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

I know this bugs known but I've pinpointed the cause

Players not reloaidng their inventories after a warzone bug:
If a player dies just as the map is ending, it counts that death as the last death again, giving the other team 2 more points

The first player dieign ends the warzone, players get sent to rallypoints, second point seems to give them new items thinking the warzone is gonna go again but it doesnt

if u have worldgaurd and essentials they both use god use /ungod to turn of worldguard god and god to disable essentials god hope i helped

Issue:
pistons can move the flag from its position, making it impossible to get it

I am an admin with bashcraft.com and I just wanted to start out by thanking you for creating this plugin, it's amazing, and allows me to bring so much joy to people. I have recreated several WoW, Halo, and CoD maps that are fueled by the wonderful mechanics this plugin offers. This all being said I still think a few changes/addition could bring it to a whole new level of gameplay that i can offer.

1: Territories/King of the hill - Bascially controlling monuments(but something else to show difference) that gives points per time controlled
2: Flag drop locations - Whether it be a sign with the teams color, or actually placing the flag block on the ground. It makes sense to me that it would require your either team to break that sign or block to return or take the flag to return.
3: Health changes - Either by adding health or reducing damage it would increase battle time.
4:Longer respawns - Instant spawn is to fast in most cases for capture the flag, i'm not sure it's possible but a delay would be nice.
5: Commands directed towards players that join - This is mainly to ungod or unvanish admins or mods that join to keep games fair, not really required but it would be nice

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and again i love all that you have given us so far.

grinning did this in his fork of War: https://github.com/grinning/war
He has also submitted a Pull Request to the main branch, so it should be made official soon.

I am right now coding this in my fork of War: https://github.com/Superyoshi/war
It's not done yet though (right now the timer is fixed at 10 seconds and you can still attack), I will submit this to tommytony as soon I finished it, along with some other stuff, for example a "flagmustbehome" setting allowing you to capture flags while your flag is stolen if set to false, and a serverwide setting "disablebuildmessage" which works like "disablepvpmessage", but for building, obviously. I am also trying to get the piston exploit mentioned by @shanko fixed, but the Piston Events aren't firing... I really need to get back into Bukkit coding... : p

EDIT: Here's a video of a sample warzone using "flagmustbehome:false" - a Parkour map! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X5JDi82hdw

Hello, i want to make this war map, but I bumped into some problems.

1) I want to recieve money for killing players. Unfortunetly deaths in Warzone are acting weird (player actually don't die) so ecoCreatures wouldn't give me reward money, for PVP kill.
2) I have noDrops=false and still players are not dropping their stuff, when they die
3) Players are not losing XP upon their "death" (I have some spawners around and boosted exp drop rate, so players can use strategically placed enchanting tables)

-- Any ideas, how to solve this? I have this big spaceship with two spawn points for two different teams, iConomy shops around the ship with better items than starting gear and potions. Players should collect money for killing enemies and xp for better enchants, but this doesn't work right now.
Does someone have tip for other plugins, that could help me with this kind of battleground? I don't need "resetting zone back" feature after match, but I would like to see possibility to split into teams (with lobby for example), count somehow score and possibly disable friendly fire.
I really like War plugin, but this one thing about different death behavior is really not ideal for my needs.

noDrops means you cannot drop your stuff using Q.

War is still not updated to use the 1.0 player and item info (this is also why Enchantments vanish when entering and leaving a Warzone rarely).

The first thing will most likely not be possible as War overrides death so you instantly respawn without losing items and XP. The plugin creator would have to intercept it so he even notices you died.

