Bukkit

So, how would you like it to respect these other plugins? For example, should you not be able to fly into claimed territory at all? (IE no block of your airship can enter territory you can't place a block in)

@GodsDead

This is a new error, I haven't seen it before. But I can make a pretty good guess what it is. In this part of the code it is loading up storage crate inventories. I would guess something went wrong with the storage crates. You may have a corrupt inventories.txt file. As a test, go to the plugins\movecraft\crates folder and rename inventories.txt to something else (inventories.backup or something) and see if the errors go away.

@ROYALEMAN

Actually with recent plugin compatibility improvements, this is actually possible now using the cbwrapper plugin with movecraft. I'll probably release a video showing how to set up this and various other automated movecraft functions (drawbridges, huge gates for walled cities, etc)

@Orchface

It looks like mcmyadmin has a "file manager" we can use to upload the .craft files. First step will be to get them out of the zip. In windows 7, you should be able to right click the .zip file and select "extract all" from the little submenu. That will get you the actual .craft files. Then take one of the ones you want, perhaps start with airskiff.craft, and use the file manager to drop them into your servers plugins\movecraft\types directory (simply drag the airskiff.craft file into the file manager window when you have the plugins\movecraft\types folder open.

@Orchface

Yeah, this looks like you may not have placed the .craft files in your types folder. Did you follow the quick start guide or the tutorial? You pick and choose which types you want on your server, and place them in your types folder. The link can be found in the description text of this video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVEul7hG78
Its the "example .craft files" link. Thats a good tutorial to follow for setting up movecraft. Don't let the duration scare you, only the first 7 minutes is actually setting up the server. The rest is showing you all the cool things you can do with the plugin.

I almost have all the features I wanted to add for this next release done. So I want to start planning the next one. I would like to make this next one server gameplay focused.

I want to hear from server admins, preferably public server admins. What features are missing from Movecraft to make it more usable on your server? Towny/worldguard support perhaps? How would you want it to work? Thanks for your help.

@dragonzrmetal

Right, that is because of the version mismatch. CompatibilityMode offers all the same features, what you miss is some of the optomization. IE: it won't process ship movement commands as quickly. As long as you don't have large numbers of big high-flying airships running simultaneously you should be fine. Let me know if you have problems.

I have finally gotten around to updating the tutorial. It now shows some of the more current features, like the cruise control, advanced customizable sinking, and fuel burning. I've updated the link at the top for the tutorial to go to the new one.

EDIT: it also shows building a ship and a submarine in addition the the fighter. The fighter this time is a better model, a closed cockpit and armed with torpedoes.

@UserMCP

Honestly I've gotten a little tired of the nonsense of not being able to post file downloads and the other issues on this site making it hard to keep things up to date. So I've started another plugin project page on Planet Minecraft and you can get everything there:

http://www.planetminecraft.com/mod/movecraft-reloaded---loraxe42s-fork/

That one will have more up to date downloads, guides, and tutorials. And better art >.> The link you want for the new .craft files is about half way down, right under the "The Craft Format" callout.

Also, if you wish to donate directly to my continued development of Movecraft, there are donation options on that page specifically for my fork of the code. The donations on this page go to the original plugin developer. (Who is also definitely deserving of donations!)

I've updated several of the example .craft files to reflect the new changes.

First, the airskiff.craft file. Now fighters of the airskiff type will enter rapid uncontrollable dives when they get damaged, smoking all the way down. When the hit bottom, they explode. It's pretty awesome to watch, actually. Well... from the outside anyway...

Next LaunchTorpedoes. When they run out of fuel they fall forward and explode when they hit the ground.

Finally the ship.craft now sinks when more than 40% of the original blocks are destroyed, regardless of what remains.

So you can use the example .craft files to see how all of these work.

One final thing I forgot to mention in my last post, the sinking is also much cleaner for ocean going ships. They used to leave holes in the ocean when they sink, but they don't anymore.

@Kyren_Leah

Yes, although you would lose several of the performance improvements. You will still have some though.

Yeah, it is smoother now although there is still a ways I'd like to go. I'm really looking forward to 1.8, when I believe we will finally get smooth player motion.