[FUN] MobArena v0.96.8 - Become a mob-fighting gladiator! [1.7.x, 1.8.x]

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    MobArena - Become a mob-fighting gladiator!
    [​IMG] Latest build: v0.96.7 (1.7.x)
    [​IMG] Wiki
    [​IMG] IRC Channel
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    BukkitDev Project Page - Find MobArena on dev.bukkit.org here: LINK.

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    Old description (open)
    If you enjoy fighting monsters for glorious prizes or just the sheer thrill of battle, you and your friends can now join forces against hordes of Minecraft evils in the exciting gladiator-style survival mini-game MobArena!

    Heavily inspired by Deminetix' Fight-plugin, MobArena is a PvE-take on arena-gameplay, with a similar class-based system. Instead of fighting other players, you team up with them to beat oncoming waves of monsters, earning rewards in the process. MobArena can be played alone, or with as many friends as you like!


    Features:
    • Fight oncoming waves of monsters
    • Play alone or team up with friends
    • Earn glorious prizes
    • Customizable classes, rewards and waves
    • Easy to set up
    • Extremely easy to use
    • Very few user commands
    • Supports Permissions and all major economies
    • Supports Spout
    • Supports Heroes
    Note: When you post a bug report, please provide a stacktrace/error from the server log/console window. Post this stacktrace in either a pastebin, a pastie, or a CODE-block! The same applies for config-files, permissions-files, etc! Please don't put them directly in your posts, as they become gigantic and annoying to read. If you don't follow this guideline, I might ignore your post!


    Wiki - Instructions, commands, FAQ, etc.
    I have set up a Wiki for MobArena. It contains a bunch of information and guides on how to set up and customize arenas, an overview of all the commands, how to set up Permissions, as well as frequently asked questions.

    New: MobArena now has its own IRC channel (#mobarena @ EsperNet). Click here for a web-based IRC client. Feel free to stop by to get help setting everything up if you really don't understand the Wiki and the instructional video, or to have a chat about MobArena (or anything else, for that matter) :)

    Relevant links:
    Videos:
    Getting started with MobArena, by Flamers
    Flamers made this really easy-to-follow, simple video of how to get started with MobArena. It covers installing the plugin, defining an arena region and setting up basic leaderboards, as well as a few pointers for arena design.
    Old instructional video (open)
    Instructional video for setting up MobArena:

    Note: This video was made for v0.67, but all the in-game instructions still work the same for the latest versions. The config-file has changed, so make sure to read the Wiki on how to set it up.
    More Videos (open)
    Review of MobArena by plugin reviewer jamescosten (v0.84):

    Note: My nickname "garbagemule" is pronounced "garbage mule", as in "trash donkey" ;)

    Hilarious showcase of MobArena by Daniel James and Daniel Cherry (v0.92.3):


    Delios showing off his beautiful arena setup:


    slowmonkey1227 in his interesting "island" arena: YouTube
    French video by avalondrey (v0.87.3): YouTube
    German video by blutherz and his friends (v0.91.2): YouTube



    Troubleshooting:
    To avoid wasting not only your own time, but mine as well, I expect everyone to do some extensive troubleshooting before posting bug reports. What does this mean?

    Try MobArena on a fresh server.
    MobArena works perfectly fine when I release it. Sure, there are a few bugs, but it works. If it doesn't work for you, something is most likely wrong on your end. Set up a local test-server, and verify that MobArena works before claiming that it doesn't. When you have verified that MobArena does indeed work, you can start adding other plugins and settings until something conflicts.

    Disable other plugins.
    The first thing you need to do is disable all other plugins. If you can't reproduce the bug with other plugins disabled, you know that you have a conflicting plugin. Now perform a binary search on the other plugins, or if you don't know how to do that, just add a couple of plugins back to the plugins-folder, try to reproduce the bug, and if you can't, the conflicting plugin must be in the remaining set of plugins.

