I can confirm the bug that Diemex is having:

When you jump and place a block under yourself it displays: There's not enough air flow....etc

However if i jump and place blocks randomly (not under myself!) it says: You can't build while in the air.

Is that going to be fixed in the version you mentioned below? :)

Likely changes coming today:

1. Witches get three new abilities. Damage potions (direct damage, ignores armor, only hurts players), teleportation, and zombie sidekick summoning.

2. Silverfish will now spawn underground.

3. Monsters will spawn more often underground, and may spawn even in the light (again only underground).

4. Rain will slowly drench torches, ultimately causing them to drop to the ground as items.

5. Breaking netherrack may start a fire (this is a deterrent for players who want to tunnel around in the nether).

Please post your thoughts! Yes, all of these will be configurable.

@MrMightyGnome

Yep, I see where you're going with that. But consider that the player will likely find enough iron to replace his pickaxe before he breaks his current pick, even with the effectively reduced durability. So he'll continue to tunnel around indefinitely.

I recommend you add an anti grief plugin like perhaps GriefPrevention, which disables TNT damage above sea level. That will solve your "my world is a mess" problem while still allowing players to use TNT for mining.

@KStorm1

What skeleton no weapon bug?

Sorry no, can't speed up monsters without using the "unsafe coding practices" the Bukkit guys recommend against. You might think that I could simply give them a speed potion effect, but it's not possible to apply those effects to monsters. :\ So instead, I have them slow you down, which is interestingly different from spiders in that relatively speaking, its like the zombies speed all other monsters up.

I'm very glad you like it. :) I'm always looking for new ideas, but I favor those which will change the way players take on problems (like making common blocks subject to gravity), rather than just scaling the difficulty on existing challenges (like adding more health to monsters).

I'm actually play testing a couple of big new ideas right now. I'll probably release them in an update this week.

@MrMightyGnome

Remember that the players who tunnel around on "vanilla" servers have an immense level of patience - anyone you ask will agree that the most boring activity in Minecraft is randomly breaking stone while digging tunnels. Making this process slower won't lead those players to explore caves, it will just slow them down. I want them to explore caves so that they will face the dangers and challenges there, like monsters and world-generated obstacles.

Yeah, TNT is supposed to be awesome. It's supposed to be the only way a player can tunnel (by spending big with the rare gunpowder resource), and a reward for players who go fight in the nether. If you want diamonds, the best way is to gear up and fight blazes in the nether to gather gunpowder, then use that to find more diamonds in the normal world (via TNT).

Slowing players in armor down sounds like a great idea. :) I'm just not sure I can pull it off. The only way I have to slow players down is by giving them a potion effect, which I then have to worry about wearing off on its own, and I also have to think about adjusting it when their equipment changes, and most importantly, ensuring they can't work around it in any way (for example by drinking milk). I'll definitely keep it in the brain bank for later!

@N1T3SLAY3R

No, it's not doable. Reportedly, the worldguard guy has fixed that bug in his latest builds. For now, you can set an option in my config file to disable the explosions (workaroundotherpluginbugs = true).

@amfm93

That's correct. Mojang has set up exactly one recipe list for the entire server, which places a limitation on how flexible plugins can be when people start trying to run 5 different servers in 1 server. You have the option to disable the enhanced TNT and the seeds limitation.

I've noticed a bug that all worlds in the server are affected by Extra Hard Mode's crafting rule changes. Players in my non-extra hard mode worlds get 3 TNT via crafting and can't craft melon seeds.

I know i have already asked about the tnt worldgaurd protection thing, but is it possible, before the tnt explodes, to check if the tnts xyz location is inside the worldgaurd zone, and if so disable its explosion or dont over-ride its properties so that worldgaurd can stop it? and if its not, even 1 block away from the protection itll still explode?

@Diemex

Oh, thanks I'll check that.

@fffizzz

I get this question daily, because nobody reads. Right beneath the "feature list" heading, it says "Any of these features may be disabled in the config.yml file. Many may be "customized" to your liking. You may also enable these features only for specific worlds."

If you do this, look for another plugin which will prevent players from taking items from the "easy" world to the "hard" world.

@bigsary It's a bug because it diesplays the wrong message. It should display the message about the realistic block placement and instead displays the message about the lighting.

2.3 Updates!

• More witches.

• Creepers now have a small chance to drop primed TNT when slain (that's your cue to run like hell).

• Torches will no longer attach to common soft blocks like dirt, grass, and sand. Players can "stick to" trees and stone in caves, but will need to place a block to illuminate open wilderness areas.

• Updated TNT explosions to be way cooler (roughly the same power).

• Players will no longer lose 100% of their inventories when a charged creeper sneaks up on them (that was a bug).

@KStorm1

The only options available are those in the config file. There's nothing you can add to the config file manually (by typing or copy pasting) that would add new features to your server.

@ibrowserz

It's been multiverse compatible since the first day I released it.

@absolutc

Please give me a pastebin of the config file content that isn't working for you. :)

@Diemex

I think you may be confusing a new message with an old one. There's a new message about realistic block placement, which applies everywhere (including the surface). I'll consider the anti spam thing, but for players who are new, they see some placements trigger the message and some don't (but still fail), and aren't sure whether it's due to the same problem or something else, like server lag. That's why for now I have the message for every time you fail to place a block, just for clarity.

@sean326

I don't want to add a command in the plugin here that toggles a permission on and off, that sounds really hackish. Diemex (see below) has a cool idea - maybe you can grab a plugin which lets you create a new command that is a short version of another longer command? :\ The longer command being your permission plugin's command to toggle your bypass permission.

@sean326

I think you can accomplish this with a combination of Pex and CommandHelper, i hope it still works. Maybe create a special group for yourself without the bypass permission and then shorten the command to add and remove the bypass permission of yourself with commandhelper. For example.

"/pex user sean326 add ExtraHardMode.bypass" -> /bypass -> /bp

"/pex user sean326 remove ExtraHardMode.bypass" -> /nobypass -> /nbp

You will need "permissions.manage.whateva" for this though....

Minor Bug: You sometimes get the error of the "no permanent flames" when trying to place a block in midair on the surface. Also when placing torches. Request: Don't spam the chat with errors. Just display the error once every 3 seconds, kinda like a timeout.