MobSign
The plugin to enhance your Minecraft experience

chyba404 generously created a short introductory video:
Current level of practicality and usage in a professional server environment as subjectively measured by me: 50%
So this was an idea spawned by a looong airplane flight to Taiwan. I lost the old hard drive which I had originally stored this project, which resulted in me remaking it from scratch. Generally, it looks a lot cleaner now and works the way I intended it to. Please tell me if you see any bugs and I'll get to fixing them!
Overview & Features
Create a sign using the correct format to create a mob spawner! You can hide these signs under floors, to create dungeons, arenas, etc! Obviously with permission, players can create spawners for their own use, toggle the spawner on/off at their own leisure (just right-click the sign!), and the sign will automatically stop spawning mobs if a player is not in a 20 block radius.
So this plugin serves as a sign mob spawner type thing. You can use it for creating mob arenas, mob grinders, zoos, and whatever else you want to do. There's still a lot to do, and you can check all that out in the todo list. Also, suggest stuff for me to do, that helps.
So far, they function as sign psuedo mob spawners, but in the future I'll make it so you can configure the XP, item drops, and display names for the entities that spawn.
Commands
There are no commands.
Permissions
- mobsign.create
- mobsign.destroy
- mobsign.toggle
Usage
First, you must be an OP or have the permission to create and destroy MobSigns. You should format your list as follows:
- [MobSign] - (You must head your sign with this for the plugin to recognize your sign)
- EntityType - (Provide the entity type for the mob you would like to spawn)
- Amount - (How many you want to spawn at each wave)
- Interval - (The delay between waves, in seconds)
Entity Types
Here is a list you can reference if you need help. http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/entity/EntityType.html
Not all of these are guaranteed to work.
Changelog
Some time last year -
- Created the crappy plugin
2/25/2014 -
- Remade the plugin from scratch
- Added simple flat file storage for sign persistence
- Added spawn pausing (entities stop spawning when players not around)
- Added sign toggles (right click the sign to disable it)
2/28/2014 -
- Fixed a pretty big bug where players could destroy the block holding the sign
- Fixed a bug where it spouted errors when you destroyed a disabled sign
Todo List
- Create aliases for entity types
- Add a maximum amount of entities
- Add a maximum wander distance for entities
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Posted Sep 9, 2014Hi is there anyway to get the mobs to continue spawning even if the players are not within a 20 block radius?
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Posted Jun 4, 2014Can you add custom mobs. maby zombies whit custom names and damage and health, and Armour and weapons.
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Posted Apr 26, 2014@IngrownPenguin
please please please add this! i need it for a nazi zombie map im making in minecraft.
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Posted Apr 10, 2014Video Tutorial on the Plugin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoeBXyOOC2k
Credits Video: (AbsintoJ/MobSign)
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Posted Mar 10, 2014i did a youtube tutorial on this plugin here it is: http://splashurl.com/pb9ymz6
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Posted Mar 7, 2014maybe add redstone support to turn it off and on :)
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Posted Mar 4, 2014@jhicks32917
Yup, I'll work on that now.
So you want there to be a limited amount of mobs spawned by a sign at any time?
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Posted Mar 4, 2014@Kuuichi
Could you add a way to limit the spawn interval by number of mobs from that spawner that have been killed? Keeping only a certain number of mobs spawned at any time.
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Posted Feb 25, 2014@GineVN @dervo666 @william2204
I've just remade the plugin from scratch after losing it. It's much better now, check out the new features. :) Also, if you'd like to suggest more features I need some.
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Posted Oct 9, 2013please update to 1.6.4
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Posted Aug 19, 2013@dervo666
Hmm. That's not supposed to happen. :(
What caused the sign to break? Did you just break it?
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Posted Aug 1, 2013There is a bug: i placed a sign with:
[mobsign] FIREBALL 1 5
Then I destroyed it. And fireballs still appearing. I think I destroyed the block behind the sign.
It's a good plugin, very useful, but this bug is annoying.
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Posted Jul 29, 2013@Arcsteryx
I did test it, just not thoroughly enough to advertise that I did.
It's a project in Planning, with one file released, and I'm just not the type of guy to test for hours when other people are willing to test for me. If that's a problem with you, by all means leave. If I had decided to list the project as "Released", then of course I would make sure and see the plugin had been thoroughly tested. But for right now, I'd like to take things slower.
Don't take this the wrong way, I appreciate the feedback, whatever it may be. And I hope you come back when the project is released, or something. Peace.
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Posted Jul 28, 2013"I'm too lazy to test it, so I'll leave the testing to you guys."
well, I might try your plugin AFTER you test it. seems like an interesting plugin, but you being "lazy" means your plugin will most likely be obsolete next update, and I doubt you will rush to update it. Therefore I'll pass.
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Posted Jul 27, 2013I would like to test it! Seems like an awesome plugin!