Bigger chunks // custom areas

Hello,

Me and a friend want to develop a kind of villages plugin.
We are making it so you can conquer other villages and claim your ones ed.
We wanted very big plots of 128 x 128 (8 x 8 chunks) and when you enter it would say welcome to village.
I've been working on defining these plots by myself hand coded but is there a faster way of doing this?
We want around 80 x 80 plots.
So far i have done it like this:

Code:java

World w = Bukkit.getWorld("World");
        Chunk a1 = w.getChunkAt(1, 1);
        Chunk a2 = w.getChunkAt(17, 1);
        Chunk a3 = w.getChunkAt(33, 1);
        Chunk a4 = w.getChunkAt(49, 1);
 
        Chunk b1 = w.getChunkAt(1, 17);
        Chunk b2 = w.getChunkAt(17, 17);
        Chunk b3 = w.getChunkAt(33, 17);
        Chunk b4 = w.getChunkAt(49, 17);
 
        Chunk c1 = w.getChunkAt(1, 33);
        Chunk c2 = w.getChunkAt(17, 33);
        Chunk c3 = w.getChunkAt(33, 33);
        Chunk c4 = w.getChunkAt(49, 33);
 
        Chunk d1 = w.getChunkAt(1, 49);
        Chunk d2 = w.getChunkAt(17, 49);
        Chunk d3 = w.getChunkAt(33, 49);
        Chunk d4 = w.getChunkAt(49, 49);

And thats just for one plot ...

So do any of you know if I could do this in a way faster and cleaner way?

 

DeamonZ Use for loops which increment x and/or y or use arrays which store the locations.

 

How do you loop that?
I thought with something like this:

Code:java

int i = 16;
i++;
 

but that would result in 17, which is good for one chunk.

 

DeamonZ This is how I iterate through arrays. I am not sure if you can use an enhanced for with an array but I wouldn't be surprised if you could.

Code:

for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
    System.out.println(array[i]);
}

 

Uggh, Sorry but I still don't understand.
Could you explain it like i would have 3 ints and want to nummer them automaticly

Code:java

Int chunk1, chunk2, chunk3;
chunk1 = 1;
chunk2 = 2;
chunk3 = 3;

 

DeamonZ So you do you want to 'claim' a square of chunks? Or a bunch of random chunks which locations are hardcoded?

 

I quickly worked out a kind of map of the idea.

The big, colored squires is the plot. (So this is a map of 4 plots)
Each plot contains 64 chunks (8x8 chunks).
These can be claimed as a village.
I colored some squires black so you can see the chunks.

 

DeamonZ Then yes you would use a for loop incrementing or decrementing x and z.

 

You're making a common beginner mistake of coding every single object when you should use a Collection or array.

If you want a fixed amount of chunks, use a two-dimensional array, or if you ever may need to change it just use a List, either a List<List<Chunk>> for two-dimensional mapping or a List<Chunk> and wrap the index around for each row.

 

coasterman10 but then I still must add all 51200 chunks(because thats our map size) by hand.