OnDoOdy

OnDoOdy is a fork of the plug-in DoOdy Duty. Being inspired by its feature set, seeing that it was open source and being in need of such a plug-in for my own purposes, I decided to pick up where it left off and make my own version.

OnDoOdy retains most of its predecessor's features, but a lot of the code has been re-written and re-purposed, so for anyone being a former DoOdy Duty user, you will have to re-learn a few things. On the other hand, a lot of things should be familiar, so the learning curve should not be all that steep. For one, all the permissions are the same as they were in DoOdy Duty.

Description

The main purpose of OnDoOdy is to give your staff members a way to go "on duty" (i.e. to do staff work) without losing the ability to play the game normally. When you go on duty, everything about your character is saved.

OnDoOdy places you in Creative Mode when you go on duty. Creative Mode is convenient for staff work, it lets you fly, it has mobs ignore your presence and it makes it near impossible for you to die. However, Creative Mode has a lot of pitfalls. Even if you trust your staff, how do you prevent them from spawning in hundreds of diamond blocks so they can get rich? OnDoOdy comes to your rescue here as well! With a very fine configuration level of what is allowed and not allowed while on duty, you can stop your staff members from doing almost anything you can normally do in creative mode while they are on duty.

The default configuration file is heavily commented, and should not require any further description here. If you have any question about it, feel free to drop me a comment, and I'll help you (and probably update the comment in the config file as well.)

Source code

Being based on a GPL v3 project, mine also has to be GPL v3, and I am fine with that. Should you be interested in having a look at the source code, you can find it on GitHub.

Features

• Creative Mode with limitations: Configurable permissible actions while on duty, including block breaking, block placing, block dropping, block/item spawning, hurting mobs and hurting players.
• Saving and restoration of player data: When you go on duty, your position, all your items, armor, health, food level and active potion effects are stored and then taken away from you. When you go off duty, you're placed back where you left off, and all the stats are given back to you. Were you in the nether fighting blazes around a blaze spawner with 5 minutes and 23 seconds left on your fire resistance potion? When you go off duty, you'll be right back there, with those exact 5 minutes and 23 seconds of fire resistance left
• Returning to last duty location: Did you go off duty too soon, and you had gone far away from your current spot to do work? Worry not, there's a way to get back there!
• Hiding from players: A configuration setting lets your on-duty players hide from other players. This is useful if you plan to use OnDoOdy to monitor new players for suspicious behavior, or if you simply want to not be seen and disturbed while you are on duty.
• Giving your players extra permissions when they go on duty: These will be removed from your players when they go back off duty. This is a great way to allow your staff members to have extra powers when they are staff, but keeping them more like regular players when they're not.
• Running commands for your players when they go on duty: Useful for doing certain things each time a staff member goes on and off duty. For instance, if you use DynMap, you can configure OnDoOdy to hide them when they go on duty, and show them again when they go off duty. They don't even have to have the permission to run these commands normally, you can set it up so they get the required permissions just for the time it takes to run the commands!

Commands

Permissions

All permissions default to OP.