    Write down reproduction steps.
    Figure out the exact steps to reproduce/trigger the bug. I need precise steps, and as much information as possible, because there are often many things that could be going on. An example of reproduction steps could be:
    1. Type /ma join
    2. Punch the Archer class sign
    3. Wait for someone else to join
    4. Punch the iron block
    5. Type /ma leave before the other player picks a class

    Check the console window/server.log
    Make sure you check the server.log file for any MobArena errors or exceptions. If you find any, copy the ENTIRE exception (including all the lines that say "at com.garbagemule.MobArena...") and paste it (with the other information) in a CODE-tag here in the thread.


    Donations:
    I develop MobArena for the fun of it and the positive feedback is all it takes to make me happy, but a few people have asked for a link, so if you're one of them, here's a link: Donate - You can donate as much as you want, even down to a few cents! If I get enough donations, I will spend the money on an extra Minecraft account to aid me in developing/testing/debugging MobArena :)


    Changelog:

    Version 0.94.3.24
    • Updated for CB 1337.
    • The repair-delay node is now unused! The reason for this is that it is now possible (with the release of 1317) to cancel block damage in explosions, and still retain the animation and sound! This also means that arenas should be fully pistons-compatible (for arenas that don't use soft-restore or force-restore)! I'm hoping to see some screenshots and videos of shifting arenas! :)
    • You can now right-click signs in the lobby! I finally found a super easy solution to the improperly updating inventory issue with right-clicking class signs. The result is that players can now left- or right-click as they please. This should solve all issues related to players not being able to choose classes, due to spawn region and WorldGuard/Factions/whatever conflicts.
    • It is no longer possible to warp out of the lobby.
    • New per-arena setting: final-wave - Allows for setting a final wave, meaning on that wave, the arena will end, regardless of how many players are alive.
    Version 0.94.3.11 (open)

    • v0.94.3.11 - Updated Register, built against CB 1240.
    • v0.94.3.8 - Added basic leaderboards.
    • v0.94.3.6 - Fixed MagicSpells support - MobArena no longer supports MagicSpells pre-v1.1!
    • v0.94.3.5 - Fixed a bunch of bugs introduced with CB 1185, as well as a couple of minor MobArena bugs.
    • Updated for CraftBukkit #1185
    • Updated economy support (now supports iConomy 6).
    • Added the three new mob types, Enderman/Endermen, CaveSpider/CaveSpiders, Silverfish. They can be used just like the other mob types in the waves.
    • Endermen cannot pick up arena blocks (this is why).
    • Endermen cannot place blocks in arena regions.
    • The per-class permission syntax has been fixed and changed slightly. The Wiki has been updated (clicky).
    • Fixed MagicSpells issues.
    Version 0.94.2 (open)

    • Redstone circuits now work properly in arenas.
    • Lightning now properly strikes on spawnpoints on special waves.
    • Fixed an issue where players somehow warping/cheating out of the arena world get kicked from the server when discovered.
    • Added MagicSpells support. Use the magicspells.yml file to ban certain spells from the arena either for the whole session, or only during boss waves.
    • Fixed the Heroes death conflict. MobArena and Heroes should now play nice together. Further Heroes support is planned for upcoming releases.
    • [COLOR=#1000000]MobArena will no longer support the discontinued Permissions 2.x and 3.x permission systems.[/COLOR] Recommended permissions systems include PermissionsBukkit (defacto standard) or PermissionsEX.
    Version 0.94.1 (open)

    • Added two new boss abilities: 'shuffle-positions' and 'flood'. Try them out!
    • Players disconnecting/crashing during an arena session no longer get corrupted data files due to economy rewards.
    • Weapon durability is now correctly set to "unlimited".
    • Item sub-types (cocoa beans, bonemeal, colored wool, etc.) now work again.
    • Players can no longer join the arena without first picking a class.
    • MobArena now works with spawn-monsters=false again.
    Version 0.94 (open)

