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@mobilephone2003

Oh, and I definitely would recommend you look into making completely custom configs- I do see what you're trying to do, and I think that'd solve a lot of your issues.

You can also disable any spells you don't want by adding them to spells.yml with "enable: false" - but if you want to disable most spells, it's easier to turn off loading the defaults and just copy over (and modify) the ones you want to keep, like grenade.

@mobilephone2003

That's right- that disables using wand entirely, regardless of cast permissions. Ops can still use /cast though.

For the WG regions- do you have "other" explosions and TNT explosions denied?

The grenade spell itself should be disallowed in any region the player doesn't have build perms for- but this means ops and other admins can use it to destroy your spawn.

It's also possible that someone could lob a grenade into a region from outside of it, with some careful targeting choices. Having your regions explicitly deny TNT and "other" explosions should prevent this (as well as Boom and its variants).

And finally, if you were to enable auto-undo for Grenade it would restore the paintings (and any other block damage). I know that's not ideal though.

For what it's worth, I plan on completely re-doing the base configs to be "safer" in general, much more like the Harry Potter configs.

@Angelazo1991

Do you use creative mode at all?

You can also check your PM's for an alternate solution :)

@mobilephone2003

Ok- so, firstly, I really do apologize for the mess this made on your server!

There was an issue with enable_crafting- it's fixed in the latest dev build. I had been testing with the "potter" configs, which have the individual crafting recipes disabled, which is why I thought it was working- sorry!

That said, I do think there are plugins out there better suited to your needs- like maybe just a Grenades plugin, that kind of thing?

If you want to stick with Magic, you'll probably want to make a completely customized set of configs for your purposes- don't load the default spells, this will also render any existing wands useless.

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/tree/master/src/main/resources/examples/potter

In particular, check the parts in config.yml that disable loading the defaults.

Then you can add in whichever spells you want, configured however you want- like "grenade". If you change the "key" of the spell, it won't apply to anyone's existing wand (like if they got the Grenade spell on a wand already)

I used to have a "depopulate" command in MagicWorlds to remove wands from chests- I may be able to resurrect that if it'd help, but it won't get rid of any wands in player's inventories or ender chests.

Again, I apologize - I hope you can work it out!

@mobilephone2003

Which spells, and what protection plugins?

There is a Magic.cast.<spell> permission (again, see here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/magic/pages/admin-instructions/)

You can't limit wand use, wands are just items. Well, I mean you may be able to blacklist the type of item in WorldGuard or something.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I feel like my plugin *may* not be what you really want. Have you tried MagicSpells?

@mobilephone2003

Haha.. well fair warning I probably won't be as responsive :) Comments email me, PM's don't.

Anyway, I just added an "enable_creative_mode_ejecting" option to config.yml - if you're OK with wands just getting destroyed when you /gm, you can set that to "false".

@mobilephone2003

The alternative is they will be destroyed- I don't have an option to turn off the ejecting specifically, only to turn off all of the hacks and workarounds at once. If you're willing to use a custom Craftbukkit or Spigot build, you can try turning that off (enable_custom_item_hacks: false). Otherwise you'll probably find the wands get occasionally wiped at random while moving them around in your inventory.

Unfortunately, the way Bukkit currently works internally, it will occasionally discard any "unknown" data, particularly in creative mode.

These patched builds that support custom item data can be found on my CI server as well, and are of course totally unapproved and unsupported by the Bukkit team.

Anyway, as I mentioned before, the plugin is not compatible with creative mode. If you're using creative mode on vanilla Bukkit, you really can't use wands. Stick them in an ender chest or use the stash spell, is what I do- but I also don't use gm for anything but command blocks.

@mobilephone2003

Ahh, thanks! I was staring and staring and couldn't see it :) I'll make a note to fix that up.

And, no- I've tried to make sure that the xp-as-mana display doesn't interfere with normal XP. One exception is if you use the /xp commands to give XP directly, it may have issues.

Picking up XP orbs should work as normal, even if the players has an active wand, though.

If you want to try an alternative (it's kind of experimental)- there is a "mana_display" option in config.yml, change it to "durability" and it will use the item durability bar instead. Refilling causes a jerky "reload" animation I can't get rid of, though.

@mobilephone2003

These are the best/most current docs I have on spell/wand customization:

https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/WANDS.md https://github.com/elBukkit/MagicPlugin/blob/master/SPELLS.md

Wands are unique items in Magic- like an enchanted sword or whatever. Once you have the item in-game, the template from wands.yml is mostly irrelevant. You have to edit the file if you want to change the templates- /magic load will work for that, assuming you've got the perms thing worked out :)

You can change the name of a wand- per-wand with the "/wand name <name>" command, or by changing the template and creating a new wand.

All in-game text is in the "messages.yml" file (for easy localization)- but for the purposes of easily adding a new wand or spell, you can also put a "name" and "description" right in the template if you'd rather not mess with messages.yml. So, as an example (this is from the "potter" examples configs- take a look at those and the defaults for examples):

squib:
    name: Squib Wand
    description: A wand for playing Squib Spleef
    icon: stick
    indestructible: false
    locked: true
    xp: 100
    xp_max: 100
    xp_regeneration: 12
    uses: 40
    quiet: 2
    effect_color: 'FF0000'
    active_spell: reducto
    spells:
      - reducto
      - deprimo
      - duro

That makes a 40-use wand with 3 spells. It can't be upgraded or modified (this is what "locked" means), even if you sell spells, upgrades or have enchanting enabled. I think it's along the lines of what you want.

What was the bug you mentioned?

@mobilephone2003

Yup, for sure- you can edit wands.yml to mess with the wand templates. If you plan on just handing out wands, then maybe make a new template from scratch that works how you'd like, or modify one of the existing ones.

"indestructible: false" will make them destructible, and "uses: 20" will give them 20 uses before they self-destruct.

@mobilephone2003

That's really pretty odd- unless you've got some explicit deny permissions set up, you should have access to everything. We're using Pex on Potterworld, and this is how it works for us, anyway- though I'll admit permissions aren't really my thing.

Please let me know if disabling crafting works after a full restart, as long as you're editing "plugins/Magic/config.yml" (not the files in the defaults folder) that should work.