

I think the terrain damage is determined by the blast radius. You'd probably need a very big blast radius though. There's an excellent article here on explosion radius and block resistance. I've not tried to digest the maths involved, but it's clear you'll need an enourmous blast radius. Good luck.

There may be an easy way to change the level of damage caused to blocks. I'll keep an eye out for it.

Taco and I have both now updated the plugins to make them work together.
Just grab the latest .jar for both plugins and it should be fine.

Ive been testing the mod and the config we made up, and it's working fantasticly.

Minor bug though, with "preventTerrainDamage: true", explosions cause no sound. Probably a complex fix, since i don't think the server can issue sounds to play?

Thx a ton... both of you.. you made me a happy minecraftian

That's strange. I just tried this with craftbukkit 670 with just this plugin installed. Detonating TNT with the preventTerrainDamage set to true still plays the explosion sound for me.

Is it TNT that's silent for you, or some other entity? Do you have any other plugins installed?

Edit: Actually, yes I'm seing the occasional explosion with no sound. I'm running the server on the same machine - perhaps the speed of the network affects it? I'll try and track it down.
You're right, Bukkit doesn't seem to support making sounds, but it is possible to go directly and poke minecraft in just the right spot to produce sounds (though this method may need fixing whenever a new minecraft version is released).

Version 1.5.2. This fixes the explosion sounds when terrain damage is being prevented (when the config.yml contains "preventTerrainDamage: true")

This mod, combined with EggGrenades, is the most fun I've had in a long time

ii like this mod however would love a way to have to settings which would be enabled through command in game.I want to be able to make a miner tnt and a nuke so for example /nukeon /nukeoff and /minetnton /minetntoff....i dont know how hard that would be but i hope it can be done.

Thank you
PyRo

It was the Creepers who were silent., but recently they've been fine. (EDIT - because you patched it ! )

How about adding the option to prevent TNT chaining? IE one TNT explosion triggers the next? Would help with the anti-griefing side of things, limiting TNT to be used one at a time.

Great, glad that's working now. The fix is a little exotic, so there's a chance it will fail when the next version of minecraft comes out. Any fail should hopefully be graceful though.

Inspired by your request for admin only TNT configurations, I'm hoping to version 1.7 the possibility for having different configurations for the different ways in which TNT can be primed. This would let TNT explosions act differently depending on whether they were primed by explosion, fire, player hand, admin hand, or redstone.

I think it would be possible to use this same configuration mechanism to prevent TNT chaining - i.e. you could have a special configuration for TNT blocks primed by explosions, which just nullifies the explosion.

I'm not too sure, but it's possible the "preventTerrainDamage: true" config might already prevent another TNT block from being primed by an explosion. I think it's considered to be part of the terrain.

Heheh, this made me smile, thanks

I've been holding off making commands for a while because it's difficult to see how they could easily be used with complicated configurations. However, your example of toggling different configs on or off seems nice to use.

Perhaps a compromise could be to switch between different config.yml files with a command in game. e.g. something like "/heconfig nuke" would change from the default config.yml file to nuke.yml. Would that work for you?

New version 1.7 works with the latest recommended build 677 and has support for:

• Changing the TNT fuse duration via the "trialTNTFuseMultiplier" property. This is EXPERIMENTAL, so please let me know if anything's awry with it. When it's shown to be stable, I'll rename the configuration name to just "tntFuseMultiplier".
  
• The "itemDamageMultiplier" property. Applies to any non-living entities caught in the blast (including items on the ground, paintings and other things like that). Set it to 0.0 to stop items from being destroyed in blasts.

Awesome! Just what I was looking for, keep up the good work 8]

How would i do this? That would be ok however a simpler command would be nicer...

I shall test.

Holy crap thats awesome!

One other thing you must remember when editing a yml files is that you can NOT use the tab key. All indents are 4 spaces and you must use the space bar to make the indents, otherwise the yaml parser will not load it and you will get errors.

