StrangeWeapons
StrangeWeapons

History
When the ability to give items custom names and descriptions was added to the 1.4 snapshot, the Minecraft subreddit was flooded with various mockups of weapons from other games, such as Borderlands 2 brought into Minecraft. I saw this as an opportunity to make strange weapons from TF2.
Features
- Strange Weapons!
- Can be created out of any item or block.
- Can have custom names.
- Can have custom descriptions.
- Can track any number of statistics.
- Steve Co. Supply Crates
- Opened with Steve Co. Supply Crate Keys
- Customize crate contents
- Give a user a random item (from what you specified) when uncrated
- Strange Parts
- Craft these with strange weapons to make them track additional statistics!
- Name Tags
- Use the /tag command to pick a name, and then craft it with a strange weapon!
- Description tags
- Use the /tag command to pick a description, and then craft it with a strange weapon!
How This Plugin Works
Read this if you are confused This plugin aims to duplicate the item and drop systems that are built into TF2. This plugin has nearly all of the same items, strange weapons, name tags, description tags, crates, and keys as TF2 does. It also has a random drop system to go along with it.
What are all these items?
- Strange Weapons is a weapon that tracks a number of statistics, changes it's name based on the value of the primary (first) statistic, and can have a custom name or description.
- Name Tags can be crafted together with a strange weapon to apply the name set with the /tag command.
- Description Tags can be crafted together with a strange weapon to apply the description set with the /tag command.
- Strange Parts are items that can be crafted with a strange weapon to track additional statistics.
- Steve Co. Supply Crates are specially designated crates which contain an item. Crafting this with a Steve Co. Supply Crate Key will open the crate and reveal the item inside. The contents of all crates must be customized with items and their drop weights.
- Steve Co. Supply Crate Keys are specially designated blaze rods which are crafted with Steve Co. Supply Crates to open the crates. Initially, the crafting will only show a "Mystery Item" in the result slot, but as soon as you click on it to uncrate it will change to the real result. See this image for more details.
Suggested Uses
- Reward players for spending time playing on your server.
- Put strange weapons into crates and let crates drop for players. Then sell keys in an admin store, give them as rewards for voting for your server, or as gifts for donations.
- Competitions to see who can kill the most cows, do the most damage, etc in a set period.
The Random Drop System
- By default, players are limited to 9 item drops every week. When a player joins the server for the first time (or after any scheduled drop), the plugin will roll to determine when they should receive a drop. By default, drops happen every 30 to 70 minutes if the player has not hit the drop limit.. Just like TF2 though, if a player does not claim all of one week's drops, those drops will rollover to the next week. (This makes the limit actually 18 items every two weeks.) The items which drop can be configured with custom weight. (See the
/dropscommand.) If a player has a full inventory, they will not receive a drop, instead they will be reminded that they need to have an open space in their inventory and the drop will be rescheduled. If you have admins on your server who are frequently vanished doing secret admin stuff, you can give them the permissionstrangeweapons.drop.announceexemptand their drops will only be announced to them personally. Should you not want a player to receive drops at all, you can revoke thestrangeweapons.drop.dropitemsandstrangeweapons.drop.dropcratespermissions. Speaking of crates, the crate drop system works exactly like the item drop system, except that it runs on a seperate timer with separate limits. (Default 3 crates per week.)

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Posted Nov 3, 2012If you drop a strange item or are disarmed sometimes the strange tracking is removed from the item. This might be a bug?
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Posted Nov 3, 2012Wow i had that crates idea for like months finnaly someone decided to make something like this xD i love you !!
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Posted Nov 2, 2012I've got the underlying code for crates working right now. I'm currently trying to get strange parts in as well.
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Posted Nov 2, 2012I hope this develops into a whole TF2 plugin. ;)
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Posted Nov 2, 2012Cant wait for crates! please keep up the good work! this was an amazing idea!
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Posted Oct 29, 2012@AssRealm
This is actually a bukkit bug regarding item stack round tripping
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Posted Oct 28, 2012@PlantAssassin
well, its strange rank well dissappear once it is given to another person. Please fix this
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Posted Oct 28, 2012@PlantAssassin
Awesome! I'm really excited to see the development of this plugin, and you've really done a terrific job with it!
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Posted Oct 28, 2012@chakyl
This will be coming soon.
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Posted Oct 28, 2012Can you make it so that named items keep their names? E.g. Strange Melonslayer (name of sword).
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Posted Oct 27, 2012@Bimmr
Download Spigot, It practically 1.3, just allows 1.4 clients into the game
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Posted Oct 26, 2012@nhoclesnar
Yes _._
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Posted Oct 26, 2012Does this mean we can change item name of ANYTHING in 1.4? Can we really do that?
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Posted Oct 25, 2012@wickersty
Pretty much yeah.
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Posted Oct 25, 2012@PlantAssassin
What'd they hack bukkit 1.3.2 to allow 1.4 clients to connect or something?
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Posted Oct 25, 2012Haha yes! "It will still track kills and announce when the name of a weapon changes, but the 1.3 client is not capable of displaying the name or lore text" just proves to me that 1.4 can be fully customizeable on servers WITHOUT the need of every user to download a specific client / spout. :D
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Posted Oct 25, 2012@wickersty @Bimmr
So for those of you who are wondering how I managed to get my hands on Bukkit 1.4, I had some associates write it for me.
Good day!
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Posted Oct 25, 2012OMG I was going to suggest this! :D :D :D
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Posted Oct 25, 2012And how did you get Bukkit for 1.4?
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Posted Oct 25, 2012this is great, very similar to one I'm making for my server, when my friends ask if they can use my plugin, I'll show this one to them, because my plugin is excllusive to my serve4r, and my serveer is unreleased, keep it up.