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@Europia79

I'm doing as much as possible with CommandBlocks in order not to become too dependent on plugins which authors tend to abandon far too often for my taste - this for example also includes a random loot chest, each player should be able to use once per day. This makes a daily reset necessary, which I do this way: a cronjob sends a certain setblock-command to console to place a redstone block somewhere to remove and re-add an objective for that random loot chest. The whole mechanism resides in overworld spawnchunks. But the reset won't do a thing if there's no player in the overworld when the cronjob-reset-setblock-thingy happens. Already thinking about making a PHP-script to do that sort of resets in an endless loop until the rcon response says that it worked.

Also a lot of other stuff with /trigger commands which require overworld CommandBlocks to do their job - which they don't, if for example there is only one player online and he's in the nether. Then I'd have to copy all of that into the nether spawnchunks, which btw don't load if the first one to enter the nether enters it far away from spawnchunks - but once they're loaded, they stay loaded even if that one person moves far away from them, until he leaves the nether.

Problem there is: commandblocks or rather selectors don't differentiate between worlds anymore, so if nether AND overworld are both active, both commandblock-centers would do the same thing and interrupt each other due to differences in their timing. So I can only have such a commandblock-center in one world to do its work for players in every world, and thus I require the spawnchunks of this one world to stay loaded permanently even without players.

I did try Citizens, but it doesn't keep anything loaded. Other than that, I try to keep the amount of plugins as low as possible - right now it looks like this:

Absolutely necessary: GriefPrevention, ChunkLoader (for Nether and Endworld spawnchunks, which behave weird in some cases, as explained above)

Optional plugins, could live without: BetterAlias, ChunkLoader, CoreProtect, Dynmap-GriefPrevention, EntityWatch, HideStream, MuteManager, NoCheatPlus, OpenInv, VanishNoPacket, Votifier, bPermissions, dynmap, pTweaks, quickcuboid

I have also tried about any plugin I could find to keep chunks loaded, but none of them managed to do that without players in that particular world. That's why I'm hoping that players can somehow be 100% simulated - which methods are triggered when a player joins a server? Can they be triggered to simulate exactly that and to load a dimension without real players?

When starting my server i get this in my console: [VirtualPlayers] The maximum supported version is 1.8-R0.9-SNAPSHOT

My server is 1.8.3.

Is there an update in near future?

I havent tried your plugin before. Is there suport for permissions in the plugin?

Thank you!

Since players are required to keep dimensions loaded (which also means, ie. overworld spawnchunks get unloaded once there are no more players in the overworld), can this plugin in any way be used to simulate a real player in a way that a dimension (and thus its spawnchunks) stays loaded without real players in it? My first few tests seem to say no, but maybe you have an idea there. :)

Possibly link to the new source code? https://github.com/Europia79/VirtualPlayers

Seems like /virtualplayers hidemessages still shows the messages in console, can this be fixed?

Please keep updating this :) !