[MECH/FUN] War v1.7.4 - Minecraft PVP Arenas (TDM, CTF & more!) [1.4.7-R1.0]

Could you make it that people who leave get sent to another set point (to keep the warzone clean) also to have randomized teams and parties [players who don't want to be separated] with side balancing also players who are not in the war cannot go into the zone but have to join at a certain area (not the actual warzone)

Yeah the teleport upon /leave has been mentioned elsewhere. I'm just not sure where I should teleport the people. Back to the warzone teleport point? At a random point not far outside the warzone boundary? An isolated "staging area" might be a good idea: regular player can't enter the warzone, then use /warzone to teleport to the staging area, but they can only leave the staging area by using /join <team> or /leave, that way the most of the warzone (i.e. outside the staging area) stays clean.

I love the idea of having War Parties. It would definitely go along with randomized teams.

A is the waiting area
B is the warzone
C is base 1
D is base 2

There are a few things I want and the following are
1.To get into teams (if allowed) or just get split into a random team (excluding war parties to a certain extent as they will still get put in a random area) in area A
2.If they die (if there is no respawn) they go to area A and cannot leave until the next round.
3.Objectives for example as you replace the items they hold a gold block for 1 side and a steel block for the other they have to get it back to the other side for example.
4.Have a king of the hill type game where they have a pre-set area/s to stand in to capture
5.Ranking system?
6.A new player has to go into the A area an type /join
7.Set Lives per Player

More ideas to come later >=3

Would that do the trick too?

Here the waiting area is within the warzone. People /warzone into the waiting area, and they can't get out until they have joined a leave. People in teams can't access the waiting area.

My reasoning is you don't need to specify the warzone name when defining the waiting area boundaries, because you're already standing inside the target warzone.

However, with this I still have the problem of where to send people who /leave the warzone. Maybe your suggestion would be best after all, I'm not sure. Anyone else got ideas for this?

I'm also reworking the monuments so that they don't use fire and water anymore. The dynamic is cool but is too greify/accident prone. I like "Capture the Block" and KotH as well so I might work them in in later version. A reworked monument system, a ranking system and player stats will probably come first.

Awesome I would prefer if it could be placed outside with maybe even set areas for certain teams to join
Also team chat and wit stats maybe classes* such as healer, demo-man, soldier, archer and ninja.

I should check, but I think team chat is already in. Try /team <msg>.

Again, about the warzone welcome area and team joining, I had an idea: part of one face of a warzone serves as the entry point. There is a low wall automatically generated on the boundary of the warzone, maybe only on that face. On this wall there is one gateway per team. When someone enters a team's gate, they are teleported to the team spawn (red and blue arrows below) Here's a quick sketch:

Hmmm that could be possible is the wall height changeable is changeable or is it fixed? also ca there be an extra *deadzone* around the warzone of 4 squares? so a player cant drop his items into the arena.

Hmm I hadn't thought of people throwing stuff across the wall. I was thinking that a small wall section could magically appear when players inside or outside of the warzone get near the wall. When the player steps back, the wall disappears again.

I like the idea of an invisible wall but yeah I would like to avoid people chucking things to the extent that the battlefield is literally almost totally cut off from the outside.
Also wat about time limits for each match

So I tried to set war zone and it say "Unknown Command" and I checked the console and got this;
[SEVERE] Exception while calling plugin function in 'class WarListener' while calling hook: 'COMMAND'.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at Warzone.setSoutheast(Warzone.java:132)
at WarListener.onCommand(WarListener.java:286)
at PluginLoader.callHook(PluginLoader.java:482)
at Player.command(Player.java:136)
at Player.chat(Player.java:108)
at kk.a(kk.java:485)
at br.a(SourceFile:24)
at bs.a(SourceFile:232)
at kk.a(kk.java:61)
at eh.a(eh.java:71)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(SourceFile:275)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:216)
at cj.run(SourceFile:490)
It said it loaded properly, does it matter that I changed the plugin name from "war-v0.2" to "war"?

Spooner: sorry for the bug. The southeast corner setter tries to reset any previously set southeast corner and you must be hitting on an edge case I didn't account for.

This code has changed substantially for version 0.3 which should come out for Bukkit pretty soon (a matter of days!). For the moment, I recommend that you shut down your server (if practical), delete any war-related files (look for war.txt, warzoneX.txt and warzoneX.dat), restart your server and try to recreate your zones following my steps in the youtube video.

By the way, you were correct to rename your plugin jar to "War.jar". Sorry again for wasting your time with my shoddy lack of unit tests.

It's all good, we're making an organized PvP server and this is just what we needed, I highly look forward to it working, and don't worry about the bugs, they happen, they get fixed, no harm done.

Figured out my issue, I didn't think about the fact that the arena I built reaches the skycap and the plugin puts down a sign, since you can't put anything down past the skycap it freaked out.
You might make it to where if it comes across this it moves the sign down one, just a suggestion.
Thanks again for the plugin.

Wow, this seems like a great mod! I can't wait for bukkit to come out so that I can try it on my server. One question though: Does the server have to be a PVP server in order for this to work? Cause currently I have PVP turned off, but I'd love to use this mod to have certain areas where players can fight each other.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Huh, interesting. Just ot let you know, a warzone will always reach the bottom and top of the world. It's a "Vertical Volume" that takes the whole height of the world and that is defined by is northwest and southeast corners exclusively. In that sense, you don't define a cuboid, just a square area that is projected up and down.

There is no code that handles zones or zone components being squeezed together, so I'm sure you'll get funky behavior if you start overlapping things. I'll see what I can do down the road to handle more of those edge cases.

Currently you need to have PVP turned on for the warzone combat to work, but I'm considering adding a configurable "pvpJustInWarzones" flag that disabled out-of-zone PVP.

