[MECH] Noon [Sun Always Up in middle of sky] [1.3.1-R2]

Sounds good! The only thing I can think of is make the time of day configurable (Sunrise, Noon, Sunset, Midnight, or just the time in numbers).

Time in RAW form is pretty meaningless unless you have a bit of technical skill.. but I like the idea of a never ending dawn or dusk so I may do this.

EDIT: ADDED!

Nice one, thanks for sharing. Simple and to the point, just what I need.

I love this plugin, but I did have an issue with it... not sure yet if it is a problem with this plugin or a problem with the API in bukkit that this plugin uses.. but it makes my redstone tech run very very slowly...

I can provide whatever info you need for debugging, just let me know what you need. If you (feverdream) want to hop on my server to see what I mean, just send me a PM and I will give you the server details.

I host a small server for myself and personal friends and this interests me, but I don't know how to use it. It doesn't work with hMod, and I cannot find any form of bukkit anywhere. Am I missing something, or is this currently unusable?

EDIT: Excuse my stupidity, I found how to get bukkit working, and am now using this plug-in successfully. I love this plug-in.

You can find craftbukkit at http://hudson.lukegb.com/

It is not a release but a dev build.

This plugin causes major lagg with water/lava and fire.. Dunno if its the constant change of time causing the server itself to lagg but it seems so... Maybe you can change it so the sun resets right before nightfall back to sunrise like the old hey0 plugin did. Hope this feedback helps as others may be experiencing the same issue I have been. This plugin with the Guardian plugin stops physics flow all together separate they cause slow laggy physics.

Same thing I am seeing, major lag with anything that happens "over time"... redstone tech, water, lava, fire, etc...

I can

I can do that easily. This is good feedback and I thank you for it. This was my first plugin, so I had attempted to make things "look" like the sun was standing still instead of jumping back and forth in the sky... problem is there really is no such interface for that so I had to get creative..

Working on update to 1.1 now.
--- merged: Jan 13, 2011 6:35 PM ---
Ok version 1.1 has been released. Inital post updated to reflect new version.

This, like most of Notch's code, is untested before release. I figure if he can do it, so can I

If you have a problem, let me know.

I dont know if this would ever be code-able, but I think it would be hilarious if instead of skipping to the sun again, you just had 2 SUNS. And then adjusted the watch to compensate too rofl.

Well such a thing would require a client mod so no, sorry cant do that. But if you like the updated version of this mod please say so

I would love to tell you that I like it... but there is a problem... Link seems to be broken...

Link works fine for me, please try again. You may have tried when the server was down for a RAM upgrade.

can you make an ingame option to trigger it off/on?

I'm having trouble reaching your server as well. I get timeouts on both loading and pinging. Hostname resolves to 69.42.218.43

Lastly, I agree with BeerBaron that there should be a way to turn it on or off in-game. I'm partial to /rift day|night|time but only because I've used TimeRift on hMod.

Thanks for your time and energy.

The server is currently down, I have a ticket filed.. let me see what I can do about a dropbox.

EDIT: Server had a bad network cable.. but the dropbox links should work fine.

The plugin is not working on the latest version, an update would be cool!

LOL, although this is somewhat true, Notch is under a lot of pressure of all those kids whining about an update or a ETA for something. Version 1.2 to 1.2_01 proves this, he did fix it very fast.

Don't open the can of Notch-worms! Whenever someone comes in to defend Notch from a software project management point of view (especially when making it look as if people demanding something from Notch are "haters" or "kids") I feel like posting one of my rants again. ;-)

To sum up: Notch is still a hack who never made the transition from small "scene" projects (see Ludlum Dare et al.) to a full-blown game with such popularity and hence it's not a matter of one or two patches, it's a problem with Minecraft being coded shittily from the ground up - mainly due to Notch insisting on doing everything himself and not taking feedback from actual coders/server admins, concentrating on fulfilling feature-oriented requests from players (who are clueless by nature) instead.

Yes, this generates sales here and now (since Notch was lucky with the game concept - yes, lucky, not brilliant) but in the long run a stable, optimized and relatively bug-free game (or any software for that matter) it does not make. Oh, and his "this is only Alpha/Beta" excuse is something so arbitrary, it's stupid that people fall for it... You can claim your product is at ANY stage of development - it doesn't matter. Notch is still selling it to people and naming something Alpha/Beta usually comes with the obligation to handle the software in accordance with its stage of development on the developer's side as well, not just telling the customer "it's not ready, you can pay now but have no right to make any demands or have any expectations" - i.e. concentrating on building a good framework for future updates and fixing bugs, not adding shittons of content - that should come later, but Notch has it backwards...

Updated.

With features added.

Could you please add a /time option ingame? That would be just great!

I will add this to the task list.

EDIT: ADDED!

Works fine with build #50

Glad to hear!

Thanks, it works well!

(Nuub)
How do i know what build i use?

On build #63, it doesn't work for me. It goes to night at the end of day.

I'm using the most recent build on my server, and it works fine. Upgrade both bukkit and craftbukkit.

Don't I only need Craftbukkit as my server? Where do I place Bukkit.jar?