In other news, I just finished Spout integration in my fork of War:

I will submit a Pull Request, including the following changes (copied directly from my commit messages because I'm lazy), to the main fork after I finished one more thing:
- Fixed an exploit where it would be possible to move the flag with pistons, rendering it unstealable. You cannot move any important blocks with pistons now, and can't push them into protected zones. Reported here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/me...inecraft-tdm-ctf-1337.250/page-67#post-831054 Special thanks to TerXIII!
- Changed all calls of the deprecated getRelative() to getRelative()
- Fixed a bug where you would be kicked out of the zone if you walk into the glass walls above a team gate on a block layer equal with the roof of the gate
- [gh-282] Added a "Respawn" timer, players cannot leave spawn while it is active. Loadout will be given to the player at the end of the timer as a visual cue.
- Fixed a mistake where changing "pvpinzonesonly" would display "flagpointsonly changed to..." (and the respective value)
- [gh-304] Added a setting for the plugin to not show the "No Building" message ("disablebuildmessage", like "disablepvpmessage", defaults to false). Untested.
- Added a setting for warzones to allow flag capture when the flag is not home ("flagmustbehome", defaults to true)

OMG!! That looks sick!

I hope you added class selection with spout too

Hello everyone! Sorry for taking so long to answer.

First, to reassure everyone: I'm not dead. I've simply been busy with work, life and the usual drama on my server.

Now that the Minecon/1.0.0 mayhem has died down a bit, I'm back to answer your questions and spend some time on updating War properly for MC 1.0.0.

War does currently work reasonably well with 1.0.0 Craftbukkit builds, but it's not perfect.

My objectives are to:

1) Release War v1.6.1 as soon as possible (before the holidays) which will include:

• A new permission node: war.zonemaker. It enables a new dynamic where zonemakers cannot edit other zonemakers' zones. Only War admins (i.e. people with the war.* node, formerly called zonemakers) will now have rights over all zones. This update should work seamlessly: your old permissions will still work as they did - only now you have the opportunity to limit zonemakers' powers.
• A new maxzones setting, letting you put a cap on the number of warzones allowed on your server.
• A bunch of old bug fixes and hopefully solutions to most glitches with that arrived with 1.0.0.
• See tickets for v1.6.1 progress HERE.

2) Work on overhauling War and adding long awaited features over the holidays.

• Investigate switching to NBT/schematics/WorldEdit file format for warzones, to allow for easier sharing and proper entity saving. This would necessitate major rework, however.
• Change the flat text config system to YML, using the opportunity to reduce the huge amount of actual config-related boilerplate code. Adding iConomy integration and team settings make this a necessity.
• Adding iConomy support, with the following caveat.
• Investigate adding a War-admin webapp. There's too many settings already to be able to manage them properly all through the chat/command line. Adding iConomy settings will just make things worse. A web admin interface would do wonders for setting discoverability and usability. A web app would probably come in real handy once stats tracking will be added.
• Add new game modes: at minimum, a domination mode that would add the opportunity to score points through the monuments.
• Add optional Spout integration.
• Try out interesting feature suggestions (warzone-enabled permissions, for example).
• Consider different ways of making War more easily extensible because future modules (web app, stats tracking, iConomy integration, tournament management, etc) are likely to be pretty orthogonal to the "core" features.
• Stats tracking - will necessitate some additional complexity (MySQL support, most probably).
• Huge warhubs full of warzone gates suck for helping players find each other and get a quick game started together. I need to think up a way to make play more "supervised", perhaps with a quickgame command (join the most active warzone automatically) or a tournament mode (with maybe a map rotation, stats across maps, etc).
• If I have to break backward-compatibility, I might hop directly from v1.6.1 to v2.0 to emphasize the break.
• See tickets for v1.7/v2.0 progress HERE.

On top of this I should definitely produce some better documentation and clean up the BukkitDev site. Anyway, my plate is pretty full.

Sorry again that the updates are taking so long. It's for the greater good! ... greater good!

Now for some answers to your questions:

@ledhead900
For now, there's only a minimum number of players. I'll figure out the match start timer situation a bit later.

As for being unable to build in zones, check /zonecfg -p for the unbreakable setting.

@shanko
Intercepting all chat during a game might be tricky. However, I've planned to add a way to make /team toggleable for always-on team chat.

