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TheCoveMC Content Patch 5

Fisher — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:29:31 +0000

Resource World, New Menus, more to come.

New Mayor Marker

Last week, we introduced Icons for Towns (house icon), Staff (shield icon), and this week we have introduced the Mayor Icon (Town icon but with a Red 'M')

The mayor icon

Item Shop Changes, the Marketplace

We've introduced an updated shop to the game and renamed it "Marketplace". There is no option to sell items as we want the economy to be largely player based, meaning that players should control the economy by selling to other players and trading.

Here you can see the Marketplace

New RTP Menu

I've put into place a new menu to replace the old entry for Random Teleport in the Quick menu. There are two options, showing the two worlds we have available: The SMP World, and the Brand Spankin' new Resource World!

Brand Spankin' New Resource World

Due to our Custom World Generation not having Certain default Minecraft structures such as sunken treasure ships, etc, we've made a Resource World available to everyone!

NOTE: Towns are not allowed in the Resource world, and it is not a good idea to build in it, as it will Reset every once in a while. It is strictly for gathering resources.

This being said, please try to keep the SMP world looking beautiful :)

An island on the new Resource World

New Rank Seperation

Before this week, you could only have one Rank shown. Now, we've set it to where you can see the donor rank or staff rank first, and then the /rankup rank.

Example, Twink_le_ has the FIRSTMATE Donor rank and Nomad as rankup rank.
Another Example, I have SysAdmin and Nomad rankup rank.

We did this so you could have a donor rank on the server, and still have some sort of rank goal to work for! This should have been done long ago and was something that was definitely overlooked on our part.

pictured here is the rank seperation

Work Continues

Yes indeed, work continues on our secret project, and the not so secret project codenamed "KOTI" for "King Of The Island".

There's not much to see as it's all still alpha island world generation at the current stage, but I'm this close to getting roads to render on the island.

Donations

I'd like to take a moment to personally thank our donors thus far. It means a lot that you'd donate to keep the experience alive for yourself and others for the coming months :)

LoveyProphet
hawkinkat
Dr_Plant
SpeedGracer
Abeli
foibleparty

You guys rock and we're lucky to have you :)
If you'd like to donate for a rank yourself, we'd really appreciate it, but it's never necessary. /buy is the command.

Conclusion

As always, thank you all so much for hanging out with us. It truly is a blast and a pleasure. Check back next week for your Weekly Dose of TheCoveMC.net Development :)

TheCoveMC.net Team

TheCoveMC Content Patch 4

Fisher — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:47:35 +0000

Emotes, Chat Signs, Player Nametags, oh my!

This week we didn't really release anything major in anticipation of our suuper secret project that will be released either tomorrow or the next day.

This being said, There isn't anything overly exciting in this patch, however, I'll go ahead and go over what we did do!

Bedrock Support

We've added support for Minecraft on the Phone, Xbox, Playstation, and Windows 10 Edition. It's the same server, but you can now connect from anywhere!

To connect, use the IP play.thecovemc.net with the port 19132.

Server Events

We're going to be hosting some events with the whole community very soon! All events are open to anyone :) Please get the Minecraft Events role from #🥐roles in our discord to be pinged about these in the future.

Homecoming (Saturday, June 19, 10 PM EST) Show up in formal skins to this big Minecraft dance party! Feel free to stream (or make any other content), and if you'd like you can even bring a date! This will be a good time to hop in a vc to make new friends!

Hide & Seek (Friday, June 25, 10 PM EST) Players will have 15 minutes to hide in a 500 block wide, randomly generated, indestructible world! When time runs out the Honchos will be searching for (and killing) every contestant! Last player standing wins!

Manhunt (Saturday, July 3, 10 PM EST) Players will track down and try to kill the Honchos. Anyone who manage to get a kill will win a prize!

Duo UHC Tournament (Friday, July 9, 10 PM EST) This will be a huge survival pvp tournament with a cash prize. The entry fee will be $5 per player. 75% of the money will go to the last team standing, while 25% will go to a charity of the winner's choice. More details & signup for this event will be announced soon.

Sandcastle Build Contest (Saturday, July 17, 10 PM EST) Contestants will have 30 minutes to build something out of sand/sandstone! The best build wins a prize!

We're super excited to see what you guys make, and the fun we'll have :)

Emote integration, the chat, and the tablist

We've started integrating emotes in a lot of places.

In the coming days, I'll release a full list of emotes usable on the server. Right now there are over 2,200 emotes you can use, but nobody knows how right now :)

Here's what to expect when you see one of these emotes in context of a player.
When you see a house, it means the player is in a town.
When you see a shield, the player is an admin.
When you see the twitch logo, the user is streaming.

