Books without Borders!
Books without Borders!
Ever wanted to export your book to a text file? Ever want to import it back in? Accidentally sign it too soon? If so, Books without Borders has got your back!
Features
- Export written books and book and quills to .txt or .yml files
- Import books from files as written books or unsigned books
- Text files can be any length, and the import process fits the content to the correct page length
- Books can be saved privately, or to a directory visible server wide
- Encrypt books to secure their contents [Courtesy of dorrax]
- Give, encrypt, or decrypt held books with signs
- Give players books via command blocks
- Unsign or copy held books with a simple command
- Give first time players a single book or a set of books when they join
- Configurable option to require certain items or pay via Vault compatible economy to create books via command
- Add lore to any item with a simple command
- Supports adding and saving color to titles, lore, and book contents
Usage
[Video Tutorial courtesy of luigi_vampa]
Just use the simple commands linked below and you'll be on your way. No tricky maneuvers required!
To make books auto-update, make the book's title end with "[U]". For example, "booktitle[U],authorname.txt" or "updatingbook[U].txt".
All book data saves to [Server Plugins Folder]->[Books without Borders]->[Books]
View commands and permissions here.
See examples of Yaml format book editing here.
See examples of sign usage here.
View sample configuration file here.
For general book usage and writing information click here.
For advanced book editing and tips like how to use §r to create line breaks, click here.
Concerning Future Updates
Development for this plugin is currently inactive for the foreseeable future, though I would love to start again if I ever got the chance. If I become aware that this plugin no longer functions with current builds of bukkit and minecraft I will update this page to reflect that.
A sincere thank you to everyone who used and/or gave feedback for this plugin. It was a pleasure while it lasted.
If you enjoy this plugin and want to say thanks, some caffeine is always welcome :D
Check out my other plugins!
Feel free to leave comments and suggestions!
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Posted May 11, 2014@AkiraAkiba
Oh wonderful! Thank you for explaining it to me. And yes, please make a way for us to see others books, or even better, so that we have to approve them before they have access to them.
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Posted May 10, 2014@thequestingbeast
If I am understanding correctly, most of what you describe is already available.
Currently when a player uses "/BwB save" to save a finished book to their personal directory, if they save that same book again and its title and author are still the same, the file it was originally saved to will be overwritten (meaning no duplicate files). If they are saving an unsigned book, they can use "/BwB save true" to overwrite the original file instead of creating a duplicate.
There is also the "/BwB delete" command for players to delete files from their own directory so they can manage their own books.
Currently players can use "/BwB load" to see a list of all the books in their personal directory, though a additional command for admin to see a list of someone else's personal books is definitely something I could add in a future update.
I hope that helps clear things up, and please be sure to let me know if you have any suggestions to improve my plugin documentation, or let me know if I've misunderstood anything.
Thanks for your continued feedback.
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Posted May 9, 2014@AkiraAkiba
Here is how I was thinking it would work. When a player writes a book and then saves it it is in their file. However, say there is a mistake or they need to update it. They could delete the book from their file and then resave it. This way there wont be a TON of the same books taking up memory.
Along the same lines... if there was a way for them to do (for example) /bwb load<playername> and see all the books they have available to them then it would be helpful to them and us, as Admins.
Thank you again for all your hard work and your willingness to work with the community. I love to see positive people.
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Posted May 9, 2014@thequestingbeast
Author only delete is definitely something I could look into adding in the future, but if you don't mind, could you give me an example of how you see this feature being used? (Just so we are one the same page)
I actually came close to adding multiple item prices last update, but ended up dropping it as the update was a bit overdue as it was. I will do my best to get it into the next update.
As far as money prices go, that is actually implemented through Vault compatible economies as of BwB v1.3.3. See the "/BwB setBookPrice" command explanation here for setting the price in-game, or look here to see how to manually configure the price via BwB's config.yml.
As always, thank you for the suggestions and feedback. I look forward to your reply.
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Posted May 9, 2014I like the author only copy, but what about author only delete? And maybe being able to make the payment of multiple items or even money would be great.
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Posted May 4, 2014@scuroK
Glad to be of service!
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Posted May 4, 2014Thanks for this awesome plugin!
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Posted May 4, 2014I have just submitted BwB v1.3.3 for approval, and it should be available for download soon. This update adds (among other things):
As always, I am grateful for everyone's patience, and I look forward to future feedback and suggestions.
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Posted Apr 13, 2014@ursak
You are correct. I created the .use permission when this plugin was a much simpler affair. I will add .load and .save permissions in the next update.
As always, thank you for contributing to the further development of this plugin.
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Posted Apr 12, 2014So if I get the permissions right its bookswithoutborders.use for both saving and loading books?
There isn't any way to allow players to save their written books but not being able to load them?
I'm looking for a way to let players contribute to the server by writing different books, but I don't want them to be able to load their books. Only saving them so I can go through them on my own later since the books that are ok will be dropped by mobs through a mod.
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Posted Apr 1, 2014@alucksyoutube
Just to be clear, when you use "/bwb load" to create a list of files to load, it is not showing any .txt files at all?
That is incredibly curious, and I cant think of a cause off the top of my head. If I may, could I have you pm or reply me your bwb config file settings, your book folder structure and contents that you are trying to load (for example: [bwb] -> [Books] -> [list of book titles] or [bwb] -> [Books] -> [UserName] -> [list of book titles]), and any errors that show up in the server console, so that I may attempt to recreate this issue.
Thanks again for your time and patience.
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Posted Apr 1, 2014Hey for some reason it is not detecting my .txt files when i do a /bwb load... Any suggestions?
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Posted Mar 24, 2014@scuroK
Always glad to be of service!
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Posted Mar 24, 2014Awesome plugin! Thanks!
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Posted Mar 23, 2014Ive just submitted v1.3.2 for approval, and it should be available for download soon. It adds many of the recent user suggested features. It does not add the changes to load list number give signs, but I hope to have that out soon.
As always, I appreciate everyone's patience with my updating process, and I look forward to future feedback and feature suggestions.
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Posted Mar 18, 2014@Youramoron
Thank you for the suggestion. In the upcoming update (coming very soon), I will change give signs to allow the last line to be whatever text you want, as long as the 3rd line is a load list number.
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Posted Mar 8, 2014@AkiraAkiba
Awesome! Thank you so much for the work you put into this!
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Posted Mar 8, 2014I've just submitted v1.3.1d for approval, and it should be available for download soon. This update corrects the two bugs discussed below, among other things.
With any luck v1.3.2 will be out before the end of this coming week, bringing with it many of the recently suggested new features.
As always, thanks for all the feedback and patience.
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Posted Mar 5, 2014@scuroK
Thank you for bringing these issues to my attention. I should have time over the next few days to release a fix for them both.
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Posted Mar 4, 2014I really love this plugin, but it seems like givepublic doesn't work from the console. It always causes an error message:
Is there something I am doing wrong or is it a bug? I am using v1.3.1c and Craftbukkit 1.7.2-R0.3