@MrMightyGnome

Well, you would like to see a config to set the number of explosions per tnt, but you would like to keep stone turning into cobblestone, is that right? I could easily add those configs to a branch in my fork, but I don't know if bigscary will pull it into the main branch.

@Diemex

Thanks.

@spblat

There shouldn't be any problem with animals dropping items. The drop changing code only applies to monsters. Have you tried spawning a whole lot of them and then killing them all at once as a strong test?

@nicholasooo

I totally agree with you, but I haven't come up with anything. The building on the ocean thing is harder than placing torches around your house anyway, so even if I found some way to mitigate the ocean strategy, there would still be an easy way to prevent monsters from coming near your house at night.

@orgin_org

What Diemex said. :)

@Carambaz

He's tracking player movement to do that - way too expensive, I don't think I'll put that into this plugin. Too bad though - I do want players to treat water as an obstacle.

Nicholasooo

I use another plugin called TiredMan, it works great and prevents players from swimming oceans. You can configure the distance they are allowed to swim before drowning. Something like that would go great in this mod as well. I agree the oceans need more danger, i think sharks!

@orgin_org

https://github.com/ryanhamshire/ExtraHardMode/blob/master/src/me/ryanhamshire/ExtraHardMode/BlockPhysicsCheckTask.java

and

line 503

https://github.com/ryanhamshire/ExtraHardMode/blob/master/src/me/ryanhamshire/ExtraHardMode/ExtraHardMode.java#L503

Would you mind posting some code on how you add gravity to new block types? I'm trying to add gravity to snow blocks in my hothgenerator plugin but so far I haven't found any solid way to do it.

@tiwar

Sorry sir, I think you're the only one who liked it. You could use creative mode to spawn a load of the guys on demand? :)

@nicholasooo

Oh sorry, I forgot to respond. Bukkit doesn't give me an option to make passive creatures attack. Some other plugins do this using what the Bukkit guys call "unsafe" code, which is unsafe because it's more likely to break with minor Bukkit changes.

@4rz0

In a world where there are no griefers, such a feature would be excellent. :) But almost all servers have fire destruction and spread turned off due to the huge impact a single player can have on the rest of the server in a very short period of time. That means any effort I invest in making a feature like that work would be wasted, since almost all servers would have it disabled.

2.8 Updates!

• No more building in the end, to force players to stop trying to cheat the dragon by building forts and instead actually face him in combat. Because players sometimes teleport onto a platform encased in ender stone or may fall into holes and get stuck, players ARE allowed to dig their way up at an angle. In case the "win game" dragon fountain portal is not reachable without building, players who slay the dragon get a tip about using an ender pearl to reach it.

• Reduced message frequency.

• Silverfish no longer borrow into blocks to jump out again later. However, silverfish who climbed into blocks earlier or who spawned in blocks (stronghold) during world generation may still jump out to attack.

• For convenience, creative mode players now bypass block placement restrictions even when they don't have the bypass permission.

• When the monster grinder inhibitor is enabled (it's on by default), animals will no longer drop experience. After all, they're no challenge to defeat, and are trivial to farm (literally).

@Assertive

I can't make spigot support plugins better. Please contact the spigot developer with the details of your issue. I'm sure his goal is to support 100% of bukkit plugins, so he'd probably want to hear about any issues with specific plugins.

@Carambaz

Please post a pastebin of the issue you're getting in your logs so I can fix it. Tearing the plugin apart will make your problem worse, not better - amateurs shouldn't do their own break jobs, they should leave it to professional auto mechanics. :)

@stephengillie

Hmm I dunno.. I like the idea of players moving lava around to create light sources deep underground, because it's risky business. Besides I don't think it would fix the problem for patient players, who would build the generator deep underground or search for a surface lava pool.

@MrMightyGnome

I don't know how your permissions plugin works. If you can't get your permissions to work, you'll have to troubleshoot that on your own (potentially with the help of that permissions plugin's developer or someone else who uses it).

Adding configuration options is a pain for me immediately, and more pain for me in the long run because I have to continuously test all the different options (some in various combinations) to make sure new changes I make aren't breaking the old stuff. That's why I don't break down every option into a million pieces - I have to draw a reasonable line somewhere. "Just because it would be cool" or "because it's a good practice" or "because I like to tinker" aren't strong enough arguments for taking on that work and risk of breaking existing features and adding more bugs in the future.

As for the specifics you're getting at, you just keep going back to the same arguments. I already said I wouldn't. Come back if you think of a new angle.

Sorry to be stonewalling you, but I spend hours every day working on plugins, and I get almost zero donations, so my only payment is the "feel good factor". The "feel bad" of writing lots of code and doing lots of testing to add features that most owners and players wouldn't even notice (for example config options that very few folks would change) outweighs the "feel good" of helping those who may benefit from them. :)