Bukkit

@blainicus

Yea figured that one out after a while, Think you can do something about the plugin loading too soon causing the world to no be initialized, while your fixing the other issues mentioned thus far.

This plugin rocks btw.

I have a suggestion tho that would make naturalistic spawns quite usefull even for passives.

• Add a deny spawn block Id section for passive and hostile this method would allow server admins to configure some or many block ID's that mobs simply will never spawn on very useful for this plugin as it would allow bonus passives and stop them appearing in trees and any other place they see fit. Would work for controlling hostile spawns too.

Edit

• It appears the entity's I wish to spawn do appear in bukkit API so I don't know what is going there also aren't you meant to use Angry_Wolf entity as well as Wolf ?.

Entity References of the mobs I cant get to spawn

enum  	CreatureType {
  CHICKEN = ("Chicken", Chicken.class), COW = ("Cow", Cow.class), CREEPER = ("Creeper", Creeper.class), GHAST = ("Ghast", Ghast.class),
  GIANT = ("Giant", Giant.class), MONSTER = ("Monster", Monster.class), PIG = ("Pig", Pig.class), PIG_ZOMBIE = ("PigZombie", PigZombie.class),
  SHEEP = ("Sheep", Sheep.class), SKELETON = ("Skeleton", Skeleton.class), SLIME = ("Slime", Slime.class), SPIDER = ("Spider", Spider.class),
  SQUID = ("Squid", Squid.class), ZOMBIE = ("Zombie", Zombie.class), WOLF = ("Wolf", Wolf.class), CAVE_SPIDER = ("CaveSpider", CaveSpider.class),
  ENDERMAN = ("Enderman", Enderman.class), SILVERFISH = ("Silverfish", Silverfish.class), ENDER_DRAGON = ("EnderDragon", EnderDragon.class), VILLAGER = ("Villager", Villager.class),
  BLAZE = ("Blaze", Blaze.class), MUSHROOM_COW = ("MushroomCow", MushroomCow.class), MAGMA_CUBE = ("LavaSlime", MagmaCube.class), SNOWMAN = ("SnowMan", Snowman.class

Full List from source page As you can see they clearly exist though I don't know how old this page

I try edit the plugin.yml in command /ma->/mb

bukkit error

monster aplocal..jar is not excess the config file

2012-02-08 09:53:59 [INFO] Monster Apocalypse: Config error, check your config font and format!

2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at blainicus.MonsterApocalypse.MonsterApocalypse.onEnable(MonsterApocalypse.java:363) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:231) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:1057) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:379) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:191) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:174) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:357) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:344) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:175) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:408) 2012-02-08 09:53:59 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:465)

sorry to you my Clumsy English

I can read english well but written is.. very not good

@blainicus

Ah ok thanks for the response, I do have passives in the naturalspawnl bonus, as I thought you needed to have them in there or they wont spawn in the world at all. I thought naturalistic spawns were meant to your way of replacing normal mob spawning, Hence I disabled default passive and monster spawns by setting those two as false.

If this is not the case please enlighten me so I may correct my configuration error by removing passives from the natural bonus list. I also noticed another bug but you don't technically support the mobs I tried to spawn with the spawn point so its prob not a bug.

I tried to spawn Giant and Monster but those two names were not recognized and the spawn point was never created I just recall you saying that it was possible to spawn any mob using the spawn point's.

@blainicus Thanks for considering it :)

one thing that had been awsome had been hero support like you can set the xp reward of each mob.

also damage support

i dont now if this is default but when you set the damage of the moster, and the monster attack a player that has a hero class with a certain health i dont think it will use the hero health by default.

i really hope this can be done:)

@Blainicus: great! thx!

@stevevbrewer

tried editing the plugin.yml?

This clashes with Mob Arena, players can't use the Mob Arenas now with /ma join or any other /ma command as Monster Apocalypse is using /ma, even though I don't use the /ma command for Monster Apocalypse... Any way to fix this?

@blainicus

The plugin this one clashes with is Myworlds, my world manger it loads after this plugin does hence the the non default world is not initialized, developer agrees he should make that plugin load first before anything else, but he said this plugin should properly handle world_init/load and world_unload. Not doing so is a bad design flaw.

EDIT: Possible Bugs I found so far aside from the issue I have with my live server.

• Only enable bonus spawns on one selected world?: false
  Bonus spawn world name: world
  

  Those two lines appear to reset on server start or restarts.

• Wolf does not seem to have any damage properties so angry wolves and pet wolves do no damage to the player.

• Slimes inc MagmaSlime do not seem to have any damage properties so do no damage to the player.

