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Building Minecraft Server Modifications

You're reading from   Building Minecraft Server Modifications Discover how to program your own server plugins and augment your Minecraft server with Bukkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849696005
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cody M. Sommer Cody M. Sommer
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Building Minecraft Server Modifications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Deploying a CraftBukkit Server FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning the Bukkit API 3. Creating Your First Bukkit Plugin 4. Testing on the CraftBukkit Server 5. Plugin Commands 6. Player Permissions 7. The Bukkit Event System 8. Making Your Plugin Configurable 9. Saving Your Data 10. The Bukkit Scheduler Index

Writing a repeating task for a plugin


We already have a BukkitRunnable class, so in order to run a task timer we just need to determine the delay and the period. We want the delay to be 0. That way if it is night when the plugin is enabled, the time will be set to noon right away. As for the period, we could repeat the task every second if we wanted to keep the sun always directly above. The task only contains one simple line of code so repeating it that often will not cause much lag to the server. However, repeating the task every minute will still prevent the world from ever growing dark. Therefore we will delay the task by 0 ticks and repeat it every 1200 ticks. The entire AlwaysDay plugin is given in the following code:

package com.codisimus.alwaysday;

import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.World;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
import org.bukkit.scheduler.BukkitRunnable;

public class AlwaysDay extends JavaPlugin {
  @Override
  public void onEnable() {
    BukkitRunnable...
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