Our tablist now has a shiny new logo as well!

The tablist

World Border

Due to Popular Demand, we've expanded the world border to be twice the size! It now has a radius of 10,000 blocks, totaling a diameter of 20,000 blocks wide!

absolutely yuge!

Sitting

A highly requested feature for roleplaying was the addition of being able to sit on different things, like slabs, stairs, and lily pads to name a few!

the nuttiest one sitting :)

Models and progress

We've been on a modelling spree for different things on the OpenSMP! We're gonna release these to the public soon, but we've got new hats, and all sorts of stuff in the works!

our shiny new pirate hat

Sparrow, your helpful companion

This week we introduced Sparrow, a play on a certain pirate character from a certain unnamed mega digital media corporation's movie :)

Right now, he can only be seen in chat giving helpful tips every once in a while, but expect more of him soon!

If you don't want to hear what he has to say, simply toggle him off in your quick menu by double tapping your 'f' key or by typing /qm.

sparrow in all of his helpful glory

Suuuuuper Seeeeecret stuff

Goodness gracious, I wish I could tell all of you folks what we've got going on behind the scenes. We've got a lot of content being made for a certain few gamemodes. I can talk about one of those right now.

Codename K.O.T.I.

King of the Island is a gamemode I dreamed up the other day. It's a PvP oriented gamemode and right now we don't have much content for it. We will have custom models for custom workbenches, loot crates, world generation buildings, crate drop hotspots, and so many other fun features.

You'll spawn on an island with a diameter of about 500-1000 blocks and have to fight and build your way to the top!

I expect that we'll be able to run a beta test of this gamemode within the next week or so. I'll keep you all posted on specifics and when this is going to happen.

the island where the fighting and building will take place.

Creatives and Excited People wanted!

Feel like you have some exciting ideas? Want to help out moderating the server? Want to make our servers even better?
We're currently looking for people who fit these attributes to fill positions in moderation roles, building roles, and general content creation roles.

If you're interested, see the following:
Mod Team - We are looking for a few people to help us out with moderation on the Minecraft & Discord servers. This would include kicking/muting people who aren't following the rules & other basic mod responsibilities. https://forms.gle/D5akMwM4xfyiQRUw7

Build Team - We're seeking builders to help out with some of the events announced above, as well as some new game modes we've been developing! https://forms.gle/feEBCZBh2CbXmPmK7

Marketing Team - We're looking for people who are either experienced with image/video editing software or are interested in helping out with advertising The Cove! https://forms.gle/m78zfUzsceJL8Ae68

We are so excited to see what the future of The Cove holds and want you to be a part of it!

Conclusion

I know this was a light content patch, but the wait for these things will be so worth it. We always strive to make the most unique and fun features for our server, and we want you to be there to see them :)

We love you guys, and are so happy you're hangin' out with us :)
TheCoveMC team.

TheCoveMC Content Patch 3

Fisher — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:42:50 +0000

Apologies

This post was supposed to come out 2 days ago, but I got kinda busy and wasn't able to post. My apologies :)

New Emotes

This week, we introduced new emotes to the server. This is paired with the resource pack that loads when you join the server. There are over 2,200 emotes on the server and they are mostly minecraft emotes. A full list will be published soon, but in the meantime, here's some to toy around with!

:diamond:
:emerald:
:cod:

Admin shop rework

This week we had a lot of abuse in the admin shop from people making massive farms and making profit way too fast for how our economy was imagined. For the time being, the sell shop has been disabled. We're going to look at ways to make the admin shop fair and balanced, but right now selling to the admin shop is disabled.

Jobs buff

We've buffed jobs by 30%. This should make jobs a sustainable way to earn money in the game while just playing the game and having fun.

New Server rules

We don't like putting in harsh rules about what you can and can not do; we want players have fun and do what they want. This being said, we still need some base rules to cover our bases.

You can view the new rules ingame through the quick menu, or by doing /rules.

Happy Pride month!

In honor of pride month, we have introduced a pride filter in chat! Just type 'pride' in, and it'll turn your message rainbow!

The Cove is inclusive and welcomes everyone, as we all should. We're allies and will always be. 🏳️‍🌈 :)

New Rank up menu

A lot of things we heard about the rankup system when it was first introduced was the lack of permissions, and knowing what ranks gave which permissions. Because of these concerns, we introduced a rankups menu.

