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Waypoints.Plates

A Waypoints module Source code available at Sessional's GitHub Repository

This module requires Waypoints v2.0 or higher to work correctly!

Overview

This module allows Waypoints (version 2.0 and higher) to teleport the player around with the use of a pressure plate.

History

Development of waypoints started a little while after I began to play Minecraft. I found I had a tendency to wander far away from every other player, including my friends. While this was awesome at first, it eventually became tedious to meet up and share items with other people. The server I played on had access to a teleport command, but this command was long with requiring both names. I have nothing against the command, aside from the fact that 12 character names are annoying to type correctly often. I began building in my own little place and found that while it was great, for people to come visit me and see what I had built was a chore. This was mirrored in me visiting them to see what they had. Thus, waypoints was thought out. Waypoints had to be designed to work with the “Permissions” mod, but to test it on my local environment it had to work with no permissions because I didn’t quite understand how to modify them. Simply, the plugin just confused me. I had to save it in a format that would be easy to fix because I didn’t quite know what bugs I was going to run into and there was a large chance I might have to hand fix the save files. Writing the code for the config file was largely clumped out of the tutorial on the wiki, and it worked, so why change it.

Philosophy

Waypoints is developed to meet players desires to make certain aspects of Minecraft that some may find undesirable such as trekking to and from friends houses in large, spread out, worlds less time consuming. As a mod developer and an avid gamer, I understand that what I want isn’t always what most people want and as such, suggestions are welcome, certain ones may not be added quickly, and I do apologize, but it becomes difficult to modify not well thought out code. As I write code I find myself rewriting it a lot because of poor planning. This comes largely from being self taught and impatient. Fixing and working around bugs is important to make sure that the user experience isn’t a nightmare which certainly may happen with updates. Testing is not always easy on a local server by a single user.

Creating Plates

Pressure plates must be placed near the Signs that are created in Waypoints.Signs (this mod does NOT require that module). The sign can be placed in several locations:
1. Place the pressure plate on the block ABOVE the sign.
2. Place the pressure plate on the block BELOW the sign.
3. Place the pressure plate NEXT to the sign, in other words, place the pressure plate on the block next to the block the sign is on.

Permissions

Using plates

The ability to use the pressure plates will work with either of the following permissions:

waypoints.go
waypoints.plates