Proper stats tracking/ranking is definitely on the plan. I'll get there eventually.

I thought the the point scored by flag capture would be enough to prevent death-fests during CTF games. :/ One flag capture = one emptied lifepool, which is a lot after all.

I'll have to see what I can do about mcmmo integration. Mabye at least zone-specific permissions could let you disable mcmmo skills in warzones?

Thanks for the bug report about broken potions. I'll definitely look into before releasing v1.6.1. I've seen enchanted items in loadouts on my server though, so those must be working.

I'll also look into that weird improper inventory reset situation.

Thank SuperYoshi for helping with the piston-flag problem.

@add1ct3dd
Thanks for the head's up. I'll look into the breakable grass.

@Minor_Miner
Glad you got it working with PEX.

@solidsnake916
I'll look into whether full-height zones cause more corrupt chunk problems. Honestly, I've mostly been making cuboid zones lately myself.

@HexedGoth @ollyjohnston
War v1.6 still works relatively well with newer Craftbukkit builds.

@Guarana_SUI
I see your point about permission-based loadout. Added to the stack. Thanks for the suggestion!

@beleg
Like @shanko said, the closest thing we have for a maplist is the /warcfg rallypoint:<warzone-name> command. At the end of a game all players get teleported to the place where you are standing while typing the command out. I suggest making the rallypoint for one warzone the lobby of the next warzone, which you seem to have done. Kinda hacky, I'll admit.

@rgboomer
Did you manage to fix the issue? Please, what OS and Craftbukkit version were you running?

@enigma9792 @Guarana_SUI
Put armor on while using the /zonecfg loadout:default command. Armor will be added to the inventory of players when they respawn.

@mario00037
Thanks for bringing this explosion-related error to my attention mario. I think I've fixed the issue in my dev build.

@blasthart @GladalaxeN
It's just that you need to make the warzone at least 10 block in height as well as in the other two directions.

@xsolar66
Love that zone-enabled permissions idea. Thanks!

@RayKatz @shanko
Hehe I thought the shift-to-switch mechanic was clever. Doesn't it remember your class choice from one respawn to the next? I should test for this. @Guarana_SUI also suggested permissions-based loadouts, so I'll look into it.

@GoTheRedSox @shanko
Still alive. The FINAL on v1.6 was just because there had been so many PREVIEW releases before that.

@F4BSE @beleg
There's still no iConomy integration unfortunately. However, you can give items as rewards at the end of a game with /zonecfg reward:default (just fill your own inventory with the desired reward beforehand). Once I get around to it, economy integration should be pretty customizable (per-kill or per-capture rewards, etc).

@cmdman
Seems that @Minor_Miner reported PEX working with War. Let us know please!

@Teku13
Sorry. What Craftbukkit build are you running? Do you see anything in the server console?

@grinning
Thanks for your contribution! I still have to investigate it properly but I may have to ask you to resubmit a pull request.

@M1sT3rM4n
Hia mister! Not dead yet! How's the Consulting Firm thing working out for ya?

@Beldarak
To reimport warzones, if you kept all the warzone files, just put them in /plugins/war. Then, before loading the server, make sure that your warzone's name is on the warzones= line in the war.txt config file.

@MinecraftDaemon
If you can, please let us know how you fixed your broken pvp inside warzones issue. @zaklampje and I would like to know. Thanks!

@silentdojo
Thanks for the bug report! I think I've gotten a handle on that NPE.

@Fail_or_Fail
Sorry, the server went down while I was in Vegas. Hope y'all will forgive me.

@moomoohk
Thanks! I thought I fixed self-shots in the past. Perhaps that bug crept back in. Thanks!

@ell3ment
Thanks for the great words and the great suggestions. @grinning and @Superyoshi have already been helping make dropped flags and longer respawn possible. I'll keep your post in mind with future updates.

@Superyoshi
Thanks a lot for all your work. I look forward to integrating (and testing) it!