It is accessible ingame via the quick menu, or through /ranks

New notice board progress

We're introducing a new system sometime this week called 'notice board'. The notice board will be kind of like a classified ads list for the server. Do you make potions? Perhaps you are a great builder? Post it on the notice board.

The notice board will be accessible globally through the quick menu, and will have some functionality in towns with the placeable noticeboard.

I've just modeled this recently. How does it look :)

Cosmetics

I meant to introduce a system for buying/earning cosmetics this week, but didn't have time. There are pets, particles, gadgets, mounts, music dj's, and a whole lot more. They are super nice looking in game and handle well with our server :)

I would like to show them off, however.

Profile system updates

I've added Social Icons to the profile system. The profile system is still undergoing performance work, as it's still not performing the way that I'd like it to, but social media is now incorporated and live :)

Buffed Vote Party Crates

When a vote party happens, you'll get a crate, and that crate will have a guaranteed $500, as well as another small chance to get $500. Happy voting!

1.17

What's this? A new minecraft update? Huzzah!

What does this mean for The Cove? We will update our servers to support 1.17 as soon as a new spigot build is released for 1.17 that's stable. Hopefully this will only take a week or two, but we are not sure. I know that they release pretty fast after an update, but we'll keep you guys updated.

Donations

I'd like to take a moment to personally thank our donors thus far. It means a lot that you'd donate to keep the experience alive for yourself and others for the coming months :)

ItsLordVamp
paroxyn(x2)
Eleven9(x3)
MarkyMarkoPolo
Onairotciv(x2)
Dr_Plant
Casheww(x2)
Rose0128
LovelyProphet

You guys rock and we're lucky to have you :)
If you'd like to donate for a rank yourself, we'd really appreciate it, but it's never necessary. /buy is the command.

Conclusion

We have a lot of new features and gamemodes coming down the pipeline. We're listening to your suggestions, and taking them on. I'm here to tell you that the future is bright and the future is The Cove!

Thanks for reading, and tune in next monday for Content Patch #4!

And remember,
It's always sunny in The Cove 😎

TheCoveMC Content Patch 2

Fisher — Mon, 31 May 2021 03:51:48 +0000

Second Patch!

Ya'll ready to see all the cool stuff we've been working on? We've been counting the hours to the next content patch to show you!

The Quick Menu

The quick menu is a revolutionary new concept based on a mechanic we've refined. Double tap your "switch hand" key (default "F"), and the quick menu will open!

The quick menu contains all of the features that are commonly used. The year is 2021, who types commands manually?

Want to see our Vote links with the click of a button? Perhaps town settings? Flea Market or Item Shop? Donations, Random Teleports, Server info, Baltop, and Settings toggles, all in one place. This is the quick menu!
Note, the quick menu can also be accessed by running /qm!

The Profile System

Want to show of who's behind the screen? Perhaps you'd like to roleplay as a character you like? We've got you covered.

With the profile system, you can set your Name, Pronouns, Location, and Bio. To setup your own profile, run
/profile setup!
You can also use these commands to setup specific attributes!
/profile name
/profile pronouns
/profile location
/profile bio

Also, click someone's name in chat to see their profile, or do /profile <username>

Another thing I will add is that these profiles will be used in other gamemodes in the future, to sync your stats like minigame wins, awards, etc!

Awards and Stats

These features aren't quite in yet, but Awards and Statistics are soon to be implemented into the server! You can gain specific awards by doing specific things in the server. Find a bug? Bug hunter Award. Reported someone breaking the rules? Keeping the server clean!

Eventually, you'll be able to display one of your Awards on your profile. Also, for those of you who were there on launch day, you'll be getting a special Award for that :)

Stats are basically like minecraft stats, but for things minecraft doesn't count, like the amount of Piñatas you've killed, or the amount of Town Blocks Claimed, etc. Soon you'll be able to see these in your quick menu as well.

On the subject of Piñatas...

We've released a new vote party reward! When you the vote party threshold is reached, a Piñata will spawn at /warp pinata. Piñatas will drop items like diamonds, emeralds, and money!

Be there when they spawn or be circle... (get it, cause we're all squares in minecraft? i'll show myself out...)

Info Board

We now have an info board on the right side of your screen in the game. Protip, to make it smaller, set your GUI scale to 1 (my preference), or if you don't like it, just toggle it in the quick menu!

Item Shop

We now have an item shop that sells and buys certain items that you might need. In the shop, you can buy and sell any amount 1-64 or as many as you have! This is accessible from the quick menu as well.

