So I want it so you can get the creator of a sign. I really don't want to use a whole file just to store locations of every sign and the owner. Thank you.
what if someone uses all the space on a sign? I wouldn't want to override the text of a player if I could do it differently.
Argh :/ Okay guys thanks. Personally even though it'd take up a lot of space, they should have like block.getOwner() or something and the data is stored in the world folder.
KingFaris10 1) would take up wayyyyy too much space 2) What about block.setTypeId? That'd cause it to return null, unless you want to also store the owning plugin. If you can find a efficient way that doesn't hog disk space, then submit a pull req to bukkit, but otherwise it's best to just store x, y, z, and owner in SQL
Well then again, if you saved it as a .yml file it wouldn't really take too much space. I doubt you'd have 2349324893248239483289 players breaking/placing blocks. Also, if you're saying it'd take too much space, wouldn't that make the method of saving it to a YML take up a lot of space. I don't really know how to code and insert tables to MySQL yet (I know how to use the statements etc. I just don't know the coding). I'm still learning from thenewboston :/