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I added a simple new spell for 3.1:

I've still got a few issues to work out, and given the amount of changes in here, I'm going to let it sit in testing some more, but 3.1 is coming along really well.

Just a general note, now that we're in official release mode you will see less frequent official updates. I'll try and make sure each official build is as stable as possible and has some worthwhile improvements. If you want to keep up with more rapid updates, you can always use dev builds :)

@ThatBondDude

Rewind is great, I've been improving it a lot- the one downside is if the player logs out, you shut down and restart the server- you can't undo their stuff unless they log back in again.

That dupe glitch was a shame- an internal Bukkit change in the way enchanting works, I kept waiting for them to fix it but eventually had to put in a workaround. Real bummer :(

You can also use SuperConvert+erase to get rid of specific blocks ... Backup+Repair are also great tools, but requires that you cast Backup in advance so not so useful in this situation.

Magic is definitely largely about block changes, that's really what I love working on. I realize that makes the plugin fundamentally destructive, but I've done as much as I can to make it better! You can also use WorldGuard or Factions, and eventually I'd like to integrate with Towny, Precious Stones and anything else I can.

Good luck!

@ThatBondDude

Doh, sorry, the formatting was messed up on my last two posts- I fixed them both. Each spell needs two lines, one for the key and one for the "enabled" property.

You can use the Rewind spell to remove other player's constructions if you have an Admin or Wolf wand.

How did a new player get Dome, though, is what I'm wondering? Via enchanting or crafting?

@ThatBondDude

Just do like this in spells.yml:

blob:
    enabled: false
superblob:
   enabled: false

It'll be a bit tedious... yet another option is to use permissions, but then players will have spells on their wands they can't cast, which is odd.

I'm not sure about CoreProtect.... so many protection plugins, sure which there was a Vault-like universal API. Anyway I can't imagine how it would have any affect on the undo info, that seems kind of crazy- you've tried the Rollback spell and it doesn't work?

@ThatBondDude

That's probably it, yeah. I'm guessing when LimitedCreative saves the inventory, it does not save the extra wand data, so the wand is destroyed.

I was using MV Inventories for a while, it was fine with wands but seemed to have a lot of bugs of its own. Unfortunately I have no other recommendations there.

You can disable any spells you want completely using spells.yml, or you can use wands.yml to change the "random" wand (assuming you use enchanting and crafting) to determine what spells players can get naturally.

If you would like them to be able to use the spells, but have them be "safe", you can make them auto undo. Just add something like this to spells.yml:

blob:
    parameters:
        undo: 5000

That will make the "Blob" spell auto-undo after 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds).

Alternately, there is an "auto_undo" option you can add to config.yml, like

auto_undo: 5000

That will make all spells auto-undo after 5 seconds ... though now that I think of it, that may cause really strange behavior in 3.1 since almost everything is undoable.

@ThatBondDude

Do you let players use creative mode? Do you have any plugins that mess with the inventory, like organize or save it? Those sorts of things can often break wands.

@ThatBondDude

Yes, and they are labelled as such ;)

All recent Magic builds (3.anything) work with all CB's from 1.6 on- with the exception of the broken enchanting, which is mentioned in the notes of the version that it affects.

@ThatBondDude

Use 3.0 - they all work with the most recent CB.

CraftBukkit 1.7.2 R3 broke enchanting. You can either use R2, or upgrade to Magic 3.0 RC2 or higher which has a work-around.

@HosomITA

Excellent! If you'd share it, that'd be great! I'm hoping to eventually provide a variety of translations with the plugin. So far I only have English and an old, weird, partial Chinese translation :)

@HosomITA

Your English is great! Could I interest you in localizing Magic to Italian? :)

And you are right, I was mainly just venting. I'm hoping I can make Shopkeepers work, I'm looking through the source now...