Jobs

Want to make money from things you already do ingame (Building, Mining, Enchanting, Crafting, etc)? Join a job and get rewarded automagically for doing what you do best! You can join a job by using the jobs menu from the quick menu, or by using /job

Punishments

Punishing players isn't something we enjoy. However, if a player does something that warrants it (slurs, griefing, etc), it's a must. This being said, we want to be totally transparent on the punishments we give. We've introduced a Punishments list where you can see every punishment given on our website.

See Here: CoveMC Punishments List

Referrals

Want to be rewarded for inviting friends to the server? Have them run /ref <yourname> when they join, and they'll get $250, you'll get $1000.

Donations

I'd like to take a moment to personally thank our donors thus far. It means a lot that you'd donate to keep the experience alive for yourself and others for the coming months :)

Onairotciv
Anya_Diane (x2)
paroxyn
Amezukami
Eleven9

You guys rock and we're lucky to have you :)
If you'd like to donate for a rank yourself, we'd really appreciate it, but it's never necessary. /buy is the command.

Our beautiful playerbase

I'd like to thank everyone for allowing us the opportunity to sponsor such a vibrant community. It warms our hearts that so many players come out and enjoy the experience and have fun with each other. We wouldn't be here without you. Yes, I'm talking about you

In Conclusion

Anyways, thanks for coming to see what we've been working on this week! Tune in next monday for Content Patch #3 :) I will say that while coding some of these things I have introduced several easter eggs into the server. Look at your own risk :)

And remember,
It's always sunny in the Cove 😎

TheCoveMC Content Patch 1

Fisher — Mon, 24 May 2021 06:11:09 +0000

Le Patch

This first content patch has been very exciting, with the bugs and inconsistencies we saw during launch and all :)

We've enjoyed seeing so many smiling faces on The Cove as well as implementing new and exciting features that we'll all enjoy!

Rebranding

We held a vote for Server logo and our Creators sure showed out! We were super excited to see the submissions! We held a vote on the Discord Server and Bel's Logo won by a significant margin. This being said, we thank everyone for submitting your lovely logos!

Bel's Logo (our new logo!)

Rankups

We've added a fair bit of rankups in the OpenSMP server, 14 in total with the prices ranging from $1,000 to $100,000.

Each of these have different perks and will let other players know that you're the Real Deal!

Rankups are live on the server now and can be used by performing the command /rankup. There will be a confirmation message with the price before you actually rank up!

Please note that at the current point in time, the perks aren't fully fleshed out and are SUBJECT TO CHANGE (any shadowfrax fans?)

our rankup roster

Voting

It makes zero sense to make things cost money when ya can't get money, amirite gamers?

We've introduced voting to the server. If you've never voted before, it's like telling the internet our server is great. You visit a website, enter your username, click submit and it gives you rewards ingame!

Have you ever wanted to make 250 bucks 6 times in 10 minutes? Now's your time!

This helps the server immensely by bumping it higher on server lists so more players see our great community!

To vote, just use the command /vote ingame, and click the first button to see all links!

The Voting Menu ingame

We had a little weasel figure it out before it was released and here's what they had to say about it 🤣

Town Dynmap

This is probably common knowledge at this point, but I figured I'd put it in the Content Patch anyways. If you didn't know, we have a livemap that shows the whole server! To access it in your browser, just navigate to https://map.thecovemc.net/.

We recently added Town support to the dynmap so you can see where towns are and what land they have claimed!

The Dynamic Map

Supporting TheCoveMC

If you feel so inclined, we have also added some donor ranks, Captain and First Mate. The names will change when themes change, but the perks will never be taken away. We will add more perks as time goes on as well :)

Donations are never required, but always appreciated :)

Anticheat

We've added a few preventative measures against cheating in our server!
One can be seen here with the Anti X-Ray

Nice Try, Hackerman! >:D

Conclusion

We're so excited to see the outpouring of support from all of you lovely folks. Sometimes things get messy and it seems like we don't hear you, but we do. Things are evolving and changing, and we can't wait to see what we all do together :)

Thanks for the support and the loads of fun, and remember
It's always sunny in the Cove :D

A rather busy weekend.

Fisher — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 05:33:40 +0000

This weekend I had multiple projects that were buzzing around in my head. I learned about how the pmkam address miner for krist worked, used vast.ai to rent machines for some juicy GPU power (8 1080ti machines) :0

Most recently am turning myself into a 3d model for VRChat through the help of RealityCapture and Meshroom. Don't forget our old pal blender, and the unity VRChat SDK which I haven't even conquered.

I'll do a writeup of how I did the full body scan once I get everything working properly.

