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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

Testing new versions of your plugin


A player may not notice this message when the message is white in color. We can change the color of our message using ChatColor Enum. This Enum has each color code that is supported in-game so that we can easily add them to messages. Let's modify the plugin and install the newly modified version on the server. Choose your favorite color and place it before the message in your broadcastToServer method, as shown in the following code:

Bukkit.broadcastMessage(ChatColor.BLUE + msg);

Before you build your new jar file, change the version in plugin.yml to 0.2 to indicate that this is an updated version. Build your new jar file using either the build icon or F11. Copy the new version to your plugins folder if you did not set up build.xml to do so automatically. Issue the reload command again to view the results, as shown in the following screenshot:

The plugin has been reloaded and the message is now in color, as shown in the screenshot. Also note how the version...

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