I have a few suggestions.

1.) You could probably make soul sand more "deadly". While it does slow players down, that's not really much of a threat (even when under fire from ghasts), and usually serves an advantage to the player in building traps or other utilities. I feel soul sand just isn't dangerous enough to be called "soul sand."

I think it would be fit if it could occasionally (not always, as that would be incredibly annoying) wither/weaken/blind/whatever you while you're on it or when you try to dig it. The chance of wither on breaking or walking should be configurable. You could even extend this feature to any block to apply any effect. Maybe.

2.) Breaking certain blocks hurt you, depending on how you break it (what item you have in your hand, or even what you may be equipping at the moment). For example, punching and breaking cacti should hurt you. So if you break it with anything else, it won't.

Or perhaps coal ore or netherrack can hurt you (and maybe apply a few potion effects too) when you mine it, due to the noxious fumes they may release. The way to avoid this would be to wear a configurable "miner's hat" like an iron helmet to avoid the fumes.

3.) Also, I like this plugin for making the game harder overall, but I was wondering if some of the features could be less specific (and more open to configuration). Right now, I feel that some of the features are too specific and have to be substituted by other plugins, depending on one's taste.

For example, the "Ghasts and skeletons can avoid arrows" feature is nice, but what if I wanted other mobs to be able to do this? It would make sense for those two mobs to have that ability, but what if, for any reason whatsoever, I wanted zombies to be able to avoid arrows? I mean, zombies are usually already easy enough to kill.

Another example would be that breaking netherrack has a chance of sparking a fire. But what if I, or someone else wanted to configure their own set of blocks that have a chance of catching you on fire, each with their own chance percentages? This is bizarre, but I'd think it would be funny if breaking a lit furnace would catch you on fire all of the time.

I know that making most of the features more open to configuration would probably require a massive amount of work (along with doing things out of the scope of this plugin's purpose), and also make configuration on the server admin's side less favourable/convenient/fast/easy. But I'm just making this suggestion for the sake of high flexibility with each feature.

@bigscary

Hey mate Love your latest additions very nice just had a thought while reading the patch notes

1. Some already established servers might have a crash when 20,000 torches (already placed ones) get destroyed in the next rain storm :)

• It might be a good idea to post a warning about this :)

1. Your Villager egg idea is nice but you should be aware that players already have an ingame method for creating npcs via curing out zombies (once people catch on to this they'l realise its quite easy to kite zombies to a holding cell wherever they want their npc village to be (mine is floating on the ocean for example :))

Hey guys, I got a great idea (I think). I'm going to add an option to have the dragon drop two villager spawner eggs. This will give players a very interesting reason (building a city!) to continue playing on your server even after they've bested the dragon. Of course, you can turn it off if you don't like it.

@MyNameIsViolet

I think the two areas you've brought up are both very interesting! Like you, I dislike that players can swim up a waterfall like it's a ladder. And chopping trees could be both more interesting and more realistic.

Unfortunately, the specific idea of blocking players from swimming up waterfalls won't work because it's too expensive (meaning a lag generator) to constantly track player movement. While having logs fall down all at once is more realistic, like you say it does make the game easier rather than harder. I can't make breaking blocks take longer (it's a bukkit limitation), but I can reduce the durability of the tool like you've suggested. But, I think that will just result in players always choosing to punch trees rather than chop them. One potential for balance would be to have trees only fall down all at once when chopped by an axe. I could also have leaves randomly fall from the top of the tree each time a block is chopped (going back to the old requirement of breaking each log block in the tree individually).

So I guess what I'm saying is that you've inspired me, and I will have to think some more about exactly how to change these areas. :) Thanks!

@MrMightyGnome

Waiting for Bukkit guys to approve. :\

@Carambaz

Check your boot logs. It tells you that you need to put something in the falling blocks list, even if it's not a block. For example you could put DIAMOND_SWORD there if you don't want any additional falling blocks.

i dont like the falling block funtion, but i cant disable it, it auto enable

2.4 Updates!

• Rain now puts out exposed torches, causing them to fall to the ground as items. Any block (even leaves) is enough to shelter them from the rain.

• Witches now use the poison splash potion much less often. They now do direct damage (1.5 hearts, armor ignored) with explosive potions that only hurt players, summon henchmen to their aid, and teleport.

• Monsters now spawn in the light underground, including silverfish.

• Breaking netherrack may now start a fire.

• The "seed reduction" option is much improved. Now plantings (meaning the collection of everything you've planted) of wheat will shrink by about 25% each time it's harvested, and plantings of other types will remain roughly the same over time. Instead of limiting the number of seeds dropped by a broken plant, all plants will be allowed to drop their normal seeds, but sometimes a plant die off instead of growing to its full size, eliminating both its food and seed output.

• The ender dragon now respawns, and drops a dragon egg when it dies.

• The seed reduction for watermelons no longer impacts other worlds where EHM is disabled.

• The "extra TNT from recipe" no longer impacts other worlds where EHM is disabled.

