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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

Adding a delayed task to a plugin

We will now add a warp delay to the Warper plugin. This will require players to stand still after running the warp or home commands. If they move too much, the warp task will be canceled and they will not be teleported. This will prevent players from teleporting when someone is attacking them or they are falling to their death.

If you haven't already, add a variable of warpDelay in the main class. This is given in the following line of code:

static int warpDelay = 5; //in seconds

This time will be in seconds. We will multiply it by 20 later in the code to calculate the number of ticks by which we wish to delay the task.

We will also need to keep track of the player who is in the process of warping so that we can check whether they are moving. Add another variable of the current warpers. This will be a HashMap so that we can keep track of which players are warping and the tasks that will be run to teleport them. That way, if a specific player moves, we...

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