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Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

You're reading from   Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition Create and customize your very own Minecraft server using Java and the Spigot API

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785883026
Length 158 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Cody M. Sommer Cody M. Sommer
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Preface 1. Deploying a Spigot Server FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning the Bukkit API 3. Creating Your First Bukkit Plugin 4. Testing on the Spigot 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

Communicating among events


The plugin works exactly as intended, but what if we have a change of heart and begin to miss the sound of rain? Alternatively, what if our town bursts into flames and it must be extinguished quickly? We do not want to limit our power as an administrator by denying ourselves the use of the /toggledownfall command. Next, we will listen for this command to be issued, and when it is issued, we will allow the weather to change. Ultimately, we will still be able to control the weather manually, but the weather will not start on its own.

Let's create another EventHandler method. This time, we will listen for a console command being sent so that we can set a Boolean flag, as follows:

@EventHandler (ignoreCancelled = true, priority = EventPriority.MONITOR)
public void onPlayerCommand(PlayerCommandPreprocessEvent event) {
  //Check if the Player is attempting to change the weather
  if (event.getMessage().startsWith("/toggledownfall")) {
    //Verify that the Player has permission...
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