@CorruptedHelix

Blow up some TNT and find out. :)

@Diemex

I might have him drop fireballs to light the ground on fire at random... and maybe summon monsters but nothing too crazy. Removing arrow damage would make him almost impossible to kill, I think, so I probably won't go that far. :) He stays way up in the air almost all the time.

Don't you have the same problem on a smaller scale due to just normal creeper explosions? Or do you have another plugin to fix that?

Ooh, sponge block. Hmm. It doesn't scream "I killed a dragon!", but it's definitely rare. Maybe I'll go with that. :)

@MrMightyGnome

It's true they're hard to get, but getting one doesn't mean you killed the dragon.

@bigscary

1. Enderdragon doesnt take damage from arrows, shoots ghastlike fireballs, drops fire.

2. A sponge block? :D In what other ways can you get the dragon egg, without cheating it in or duping it? I think the tons of xp is a good incentitive already and a dragonegg makes sense as a reward.

@Mrmightygnome Far too overpowered as a reward.

@corruptedhelix Try it they are cool. Bigger, blocks flying around....

@bigscary I dont want players to be limited in usage of tnt, but I dont want creepers to ruin the landscape. Cant I have a config option to disable the dropping of tnt by creepers on the surface?

What do you mean by "cool explosions" in the 2.1 and 2.3 changelogs?

Hey guys I need ideas.

1. How can I make the enderdragon more interesting to fight?

2. I'm planning to add an option to respawn the ender dragon. What can I give players who slay the dragon to prove to other players they did it? It should be something they won't get otherwise, and can put on display in their houses. My first thought was the dragon egg, but there are ways to get it without slaying the dragon.

@MrMightyGnome

You can disable the land claims in Grief Prevention, or you can keep them and allow theft (opening containers).

@CreepCraft

Yep, I have that fixed over here already. It's just the wrong message being shown. :)

@Diemex

Okay, I'll work on reducing the message frequency. You could also fix this by reading the message and not trying to place blocks that way.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can fix that particular half slab issue. It seems like Bukkit is lieing to me about what block is underneath you. :\

For limiting the TNT damage from creepers, please consider adding some anti grief plugin which limits the damage done to your world's surface by explosions.

Yep, if you're on fire, you're blinded. The fire resist potion doesn't stop you from catching on fire, it just reduces the damage.

Whether it rains all day or once a week, the solution for players is the same - put torches where they won't get rained on.

@iorunner

Sorry, I don't want to do that because in my opinion, that is too extreme. Players want to play minecraft, so if they're going to die a lot, the least you can do is let them keep dieing (in my opinion). There are several plugins available which will temporarily ban players upon death. :) I also like gnome's variation - you could suggest it to the developers of those temp ban plugins.

@MrMightyGnome

On principle, I do like the idea because it sounds cool. :) However thinking of the gameplay impact, I think animals are already too hard to find due to Mojang's animal spawning rules, and this would make it worse. Besides, everyone already fences in their animals to keep them from wandering off or being stolen by other players, so it won't change the way players play.

@N1T3SLAY3R

I can't do a percentage of total health, because Bukkit doesn't tell me what total health is. So I have these set to actual health numbers. This way if Mojang changes total health to 30 in a patch, you can continue to run my plugin with an updated config file instead of waiting for me to update the code.

If you're running another plugin which changes gameplay significantly, it's likely that you'll have at least some conflicts. I hope you won't have a problem, but if you do, I doubt there's anything I can do about it (at least in this case, due to the lack of information from Bukkit). :\

Hey for this part of the code, PlayerDeath: ItemStacksForfeitPercent: 0 RespawnHealth: 20 RespawnFoodLevel: 20 is there any way to disable this? Because use my own health system that frequently changes called ancient rpg, and i dont know if this conflicts with it or not. any thoughts? An idea tho, is you could spawn with a percent of your max life and food which may help a bit :P

Please add config options to turn of the errormessages, they are spamming the chat. Or add something so that they get displayed to new players only and then can be turned of by a command or something. I really think that I dont need to see those messages after 2 months of playing.

Returning to the halfslab bug. It seems that if you are on a platform made out of halfslabs and you are on the corner between two blocks or not standing completely on one block that you can't build.

The damage done by creepers dropping tnt is kinda insane. I sometimes hear random explosions and then I see these huuuuge holes on the surface. I don't want to disable explosions though. Cant you drop tnt that is more like the tnt from the last version or comparable to the explosion of charged creepers?

Being on fire while having a fire resist potion still shows the blindness2 potion effect.

1. Cool, nice to make more use of the mobs that are in minecraft already

2. Silverfish, hmpf those guys are just annoying and chew through your armor. But if its not excessive okay. What would be cool if there would be random silverfish blocks. But if you spawn silverfish there will be random silverfish blocks in any case.

3. In light? That might be confusing for players used to vanilla spawning mechanics. But okay.

4. It rains all day long on my server, so that will be turned of asap. Sorry.

5. I have only been tunneling in the nether, so that is kinda cool.