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@thequestingbeast

I hope you mean ShadowDog007 with the 'donate-button', since i'm 'only' a guy like you who uses the MobManager but hasn't got to do anything with the developing :) But still i do my best when someone has problems with setting up the config and stuff :)

I'll upload my current progress right now so everyone can give it a try. Please let me know if there are some typos or other logical errors or whatever... since english isn't my native language, but i do what i can :D

EDIT:
The file with current progress is online:
http://www.max-spl.de/otherstuff/mc_mobmanager/abilities_sample.yml

Of course ShadowDog007 is welcome to hotlink the file or even put it into his mobmanager package, if he thinks, it's appropriate.
Every single line i explain in the file is tested by myself so i could almost give a "will work 100%"-guarantee :D

I recommend you download and read the file in NotePadPlusPlus.

Cya, DJMadMax

@ShadowDog007

Found a little error in your plugin and/or in your explanation about Item Formatting.

It says, the valid meta-type for leather is "LEATHER_ARMOUR". In fact it's "LEATHER_ARMOR" - without the U. Took me a while until i got that (just took a lucky guess :D) and now the colorization of leather armo(u :D)r just works absolutely perfect :)

Maybe you fix that while you're already working on the plugin. Or you leave it without the U and alter your explanations, the choice is yours :) Since you always use "armour" instead of "armor" i think you'll just add the missing u to the code.

Cya, DJMadMax

@thequestingbeast

First of all, are you using MobManager 2.7 or 2.8?

In both cases i think i can help you, your example looks like 2.7. There only seems to be a small problem with your formatting.

YAML is VERY explicit with correct formatting. When you open a new "branch", it ALWAYS has to be two blanks away from it's "mother stem".

Here's an 2.7-example from me:

#		Bow
        - ID: 261
          MinCount: 1
          MaxCount: 1
          Enchantments:
          - ARROW_FIRE:1
          Title: '&bReflexbow'

See the difference to your code? You have to align everything that belongs to an above ID right below the "I" from ID. When you align the MinCount, MaxCount, Enchantments etc. on the "-" from the ID-branch, it wont work at all.

In your example the correct code for 2.7 would be:

        - ID: 276
          Enchantments:
          - DURABILITY:3    
          - ARROW_FIRE:2

Durability has do be in the enchantments section too. On top, you cannot give an item "Durability: 5" since 3 is the maximum durability provided by vanilla minecraft/bukkit.

If you plan to do much stuff with item drops and want future compatibility with new items and stuff provided from vanilla-minecraft (and bukkit), i recommend you to upgrade to MobManager 2.8 (for which i'm writing a big HowTo atm).

Cya, DJMadMax

Hello,

I have a question for you.

I want to appear "Witches" normally, like Zombies, for example. In all the worlds.

I also would like "Skeleton Wither" in a normal world Is that possible?

thanks

@Exodevil

Of course they will spawn. AFAIR, MobManager doesnt prevent "all" mobs to spawn by a given reason but prevents the own AbilitySets and MobAbilities from spawning from the given reasons.

That means, if you have an AbilitySet for zombies which you ALWAYS want to use with the only excuse of a Zombie-spawner, then you can "disable" the '-SPAWNER'-reason and spawners will only spawn vanilla-zombies, not the ones with your abilitysets.

This is only based on my own observation, I'm sure, ShadowDog007 will say something about that.

Cya, DJMadMax

@ShadowDog007

That worked perfectly well! Thank you very much, this will make things much easier for me as i wont have to copy and paste all drops over and over again for every single abilityset.

I've encountered another problem. Finally i wanted to try your BirthSpawn and DeathSpawn function, but unfortunately it doesnt work for me.