Anyways, if you are looking for a sign to go out there and get shit done, even if it is mundane or fun hobby shit, this is your sign and now is your time. Go get em' tiger!

Have a great week, and tell me what you're working on in the comments below :)

Writing code to write code

Fisher — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:01:32 +0000

Disclaimer

Starting off, I'd like to explicitly say that this is not an article about teaching machines to write code or machines making machines.

This is not robotception, this is your only warning

anyways, just thought I'd get that out of the way

Writing code to write code

I have found a trend forming in my day to day life. I like proficiency and challenges, as should anyone who strives to be/do better. I have been writing sometimes fun, sometimes plain projects that engage me. Something like writing Krist Console in an evening, using blessed and blessed-contrib to do so. I enjoy finding cool things other people have written and making fun things with them.

Shameful thoughts

Before a week ago, I had zero experience with websockets. For such a (seemingly more and more integral) part of the internet, I had not so much as touched it. But then I did. For fun. Novel idea, I know. The point is, I did it just to do it, learn it, and add it to my arsenal.

Writing blogs to write blogs

Is this blog-ception? Does anyone even read these? I don't know, but frankly I don't care. Similar to my Writing code to write code, I write to enjoy the ride and the keyboard clacks, among other things.

Conclusion

Get out there, do something you've never done. Write some code, learn something new, and arm yourself with one of the most, if not the most valuable weapon - knowledge.

A tip for Linux and Discord users.

Fisher — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:09:38 +0000

Here's a quick tip for anyone who has recently breathed life into an old laptop using Linux such as myself, (running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Macbook air mid-2012). I have enjoyed the experience of running Ubuntu on this Mac, as I haven't used it since 16.04 (c. 2017?). It has sped this machine up immensely in contrast to the ever growing MacOS installation that was on this machine previously.

One thing that I did want to install was Discord as I use it to communicate with friends and people with whom I work on projects.

The Problem

I started by installing the snap package of discord. This worked fine and I was able to do everything with it out of the box, but the problem was that it was very slow and slowed down the laptop a lot.

The Solution

Google Chrome has a feature where you can make pseudo-apps that run as websites in their own process frame. To create one, just navigate to the website that you want to create an app of, and click the three dots in the top right hand corner, select More tools > Create Shortcut. Be sure to tick the 'Open as window' Box, and voila! You have a lightweight pseudo-app that loads the online Discord version!

The Fine Print

You may not be able to screen share or use your webcam easily by this method. In my case, I only use my laptop on the go, so this is not a big factor in my decision. It works very well and I thought I'd share.

Have you figured out any neat tricks with anything lately? Please tell me about it in the comments :)

What podcast, article, or media rocked your world recently?

Fisher — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:26:51 +0000

What podcast, article, or media rocked your world recently?

For me it was an episode of the Google Cloud Podcast, titled NASA and FDL with James Parr and Madhulika Guhathakurta. It talks about different challenges that we've faced as humans, the steps that we've taken to understand these challenges, and put forward solutions once we understand the data.

It also talks about very valuable data sets of things that we know very little about, hence we have very little data about. Definitely one of the more exciting Google Cloud Podcast episodes.

You can view it at these places, or wherever you get your podcasts!

GCP Website
Spotify (where I listened in)

What about you?

What rocked your world or made you think recently? Let me, and others know in the comments down below!

Devblog 3

Fisher — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:50:15 +0000

What's new this week in SupremeObsidian.

This week we worked an absolute ton on professions, as well as worked on biomes and how they work within our terrain generation system.

Fisher

This week I did some minimal work on spells, getting different specific subclasses working. Each player class type will have a different set of spells that they can use. Inside of those sets will be other different types, like specializations.

Again, very primitive, early work on this, but still laying the groundwork for that.

This week I mostly contributed to the resourcepack building script that I talked about in detail in this post. This makes it very easy for us to host our resourcepacks in a Github repository, so we can all make changes and update it automatically through Github Actions.

I also started updating our Discord bot with new code, and prepared a new branch for Fyrlex, one of our new Developers, and I to start working on the bot rewrite.

This is an image of the new rank specific separators that I implemented just last night.

pssst we are gonna have a towny server soon
did anyone hear something? not I.

Async

This week I made the world more realistic by making it use more octaves for noise, and also added in Frational Brownian Motion, and made the oceans slightly steeper.

This is an example of a height map that uses random noise!

Fyrlex

Disclaimer, this is Fisher speaking for Fyrlex
This week, we got a new Developer by the name of Fyrlex. He's gonna be working on our discord bot, as well as his own. I hear he's got a lot of experience in this area and can't wait to collaborate with him rewriting the current iteration of our bot.

violetskyzz

Still Fisher speaking
This week, violet spent a lot of time working on the textures and models for the Professions. Here's a good amount of textures that have been made now.

