Books
This project will no longer be developed due to Book and Quill, which will be a more awesome way to write to books. The source code is available under Other.
Books is a plugin that simply allows you to read and write to books and later on put them bookshelves.
Features
- Practically unlimited undo and redo actions
- Advanced replacement command
- Unique character measurement, to use the complete chat window with no unwanted line breaks
- Books can be copied using crafting tables
- Books will stack, unless the books have different content
- Colour and formatting support (new in 0.3.1)
- Allows multiple authors (new in 0.3.1)
Use
/w <title> Create a new book.
/w <text> Write text to the book.
Arguments
Allows you to perform special action for example change the title of a book ("/w --title New title")
| Short | Long | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
-h | --help | Show the help section |
-t | --title | Change the title of a book |
-r | --replace | Replace or remove a word or sentence |
-w | --write | Enable write mode (allows you to leave out /w when writing to a book) |
--undo | Undo the last action | |
--redo | Redo the last undone action | |
--clear | Erase the contents of a book | |
--addauthor | Add an additional author (Only the creator of the book) | |
--removeauthor | Remove an author (Only the creator of the book) |
Other
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_ForgeUser7186131 Owner
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Posted Jul 19, 2012Thank you SO much for developing this mod for 1.2.5. Obviously, I'm excited to use book & quill in 1.3, but it seems like every other book mod was either out-of-date, dependent on ModloaderMP, or the developer just figured everyone used a vanilla server.
Books has pretty much relieved all the anxiety I had about how quickly I'd need to upgrade my server after 1.3's release. Simple, straightforward, and not overpowered.
You are a scholar and a gentleman, basically, and I love you for it.
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Posted Apr 30, 2012@nhoclesnar
I do hope you're aware Notch hasn't worked on Minecraft for awhile.
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Posted Apr 29, 2012Nice job. Notch stole your ideas!
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Posted Apr 29, 2012@tabmonkey
I've checked out the bug, it seems there is no easy way to fix it because of how Bukkit has designed the event that allows you to control block breaks.
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Posted Apr 28, 2012@tabmonkey
Hi!
No I haven't seen that before, looks awesome though. But because of this I think it's time for me to stop the development of this plugin. Too bad I almost had a new version ready. Anyway I've learned a lot about the Bukkit API and also about Java through this project. I might release the source code later on.
Unfortunately this means I'm not gonna fix the bug you found.
Edit: I will take a look at the new book features, I am thinking of making a new plugin that allows you to write to signed books, copy them and maybe remove that awful §k.
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Posted Apr 27, 2012Hey iiMaXii
I think we've found a bug. Normal players are able to break bookshelves in World-guard protected regions - they can't break any other blocks there, but can still break bookshelves.
Been looking at the new book functionality in the snapshot yet? I'm hoping they'll implement a lot more useful stuff first before rolling it out.
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Posted Apr 20, 2012@iiMaXii
Yeah, you're right. I was in creative whilst doing admin stuff. In survival mode later it seemed to work just fine, the stacks joined for a second and then parted again.
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Posted Apr 20, 2012@tabmonkey
The fact that you can stack different books seems strange.
Maybe you are in creative mode, I haven't prevented books stacking there. But I will fix that in the next version.(read edit below)There is no bug tracker yet, but I'm gonna fix that soon. You may send me a PM here until then.
Edit: About books stacking in creative mode; the plugin should prevent this, but a bug in Bukkit is making this impossible.
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Posted Apr 20, 2012@iiMaXii
Thanks! We've installed it, and are making sure that it doesn't do anything unexpected on our server.
I've noticed that when stacking books, if you put a written book onto an empty book the written book is erased, and if you put an empty book on top of a written book the written book is duplicated without any use of the craft table.
A couple of quick questions: Are the books stored in plaintext like in bookworm? (Edit, yes, found them now that they've been saved to disk, although I had to create the folder structure manually after I saw the error message on the server) Where should I report bugs if I find any?
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Posted Apr 18, 2012@tabmonkey
All empty books can be stacked as usual and all books with the same content is also stackable. Additionally there is no block protection in this plugin. So I don't see anything that will prevent you from using it.
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Posted Apr 18, 2012We were using bookworm for a while on hardcore.hcsmp.com, but had problems with some exploitable features where bookshelves were unable to be destroyed (plus people got really annoyed that they couldn't stack books to make bookshelves easily). Are there any similar features in this plugin that would mean we can't use it?
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Posted Apr 14, 2012@roadslide42
Sure go ahead, I would be happy if you did :)
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Posted Apr 14, 2012@baemboo
I have used Bookworm on my server and it's a great plugin. But I thought it lacked some features, so I began making this plugin. Some of the major differences is listed under features above, and Bookworm supports Spout while my plugin doesn't, I may be adding support for this in the future.
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Posted Apr 13, 2012Is it alright if I make a video on this?
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Posted Apr 12, 2012this already exits with nearly same commands and its called "bookworm"
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Posted Apr 8, 2012This looks pretty cool. I could use this on my server. Can't wait 'till it's up for download!