As an example, i just wanted to have a cow spawn upon death of a given mob:

AbilitySets:
  Skeleton_test:
    MobType: SKELETON
    Abilities:
      BabyRate: 0.0
      VillagerRate: 0.0
      AngryRate: 1.0
      ChargedRate: 0.0
      Name:
      - Chance: 1
        Name: '&fSkeleton-Test'
        ShowOverhead: false
      BirthSpawn: []
      DeathSpawn:
      - MobType: COW
        Count: 1
        Range: 4
      PotionEffects: []
      HealthBonus: []
      DamageMulti: []
      EquipmentSet: []
      DropSet: []

Shouldnt this be enough? Unfortunately nothing happens.

I dont think the other spawn-related settings are a problem:

LimitBonusSpawns: false
BonusSpawnRange: 4
BonusSpawnHeightRange: 4
BonusSpawnUseRadius: false

It doesnt work on BirthSpawn either. Where is my fault?

Thanks in advance :)

Cya, DJMadMax

@ShadowDog007

Thank you :)

@ShadowDog007

I've tried a bit with the YAML references but until now i couldnt get it to work properly.

If i understand it correctly, i would like to use it for a big "droplist" of items. That way i would just have to set up the list once and for all the AbilitySets i would not (as before) just copy and paste the big droplist but just use the reference for keeping the code much smaller (and having much less work when changing something to only one instead of many similar lists).

step: &id001
        - type: BAKED_POTATO
          amount: 1
          amount-max: 1
          meta:
            ==: ItemMeta
            meta-type: UNSPECIFIC
            display-name: '&6My great Potato'
.........
      DropSet:
      - Chance: 1
        Replace: true
        Drops:
        - step: *id001

That way it didnt work. The number of blanks in the front of each line is correct when i use it "without" the reference. Also i tried the reference (better: the anchor) without all the spaces, just as i would open a new branch on the YAML code but that didnt work either. It didnt bring up any errors on my console window though. Maybe when you're in the mood, you will do a little example about that (or maybe i misunderstood the usage of anchors and references completely :D).

Thanks for offering your help with converting my old file but i think, i'll just work through it and change some things to the drop chances and some other stuff... had some complaints on the server about "too much" crap-loot and too many too hard mobs. I guess, now is the right time for fixing things :)

Still, i'm working (started today) on a big "example file" for your freshly generated abilities.yml, so everybody can just "copy and paste" stuff they like and use it easily with their own values by just replacing things. Yes i know, they should already be able to do that with the stuff you already wrote in the abilities.yml, but you do recognize the always recurring same questions over and over :)

I gladly try to help you out with that :)

Cya, DJMadMax

@ShadowDog007

I understand :) Thank you I have a request if you work on something like that (spawn naturally), i see on another plugin (OtherZombies) the capacity to spawn zombiejockeys on spiders naturally. You can do some similar?? Maybe if the plugin work... zombies or skeletons riding a spider or horse and attack???

This can be the better plugin about mobs :)

Hey amazing plugin, sorry about my language, i speak spanish. I have a question for you. I want to make it spawn to my world naturally a giants zombies with a chance to spawn of 20% but i can't find a way to configure it. I need another plugin to make it? you can give me a hand to do that?

@ShadowDog007

Sorry, no skype account (or at least not using it since ages ;) ). As always, i managed to get most of the things to work. Drops now work in the same way for me as they did before and i also see the advantage of the code (for you and for the users of your plugin) when minecraft brings new stuff, as long as bukkit supports it. That makes sense!

I think the biggest problem starting with MM is, that there isnt a particular example for "every single" function, but it should totally have that.

If you like, i'll try to make a standard abilities.yml where every single command is explained in an example, so everyone could just "copy+paste" that and alter it to their needs. That's the only problem i have with 2.8 (and partially had with 2.7), because there's so much possibilities but mostly i had to find them out myself, especially, how crucial the coding itself is. One blank too much and it f*cks up. One dash left out and nothing works. But that's the price of YAML i guess.

Anyhow, i'll try to set up a standard abilities.yml with as many explanations as possible, so it would hopefully reduce your work of answering most the recurring questions and make starting for newbies with your plugin much easier!

Education is the most important thing so grab your books and learn for the uni :)

Cya, DJMadMax