Bukkit

@AJCStriker

Gotcha. To be honest, with everything I'm trying to add I think the plugin is suffering from feature creep at the moment anyway. I'm hesitant to add anything else until we have had some time for the current new feature set to be absorbed by the community, bugs found, that sort of thing.

@qPureEvilp

Errr... whats LockShip?

@qPureEvilp

Cool design. That's the sort of thing I was hoping people would do with the plugin, come up with their own craft systems and go with it. I could see your design being even better with the Cruise system in the new build, so the ship and airplane would go faster forward than in other directions.

Sorry for the delays in getting the newest version with all the new features out. I'm trying to chase down an elusive bug with entity movement. I've thought I had it fixed 3 times, only to have it crop up again. I'm working on it, will have it fixed ASAP.

@notcam45

In order to use the newest release with 1.6.4 you actually have to put:

CompatibilityMode: true

into your config.yml file in the movecraft directory. Sorry for the confusion, this will be fixed momentarily.

Ok, I have updated the main page. Hopefully it is now easier for new users to see how to set things up, and for old users to see how to set up some of the new features. I also fixed a few more bugs with entity movement. Should have the new code out to AJCStriker for submission soon.

For anyone who cares, I have updated my pride-and-joy airship design, the Destroyer. It is now fully functional; the automatic weapons now work perfectly with the newest version of the mod. I also added a fighter and a gunship as well as 2 utility airskiffs into its hangar bays, so you have a few other ships to play around with if you want.

If you want to try it out, you can use WorldEdit to place the schematic you can download here:

http:www.minecraft-schematics.com/schematic/1716/

All the necessary .craft files and everything else needed is listed at the bottom of that page.

Several people have been concerned with the performance hit of using larger airships, so I also uploaded the much smaller Corvette class warship, The Puma. This is a good choice if you're server isn't very good but you still want to play around with armored warships. It's less than half the size of the Destroyer, but still heavily armed and armored. Also, unique to the Puma, absolutely every gun on the ship can be controlled from the bridge/control room. Since it has no hangar, this ship you actually have to land to get on or off.

http:www.minecraft-schematics.com/schematic/1717/

@ThePhobez

Sounds like I better hurry on those tutorial! :)

In short, if you specify canFly: false in your .craft file it assumes it is a watercraft and allow it to go through water. You then control its behavior with MinHieghtLimit and MaxHeightLimit. For a surface ship, both should be equal so it can't go up or down. For a submarine, MinHeightLimit would be the bottom of the ocean so it can dive. For a submersible airship, MaxHeightLimit would be above the surface of the water.

To get you going quickly, feel free to use these .craft deffinitions from my server:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11164014/MovecraftTypes.zip

Two of the crafts in there are the Ship and the Submarine. The Ship requires 25% wood, and the Submarine requires 10% iron blocks.

@kin61

There is no need to be rude. I'm working on getting some better step by step instructions on this page, until then I made this tutorial which goes step by step from a fresh install and includes setting up permissions and everything.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHqnTkY330

@Mriya

Yeah, all the heavy stuff is in the asynch classes.

Thats too bad, Mriya. Does it give any errors? There is cruise control in the alpha release, which will make it into the public release as soon as I feel confident its reasonably bug free. the way it works is you right click on a sign and it keeps moving forward. You right click again to stop it. You can also make it consume fuel if you want, but it is not required.

If you would like to try the alpha release, PM me and I'll get it to you. Please report back any bugs you find if you do want to try the alpha

@Wurlshkins

I did some tests on an old Centrino 1.6 ghz processor machine I had. Thats a pretty bad processor for running a server, only 1 core, no hyperthreading. Anyway, if you restrict people to smaller ships (what we call Airskiffs on my server) there is less then 10% increase in processor load or memory consumption on average compared to just the minecraft server by itself. When I tied a big 6000 block ship, it did indeed choke.

Fortunately the plugin is highly customizable. So just restrict people to craft sizes no bigger than, say, 1000 blocks and you will be fine. The Airskiffs I tried were between 160 and 250 blocks in size. They had no problems.

EDIT: To get a feel for what size ships I'm talking about, take a look at this video. The blue fighters in the second half of this video were 160 blocks in size, the big grey warship is 6000 blocks, and the black fighters were 25 blocks in size.

http://youtu.be/SdjS21j0Jpc