Different Grindstone Speeds are shown here

Here we see the Bucket with nothing, with water, the bellows for the blacksmith furnace, and all of the different new types of ingots.

Here we see the new bellow animation for the blacksmith furnace.

Kennedy

New Items and Blocks

Each new item and block that Kennedy has added this week is accessible with the command "/ci"

Blacksmith Grindstone (Block)

The Blacksmith Grindstone will be used by the blacksmith profession to sharpen swords and axes- possibly tools as well! The sharpness of an item increases the temporary lifespan of that item by increasing the item's instantaneous durability. However, every time an item is sharpened, the max durability of that item is decreased by half of what the item gained back in durability. Therefore, items are doomed to break... eventually, but it can be delayed with sharpening.

Example: A sword with 100/500 durability is sharpened. The sword now has 200/450 durability.

This Grindstone is also animated using custom model data when it is being used. There will also be an animation for the item being sharpened in the next update to the grindstone.

Blacksmith Furnace (Block)

The Blacksmith Furnace will be used by the blacksmith profession to smelt ores into Metal Ingots. Only Metal Ores can be placed into the crafting slot of the furnace. Metal Ores must each reach a specific Melting Point in the furnace to turn into ingots. The furnace's heat can be initially set using different tiers of burnable fuel. (Not implemented yet) Each Fuel will have a different base burning temperature. The furnace's temperature can then be increased from its base temperature using a Blacksmith Bellow.

There will also be an animation for the ore being smelted, and placed into the furnace in the next update to the furnaces.

Blacksmith Cauldron (Block)

The Blacksmith Cauldron will be used by the blacksmith profession to cool down hot items that were just crafted on the Blacksmith Anvil. Hot items cannot be equipped or used until cooled. Also, the attributes of that item/weapon will become visible once that item/weapon is cooled. A Blacksmith Cauldron must be filled with water using a Water Pail (See unimplemented items) before it can be used. When used, a "cooling" animation plays.

Blacksmith Anvil (Block)

The Blacksmith Anvil will be used by the blacksmith profession to choose and craft hot armor and weapons from Metal Ingots. A Blacksmith Hammer is necessary to craft items on the anvil. When crafting, a "hammer" animation will play with the blacksmith hammer. The item crafted on the anvil will be a "Hot" variant of its selected parent item, which is either a piece of Armor or a weapon. This "Hot" item cannot be used or equipped, until cooled in the Blacksmith Cauldron.

Each item has a recipe cost of 1-5 ingots of any Metal Ingot. This means you can use any combination of metal alloys to craft armor, and the attribute boosts will stack.

Metal Ingots and Ores (Items)

Metal Ingots will be used by the blacksmith profession to craft items. They are obtained by smelting ores in a Blacksmith Furnace. You can use any combination of metal alloys to craft Armor, and the attribute boosts will stack. The melting point is the temperature at which the furnace needs to be to melt the metal's ore into Metal Ingots.

Example: An item created with 4 aluminum ingots (1% boost each) will have a total of +4% attribute boost applied to the final item.

Blacksmith Bellow (Handheld Item)

The bellow is an animated hand-held tool that can be used by the blacksmith profession to increase the instantaneous temperature of a Blacksmith Furnace. The rate at which it increases temperature is still undetermined. It will likely be dependent on the level of the blacksmith themselves.
All professions can use it by clicking or holding down their right mouse button to blow air particles.

Bellow

Hot Items (Items)

Hot Items are crafted on a Blacksmith Anvil, and cannot be worn or used until cooled in a Blacksmith Cauldron. Attributes are inherited on that item, but not visible to the player. The attributes will become visible once that item is cooled. They can be differentiated from their cooled counterparts by a red texture overlay on their icon, and "Hot" in their ItemMeta displayname.

Armor (Wearable Items)

Armor is a wearable item that is used by different character classes to defend against attacks from monsters or other players in PVP. Each piece of armor has a level, attributes, initial durability, and a specific player class by whom which the armor can only be used by. Armor can either be crafted on a Blacksmith Anvil, purchased from other players, or found in loot.

Armor Craft/Drop Rates

Drop rates for Armor is increased by crafting it on a Blacksmith Anvil:

Item Level	Natural Drop Rate	Anvil Drop Rate
1	1.80%	1.6%
2	1.78	1.59%
3 - 99	...	...
100	0.19%	0.39%

Natural Drop Rate = (5-((Level-1)0.045))/2.7725
**Anvil Drop Rate* = -0.0254585*(Level)+(5.045/1.5)

The Armor's attributes, materials, and required class are all included in the armor's lore.

