Bukkit

About Heroes or any other mod support, don't except it soon, I've a lot of (more fun) things to add before :D

@Megalanias

About abilities, I've already created the foundations and added two of them. ISo I guess the next version will have minions, I just have to think how customizable it should be and avoid to spawn them in walls.

Abilities will be very flexible, you will be able to create more than one ability of each type. Here's an example:

#In global config file
Ability:
  AP25:
    Type: ArmorPierce
    Value: 25.0
    Probability: 100.0
  AP50:
    Type: ArmorPierce
    Value: 50.0
    Probability: 33.3
  KB2:
    Type: Knockback
    Value: 2.0
    Probability: 75.0

This is just an example, there will be more field to fill depending on the type of the ability (here Probability means "on each hit"). You will have to give a name to your abilities, here I chose AP25 AP50 and KB2, but you can use anything you want. Unlike the roll and drop names, these will actually be used in the world config file, here's how:

#In world config file
Boss:
  Skeleton:
    Spawn: 3.0 1.0 128
    Stats: 5.5 2.0 8.0
    Drop:
    Ability: AP50 KB2
  Zombie:
    Spawn: 3.0 1.0 128
    Stats: 5.5 2.0 8.0
    Drop:
    Ability: AP25 KB2
Ability: #Global abilities!

Edit: You'll also be able to specify a chance of attribution, AP25:25.0 for example means that a boss of this type will have 25% chance to have this ability.
I think it will be pretty cool :) Note that giving more than one ArmorPierce to a boss doesn't work well, because of the calculation used. I'll see if I can do something about that.

About those two abilities:

• ArmorPierce reduce the effectiveness of armors, for example a full diamond armor absorbs 80% of damage, but if you add 25% of armor piercing it will become 60% (80*0.75). I wanted to add this because I think the armors are too powerful, you had to increase boss damages so much that unarmored players were killed in one hit. Now you can balance that. Note that the value must be between 0 and 100.
• Knockback increase or decrease the knocback the player receives. The velocity of the original knockback is multiplied by this value. It works pretty well, I just have to add another value for the vertical velocity :)

And that's it. Minions will be added next. You can except it in, I don't know, maybe one week, probably sooner.

Just noticed that the scheduleAsyncRepeatingTask method from Bukkit actually creates a new thread every X ticks and destroys it once the task is over, which isn't efficient at all for a short task (specially with Java). Also it can re-launch the task even if it's still running :o

I'll use a thread pool from now (this to be more accurate). If you're short on memory you might see a little improvement once it's done.

@Lumireaver Potion effects can be easily added so yeah :)

@Gidedin

1° Actually I already had this in mind, MySql would be faster, safer and easier to edit / extend than using a plain text file. Even now the leaderboard starts to be too slow for my tastes when there is more than 500 records inside. As you said MySql is the best bet to have detailed stats (deaths, drops, dates), but don't expect it soon :(

2° Nice idea, but currently my config file (or even my mod) doesn't allow to have more than one boss of each type. Adding names would be great if it was possible to have two skeleton bosses for example.

For now the config file looks like this:

Boss:
  Skeleton:
    Stats: [...]
    Drops:
        [...]

But eventually it could end to be like that:

Boss:
  'Skeleton Ranger':
    Type: Skeleton
    Stats: [...]
    Drops:
      [...]

Color tags can be added to the name directly, as for messages in the global config file.
Another solution:

Boss:
  AnythingYouWant:
    Type: Skeleton
    Name: 'Skeleton Ranger'
    Stats: [...]
    Drops:
      [...]

Note that I don't know much about YAML, there may be a better way to do it.

3° It's Name : LabViewerState : LabIgnoreState : then EntityId : NumberOfKills :
You can find the list of IDs there.

@Lumireaver

I plan to add abilities, one of them would be "minions".
Boss only at night, yeah why not, but should they despawn at dawn?

@BlueRedux

Yeah, I noticed that happening even against normal monsters, I'm not sure if it's because of Minecraft 1.2.5 or CraftBukkit. I'll see what I can do.

I've just re-uploaded the v1.5.0 because of two little bugs, a ConcurrentModificationException thrown by DrawBossEffect.java and boss immunities that weren't read. If you have one of these issues please re-download the file.

@narical

You're right, BloodMoon disables almost every boss, and I know why.

BloodMoon needs more control on entities, so every time an entity spawns, it removes and replaces it with a "home made" one, having the "SpawnReason.CUSTOM" state. The problem comes from the fact that now Likeaboss ignore this state, because of compatibility issues (how ironic). It worked previously because Likeaboss gave a chance to these "home made" entities to become boss, in fact the calculation was done twice, once for the original entity and once for the "home made" one. But like I said, this is no longer the case.

I'll inform BloodMoon author of this issue but I don't know if we will find a solution.

@narical

Indeed, but it's a little tricky to get two mods like these to work together, we both have our own "health bar" for entities because Bukkit doesn't allow us to directly modify their max amount :/

It requires some work on both side to make it work. But honestly there is so many mods that alter entities health, it would be endless.

@Piginabag

What's your CraftBukkit and Likeaboss version? v1.4.2 only works with a few 1.2.3-R0.3 dev builds and with 1.2.4-R1.0 (and maybe latter). What you're describing can happen if you use an older CraftBukkit build (i.e. the entity doesn't die but disappears).

Just in case I tested multiple value for the health multiplier (<1, 1 and >1), and it works for me. Also, drops config cannot be the cause as long as you don't have any error in the logs.

@Piginabag

I guess it depends on which mod has priority, eEither both multiplier will be used, or only mine.
It will be a problem for health multiplier too, against boss only my multiplier will be used, I think.