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 Feb 26, 2013@Ethaniel13
There are 5 known bloodbenders in existence, only half of which were limited by the night/day cycle. It can't be balanced, and I will not try to make it so.
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Posted Feb 26, 2013I suggest making Bloodbending only available at night :D
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Posted Feb 25, 2013@UltimateGlutton
You only need MasterPromote along with Vault, and a good permissions plugin.
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Posted Feb 25, 2013@nathank33
WallOfFire wasn't written by me, and it incredibly inefficient. I plan to rewrite it. Yes, I've noticed ridiculous lag caused by it that shouldn't be there at all.
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Posted Feb 25, 2013@orion304
Hey Orion, sometimes I can get 40 people on my server bending without too much lag at all, and sometimes I get intense lag with just about 10 people on my server. Which is reasonable considering the amount of computations that the CPU has to do. Whenever I see some intense lag I usually teleport to everyone on my server to see what's happening.
I've noticed that the majority of the time it is someone spamming WallOfFire far more than they should. Just from a programming perspective I was somewhat curious about what is causing WallOfFire to be more intensive than FireBurst (I assume FireBurst uses more particles).
Does WallOfFire have to calculate damage based on each individual block, since the Fire Particles don't actually do damage? Which would explain why it is more intensive than FireBurst since FireBurst just places fire down on the ground, and does not have to consider the air.
I might disable WallOfFire for a few days just to see if i notice any difference. Thank you for reading this, and I understand some things can't be fixed.
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Posted Feb 25, 2013@UltimateGlutton
I'm not sure. Ideally you'd want something that can give someone permissions through levels/money, since Bending has full permissions support.
@jcarpin100
It does support Factions. If they cannot build, then they cannot bend.
@Avatar_Craft
I cannot possibly make Bending much smoother. It is CPU-intensive. It adds animations to Minecraft, it adds Bending and all the logic and gritty computing required to make it run properly. Yes, it has been brought to my attention, but there's very little that can be done about it.
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Posted Feb 25, 2013Hey orion, im running a server with 32 gigabytes of ram, 4 3.5 cpu processors, and great internet connection, and yet still i can not have more than 30 people on with some huge player, bending, and mob lag. The chat is fine. I lag tested the server without the plugin, and it could change over 800k blocks with world edit no problem, full of players and enderdragons. (stress test). So what i'm asking is that somehow you make it so it can be run smoother and such, and im not sure what is causing it, but i get no errors in the consol, as i have the firepower to hold at least 100 players. Please do take some time into this, as i'm not sure if this has been brought to your attention yet. (note: IP: AvatarCraft.net)
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Posted Feb 25, 2013Does factions work to stop people from bending? because you say that it does and it isn't working on my server..
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Posted Feb 25, 2013Hello everyone.
I'm looking to make different ranks within the bending, so that I limit new people from all the skills of the bending they choose. They will be able to use in game money to rank up and unlock skills. I am having trouble finding (and sort of describing) what I am looking for in a plugin. Does anyone have a recommendation on compatible permission plugins? Sorry in advance if this was mention before or somewhere else, as I could not find anything in the last 10 pages of the comments.
Thanks
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After a bit of searching, I found two that may do what I want. MasterPromote and PaidRanks. Are either compatible?
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Posted Feb 25, 2013@orion304
Good luck! With your Ph D, I think we can all understand that you want your Ph first :D Good luck anyways!
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Posted Feb 25, 2013@monstercat101
As I said in the previous comment, I'll look into it.
@genelink
It works for 1.4.7 already. If you're having issues, download the dev build like everything on this page says.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013Do you Think You cood update it for me i have 1.4.7 server and me and my friends wood reely like it if you cood update this plugin if you do thank you ceep up the good work :)
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Posted Feb 24, 2013@orion304
I have no way to confirm this on other servers, but if I am a water, chi and earth, 100% of the time, I get fall dmg when falling on earth.
Ps: and good luck with your Phd.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013@Psykion
It supports Towny, Factions, PreciousStones and WorldGuard at the moment. I'll implement more eventually.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013the dev build doesn't support griefprevention, on my server players can grief in claimed areas :(
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Posted Feb 24, 2013Boy that was a large reply to comments. Summary: I'm working for my Ph D now, development will continue to be slow.
I cannot fix anything until about a week or two from now - and even then there are no promises. The Torrent bug will be easily fixed. The fly bug is complicated, since I deliberately programmed that in. Without that workaround, vanilla minecraft servers would kick people for Bending then and there. The saving bug will hopefully be fixed. There are more, it's still in beta.
For the love of GOD though, please download the dev build of Bending (there are like 3 different links to the same dev build above, use them) before you complain about ANY bug or feature. Many, many of these bugs are fixed in that version.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013@Fennec24
Probably possible, but I won't do it for a number of reasons. It certainly wouldn't look very good and would be a bit ridiculous on the Minecraft scale - especially since that ability only happened once throughout the whole series (he was manifesting a spirit, not just bending). I'm not sure how I'm going to go about fixing flying.
@monstercat101
What do you mean?
@AssassinSpartan
Yes, Towny is fully compatible with it. At least the dev build of Bending.
@codiaz
Not yet. And you cannot compare the knockback of one to the knockback of another, considering that Shockwave can affect many targets in many directions simultaneously, and is easier to control.
@Acromarts
The in-game help explains all the details of the Avatar State. If you cannot use /b h AvatarState, then you don't have permission to (and it should tell you that).
@fluffbearrct
I need an error or I cannot help you. Make sure you have the dev build of Bending.
@codiaz
Torrent should only be hitting people twice at most with one use. I know it does not, though, and will be fixing that eventually.
@LatinoJar
WaterWall is a part of Surge - has been for a while.
@bkingki
The problem appears to be your Factions, not Bending. Try updating it.
@xMrFacex
The flying support is well noted in the known issues above, and isn't as simple to fix as some people would like to think.
@monstercat101
I'll check that out.
@EmoWo1f
You don't set an avatar. You give someone permission to add elements to themselves with /bending add, and you give them the AvatarState permission. Done, they're now the (an) avatar.
@robsherwood
I have a policy against avatar-only moves beyond the Avatar State. Additionally, such a move would be worthless in many respects since the Avatar level AirShield will block -anything- well before it hits any of the other three abilities you mentioned.
@Jahb57
There is not. Flying has no clear fix as of yet, since so many abilities rely on bypassing even Minecraft's native flyhack detecting (Catapult, AirSpout, WaterSpout, AirBlast, FireJet, etc)
@Eojnella
Read the comment I just made above. Also, it is a simple thing to disable it in other worlds - use permissions and block bending.* in a world.
@Blaze590
If you have the dev build, all bendings and all commands work.
@eric1254
Yes.
@Thenciouse
Very easily done, use a permissions plugin.
@shadowwrad
Make sure you're running the dev build of Bending. Bending is an intense plugin that cannot really be optimized for performance - it adds BENDING and ANIMATIONS to Minecraft that are otherwise not there on a purely server-side basis. It's going to take a powerful computer to run it with 20-30 people flawlessly.
@Psykion
The dev build of Bending.
@Eojnella
It's compatible with many. Not sure which particular conflict with multiverse you're referring to.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013This plugin also messes up water that goes in portals for mulitverse i love this plugin just wish it was compatible with more plugins.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013I want the version of bending plugin that supports griefprevention like in EtriaCraft Bending server, please.
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Posted Feb 24, 2013Is their an eta for this plugin update cuz currently it makes my server lagg horribly (dedicated host with 30+ people on) had to remove it D:. (i was getting from 5-12 TPS tops)