For those who wonder, it still works fine with bukkit 766, the newest RB.

Yeh it does seem to work fine.

@toadmess Since Minecraft SMP does not seem to properly support the larger explosion for supercharged creepers, do you think you could include a feature for those of us who are just fine with the current explosion sizes of creepers/TNT but want a supercharged creeper to actually function properly?

This mod is really good, just what I have been looking for.

It would probobly be a bit of work. But could you let us udjust the yeild for individual blocks.

Eg. Drops from all ores. 10% drops from cobble and dirt, 50% for everything else.

I would like to second the previous poster request in allowing configured drop percentages for the type of block.

As an example:

Stone drops cobble only 10% of the time, dirt 25% of the time, gravel 10% of the time, other blocks 100% of the time.

Right now, I have every block drop 100% of the time but it's a pain running around collecting all of the cobblestone.

Good point! Yes, it definitely would be good to configure these explosions.

I'll try to get experimental support for this out in version 1.7 in the next 3 days, but it might slip to version 1.8.
It's a bit tricky to test though, so you'd have to let me know if it works!

@Sparky20 @Pantheis
Three people have asked for this now, so I'll look to getting it in at some stage, probably in version 1.8, or 1.9. Have you looked at the MiningTNT plugin to see if it can do what you want?

I've recently escaped from some crushing workload, so am hoping to get cracking with development again. In the next 3 days, relevant gods willing, will be version 1.7.
The only new features for 1.7 will be support for specific configs for TNT triggered in different ways, e.g. triggered by redstone, triggered by player, triggered by fire, etc.
But 1.7 includes a major internal restructure of the code, which beyond optimisations, should also make future features easier to develop.

Future features planned for version 1.8 (unless they can be put in 1.7 in time):
- Charged creeper configs
- Permissions support. Different configs for TNT triggered by players with some named permission.
- Permissions support. Different configs for Creepers' explosions when creepers are triggered by players with different permissions. i.e. The player that the creeper is attacking is the player that triggered the creeper.

Alright, thank you. I have looked at MiningTNT and it can't be configured to do what I want. I can use it to configure which block types I want to destroy and which ones I want to be immune, but there are a number of issues with it.

First, it ruins chained explosions due to limitations/bugs in the addon. The second is that I don't want to limit block types that can be blown up. I want to blow up everything, but have a configurable percentage per block type in terms of drop rate. I want stone to only drop 25% and have the rest of the cobble just blown up, but I want all ores to drop 100%, if that makes sense.

I think the best addon to put that feature into would be this one.

Makes perfect sense - I'd actually love to have exactly that on my own server.

In terms of config, I'd see this as looking something like:

Code:

entities:
    TNTPrimed:
        yield: 0.1  # Yield chance for all blocks which aren't mentioned in the specificYield
        specificYield:
            1: 0.25   # Stone
            14: 1.0   # Gold ore
            15: 1.0   # Iron ore
            16: 1.0   # Coal ore
            21: 1.0   # Lapis lazuli ore
            56: 1.0   # Diamond ore
            73: 1.0   # Redstone ore
            73: 1.0   # Glowing redstone ore (hmm)
            89: 1.0   # Glowstone

Where the numbers are the block IDs taken from http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Data_Values

Please let me know if you see any room for improvement.

That looks absolutely perfect. I would literally jump with glee to have the ability to configure things like that.

Great, because it's in version 1.7 that I've just uploaded now.

Version 1.7 now available for download. It has two main changes:
- "trialTNTFuseMultiplier" is now called just "tntFuseMultiplier"
- the "yieldSpecific" property allows different yields to be configured for different block types

This version has had a huge internal restructure, so please do let me know about any bugs!

I'm still working on player triggered TNT configs, permissions configs, and charged creeper configs. These look likely to come in the next release.

The different configs for TNT triggered by explosions, redstone, and fire is proving more substantial a change than I had anticipated, but I'm still working on it.