MobMaster

About MobMaster

MobMaster is a plugin that brings monster spawning to a whole new level. Minecraft's vanilla /summon command is difficult to use, and most general use plugins don't take monster spawning any further than a type and amount. MobMaster is a plugin focused specifically on spawning monsters. Whether you're building a fiendishly difficult dungeon, or using your admin powers to drop mobs on unwitting players, this plugin will make your life easier.

This plugin is designed to be "low floor, high ceiling" - that is, basic usage is as simple as can be, but the plugin has a lot of growing room if you need it to perform more and more complex tasks (like spawning fire breathing chickens with hundreds of hit points, or combustible pigs that explode on death). For basic everyday use, this can function almost identically to the /spawnmob command out of CommandBook with some improvements. When you need it to, however, MobMaster is more than happy to crank out mob spawning commands that can be so long that you can't actually enter them in the in-game chat box.

Specifically, MobMaster is a re-write of a plugin called LethalMobs that I wrote during my tenure on a server called BattleCraft (which is long since dead and buried). Back in those days on that server, it was customary for admins to host an event called a "Horde", during which all players on the server would congregate in an arena and try to endure nearly a half-hour of the admin on duty trying to kill them with spawned monsters. Eventually, I decided that standard mobs just weren't cutting it for difficulty, and thus was this plugin concept born.

Commands

MobMaster's command structure is frighteningly intuitive and forgiving - actually, there really isn't any. Click on a command to go to its details page.

/mobspawn <type>[:tag] <amount> [flags...]
/mobkill [flags...]

Permissions

MobMaster doesn't fiddle around with permissions. Either you're an admin and you have permission to be using this plugin, or you don't. Players with the permission node mobmaster.use (defaults to OPs) will be able to use the features of MobMaster. Those without will not.

PluginMetrics

This plugin includes MCStats support, which sends details about your server specs and plugin details to a stat collection system, in order to generate visual graphs depicting the plugin's popularity. If this gives you the spooks, you can disable stat collection by editing the PluginMetrics config at plugins/PluginMetrics/config.yml, or by editing this plugins config at plugins/MobMaster/config.yml.

Automatic Updating

This plugin features an automatic updater, in full compliance with Bukkit policy, which will contact the BukkitDev servers to check for and download updates automatically. If this gives you the spooks, you can disable automatic updating by editing the Updater config at plugins/Updater/config.yml, or by editing this plugins config at plugins/MobMaster/config.yml.