Minecraft: The Last Airbender
Minecraft: The Last Airbender
Minecraft: The Last Airbender
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Official Bending Server
IP - minecraftTLA.us.to

If that server is full (and it usually is), feel free to check out any of the other "official" servers.
Dev build
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk. This link has been removed because Bukkit doesn't like Github as a CI server.
Minecraft: The Last Airbender is a Minecraft plugin for a Bukkit server. It is designed for Survival Multiplayer, and allows players to choose an element to bend as the benders do in the world of Avatar (the stage of Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra).
Some quick notes: I will warn you that you will not be able to do everything they do in the show. There are limitations both in Minecraft and in Bukkit that prevent such extravagance. In the details of each discipline you can see exactly what you can do. As such, the description of the bending disciplines is a little altered to reflect their role in the world of Minecraft: The Last Airbender.
Features
- Play as a bender and choose which type you would like to be.
- Battle other users and see who is the best of the best.
- Compatible with WorldGuard, Factions, PreciousStones, GriefPrevention, and CreeperHeal. (Many more plugins will be added to this list)
- Nothing is required client-side
- Permissions support!
Bending
Users may bend water, earth, fire, air, or can go with being a chiblocker.. You may pick which type of bender you would like to be with the command: /bending choose [water/air/earth/fire/chi]. You may only choose one, with the exception of the Avatar, and you may never change it so be careful in your decision.
Waterbending
- Specializes in maneuverability in and on the water.
- Oceans are perfect for water benders.
- Techniques range from shooting water that do damage, freezing lakes, or even pushing enemies back with powerful waves.
- This bending style is a mixture of offensive and defensive.
- Water bending opens up many options in bodies of water that are otherwise closed to the other disciplines.
Earthbending
- Specializes in manipulating the earth around them.
- Any area which contains land is perfect for earth benders.
- They have the abilities to pull columns straight up from the earth, drill their way through any mountain and launch themselves through the air.
- This bending style, like water bending, is a mixture of offensive and defensive.
- Earth benders do not take fall damage as long as they land on the ground.
Firebending
- Specializes on destruction and incineration.
- Any environment, besides on any bodies of water, is perfect for them.
- They may create rings of fire on the ground, shoot lines of fire, and even create exploding fireballs.
- This bending style is pure offensive, and very little mobility/defense.
- Fireball is the only ability they may use that does not require any solid ground beneath them.
Airbending
- Specializes in mobility & defense.
- The land is the ideal place for airbenders, although they may also bend over the water.
- Bending air allows you to use wind to blast things away, forming a shield of air around you, or using a tornado to lift you, or your opponent, off of their feet.
- This bending style is perfect for pacifists and explorers for they lack any raw damage output, but make up for it with their utility and speed.
- Choosing air as your element increases your overall speed, decreases the rate of hunger and disables fall damage.
Chi Blocking
- Specializes in bare handed combat.
- Move faster, jump higher, take less fall damage.
- Can block someones chi, stopping them from Bending for a short period of time.
- Abilities range from Higher Jumps, Faster Punches, and Paralysis of enemies.
HELP! It's not working!
This is a Bukkit plugin, not a single player mod. It will never be a single player mod. Go to the Bukkit Wiki to set up your own server. You can play on it just like you would single player, and it requires nothing more than setting it up.
If anything is not working, look around for a development build of Bending.
Development progress
School has picked back up, so plugin development will be very intermittent at best. I've done away with the ordered releases, and will most likely be keeping 1.0.7 the "official" version until I release it as 1.1.0. It's a jump, I know, but if I were forced to stick to a schedule, the plugin would never get done. This is because there are things I like coding and want to code now, and I shouldn't have to wait just because I have something else planned for the version.
As such, there is no ETA on the release. The dev build will of course be updated as I add features, but 1.1.0 will only be officially released when everything is completed, and that could take a very long time.
Donating
If you're so inclined, donate here or click on the donate button at the top right.
Related Plugins
No support for the plugins listed below will be offered here, please go to that plugin page for support.
