Bukkit

Smart Doors

Motivation

I started developing this plugin after some unpleasant surprises on the server I run. Most people like to use Wooden Doors cause they are easier to build and go well with most of the constructions. But people on my server dislike using circuits (even simple ones) to automatically close their doors. The result: mobs started to enter the houses by its front doors that were accidentally left open. I searched the site and found a couple of out dated matches to the effect I wanted to achieve and then decided to give it a try.

Current features

• Automatically closes wooden doors 3 seconds after they were open.

TODO

• Add a config file to set the amount of time to wait before closing doors and gates and to enable/disable elements at will.
• Add support for trap doors.
• Add support for fence gates.
• Remove version from the jar name making it easier to replace the plugin when a new version arises.

Ideas

• Make large doors to work together when one of then is opened/close.
• Implement permission system (I still have to figure out what would be useful/fun to add).
• I'm thinking about allowing people to create private doors and maybe placing sigs on them (have to check what other plugins are already doing).
• Suggestions?
• Respect attached circuits so that the plugin do not close a door that is powered.
• Version check.
• Auto update.
• Check all the doors in a chunk and close them (so the plugin will close doors left open before its installation).

Changelog

Version 0.5

• First public release of the plugin.
• Created a GitHub repository to hold the code.
• Created the project on Bukkit dev site.
• Wooden doors will automatically close after 3 seconds.