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Newsbook

Newspaper for your server
by _ForgeUser9095419
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Wersja polska!

This plugin adds new type of informing players about almost everything, based on books. You can save the book, and let players buy it. It checks player's inventory for the newspapers and compares it's title to the title of an actual newspaper. It also has archive system, so you can buy archived books.

This plugin is in early release stage(0.8). However you can it.It's my first plugin :)


Features:

  • Set the price for newspaper. (Vault support)
  • Easy to configure. (Set the price, permissions etc.)
  • Checks player's inventory for an actual newspaper, if it exists it sends communicate "You have an actual...." otherwise "You haven't got an actual.... You can buy it".
  • Archive
  • Colored & customizable author
  • Share the newspaper from your hand
  • Use "&" ingame instead of "§"(you can use it still)
  • BONUS! Hides player join/quit messages (can be turned off)

Commands&Permissions:

CommandAliasesPermissionDescription
/newsbook/np
/nb
/newspaper
-Gives you newspaper/base command
/<basecommand> archive nameofnewspaper/<basecommand> arch nameofnewspapernewsbook.archiveGives you archived newspaper
/<basecommand> share author-newsbook.shareShare the newspaper that you have in your hand
/<basecommand> admin-newsbook.adminAdmin menu
/<basecommand> reload-newsbook.adminReload configs

Configuration:

  1. Paste the plugin to the plugins folder.
  2. Start the server (files will be generated)
  3. Configure it in config.yml and actual.yml
  4. Make the folder in "newsp" named by the title in config (optional, you can do this ingame by /np share)
  5. Create .txt file with the number of page in name.(optional, you can do this ingame by /np share)
  6. Edit this file and paste there newspaper text
You can use &colorcode to color messages and newspaper content

ToDo:

  • <s>Option to share newspaper from your hand.</s> - Done
  • Multiple newspapers?
  • ChestShop
  • Archive list
  • Optimize, optimize, optimize
  • ?

Bugs:

  • When book's spawned from archive author is empty-It will be fixed soon(i don't have idea for saving it :)(maybe to file))
  • At the moment vault is required

Source code:

Available on github: Click!

WARNING! IT MAY CONTAIN BUGS

Sorry for my bad English
Newsbook R0.8
MC CB 1.5.2-R0.1
Release 2013-05-04 Get
Newsbook B0.7
MC CB 1.4.7-R0.1
Beta 2013-01-17 Get

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