• All Passive mobs like Sheep,Pigs,Cows,Wolf,Chicken,Etc - They all completely ignore normal spawn rules and spawn in desert biome and other non desirable places it appears they all ignore the rule that they can only spawn on dirt and grass blocks and so they spawn in caves and all inside buildings and things.

@blainicus

yeah.. I have selected some mobs..

Naturalistic Bonus Spawns:
  Creeper: true
  Enderman: true
  Skeleton: true
  Spider: true
  Zombie: true
  Blaze: true
  CaveSpider: true
  Chicken: true
  Cow: true
  Ghast: false
  MagmaCube: true
  MushroomCow: true
  Pig: true
  PigZombie: true
  Sheep: true
  Silverfish: true
  Slime: true
  Squid: false
  Villager: false
  Wolf: true

see..

17:29:03 [WARNING] Task of 'Monster Apocalypse' generated an exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive
        at java.util.Random.nextInt(Unknown Source)
        at blainicus.MonsterApocalypse.MonsterApocalypse$NaturalSpawner.run(Mons
terApocalypse.java:2552)
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.scheduler.CraftScheduler.mainThreadHeartbeat(C
raftScheduler.java:137)
        at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:503)
        at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:435)
        at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:465)

what about this error?

@imailyou

Sorry the Natural section is where the depth and height settings are my bad, I dunno why this plugin has them all split up it gets confusing.

Anyway yes modify the SpawnY min and max to set your min height and max height for the mob to spawn, again those are found under the Natural section.

Y in minecraft is the coord for height :)

@Moist_Crayon

I was going to mentions something like that, as well as make it respect spawn limitation's so I don't get passive mobs like cows pigs spawning on tree's.

Maybe to fix the issue of mobs appearing on strange surfaces a list of denied blocks should get added so that any block in that list the mob will not be able to spawn on.

This would solve the mobs spawning in trees :) and allow us to customize areas where mobs just wont ever appear in if the area is covered in the a deny block.

Thanks ledhead900!

Under "Advanced monster properties" I can see no depth control. Can I just copy & paste spawnymin and spawnymax from the "Natural" section there?

Best, imailyou

Awesome plugin, can you make so it can support Factions? For example zombies not breaking land in Safe Zone.

@imailyou

Bonus spawn and Natural spawns the mobs listed as true for on and false for off are spawned on surface by default.

If you wish to keep these mobs enabled to spawn since it will allow you to spawn nether mobs on non nether worlds you configure the mobs as true but if you don't want slimes to spawn on surface then set it to false, like wise you can also adjust advanced spawn rate %'s in the advanced mob section but I will go on a little about that below.

You may also adjust the depth's that certain types of mobs can spawn at ( the height limits), To do this you scroll down until you see the Naturals mob properties it should have a couple settings for depth control, for the spawn chance that is under Advanced properties of the mob.

These settings are per mob so you can have a bunch of magmaslimes spawn on surface but normal slimes will can be set to spawn below xx height limits :).

Another thing you can do is separate the natural bonus and the normal bonus spawns to be configured so that Bonus spawns only spawn in a certain world such as nether while naturalistic mobs spawn naturally on surface and underground on all of your other worlds.

This type of setup is useful for getting bonus spawns to increase the sightings of magmaslimes and other such rare nether mobs. While in the naturalistic section you can simply then set them to false.

Of course you can limit the spawns and instead choose to use spawnpoints to manually select areas that certain mobs will be spawning in, Usefull for RPG or if you just would like to have mobs spawn in player made dungeons that cannot be stopped by removing the mob spawner or if you just wish to have a certain type of mob spawn in a certain region of your world :).

In my setup I actually did want slimes on surface as they are just almost impossible to find naturally, but I have set the spawn chance to a really low number so they don't appear as much as sheep and other passives would but they can spawn and are MUCH easier to find.

Hi again,

how do I prevent slimes from spawning at the surface? (bonus and naturalistic bonus)

As soon as I turn bonus spawns or naturalistic bonus spawns on, I get slimes spawning at the surface, i.e. y64. I have set spawnymax to 30 for slimes under natural.

At the moment I'm using a workaround of bonus spawns (without slimes, y=0..128) and naturalistic spawns (only slimes, y=0..30). But I can not combine them for y=0..128, otherwise I get slimes at the world surface, as said.

Basically, I want the same distribution of monsters as in the vanilla server, but more monsters all in all, e.g. 2, 5, or 10 times as much as normal. But I want them to behave/spawn as in the unmodified version of the server.

Is that possible?

And one more question:

in the config file there are

1. natural spawns
2. bonus spawns
3. naturalistic bonus spawns
4. bonus natural spawns

-> what are bonus natural spawns (tick period for...) ? What do they belong to?

Thanks!

Thank you for your great work! i