Creating more plugins on your own

Now that you have these two plugins made, you have a feel for how to properly use event listeners. You now have the required knowledge to create hundreds of unique plugins on your own. All you need to get started is a cool idea. Why don't you try making one of the plugins suggested earlier in this chapter? For more ideas, you know where to look. The Bukkit forums or the API documentation are great for inspiration. For example, looking though the list of events, I saw the ExplosionPrimeEvent which has the description Called when an entity has made a decision to explode. This event is called when a creeper makes that hissing noise that every Minecraft player dreads. When this happens, you can send a message to all nearby players to make it look like the creeper is talking to them. First you would create an EventHandler for this event. You will want to return if the entity is not a creeper. Then you will want to get the entities that are near the creeper (there...