[INACTIVE][MECH] DwarfCraft V1.01 - Skills, Training, and Progression [527]

DwarfCraft - Player progression plugin with skills that are improved by training(not xp):
Current Version: v1.01
Authors: smartaleq, LexManos and RCarretta

Introduction:
DwarfCraft is a plugin for minecraft (via Bukkit) that allows players to improve their characters skills and capabilities. Players can pay trainers to improve their skills, which provides benefits such as increased weapon damage, decreased tool wear, increased drops from blocks or mobs, etc. Because of the training system, DwarfCraft can provide an interesting and fun RPG base for Survival MP servers that will remain relevant and interesting for casual and intense players alike.

Features:

• Players may choose to play as Dwarves or Elves. Switching resets all skills. The race names are entirely configurable.
• Elves play very similar to vanilla Minecraft with slight nerfs for balance (to farming mostly)
• Dwarves have 40+ skills that progress from level 0 (worse that normal) to level 30 (extremely proficient). Each skill has several effects. Most effects reach par at skill level 5. New supported skills will be released.
• Skills are improved by paying a training cost to a trainer. Server admins may place trainers and customized messaging NPC. Skill costs increased with level and balanced to encourage specialization.
  • Example: To train"Pickaxe Use" from 0 to 1 cost 16 cobblestone. To train from 15 to 16 cost 640. At level 0 pickaxes degrade 20% faster than normal, at level 20 they degrade about 45% slower.
• Skills and Effect details are easily found through in-game commands. A general summary of skills is in the post below, along with design goals discussion.

Players - Getting Started:

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Welcome, Dwarf <whateveryournameis>!
To get started in a DwarfCraft world, you should know what it is, exactly, that is different.

Your mining sucks. You get less coal, iron, cobblestone, and gold. Your sword does pitiful damage. Animals don't drop things when you punch them. Falling hurts. A lot. Burning too. Zombies rearrange your face. Dirt doesn't pile up quite like it used to. For some reason when you craft planks you make less. Three sticks too. And less fences and stairs. Also, raw pork isn't very filling. And farming seems totally worthless.

Guess what? You're a level 0 Dwarf.
I know it seems awful now, being the brunt of jokes and suffering all that punishment, but I have good news, friend. At least you're not an elf! See, the elves gloat now, with their 1.0 stone drop rate and their filling porkchops, but after you spend the time to level your bowman skill to master and turn their day to night with a hail of 3.5 damage per shot arrows... well, then they'll be sorry!

The road to mastery may be hard, Dwarf, but the payoff is well worth it- Diamonds dropping by the handful, creepers leaving 5 gunpowder behind with their corpse, your sword dealing double damage to monsters, and cliff falls leaving nary a scratch. Along the way, you may find your calling as a crafter as well. Just as you depend on your friends for supplies, they may depend on your specialties. Craft 4 times as many brickblocks as your neighbor? That's a marketable skill, my friend!

So off with you, Dwarf, into the wilds of your world (and one day to the Nether, perhaps)! Start by discussing the terms of your advancement with the local trainers. When you've gathered their material demands, sock it to 'em, and see your diligence rewarded with an ever-improving arsenal of advantages.

Players - Getting the most out of DwarfCraft:

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You'll benefit the most from DwarfCraft by doing two things:
1) Get your skill levels in the necessities up to a reasonable level. No matter what your playstyle is, you probably want most of the stone and wood skills to 5 (the cost is small and the payoff large). The same is true of climbing and sword skills, or you may find yourself dead much more often than you're used to.
2) Pick a few activities you love to do and train train train! If you're only marginally better than someone else, they won't have much use in trading with you. Try and get 1 or 2 skills to 20 that you can leverage to gather other valuable materials. If you're a master sailor, don't spend all day mining cobblestone, go sailing on the lookout for pumpkins, mushrooms, and clay. If you're a monster hunter with a bow, 5 minutes out at night is worth far more than the hundred cobblestone you could collect.

I'm not saying to stop doing things you find fun! Instead, train up the things you find fun so you can do it better and get rewarded for doing it.

