MoreScores

Vanilla Scoreboards only support objective types like health, kills, deaths, etc. But they do not provide objective types like Experience-Level, Food-Level and so on. This little but very powerful plugin changes this. Simply create a dummy scoreboard and add it to MoreScores - done!

How does it work?

MoreScores basically takes a dummy objective and overwrites the score as wished. If you set the type to XP the Experience level of a player will be displayed. If you set it to FOOD_LEVEL the player's food level will be displayed. And so on.

Examples


	Examples with Food Level in the sidebar and Experience Level in the tablist


Examples with Food Level in the sidebar

How to use

In order to create such an objective, you start by creating a simple dummy objective. This is done using the following command:

/scoreboard objectives add <name> dummy

Then you simply need to link the vanilla objective to MoreScores. In order to do this you need to tell MoreScores the exact name (not the display name!) of your objective and the wished type. This is possible like this:

/morescores add <name> <type>

It is very important that you pass the exact name to the command. This is case sensitive!
As soon as this is done you are ready to go. Everything works automatically. You can treat your objective like a usual vanilla objective. Setting the display position and the display name is no different than in vanilla minceraft. If you are not familiar with scoreboards yet you may check out this tutorial on vanilla scoreboards. If you want to remove your objective again you can type:

/morescores remove <name>

Again, it's important to provide the exact name. Note that this command will not really remove the objective. The vanilla objective will still exist. But after this command MoreScores will not affect the objective any more. If you delete the actual dummy objective morescores will simply delete the config entry for the objective.

Objective Types

When you add a MoreScore objective you have to provide an objective type. Here are all currently available types.

Config-Name	Content
XP_LEVEL	Displays the player's experience level.
FOOD_LEVEL	Displays the player's food level.

This are not very much types. But if you have any ideas please feel free to suggest them. All feature suggestions are welcome!

The Config File

Other than usual plugins this plugin uses the GSON format to store it's data. A config file usually looks like this:

{
  "XP": "XP_LEVEL",
  "Food": "FOOD_LEVEL"
}

As you can see, it's pretty easy. Each entry is built of it's name (the name of the objective - case sensitive!) and it's type (see list above). If you don't want to use the commands provided by the plugin you can simply modify the config file yourself in order to add and remove objectives.

Permissions

Currently there is this one permission that is needed in order to use the /morescores command:
morescores.*
By default all operators have this permission.

Usage Ideas

The possibilities with this plugin are endless. You could of course simply display the experience level of a player in the tablist on your survival server. But much more interesting: You could build redstone maps that work with command blocks and scoreboard scores. Then you could easily access player attributes like XP and food! (Remember - you don't have to actually display the objective. It may run in the background if you want to). If the map is a multiplayer adventure map you can simply copy the MoreScores.jar File into a bukkit server and provide the server as a whole. If you need to access additional attributes in your command blocks - simply leave a comment and your needed attribute will soon be accessible via the scoreboard!
So as you can see, the possibilities are endless. Just be creative and feel free to request new features. Have fun :)

The Future

This plugin is in permanent development. With time more ebjective types will be available and of course all suggestions are welcome :)
Simply leave a comment below.

Coming Soon

Tab completion for the command
Access XYZ Coordinates as objective type
Access Yaw and Pitch as objective type
Your creative wishes

Open Source

MoreScores is open source. The GitHub repository can be found here. Feel free to look through the code but please do not copy any code of MoreScores and publish it as your plugin. You are allowed to provide the plugin in a bukkit server with your adventuremap to make installation of your adventuremap easier. But always add a README text file with a link to this page.

Statistics

In order to be able to analyze usage of this plugin and optimize it according to the results, this plugin uses the MCStats.org statistic service. Here's the Servers/Players graph which shows the amount of servers (blue) and the amount of players (green) on all of these servers together:

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You can find more detailed statistics here.

MoreScores uses MCStats to track usage statistics. By default, the following data is sent to MCStats.org:

amount of online players
java version
name of the operating system
whether the server is in online or offline mode
system architecture
amount of system cores
location of the server (country)
version of minecraft
server software (eg. Bukkit or Spigot)

All this is the standard of MCStats. The statistics displayed on our MCStats site is the same for all viewers - also for the author of the plugin. More info about MCStats can be found here.

If you do not want your server's data to be tracked you can easily disable data tracking.
Simply edit plugins/PluginMetrics/config.yml and change opt-out: false to true.