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Hello!

Firstly, I'd like to formally apologize for the lack of responses recently. This has been mainly due to a large increase in workload I've had in the past month. Yes, I am aware of there being a 1.5 update, and am also aware that Storm does not load on it (in my defense, its better than crashing). Anyways, I have a shortage of time currently, such that even writing this rather wordy response strains my makeshift schedule. I do plan on updating this plugin to 1.5, fixing the mentioned bugs, and modifying Storm to fit with your votes on the poll (if you haven't voted already, it would be great if you could do so).

Now, some general notes.

I've said this previously: volcanoes and earthquakes are two very rough and new features to Storm. Both perform functions which are both very complex: the like of which no other plugin has even remotely done before (to the extent of my knowledge, which may be lacking). Yes, I know that there are flaws in both. The ones that generally come up are the inability to stop volcanoes and players being stuck in different speed modes. My response to these issues has always been the same:

1. Unless you are prepared to face potential bugs, disable both earthquakes and volcanoes in the Storm configuration.

2. Volcanoes stop naturally. Also, you can stop the server, delete the volcanoes.bin file in the Storm folder, and restart your server. Yes, stopping your server is crucial for this to work.

3. You can avoid speed issues with earthquakes by making sure no earthquake is running while you are stopping your server. If somehow you do shut down your server while one is, there are plugins around which can reset player speeds. Just use your search engine of choice to find one.

Also: we do NOT support any CraftBukkit builds aside from 'Recommended' ones. This is because 'Development' and 'Beta' builds sometimes contain small changes which greatly affect the stability of Storm. If you do not heed this warning, you may be subject to ClassNotFound and NoSuchMethod errors. Among others. This warning includes other server implementations. Before you ask: major updates, like the 1.5 one will be accommodated for even if there is no RB out.

@thegtz

It would appear that Storm should essentially work with it, but the version check depends on the wording of the version identifier. MCPC appears to use a different format. There are more effective ways of performing version checks, however, so if I modify the version check I can essentially get it to work on any server modification using the Bukkit packaged versions.

@bradgillap

Honestly, I do not know. Storm essentially fires the necessary information for world protection plugins to handle, but I am not sure as to how GriefPrevention handles them. Your best bet would be to try it out :)

@tylerb88

That was an issue with earthquakes in previous versions: if the server stopped while an earthquake was running, online players had a 50/50 chance between being stuck with slowness effects or speed effects. There are plugins which can change the speed of players, Google around. I'm fairly certain I fixed that issue in the latest version.

@limdingwen

I've seen that error before. It may occur on some development builds of CraftBukkit or other Bukkit forks. It generally doesn't happen on Recommended Builds.

@tylerb88

I am aware of that. Every major MineCraft update I have to take upwards of 5 hours updating all the corners of this plugin. I haven't had the time yet to do this, considering how new (and massive) the 1.5 update is.

@thegtz

It's been stable for a while now...

@Ghobe

I'd be against actually spawning entities en masse because there is the possibility that no-one would kill them and you'd have slimes everywhere. Sure, some would despawn, but still... As for aggressive snow golems, it sounds cool, but meteor entities are hard enough to maintain already, and they are a key feature. I'd just shoot myself in the leg by adding a modded snow golem entity, required to make it properly aggressive.

Yet even so, meteors are rare enough that spawning a handful of magma cubes wouldn't be too bad: I'll see if I can get that for the next release. Same with the growing of slimes during acid rain.

@Ghobe

There is: Features.Attracted Lightning

@Ghobe

Read my reply to N1T3SLAY3R below: he experienced the same issue.

@N1T3SLAY3R

Bukkit internals appear to have changed... Turn off attracted lightning for now, that should fix it.

@N1T3SLAY3R

Ah, it was great... too short, though :) The good news is that since you mentioned something about shelter, I know which part of Storm is causing that. It is the entity shelter pathfinder - the task which makes mobs seek shelter during storms. Given that there may be over 500 entities at any given time, and for each of them a complex and expensive A* calculation must be performed, it can be a potential source of latency. I'll look into it and see if I can optimize anything more. Until then, you could turn off entity pathfinding in the configuration.

@Ghobe

That is very strange... perhaps MC's positioning is not accurate, i.e. if the player is not in the center of a block it can act oddly? I recall locations are stored as floating point numbers rather than integers: I could redo my check for if the player is under sky to not round floating points: maybe that could fix something. As for the update checker, woops!