Bukkit

Sentry is a character plugin for the NPC plugin Citizens2. With Sentry, NPC's can be set to guard areas or act as bodyguards. Hostile targeting, retaliation, and a variety of options and stats allow a Sentry NPC to be customized to almost any guarding or combat situation.

Features

Sentries Can:

• Attack monsters, players, and groups automatically. Sentry also has built-in support for Factions, Towny, War and SimpleClans
• Kill, and be killed by, players, monsters, and the environment.
• Guard locations, paths, players, or other NPCs.
• Use ranged or melee weapons. Shoot arrows, fireballs, snowballs, eggs, lightning, and potions with deadly accuracy.
• Be configured with stats such as Strength, Health, Armor, Speed, Range and even Night Vision!
• Ride mounts!
• Work with Denizen to become Bosses and Quest NPCs that run scripts upon death.

Installation

• Install Citizens2 You must use the correct version for your version of Bukkit
• Download the correct Sentry from the Citizens Wiki. You must use the correct version for your version of Bukkit
• Place Sentry.jar in your minecraft /plugins/ directory. Start your server.
• Create a NPC with Citizens and give it the 'sentry' trait.

  •  /npc create Town Guard --trait sentry 
    

• Customize your Sentry's stats and options and you're ready to go.

A full list of commands and options is available on the Citizens 2 Wiki

Configuration

Sentry makes a config.yml in the plugins/Sentry folder on first load. Use this to tailor Sentry to your server. You can:

• Set defaults for new sentries
• Change or disable the item used for various attack types
• Add potion effects like slow or blindness to certain Sentry weapons.
• Add armor, strength and speed buffs to armor and weapons for Sentries.
• Set critical hit chances and messages.

The config.yml is commented with instructions.