The Spout stuff looks exciting! It'll get me to finally try Spout out at least.

@dwi
Yes, unfortunatly War has to intercept (and cancel) regular deaths to work properly. So, this means no XP loss or other plugins detecting deaths.

There's no setting currently to allow players to drop their items (it used to cause too much item spam TBH). I may add it back in though, in the future.

I'll keep your suggestions in mind, and please check my comments above for hints about future iConomy integration.


As always, thanks a lot for your patience everyone!

Omg you have no idea how excited I was to see you post! I am so glad this isn't dead my server is dedicated to this plugin and is very popular! If you ever want to see your plugin used to (what I feel) its full potential come check it out!

@tommytony I hope I get in credits for this but the reson mine was broken was because i had world gaurd and essentials running and they both had their own god mode and they had 2 different commands for turning it off WGs was /ungod and essentials was /god until it said disabled so thats how i fixed mine tanks!

@tommytony Thanks for reply, so I guess there is no easy way for you to make death style (regular/modified) optional? Anyways I love your work with this plugin!

Wohw ! Very exciting incoming features. Once again you made my day

How do you resize a previously made warzone?

@shanko
Thanks a lot. Is your server public? If not, please PM the IP and I'll check it out.

@MinecraftDaemon
Thanks for the explanation!

@dwi
It could probably be made configurable but would cause considerable headaches. I always felt that instant-respawn was a must have for fast-paced TDM. I'll keep your concern in mind, though. Perhaps in the future I'll be able to accomodate it.

Also, preventing XP loss has its upside: War becomes this sort of mini-game/distraction on your server which doesn't have an impact on your other survival-related activities. Of course, it can be argued that this is a downside for fully-integrated servers that want to make War an integral part of their social ladder.

@Beldarak
Thanks. Please keep in mind that many of those planned may not see the light of day depending the effort I estimate is involved and on my schedule constraints. However, I felt it was important to communicate my mid/long-term vision for the plugin to reassure everyone that I still give a damn.

@metzrock
Resizing an existing warzone can be a little bit tricky if you don't remember where you placed Corner-1 and Corner-2 originally when creating the zone.

If you do remember the location of the corners, use /setzone <zonename> and you'll get a wand that lets you edit your zone corners. Left-click to move Corner-1 and right-click to move Corner-2.

To find out the location of your corners, you can always open up the data file /plugins/war/dat/warzone-zonename/warzone-zonename.corners.

If you don't want to bother remembering the corner locations, there's an alternative. You can also stretch or shrink the existing warzone using the old classic commands /setzone <zonename> northwest and /setzone <zonename> southeast. Basically, before using /setzone <zonename> northwest, place yourself outside the zone to its northeast to make it larger or place yourself inside the zone to make it smaller. Using the classic commands will not affect the height of the warzone.

Let me know if you'd like more clarifications.

heres the IP:
66.85.168.170:25600



its usually 48/48 on weekends

@cmdman Yes, it does. Just be sure to add the nodes to permissions.yml in the permissionsEX folder, not anywhere else.

Ok, Superyoshi, I was doing some spout stuff too. Never could get the widget part right in my experimenting that I did. I was imaging a gui that could also list all zones on server on a button click then you could join one of those servers with a mouse click of some sort. Also I little zone scoreboard if the player is in a zone, I'll fork what you have right now and get working though.

@grinning
Just try to finish and thoroughly test one small thing at a time.

I shall look over my 3AM code for this first time since I made it. Bad things will happen! I will probably do something terrible in the act of reading this, that may be shunning the .NET framework Wait... Thats a good thing!