I'll use myself as an example. I far prefer chopping trees to mining for diamonds, and love to chase animals and explore. To support this, I trained these skills above level 5: woodchopping, axe use, woodcrafting, swordsman, animal hunting, and climbing. To shore up some weaknesses, I traded several stacks of logs for several stacks of cobblestone, because I have poor cobblestone mining skill and my friend has poor lumberjack skills. I used the stone to train up the Excavator and Quarry Worker skills to 5, so that I can manage to get cobblestone when i need it, without suffering the very low drop rates at level 0. When I want cobblestone for constructions, its often very easy to find someone in need of wood. I also do woodcrafting (1 log -> 6 planks) in exchange for fee or a cut. When I find a diamond vein while digging, I usually leave it, and sell the location information to a better diamond miner.

Sometimes, my mining friend(RCarretta) and I will go on adventures exploring underground caves. I'll take the point through natural caves, with sword and bow at the ready, while he harvests the ores we find. When we reach a dead end, we dig in different directions, and take the first new path together. We're able to survive very long times underground with very little additional supplies because I carry extra leather for armor and can handle most creature situations, and his tools last quite a while. High level gravel digging keeps me supplied with flint and decent monster hunter skill pulls a sizable amount of feathers from zombies, which combine to keep my quiver topped off.

Admins - How to install DwarfCraft
DwarfCraftV1.04.zip contains updated jar and sqlite file. Do not mix with pre-V1.03 config files.
DwarfCraftV1.01.zip. Unzip the archive to your CraftBukkit root directory. Use this if looking for a stable build.

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Archive Contents:
/plugins/DwarfCraft.jar
/plugins/DwarfCraft/DwarfCraft.config - General server config variables including race names and file locations
/plugins/DwarfCraft/Messages.config - Configurable plugin messages, such as welcome, info, rules, etc.
/plugins/DwarfCraft/GreeterMessages.config - Flatfile storage of NPC greeter messages. For version 1.0, greeter messages must be manually added before the NPC is created. Dynamic message insertion is on the roadmap for future versions.
/plugins/DwarfCraft/skills.config and effects.config - Supported skills and effects. Any change to these may result in unexpected errors. If you would like help in customizing balance for your server, contact smartaleq via PM.
/plugins/DwarfCraft/dwarfcraft.db - A sqlite database, pre-created empty for you. If you want to reset your players completely, delete this and create a new file of the same name.
/lib/sqlite.jar - A required library for SQLite to operate

DwarfCraft has no plugin dependencies, and should play well with others. Some notes:

• [Econ] Econ plugins are recommended with DwarfCraft. Training for "currency" will not be supported (ever!), so trade, auction, or shop plugins will likely help your players get their hands on those oh-so-valuable pumpkins early.
• [Mech] Transmutation plugins may conflict, crafting plugins may conflict. Using DwarfCraft with McMMO, Skills, LevelCraft, etc. will likely screw everything up. Other Mech plugins may or may not work. Generally, the more they affect player actions, the more likely they are to cause problems.
• [Chat] [Fun] [TP] and [Info] plugins should all work without any issues.
• [Admin] [Sec] and [Gen] plugins will probably work.

*Warning* Installing DwarfCraft on an existing world where players have large stockpiles of materials may completely screw up the balance of the mod. New or young worlds should be used if at all possible. If your players have every skill at 20 and think that the game is too easy, stockpiles were your problem. You've been warned.


NO PERMISSIONS WILL BE SUPPORTED UNTIL BUKKIT INTEGRATION. Requests for permissions plugin integration will be ignored (and possibly ridiculed).

Admins - Getting Started

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First run instructions:
After you have the DwarfCraft files installed, the first thing you'll need to do for your players to benefit from DwarfCraft is to create trainers.
Join your server, go somewhere and type: /createtrainer Test1 TestTrainerDummy 1 30
This will create a new trainer at your location(facing and look-direction) with name TestTrainerDummy, that trains skill #1 (pickaxe use) and can train to maximum level of 30(the max).
Left click on him to verify skills are loaded.
Give yourself 16 cobblestone.
Right click on him to verify training is working.
Type /skillsheet to verify that your skill increased to level 1.
/save-all and restart the server. Verify that he is still there.
type /removetrainer Test1 and verify that he has been removed.
If you have any problems through this point: pm smartaleq

Admins - Creating a playable DwarfCraft server

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For your server to have a thriving community of dwarves, you will need to provide trainers for all the skills you want, in enough places to be convenient. You will also need rules that encourage either co-operation or competition for resources. If every player goes after the same skills, the plugin doesn't provide much benefit at all.
As an example of a working community, the author's server has rules that require all trainers to be in an "appropriate" location, and not a room full of trainers. Most trainers created in the world are given a maximum training level of 15-20, based on where they are created. Only a few level 30 trainers are created. This gives our players an incentive to build impressive things, justifying the placement of "master" trainers. Using remote trainer creation, it is possible for an admin to create trainers without any hassles. As our baseline, each Towny town will eventually have one of every trainer the mayor desires.
Read the Players sections for more thoughts on what your community may need.

