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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

Writing a repeating task for a plugin


We already have a BukkitRunnable class. Therefore, in order to run a task timer, we just need to determine the delay and the period by which the task is delayed. 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 can repeat the task every second if we want to keep the sun always directly above. The task only contains one simple line of code. Repeating it often will not cause the server to lag. However, repeating the task every minute will still prevent the world from ever growing dark and will be less of a strain on the computer. Therefore, we will delay the task by 0 ticks and repeat it every 1,200 ticks. This results in the following line of code:

runnable.runTaskTimer(this, 0, 1200);

With this, we started a repeating task. It is good practice to cancel repeating tasks when the plugin is disabled. To accomplish this, we will store the BukkitTask as a class variable...

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