@tommytony yeah your still alive lol

Proof Oracle has no idea what they are doing! They need to follow your advice
It really only works to their advantage for Arrays and List other than that calling the get() method to your stack would totally screw up your java program

http://imgur.com/a/sXYbu#0

you're welcome! it's just a tiny thing, this plug is still friggin kickass overall.
request: i've been trying to make the warhub/lobbies a bit more "homey". i mean right now they're just cubes of 10x10x10 (or something like that) where no block can be placed but what if i wanna make a cave around it? i'd have to make the ceiling of the cave pretty high because of the height of the hub/lobby. and also what if i wanted to put decorations/rules/other random stuff in the hub/lobbies? so i've managed to build inside the restricted areas by dropping in sand from one level higher than the "ceiling" and using worldedit to replace to cobble but when i reload bukkit the plugin resets and all my blocks get removed...
basically what i'm getting at: are you planning on adding a "build in hub/lobbies" feature? i'm sure many (including myself) could use it to pimp out our hub/lobbies

oh and also: could you maybe change the default loadout's name to "Default" (capital D). it just looks "cleaner" if you know what i mean

thanks!

How do I remove my warhub?

Im running this on my 1.0.0 minecraft server, build 1500 and this is the error I get when trying to set the last corner of a zone. Any help? My server depends on this plugin

Code:

10:42:40 PM [SEVERE] null
org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'setzone' in plugin War v1.6 (de Gaulle) FINAL
    at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:42)
    at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:165)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:378)
    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.handleCommand(NetServerHandler.java:756)
    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.chat(NetServerHandler.java:721)
    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:714)
    at org.getspout.spout.SpoutNetServerHandler.a(SpoutNetServerHandler.java:180)
    at net.minecraft.server.Packet3Chat.a(Packet3Chat.java:33)
    at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:226)
    at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:92)
    at org.getspout.spout.SpoutNetServerHandler.a(SpoutNetServerHandler.java:550)
    at net.minecraft.server.NetworkListenThread.a(SourceFile:108)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:527)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:425)
    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:457)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.tommytony.war.mappers.WarMapper.save(WarMapper.java:277)
    at com.tommytony.war.ZoneSetter.saveIfReady(ZoneSetter.java:195)
    at com.tommytony.war.ZoneSetter.placeCorner2(ZoneSetter.java:154)
    at com.tommytony.war.ZoneSetter.placeCorner2(ZoneSetter.java:135)
    at bukkit.tommytony.war.command.SetZoneCommand.handle(SetZoneCommand.java:45)
    at bukkit.tommytony.war.WarCommandHandler.handle(WarCommandHandler.java:120)
    at bukkit.tommytony.war.War.onCommand(War.java:228)
    at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:40)

I see that your spout build is up! I downloaded it and it doesn't seem to be working. I have the latest dev spout and latest dev craftbukkit (as of today 12/12). Any tips or pointers. I'm brand new to Spout. Your screenshot ^ got me interested actually haha

@joshhunt2011
Do you use the spoutcraft launcher?

Just want to say amazing mod! My server has built a massive arena (somewhere around 150x75, with multiple floors to it), and while it's not quite public yet, as the primary server needs to be able to run buildcraft, I do have a test server running.

You can check out the test server at cmte.us:25566. It's running on the 1.0.1-R1 build, and I haven't found any major, massive bugs yet. You can find the arena at -15x, -900z and the warhub at -100x, -800z, if you were wanting to test it on a full blown server. (you can also view a google map like system {dynmap} by going to http://cmte.us:8123 and see a bit of it there)

Goal is to have a fun little arena with 10-20 people (or more if the server can handle it) in CTF/TDM games. This arena was only intended for two teams. If we get a crap ton of people on it, we'll make arenas for more teams.

OH! THERE WAS A BUG!!! I don't know if it can be duplicated or not, but there was a bug where if the bow was first, and arrow second, for one, it only gave the one arrow in your inventory, and for two, if you right clicked with either the bow or the arrow, they were instantly removed from the inventory. I think that it was fixed when we added a default loadout though.

Anyway, keep up the amazing work! It's an awesome mod, and I can't wait to get it up and running on my main server with buildcraft and everything working all at the same time. (While this is uber cool and all as a mod, I like buildcraft too much XD)

Oooo where can I download?