The Armor's star-rating is determined by calculating the total "score" accumulated by armor level, positive attributes, initial durability, and material used compared to a piece of armor with "perfect" armor level, attributes, initial durability, and material.

The Armor's current durability is shown in green on the durability bar in the item's lore. Durability that can be regained by repair or sharpening (weapons only) is indicated by grey on the durability bar. Durability that cannot be regained due to sharpening (weapons only) or [OTHER REASONS REDACTED] is indicated by red on the durability bar.

The length of the divider line between item information and its attributes is equal to the length of the longest line of lore applied to the item.

Blacksmith Items not yet implemented

Blacksmith Hammer

The Blacksmith Hammer is a tool used by the blacksmith profession to craft items with the Blacksmith Anvil. It can be found in natural drops around the world. There are 5 tiers of Blacksmith Hammers that can be acquired, each with different attributes.
The attributes of each tier of Blacksmith Hammer can be seen below:

Name	Crafting Time Reduction	Durability
Broken Hammer	-50%	200
Old Hammer	-25%	300
Firm Hammer	0%	400
Sturdy Hammer	+25%	500
Shiny Hammer	+50%	600

Water Pail

A Water Pail is a handheld item that can be used to transport water and fill Blacksmith Cauldrons.
There will be an animation when filling a Water Pail at a water source block, or another full cauldron.

Profession Crafting Mechanics

SupremeItems and CraftBlocks

Kennedy and Fisher have both been working on implementing into the core an item builder called "SupremeItem" for creating and managing custom items with specified tags, persistent data, and other cool features. The items currently implemented with this class can be accessed with the command "/ci"

Each custom item is initialized and can be referenced as an enum, as seen here:
Custom Item Enum


BLACKSMITH_BELLOW(                                                                      // CUSTOM ITEM ENUM IDENTIFIER
            "Bellow",                                                                   // CUSTOM ITEM NAME
            ItemStackBuilder.of(Material.IRON_AXE)                                      // CUSTOM ITEM MATERIAL
                    .name("Bellow")                                                     // CUSTOM ITEM            
                    .lore("Left-Click on blast furnace to increase its heat.")          // CUSTOM ITEM LORE/DESCRIPTION
                    .build(),                                                           // RETURNS ITEMSTACK
            new HashMap<ItemFlags, Object>() {                                          
                {
                put(ItemFlags.CRAFTABLE_AT, ItemCraftLocations.BLACKSMITH);             // ITEM TAGS
                }
            },
            new HashMap<String, String>() {                                             // PERSISTENT DATA
                {
                    put("custom-item", "true");                                         
                    put("custom-model", "4");                                           
                }
            }
    )

Kennedy also created an object class called CraftingBlock for creating and managing custom profession crafting blocks that can be associated with SupremeItems. Each CraftingBlock is similarly initialized and can be referenced as an enum as well, as seen here:

CraftingBlock Enum

BLACKSMITH_FURNACE(
            "blacksmith-furnace",                                                                       //NAME
            SupremeItem.BLACKSMITH_FURNACE,                                                             //ASSOCIATED SUPREMEITEM
            new HashMap<String, Object>() {                                                             // DATA STORED IN BLOCK
                {
                    put("blacksmith-furnace", "true");
                    put("block-durability", SupremeItem.BLACKSMITH_FURNACE.getBlockDurability());
                }
            },
            new HashMap<Integer, String>() {                                                            // TUTORIAL STAGES
                {
                    put(1, "Blacksmith Furnace");
                    put(2, "Right-click to smelt ores!");
                }
            }
    )

Any type of Data can be stored in CraftingBlocks as armorstands. These are the methods that can be called from a CraftingBlock:

CraftBlock Static Methods:

Method	Use
getCraftingBlockFromSupremeItem(SupremeItem)	Returns CraftingBlock from supremeitem associated
getCraftingBlockMaterials()	Returns List of materials used by CraftingBlocks
isCraftingBlock(Block)	Returns true if block is an instance of CraftingBlock
getCraftingBlock(Block)	Returns CraftingBlock for block instance of CraftingBlock.