Please do! That'd be great.

Also I have an idea: Would it be possible to have it so that a cake placed by a person on one team can then only be used by members of the same team?

Example: Red player places a cake. All players on the red team can use the cake to heal. When a blue player tries to use the cake it gives a message like "This is the red team's cake. Cannot Use."

This would be useful for if you ever add classes, like healers and what not, with different inventory load outs.

Sorry, but I will not unveil my super-secret Cake Plan just yet. Stay tuned.

Just kidding.

Thanks for the suggestions; I'm always open for more ideas! Health kits and different loadouts will most probably enter the picture down the road in later version.

If you're open to suggestions I have a few, but no pressure man, work on what you want, mine would be game modes, this has great potential in the field of organized PvP. Capture the Flag mainly, stuff along the line of "/setflag <team> <color>" and it'd put down a colored wool that couldn't be broken by the team, only by the enemy.

You should see the new monuments. They work great!

For sure I'm thinking of adding a CTF-inspired game mode eventually.

cant wait to try it out on my server

Hi everyone. I just released War v0.3.

Grab it while it's hot.

I reported this thread so it can be moved to Plugin Releases momentarily.

Thanks for moving this to Plugin Releases, admins.

Hope you guys like this release. Please let me know if you find any bugs and what improvements you'd like.

There seems to be a problem with inventory restoration when a player in a war zone disconnect, it doesn't restore his inventory.

Another probem, sometimes on large play fields, when resizing a war zone, it mess up the landcscape.

Sorry for the bugs. They're creeping about, still. Everyone, don't forget to take regular backups!

I'm already done adding the fix for the disconnect-without-getting-inventory-back problem. Signs should update properly now too. I'm gonna try to figure out what's wrong with the zone resizing. If I can do this quickly, I might just get a new build out the door soon.

Thank you Kyrah, I really appreciate it.

gimme a flag
You could use the monuments for it

i have a very annoying problem. whenever i go to the nw corner of the zone im about to create and type the command "/setzone massive nw" it just tells me wat the setzone command is used for.

If you're using one of the more recent Craftbukkit build (107-ish and up) all commands are broken. I'm going to try to get 0.4 out tonight or tomorrow.

If you're using #87, then you may not be in the corner northwest relative to the southeast corner you've already set down. The northwest goes in the corner the clouds are flowing towards and where the sun sets.

If you're doing that properly, then you've found a bug. Congratulations! Do you see anything interesting in your server log such as exceptions?

im using the latest build so thats probably the problem. thanks

BIG report

I found a some bugs.
1.if you hold down punch against the glass block after a little bit it stops replacing the glass you break allowing you to pass through items
2.if you land at a bad point (happened once) you infi die until there are no more lives left for your team and you will then restart
3.some crashes happen if you remove zone maker from you while you are in a zone.
4a.sometimes all of the map doesn't refresh after a game.
5.stairs are tending to break for me sometimes
6.if a cactus is replaced with glass you can farm the cactus repeatedly (the cactus reappears then dies every time the glass is refreshed.
7.less bug more abusive is that you can place lava or etc beneath your opponents spawn
8.sometimes the warhub makes teleports to places that don't exist crashing the client
9.players die if they try to leave the arena?(not through the gate) can they either be placed into the lobby or stopped or sent to spawn.
10.not sure if its a bug but the glass you make won't vanish till you walk away3-4 square off (away from the wall not along it)
11.you can chuck blocks into the fence/wall around the warzone and other players can pick it up(ake the wall block bigger 5-7 should do
12.players can shoot arrows out of the arena over the wall or through the teleport door.
13.if a war zone is removed the war hub sometimes doesn't update
14.if a sign is destroyed (such as how many players in the diamond spawn) it re-spawns blank

And some features to recommend
1.Team balancing (mid game) and if someone joins your team people who moved from an old team get moved back.
2.Gladiator/Archer mod (only bows or only swords or only TNT works)
3.have tnt only work in warzones
4.NPC guards
5.heal zones
6.ability to call down (air strikes/bombardment) with an item being placed as a marker
7.have no monsters spawn in the warzone or have more monsters spawn there (not checked if its there)
8.make lives a resource and if you hold a certain flag/monument you have x amount more lives for your team
9.'Man of the match', most (deaths,kills,assists,arrows shot,arrows hit,sword swings,damage done,kill ratio,damage ratio,moved most,healed most,captured the most monuments,built the most, gathered the most)
10.when group permissions make people who join gain the rights/abilities of a group
11.spawn protect
12.areas only a certain team can go (team spawn area,capture area you need to control before you can use)
13.rewards for winning/'losing'
14.multiple spawn points
15.more teams
16.classes with different health allowances item wielding and using (engineers can place ladders and have half health and make items and cannot wield high end weapons but can use TNT,resource gatherers and also have half health and cannot wield high end weapons can get resource, warriors full HP can use all swords, healer can use basic swords can use healing items on people 1/2 health, archer uses a bow 1/2 health, spy can pretend to be other players and has an instakill sword 1 heart.
17.customizable lobby area full sized portals
18.have maps un-damageable/damageable choice
19.have polygon war zones
20.Arrow turret integration
21.if no-one is in the map for x mins/seconds the game restarts
22.a minimum amount of players required to start a game
23.when the life pool runs out when players die they go to the lobbyinstead of ending the game until there are no more players left.
24.have players able to take their own items into the game
25.have to capture certain areas in a certain order
26.game ending announcements
27.easy way to identify team mates (name edit? or arour worn etc? that doesn't vanish after it breaks)
28.change wall material
29. have a permanent wall
30.have team only infinite item boxes for specific classes or just getting some extra apple/cooked meat etc

these are just the ones I found in single player testing