@VietNg

I don't know, I don't test with spigot.

@Infuscu

Sorry for the trouble. :\ I'm glad you figured it out. By the way, the grass only regrows in the current "open" region. So if you use /addregion to move the new player area outside of your server spawn area, you can leave the grass regrowth on and it won't mess with your spawn anymore.

3.6 Updates!

• New optional signs may be added to the region posts via the config file. The region posts will update themselves eventually (they're refreshed on chunk load), but if you'd like to rush the process, you can use /AddRegionPost near the post you want to update and it will update instantly.

• Once per play session, if a player builds a chest or bed outside of his home region, he'll get a message reminding him to consider using /MoveIn because it will help him return to this location later.

• Posts will no longer build on top of jungle trees.

@zedadiaswick

If only specific players want to make the game harder for themselves, then tell them to stop using the slash commands. :) You can also mention to them that they can't just teleport to any region post - the posts can't be used to jump out into the deep wilderness. If they want to go on an epic journey, that's still doable and can't be short-cutted with a region post teleportation.

If you disable teleportation in the config, then only /homeregion, /movein, and /cityregion will work. And /homeregion and /cityregion will only work from their home post and the city post (world spawn). So that's another option you have, but it will impact all players rather than only a few.

You could also set up a separate world that isn't managed by PD, and have those players just play there.

@madmonkeystudios

I used to have such a message. It was very spammy, especially when players lived near the boundary and so they crossed regularly. Even when I restricted it to teleportations, it was a bit of an annoyance, and it became very complicated to code a balance between notifications and message frequency, so I just dropped it.

@CKlang

Ah, sorry about that. I don't think I can adjust it for the nether, because it would be impossible to place region posts due to the two-layer nether problem (there's a bedrock ceiling with more nether above it). Placing posts in the normal world works because I can just look for the highest non-air block, and place the post there, guaranteeing it will be on the "surface" where players can find it. That doesn't work in the nether, unfortunately.

Thanks so much everyone for your cool suggestions lately. I will likely implement some of them!

@wumpyc

Use 3.1 for Tekkit.

@Infuscu

I can see where it'd be a cool trick, but how often do folks jump to the adjacent region? I think mostly players either use /randomregion for adventure, or /visitregion to meet a friend or trade. But maybe one day I'll get bored and put it in anyway. :) I don't think it would be very discoverable, though - maybe a few players would find it by accident.

I'm definitely aware of the problem you describe regarding home regions. Players are often upset when they die and realize they just spawned far from their new home. I think trying to assess where a player lives by sampling his location might be overly difficult to code and not very accurate, BUT maybe I could pop a reminder when a player builds a bed or chest outside his home region?

I 100% agree with the concept put forth in that article. You'll notice I minimize the use of slash commands in all my plugins. Even with GP, which has lots of slash commands, non-admin players actually only rarely use maybe 3 of them.

@mumblerit

I may very well add that custom sign idea. There are a few unused spots on the posts. :)

@wumpyc

I've been thinking about this lately. It may be doable, and it would certainly be difficult. I'm not 100% convinced it's worthwhile. Just a few concerns:

1. Performance, given that we're now scanning more worlds. 2. Data format, because now we need to track regions by world, and player home regions by world. 3. When teleportanywhere is enabled, which world does a player go to if he's not in one of the managed worlds?

This is just an aside, but I've always thought that cramming several server experiences (survival, creative, and pvp for example) into one server by having each in its own world is bad for players, because instead of using what they know already (connecting to servers) to change how they play, they have to instead learn YOUR way. It's especially troubling when server admins design the new player experience badly, so that new players aren't sure how to start "just playing minecraft".

Using this plugin on my tekkit server where i only have one survival world. I am planning to use it on my minecraft server which runs 3 survival worlds so that's why i'm interested if theres a possibility to make it workable in 3 worlds?

@mumblerit: Interesting thought. Some options for sign customization might be nice. :)

@bigscary:

Probably the way to do it (although still difficult enough I'm not sure it'd be worth while) would be to use world-edit schematic files. Someone could then design a region post and export it using world edit and then PD could import it to create a region post. I don't recall if world edit has an API, it might be that some of the engineering is "already done" if it does. :)

There'd need to be specially labeled signs in the design of the region post so that PD could replace those signs' text with the sign text normally shown on a region posts.

which is the last version i can use for my tekkit server?

@Resettii

Wow, that would be really hard. Even harder than the YML thing (for me, not you). :)