Creating more plugins on your own
Now that you have created these two plugins, you have a hang of how to properly use event listeners. You now have the required knowledge to create hundreds of unique plugins on your own. All that you need to get started is a cool idea. Why don't you try making one of the plugins that was suggested earlier in this chapter? For more ideas, you know where to look. The Bukkit, Spigot, and Minecraft forums or the API documentation are great for inspiration. For example, looking through the list of events, I saw the ExplosionPrimeEvent
class, which is described as "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 the nearby players to make it look like the creeper is talking to them. First, you will create an EventHandler method
for this event. You will want to return in case the entity is not a creeper. Then,...