Inherited Methods:

Method	Use
CraftingBlock.getItem()	Returns itemstack from supremeitem for this CraftingBlock
CraftingBlock.getSupremeItem()	Returns raw supremeitem for this CraftingBlock
CraftingBlock.getTutorialStages()	Returns HashMap of tutorial stages for this CraftingBlock
CraftingBlock.getTutorialStage(Stage)	Returns String of tutorial stage for this CraftingBlock
CraftingBlock.getBlockId()	Returns specific CraftingBlock id for this CraftingBlock
CraftingBlock.getMaterial()	Returns material of SupremeItem associated with this CraftingBlock
CraftingBlock.getStandKeys()	Returns HashMap of data that this CraftingBlock should be storing in armorstands
CraftingBlock.hasKey(ArmorStand, Key)	Returns boolean if ArmorStand has Key

Crafting Bossbar

The CraftingBossBar object allows for displaying progress during crafting tasks.

There are a few methods that can be called to manage a CraftingBossBar:

Method	Use
Constructor: CraftingBossBar(EventName, Player, BarColor)	Uses parameters to initialize bossbar. Does NOT display bar.
CraftingBossBar.displayBar(Player)	Displays the bar for a specific player
CraftingBossBar.displayBar()	Displays the bar to initialized player
CraftingBossBar.removeBar()	Removes the bar
CraftingBossBar.setProgress(Progress)	Sets the bar's live progress out of 1.0
CraftingBossBar.setTitle(Title)	Sets the bar's title to format: (%title% + %progress% + "%")
CraftingBossBar.isDisplayed()	Returns true if bar is visible for player

Also...

Some features that Kalinox doesn't get to know about yet.

+ added different speeds of grindstone
+ added new grindstone handlers, blacksmith furnace handlers, cauldron animations, bellow animation.
+ new discord branch for bot rewrite.
+ fixed server listing on the discord (amount of players and if online)
+ new discord rank separators.
+ new biomes as well as new noise types, and edits to noise octaves.
+ new craftblock handlers for information on blocks and checking if a block is a certain type with armor stands and custom nbt
- removed the singular grindstone static in place for adding different speeds as well as static.
- removed herobrine

What are your favorite Developer Jokes?

Fisher — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 03:54:03 +0000

I've just found one in a project I was looking at, and the License for this project was the WTFPL or "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE" for short. :)

What are your favorite Developer jokes? They don't have to be licenses, they can also be your favorite xkcd comics! Whatever makes you laugh or gets you through the day :)

How I host Minecraft Server ResourcePacks on Github

Fisher — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 02:23:59 +0000

Github is dope.

Yes, we all knew this. Anyways, with the addition of Actions to your team's workflow, you can make the process of editing a resourcepack, automatically building it, and shipping it to your live production Minecraft server so very easy.

Initial thoughts & Planning

Before this switch, we (being SupremeObsidian) were using Dropbox to host the resourcepack. This was a quick and easy solution, as you could get the share link from Dropbox, and add it to your server. However, the downside to this was that this was not a good solution for a team working on a resourcepack that needed to be constantly uploaded to the server so that everyone could see the changes live (even though at the moment, we are only in the development stage).

I started thinking maybe we could use releases in Github for this. This raised the issues:

Versions (v1.0.0) in the download url for the release that we would have to change every time, so this wouldn't work
The project directory in the sources zip

If you don't know what I'm talking about on the second point, when you make releases or download the cloned zip, you get the zip with a directory in the root, so all of the repository files are now in RepositoryName-version.zip/RepositoryName/files-here.
This would not work, as the resource pack zip had to have the assets, pack.mcmeta, and pack.png in the root of the zip.

And then it hit me.

We could use Github actions for this purpose, of creating a zip, and uploading it to the repository, and fetching the pack zip from the raw url of the file. This works great.

I am no expert in Github actions, and I had never put one together before until a day ago, but I managed to get it to do exactly what I wanted.

To explain a little, the action checks out to the main branch, pulls latest files, deletes the current release.zip, zips the files in current directory, adds any edited files (in this case release.zip), commits, and pushes.

Closing and specifics

This whole process takes ~30 seconds on average to complete, and then you have your brand spankin' new resource pack zip that works to download with Minecraft through the raw url.

Note: The raw url for github files that you should use is https://github.com/user/repo/blob/branch/release.zip?raw=true
That is, if your release.zip is in the repo root.

Also of Note: I use WorldResourcePack for my resourcepack downloading on the server. Any time we update it in github and zip the files with the action, we run /wrp generatehashes and this will generate new hashes for the resourcepack(s) that you have on your server so that when players join, their clients will compare the local hash to the new one and realize they are different, hence downloading the new version.

Thanks for reading my first real dev.to article, and if you made it this far, I commend you, and give you a 🍪. What a champ.