Bukkit

@WolfeBersahd

You mean the super submarine with the controllable weapons and periscope? Sure, I'll send it over. One issue I know of is that the little tactical nukes cause light pollution. Because their required block is a beacon, which glows. Moving lights underwater is a known problem without any easy solution.

However, you could fix that by changing the required block to something else. It should be expensive though. Maybe diamond block? I'll send it in a PM.

It is a fun little engine of destruction. Sadly, it doesn't fit my setting theme at all...

@bacondragon7

Movecraft uses the standard createExplosion method for its explosions, and TNT is, of course, just TNT. So Factions can control the explosions created by Movecraft, and if you are trying to cause an explosion where it isn't allowed then it will not work. That sounds like the case here. If so it should be able to be fixed with Factions settings. Let me know what you find out.

@Aceship

The best method, currently, of making a ship private is to park it in a protected area on the server and place a block that has been marked as "forbidden" adjacent to or inside it. The area must be protected such that only you can remove the forbidden block. This can be done either with redstone mechanisms, or more simply by placing and mining the block up yourself.

Although what you suggest with named ship signs might be possible, it would only be effective if other players were prevented from placing their own named sign on the ship, which would require some area protection anyway. So you might as well use the above system.

Cruise speed is calculated this way: speed * (1+cruiseskipblocks) = blocks per second traveled

Speed can be less than 1, and this is recommended for large craft types. My typical configuration for a large craft type would be a speed of 0.5, and a cruiseskipblocks of 4. The result is you can move a big ship without lagging the server, and it encourages realistic ship movement. IE: it moves forward (cruises) much faster than it moves to the side (right click with stick).

@UserMCP

It ended up being easier, and more fun, than I had thought. I took the Nautilus submarine from the Airship Pirate videos and added a periscope, torpedoes that you can either fire above or below you, and I added 2 little tactical nukes.

You can also control the height of the nukes, so it can fly up to hit a target in the air, or cruise over the water, or whatever. Only downside is its a somewhat short range, but you could increase that by increasing the speed. If you want, you could use canHover and hoverLimit to make a better cruise missile type nuke. But I preferred being able to control the height directly. I blew a big target out of the air with the nuke while submerged, and it was kind of awesome.

...and now I am on a few NSA watchlists. Probably FBI too...

Anyway, dev.bukkit.org doesn't like us posting links to outside downloads, so send me a PM and I can get you the schematic and the .craft files you will need.

It's kind of a cool little sub. It should work with the current movecraft version, but it would work better with the next one. For one thing, in the next version you would be able to control the sub from the periscope, which you can't do right now. I can get you a download link for the beta so you can test that as well.

@willfrombrisbane

Thank you for the kind words. Some times I wonder if anyone is watching them, with the relatively few views they get.

Ok, all my bug fixes I wanted to do are in, and seem to be working. Here is a list of what is fixed in this next version:

1. It now notifies the user of permission failures
2. Control signs are no longer case sensitive
3. It no longer leaves water hanging midair after a sinking, although this only effects water within the ships borders. Water that spills outside will still hang there
4. canFly has been replaced by blockedByWater, which is more descriptive of what the attribute actually does. canFly will continue to work, so it is backwards compatible
5. Torpedoes and other moveEntities: false crafts no longer release as a result of movement
6. Typed commands now actually use the Bukkit command system for better compatibility
7. Walking off a craft, then back on, then back off again will successfully release the craft
8. Trap doors will now remember whether they were on the top or bottom of the adjacent block
9. There is a new command sign: "Release". You will never guess what it does...

@UserMCP

Because of the additions by mwkaicz, I *think* all of that should be possible. It's not my usual thing, I'm more of an Airship guy. But it sounds like an interesting project so I think I will give it a try. But it might take a few days, I have a lot on my plate.

I'll certainly not fault your English. I actually grew up in Japan, although I currently live in Utah, United States. Where are you from, if you don't mind my asking? I've always been amazed at how wide spread Movecraft users are. Truly a global movement. See what I did there? >.>

@bacondragon7

If you want to release depth charge directly down, activate your ship then place on the edge sand and over it one tnt, activate tnt, and then move with the craft so sand will go down to the water with the TNT , because they are not parts of the craft.

TNT and sand isn't necessary, useGravity property can be used for 45° angle depth charges , just use very low maxHeightLimit:

depth charge necessity:

canFly: false
canCruise: true
collisionExplosion: 4.0
maxHeightLimit: 1
minHeightLimit: 0
useGravity: true
moveEntities: false

... everything released higher than 1 will go down for one block per each step (it moves forward-bottom direction under 45° deg, but it can't go directly down)

@UserMCP

I actually bet an enterprising craft designer could make that work with the current system. The "Periscope" craft would be a subset of the "Submarine" craft, and would use a static move sign to move a section of the ship up to surface level.

@DrBreadgun

Yes, look in the advanced customization features for "canHover"

@bacondragon7

You can actually do that right now using a machine that drops a sand block along with the TNT. You may also be able to do that using the new gravity feature and the collisionexplosion feature, but I'm not sure on that one.

@lexvi

While I haven't used Groupmanager, those permissions look right. I assume your craft is named "Harrier" in the .craft file? Note that it's not enough to name the .craft file Harrier, the name has to be specified within the file as well. It certainly sounds like a permissions issue, though. Could you try a different permission plugin and see if it makes any difference? I use YAPP personally. It's old, but it works.

@AlexSmith49

Unfortunately I don't think that's a feature that will make it into this version. I would suggest a system using command blocks, the cbwrapper plugin, and worldedit. I'm working on something similar right now to automatically restore a landscape after a battle. You could make it so that it checks to see if anyone is nearby, and if not it will remove all the "tank" blocks. Or paste in a copy of the un-damaged landscape. Or anything, really.