    • Completely revamped the waves system! Undeniably the biggest feature in MobArena since multiple arenas in v0.92, the new customizable waves are guaranteed to bring much more awesomeness to your MobArenas. The waves system brings two new wave types, swarm waves and boss waves. The latter is a very elaborate feature, and the whole waves system has been given its own page on the Wiki. Note: MobArena will ignore all old wave settings, but use sane defaults.
    • Revamped the logging system. Instead of logging: true, you can now use logging: yml/xml. The logging system will now keep track of the last session only, but also maintain a collection of 'totals' for each arena. The idea behind these easy-to-parse files is making the stats available on server web pages.
    • Added SuperPerms/PermissionsBukkit support. Note that specifying mobarena.arenas.* and mobarena.classes.* probably won't work, but these nodes are given to everyone by default.
    • Added Spout support. Currently, the only Spouty thing MobArena does is print (some) announcements as notifications/achievements. This should limit the amount of "chat spam" that MobArena produces. Other Spout-features are planned, but don't expect something crazy. Note that MobArena does NOT require Spout!
    • Monsters will no longer target pet wolves. This is a major nerf to pet classes, but they were very overpowered as it was.
    • Fixed item amounts greater than 64 sometimes bugging out. You should now be able to put arrow:1024 for your Archer classes :)
    • Fixed players losing their stored items and/or earned rewards upon disconnecting from the arena.
    • Fixed blocks not restoring when burned by fire.
    • Fixed an issue with entry fees. They should no longer cause any problems.
    • Fixed slimes. That's right! Slimes that spawn as a result of bigger slimes splitting upon death are now considered arena monsters. This also means that Slimes no longer drop slime balls; as intended.
    • Revamped the repairing algorithm. It is now MUCH more sophisticated, and is capable of repairing not only signs and containers, but also torches, doors and beds. Redstone -should- repair properly as well, but it is still slightly buggy.
    • Added support for restorable containers. Registered chests, dispensers, and furnaces will have their contents stored upon arena start, and restored at arena end. This is useful for providing the arena players with chests with e.g. upgrades or food.
    • Added new commands (for the feature above) - /ma addcontainer <name>, /ma delcontainer <name>, /ma containers. These commands work much like the the spawnpoint commands. To add a container, simply look at the container and type /ma addcontainer <name>.
    Changelog (continued)
     
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    NerdsWBNerds

    When you join the mobarena, if someone in there logs off you screwed. The /ma leave command has an internal error.
     
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    ACStache

    Yea I noticed that myself. I don't have a fix for that :-/ lol. That's up to garbagemule to fix in the code.

    Could you post what version number of MobArena and CraftBukkit you're using? Also could you look in the server.log file for the error that's thrown when trying to type "/ma leave"? please?
     
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    NerdsWBNerds

    I don't know the info, it happened on a server I play on.
     
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    Zake.

    I need it for 1.2.3 please.....
     
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    Medic0987

    Update to Minecraft 1.2.3 I realize this plugin hasnt been updated in ages but I really need it.
     
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    garbagemule

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    77corwyn

    When is the new 1.2.3 update coming? (Can´t wait this looks amazing)
     
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    ACStache

    you can try out the Dev build linked in the main post, it works on 1.2.3 :)
     
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    77corwyn

    Thx for such a quick reply :D

    It says: YOU HAE AN ERROR! Find the error in your server log... DX

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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    ACStache

    hmm... can you use pastebin.com and link the error you're getting here? It should be lurking in the server.log file. What were you trying to do when it told you that?
     
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    minebankai89

    dont know if anyone else has this problem but ...i have 3 arenas and sometimes only one will work and the other 2 wont spawn monsters and it shuffles which arena work every other hr...few times it started and got kickd as soon as it started.
     
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    mpcg

    Actache.. Can you like Get a plugin And like redesign it but still have create for the owner? or is that called CopyRight?
     
