PCA Puzzle Plots

Give every student their own escape room: build a PCA Puzzle layout into each student's plot with one command, with plots growing automatically to fit.

PCA Puzzle Plots links two Pixel Creators Academy mods: PCA Puzzle, which builds escape-room puzzles, and PCA Plots, which gives every student a building plot. With this add-on, a teacher builds a puzzle once, tries it out, and then copies it into every student's plot. Each student gets a complete, working copy of the puzzle to solve on their own: their own locked doors, their own loot, their own keys.

It was made for PCA's teaching servers but works on any Forge 1.20.1 server with both mods. It's server side only.

What it's like to use

1. The teacher picks a puzzle and builds it in their own plot: /puzzleplot build example_manor_mystery MrSmith. The plot was 32×32 and the manor is 75×60, so the plot grows to 75×75 automatically and the whole manor appears in it.
2. The teacher walks through it, checks the doors and chests, and is happy. Then: /puzzleplot copy MrSmith.
3. One by one, every student's plot is emptied and the same puzzle is built in it. The teacher sees "Built 'example_manor_mystery' in Amy's plot (3 of 24)" as each one finishes, then "All 24 puzzle plots are ready."
4. Students type /plot home and find the puzzle waiting for them. Inside the plot they're in adventure mode, so they have to solve it properly: find the Brass Key in the dining room, unlock the study, crack the lever puzzle, dig through the mine. Their friends can visit and watch but can't open their doors or take their loot.
5. Next lesson: /puzzleplot reset all rebuilds every puzzle fresh, or /puzzleplot clear all puts every plot back to flat grass for building.

Features

• Builds any PCA Puzzle layout into a plot, including rooms from the PCA Puzzle Rooms add-on, through PCA Puzzle itself, so locked doors, keyholes, loot chests and Lootr support all work exactly as normal.
• Plots grow to fit: if a puzzle is bigger than a plot, the plot is resized and moved to a free spot of the right size. The teacher is told which plots grew.
• One command for the whole class: /puzzleplot copy <owner> builds the puzzle from one plot into every other plot. /puzzleplot build <layout> all does the same straight from a layout.
• Every student's puzzle is separate: each plot's locked doors are saved on their own, so opening a door in Amy's plot doesn't open Ben's.
• Adventure mode in puzzle plots: students switch to adventure mode while they're inside a puzzle plot, and back to normal when they step out. Nobody can reach in from the road in creative and break through the walls.
• Reset and clear: rebuild puzzles from scratch to replay them, or take them out to give the plots back.
• Gentle on the server: plots are built one at a time, with progress messages to the teacher.

Commands (teachers only)

Teachers are ops, plus anyone on the PCA Classroom teacher list. The commands are the permission pcapuzzleplots.use, so a permissions mod such as PCA Perms can give them to anyone (PCA Perms' teacher group has it from the start).

Requirements and dependencies

• Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47 or newer
• This add-on only needs to be on the server (PCA Puzzle still needs to be on players' games, because it adds items).

Standalone

PCA Puzzle Plots doesn't need the Pixel Creators Academy server or any PCA service. It needs PCA Puzzle and PCA Plots, and works on any Forge 1.20.1 server that has them.

Getting started

1. Install PCA Puzzle (0.3.1+), PCA Plots (0.1.1+) and this add-on on the server, and start it.
2. Make sure the class has plots: /plot admin give @a.
3. Build a puzzle in your own plot: /puzzleplot build example_castle_escape <your name>, and try it.
4. Give everyone a copy: /puzzleplot copy <your name>.

Version: 0.1.1 · Licence: All Rights Reserved · Made by Pixel Creators Academy