I'd like a plugin that spawns a giant, randomly, near a player that's on the surface. Only one giant in the world at a time by default, but making that configurable would be awesome. Configurable spawn intervals would be a nice option, too. Like the title says, I'd much prefer someone mentor me in building plugins, than to just have someone build the plugin. I'm a long time programmer, but not Java. It's not completely foreign to me, however, so there shouldn't be any need to teach a lot of Java. Just pointers on quirks.
First off, wrong forum. This should be in Plugin Development, not Plugin Requests. Lots of unanswered questions: How do you know when to spawn a giant? Where exactly should it be spawned? Near is not specific enough. 5 blocks? 10? 100? When does it respawn? Death? Java's not that hard to learn if you're familiar with C/C++. Java's basically C++ without the cool features of C, and slower, but with better built in libraries, and built in VM.
Well, the first half is the plugin request. I just added an alternate, secondary request. My initial idea is to basically check for players on the surface every X minutes, pick one at random, and spawn a giant near them. Somewhere close enough to create some peril. 10-15 blocks ought to work fine, but I prefer configurable numbers. I'd like to have only one giant in the world at a time so it doesn't get overrun with giants. So basically, in configuration form: Code: player-check-delay=1200 number-of-giants=1 min-distance=10 max-distance=15