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    ACStache

    it depends on licensing, and goes into a whole huge legal thing I'd rather not deal with. But right now, if you want MobArena to run properly on 1.1-R6/1.2.3-R0.1 (or later variants of those) then grab the Dev build from the main post. the "Latest dev build" link is the one you're looking for
     
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    mpcg

    oh ok.. just because i was talking to the owner like in 2011.. and he said he was going to be at this plugin for ages, but than he disappered and like i would like the plugin to be like FULLY updated soo it will work probly
     
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    ACStache

    yea, you and a lot of other people :p but garbagemule is a full time college student, so that leaves very little time in terms of coding this on the side. I'm just happy he still finds time to make the dev builds! :D
     
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    mpcg

    True but it would be nice if he can like update it to the max.. like as in a full release
     
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    garbagemule

    mpcg - By "full release" you probably mean a stable build. Well, if the dev builds aren't "stable", I can't really release them as "stable", can I? The dev builds are fully functional on 1.2.3, and they are as up-to-date as you can expect a plugin to be. There is no recommended Craftbukkit build for 1.2.3, so there is no recommended MobArena build for 1.2.3. It makes perfect sense. If you want the dev builds to become stable, you could engage - do some proper troubleshooting of any bugs you find, and report them to me (preferably on IRC). I recently got a bug report so detailed that it took me no more than 5 minutes to verify the bug, find the problem in the code and fix it. That's the kind of bug reports that will help me fix things and make MobArena more stable, and I need more of them.

    Alas, the source code is open source. You are free to fork and modify however you please, but you can't release it as your own work. You can, however, make pull requests, and if you do it on the bleeding branch, there's a good chance that they will be implemented (if they compile against the latest CB RB and don't create any breaking changes to the plugin itself).
     
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    Vert77

    The mobs in it don't hurt me on my server (1.2.3-R0.1). I have godmode disabled.
     
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    skyfox711

    i really love this but i get an error.
    What i need to do?
    if i begin setting up the arena it says on every command: THIS IS AN ERROR Find it in your serverlog and copy it in pastebin.com or something.
    what to do?
     
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    Flamers

    Vert77 Plugin conflict? World Guard Towny etc?

    skyfox711 Follow the instructions :|
     
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    Vert77

    Well I have both towny and worldguard but nether of them have I gaurded mobarena or made it part of a town
     
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    Flamers

    Vert77 Just check, its not only those to its things like Factions as well.
     
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    ACStache

    This isn't an issue running just MobArena, please follow the troubleshooting section in the main post, quoted here for your convenience :)

     
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    Vert77

    Thanks!
     
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    farkros

    working for me but the classes everytime one of us clicks on a class it says you have choosen that class but doesn't give you anything
    and the config file is default so?
    this could be a bug
     
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    leithal7

    Is MobArena updated for 1.2 ? If not, how long till it is updated?
     
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    Renatix

    uhhm hi.... everytime my server does a restart the mobarena doesnt save....

    And ..... when you pick a class your items arent given to you
    also how can i make it so only zombies spawn
    Not blaze, wolves, creepers, slime, etc

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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    number1_Master

    Education > plugin dev.
    I agree!!!
    I also like the new setup (the page)! [diamondblock]
     
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    ACStache

    edit the waves to list only Zombies. If you don't know how, check out the wiki linked in the main post :)

    No you don't. There's a file called "server.log" in the root of your server folder. Find it, open it in a text editor, and find the section(s) full of [SEVERE] lines that pertains to MobArena. Once you find that, use pastebin.com, as the message tells you, to paste the error into, and provide us the link to.

    The other thing to try is downloading/installing the current Dev build that runs for 1.1-R6 and 1.2.3 and see if that fixes your issue.

    What version numbers of MobArena and Craftbukkit are you running? can you also use pastebin.com to show us what you edit your config to when you add the waves in?

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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    TheXtreme1

    On my server the boss still uses its abilities after it dies, any ideas why?
     

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