Bukkit

A few days ago somebody came on my favorite MC server and killed all the horses in our barn. Even though they were Newbies, couldn't break or place blocks etc, they still killed our poor horses - by punching no less. This plugin was written to prevent such grief. Enable this plugin for your Newbie group to complete cut off their ability to grief :]

Version 1.2 has been released. Users who were using 1.1, please delete your config.yml files and reload the plugin so a new config file can be generated with the new settings!

Abilities Disabled

1. Interaction with chests, doors, fences, furnaces, and the like
2. Destruction of blocks (Note: seems variable if the user has creative and is OP)
3. Interaction with entities - horse inventories, villager trading, etc
4. Item pickups - user cannot pick up any drops
5. Damage to entities - cannot damage mobs, horses, players, livestock etc
6. Trampling of crops, ignition of fires - no worries about griefers burning down barns anymore
7. Block placement - on top of all else, if the newbs manage to get a block they can't place it
8. Mob chasing - creepers, endermen etc. will ignore the eunuchs
9. Disable chat - disable the ability of newbs to spam chat

Permissions

This plugin does NOT require a third party permissions plugin, but it might help. Essentially, what you want to do is give any group you DON'T want 'castrated' the eunuch.disabled permission.

Here's how most groups are set up. You start with a Default group with a bunch of permissions. Then you have a VIP group that 'inherits' all of the Default group's permissions as well as a few of its own. Finally, you have an Admin group that inherits permissions from the VIP group and a few of its own. This group will also inherit the Default group's permissions because they inherit every one of the VIP group's plugins.

If you want the Default group castrated, give the VIP group the eunuch.disabled permission. The VIPs and the Admins (because of inheritance) will thus be protected from the plugin's effects. Essentially, if you don't want a group to be able to do things, DON'T give them the eunuch.disabled permission and if you want a group to be able to do things, DO give them the permission.

If for some reason you find that a group is NOT being castrated when they are supposed to be, try giving them the -eunuch.disabled permission (make sure you have the minus sign!). This will remove the eunuch.disabled permission if they accidentally inherited it.

Permissions

The syntax for all settings is boolean values - true or false.

A new feature has been added in 1.2 - exemptions. If you want a specific player of group to have any of the settings disabled above enabled, give them this permission - eunuch.{power}. So to enable oak doors for a group, give them eunuch.useoakdoors. If the group or person already has the eunuch.disabled permission, this is unnecessary.

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Credits

The top image was made by ElMafias and the bottom by Limitless, both from GTAF. Thanks again gentlemen! Special thanks to db7363 for early testing, suggestions, and miscellaneous help. Dedicated to: Rown, Rdny. and Whiteout. Thanks goes out to the rest of the GTAF crew too!