- Probending - Create Probending teams using the Bending Plugin.


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Posted Oct 21, 2012Hey Orion, some admins on my server used /tppos <random cooordinates> and were then kicked from the server and when they tried logging in again the console says [Bending] Out of area (or something) and they are immediately kicked. Any ideas?
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Posted Oct 20, 2012When I'm in my server, my prefix is always Avatar. Why?
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Posted Oct 20, 2012@Nickbbeezy
Euhm I can also help you if you give me some of your hardware info. Maybe the map is to big or to many plugins, everything is possible ...! :(. So it can maybe be to much for the hardware you have. I can now hold up to 30 man on my own computer but i get a server with that specific hardware I told you and wanna upgrade it to 200 man.
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Posted Oct 20, 2012@Makemyday17
Can they use every bending or only some special bendings like I told Orion???
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Posted Oct 20, 2012@Nickbbeezy
Oh ye I have 20 G of ram euhm I also had some lag spikes every 10 min for 10 sec long but that was gone after i did that! But when you do /gc you get that list of things how much TPS and memory free is, normally TPS is 20 and if it goes under that it can be or the minecraft 1.3 (that was on many sites, people were complaining about that, but it is fixed in 1.3.2 so ...) it can also be some outdated plugins or not lightweight plugins that use to much CPU use and than you need a better CPU like i have now I7-2600k 3.4 GHz TPS is 15-18 and I get I7-3700k 3.5 GHz(maybe two but that is overkill :P) but you can also try to remove the whole map and make some schematics of good places and place it into new map so your CPU use will be lower than before, I hope I helped you with this but I'm not that pro with that stuff, and if you want to know more if you place it on PMC many people will help you :P And can someone explain me how to make the blank lines between text here :P that would be really really nice!
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Posted Oct 20, 2012@orion304
euhm Orion that bending in regions is than only me ... :( and they not only can do fireblast also airspout, catapult and waterspout (only these!) first I thought only movement spells but than cam that fireblast and i thought: WTF :P so that is why I asked ya but ty anyway i will reinstall it so that hopefully will be gone! :D
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Posted Oct 20, 2012Why can some people bend in SafeZone,Warzone, and protected zones. Water benders and firebenders can bend i belive. Why can they bend? How do i toggle off it or on it? May i dont want them to bend in safezone but in warzone. is that possible?
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Posted Oct 20, 2012I've literally tried everything to reduce the lag. I've even tried running nothing but MCTLA, Essentials, and nocheat. I've disabled things like fire dissipation & earth bending reversing. I've disabled mobs, animals, and exp orbs. I've lowered my server render distance down to the lowest setting. And I've allocated 6 gbs of ram towards the server, but there's still random lag spikes that last for at least 30 seconds.
The server only has about 20 players on and it lags out where they can't use bending or commands but they can still chat. Not sure on what else to do to make this plugin usable, any help would be appreciated.
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Posted Oct 20, 2012@codiaz
How is that idea any different to what's already in the dev build? Bending already fully respects the build flag.
No on a bending that does a thing in only a line. FireStream was an example of how useless it is given other options.
And I have personally checked all bending, they're all stopped by build-deny. Make sure you've properly set up the region ;)
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Posted Oct 20, 2012Is it just me or is fireblast with shift possible to do in regions that are protected with build deny?
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Posted Oct 20, 2012Euhm and i have an idea for how to make everyone happy with that build flag! If you make it like they can bend in a region if build flag is not set and if build flag is set to deny they can't bend so they can't destroy stuff anymore with pickaxe and if you put build flag to allow everything is possible in that region that would be freaking awesome than you can make all types of region! I hope you like this idea Orion! EPIC PLUGIN! :P Oh and a earth and water bending can be a single block wave so you click in front of you and not a wave creates there but only a line that comes up (and like in shockwave it returns back in)!
@Nickbbeezy
Clear everything so make a whole new file for it.. and delete outdated plugins they make your TPS go down! You can also try to refresh the bendingplayers file and all other files of players i did all these steps and i have no lag anymore!
