Bukkit

Pigeon

A mailing plugin allowing players to send messages into mailboxes of other players.

Features

• Easy to setup by players
  • Each mailbox is a plain Chest, associated with a Sign.
  • Upon creation, mailbox is supplied with detailed usage instruction in the Pigeon Guide Book.
• Easy to use (see HowToUse)
  • Player writes mail message in a book (Book with Quill), supplies recipient and places the book in a mailbox chest. Mail will be sent to recipient's mailbox.

Commands

• /pigeon help - Shows same contents as is in the Pigeon Guide Book.
• /pigeon remove - Removes player's mailbox (permission: paapot.pigeon.create)
• /pigeon-adm list - Lists all mailboxes (permission: paapot.pigeon.admin.list)
• /pigeon-adm reload - Reloads mailbox configurations (permission: paapot.pigeon.admin.reload)
• /pigeon-adm remove - Removes any player's mailbox (permission: paapot.pigeon.admin.remove)

Permissions

In addition of above permissions, following are used as well:

• paapot.pigeon.send - For sending a mail
• paapot.pigeon.create - To create a mailbox

Configuration

config.yml:

# If set to true, mailbox creation and sending mail will cost something
useCosts: true

# If set to true, permission plugin should provide costs under group metadata
useGroupCosts: true

mailboxCreateCost: 500
mailSendCost: 5

language: en

See more details on Configuration page.

Current status

• Basic functionality is working
  • Players can create mailbox
  • Sending of mail works
  • Mailbox creation costs configurable
  • Mail sending costs configurable
• Economy support via Vault
• Permission support
• Localization support
  • English
  • Finnish

Planned

• Administrators (by permission) can send mail to multiple recipients
• Notification on login about new received mail
• Post-office
  • Allows players to send mail without owning mailbox
  • Allows players to buy Chests and Book and Quills
• Sending mail with Chickens
  • Player spawns a new chicken with the chicken egg, hits it with written Book and Quill.
  • Chicken "flies" to the post-office and mail is delivered to the recipient.

Releases

• 0.1.5 - Craftbukkit 1.5.2 support.
• 0.1.4 - Initial release