Author: tunnelrat <[email protected]>     Reply to Message
Date: 4/29/2011 10:56:23 AM
Subject: Essentials plugin (see bottom for special signs)

Essentials has a ton of stuff, here are the important parts:

- /home - right now, right clicking a bed will set it as your home point. MC vanilla will port you to the last bed you successfully slept in if it still exists. This means that you HAVE to leave the last bed you slept in on the ground . If you move it, you have to sleep again to have it bind you.

As far as Essentials is concerned, you bind to any bed you right click on, whether you can sleep in it or not (has to be night time to sleep, and every other active player on the server has to be in a bed.) - IF someone else wants to sleep, and you are not near your bed and do not want to make a new one (thus moving your bind point) - you just need to logout while they sleep. If everyone staying online is already in a bed, it will become day immediately. To successfully sleep, you must have an area with enough light to not allow mob spawns within 2 blocks of the bed.

I have not tested the Essentials home binding effect... it MAY retain the bind point (and I imagine it does) even if the bed is destroyed. This means that if you destroy the last bed you have slept in, dying will take you back to spawn. /home, however, should still port you to the bind point. Again, not tested yet. If someone can test, that'd be swass.

/home has the following restrictions:

1. There is a 10 second delay between typing /home and actually porting. You can move during this time.

2. You can only use /home every 30 minutes.


The idea behind these restrictions is to retain the convenience of /home, but make it more like an MMO and not a keybind instant get out of jail free card.


Other useful commands and options enabled:

/nick - Use this to change your in-game name. People with nicknames are prefixed with '+'

/who - s/e

/m /msg /tell /whisper - blah blah

/compass

/motd

etc

Creepers only damage players now

Signs and rails are protected

Signs:

Protection - placing a protection in a square EXACTLY adjacent to a chest on the x,z plane (not above or below) will protect a chest from being accessed by others.

You need one sign per chest, so in the diagram below, you can pick either front, side, or back.

(Top down view of valid locations - B = sign behind chest, S = sign one left or right of chest) F = sign in front of chest, C = Chest, _ = open space)

_B_
SCS (only need one side or the other for a single chest)
_F_

Double chests are TWO chests, you have to protect both.

_BB_
SCCS
_FF_

(syntax)
[Protection]



automatic sign creator name

So, if you just want sole access to the chest, you JUST put [Protection] - it will fill in your name at the bottom on its own.

You can add up to three other players to the chest access list, as show above. One name per line, must be their EXACT MC name.

See all sign instructions here: http://ess.earth2me.com/index.php/Sign_Tutorial

Buy, Sell, and Trade - allows merchant traffic. We will eventually have a market area for these.

Disposal see instructions. This wasn't working right when I last used it. Someone else test it out, please.

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