@HadesDude
Euhm ye that's right but you can make it for only specific players with PEX you know... That would make a great event for a server! Don't you think? :P
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Posted Oct 19, 2012What are the best steps to take in preventing all the lag spikes?
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Posted Oct 19, 2012@codiaz
The only problem with that, is that bloodbending is too strong. If you could use it every single night, it would become very abused. Bending arenas wouldn't be as fun if it was full of waterbenders teaming up and bloodbending others.
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Posted Oct 19, 2012Okej I know you have school and it is good of you to put school on number one! But one question are you updating on 28 Oct the plugin to 1.4 (or was this already asked? if so than i'm sorry!) And is it possible to make bloodbending only availleble for night and lets say fireburst only for day? So these benders need to have the moon and sun for special bendings! Oh and i have a good idea for chi blockers (when you go to y=3 it is very dark so you can't barely see) if you make that a bending chi that would be awesome! (I am only trying to help! Not to whine)
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Posted Oct 19, 2012I am not on holiday. I am simply not having time or drive to develop the plugin while my current RL activities (grad school) are happening. It's what I put in Development Progress a long while ago.
@toonamo
I don't use MySQL personally, but I know that both MistPhizzle and Botz do and don't report those problems. Very strange, I'll see if I can reproduce it.
@MichaelMurphree
Shockwave, last time I checked, doesn't grief that badly. Make sure you have the latest dev build. Yes, it's not perfect, but it's at least OK.
And I will never ever make firebenders pull from a source. Ever. And grief protection has already been extended to many other plugins (like WorldGuard, Towny and Factions), though I plan to extend it to more.
@SivyWivy
I don't think that it's not an attack, since you can form it under someone's feet. In fact, since the advent of AirSpout, I don't think people use Tornado for mobility much anymore (although it still has its uses).
@Cecelo126
That's probably an error with your spoutcraft. Make sure your graphics settings aren't set to low on it.
As for reverting waterbending, as I have said, it pretty well reverts itself entirely. Plants regrow, water isn't ever created, blocks melt, ice refreezes naturally, etc. As for evaporation, if you need to protect water that's above sea level, make it a non-bending area. Your argument about a water wall being evaporated falls apart when you realize you can also just remove it with vanilla minecraft techniques anyways.
@immallama
Excellent question, I have no idea what kills it (and it dies very strangely). But it's not Bending.
@hessel797
When it's done. Read Development Progress.
@sebke1999
There is no MinecraftTLA.exe. It's a jar file. I'm sure you can handle this with a google search.
@0dayRUDE
Thank you very much for that pastebin. I see some multiworld bugs with it, I'll try to get around fixing them.
@monstercat101
I will check it out.
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Posted Oct 19, 2012I think developers got an holiday XD
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Posted Oct 18, 2012Ok, I dont know if this is just me, but I have tried solving this on my own, all other permissions except bending.admin.AvatarState work, When i put in '*', avatarstate works. I know how to bind it, im profficient with permissions and this plugin, but this one thing is really puzzling me. It doesnt seem to be the right permission, idk. Has anyone successfully used the avatarstate permission node? plz send me your group files, my skype is cpdances. I would really appreciate it, if you can let me know Orion, that would be awesome, otherwise ill keep trying. :S
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Posted Oct 18, 2012I was going through my server log and I noticed something while scrolling up... It was a massive continues error message lol, I copied the direct error that repeated well over a thousand times, I was going to paste the entire thing in pastebin but apparently you need a pro account to exceed the free limit.... That should give you some insight as to how many times this error repeated itself in the console. here it is Bending Dev Error.Pastebin
Truth is, the more I look at it the more I keep thinking it's from someone using catapult in the nether and the bending plugin just not liking it very much..
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Posted Oct 17, 2012Hey im a new mod user for MTLA and i was wondering if anyone else had trouble with /fly after they download this mod on a server?
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Posted Oct 20, 2012I also have trouble using /fly.