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Source Code is available at github.com/RCarretta/DwarfCraft
Please do not post bugs or feature requests in this thread! Discussion and simple questions are perfect to put in the forum thread. Issues should go in the issue tracker on github- after you've searched to see if it's already there. Please report installation issues via PM to smartaleq

Changelog:

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Version 1.04

• Changed applicable sqlite driver.

Version 1.03 Experimental

• Added support for multiple races. Add race names to skills.config at the end of each line you want the race to inherit the skill.
• Skillsheet and other skill commands will have spotty performance until integration is complete.

Version 1.01

• Removed player matching debug output.
• Edited commands in plugin.yml to fix command not found errors
• Set default debug level to 10, eliminating console spam. If you have reproducible problems, please set debug level to -10 and send in the appropriate sections of your log.

Version 1.0

• First published version

Donations

Skill descriptions below. Categories are only for convenience, many skills cross categories or defy categorization completely.

Tool Use Skills: These skills impact how quickly your tools will degrade. High levels will enable you to get as much as three times as many uses out of shovels, axes, and picks. See also Plowman and Swordsman skills.

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[1] Pickaxe Use - Pickaxes
[2] Shovel Use - Shovels
[3] Axe Durability - Axes

Harvesting Skills: There are many skills that effect the rate at which you gather materials from blocks such as stone, ores, dirt, sand, gravel, and logs. Higher skill levels will drop several of the desired block, and will increase the chance that you instantly break what you are digging or chopping.

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[11] Excavator - Cobblestone instant-break
[12] Quarry Worker - Cobblestone quantity
[13] Ore Miner - Coal and Iron quantity
[14] Gem Miner - Gold, Diamond, and Redstone quantity
[21] Sand Digger - Sand quantity and instant-break
[22] Gravel Digger - Gravel and Flint quantity and instant-break
[23] Dirt Digger - Dirt quantity and Dirt/Grass instant-break
[31] Woodcutting - Log quantity and instant-break

Farming Skills: Several skill handle how effective you are at farming wheat or gathering other plant materials. The Plowman skill also affects the durability of plows. Note that in DwarfCraft it is much harder to gather both seeds and wheat, so level 0 farmers will not be able to provide an endless supply of bread.

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[4] Plowman - Plow durability and Seed Quantity from hoeing grass.
[41] Wheat Farmer - Quantity of Wheat and Seeds from reaping grown Crops
[42] Exotics Farmer - Cane(Reed) and Cactus Quantity
[74] Florist - Flowers and Pumpkins Quantity

Crafting Skills: The crafting skills affect how many of an item you craft when using the normal recipe at a crafting bench. Many crafting skills have additional effects.

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[32] Woodsplitter - Planks and Sticks
[51] Mason - Cobblestone Tiles and Steps and Smooth Stone Tiles
[53] Woodcrafter - Ladders, Fences, Doors, Signs, and Wood Tiles and Steps
[61] Bookmaker - Books
[62] Brickmaker - Brick Blocks
[63] Demolitionist - TNT and damage from explosions.
[65] Railworker - Rail sections
[66] Cook - Bread, and health from cake and cooked pork
[67] Fletcher - Arrows

Damage Reduction Skills: In addition to Demolitionist reducing damage from explosions, there are skills that effect fire, falling, suffocation, and lava damage. There are also skills that affect the durability and crafting count of armor.

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(Repeat) [63] Demolitionist - Damage from explosions
[64] Firestarter - Damage from fire, durability of Flint and Tinder
[72] Climbing - Damage from falls, short fall forgiveness
[86] Exotic Armor - Damage from lava, drowning. Gold armor durability.
[83] Scout - Leather armor durability, amount crafted, projectile damage reduction.
[84] Soldier - Iron armor durability, amount crafted

Combat Skills: The Swordsman and Bowman skills affect the damage you do with those weapons. The swordsman skill also has a durability effect.

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[85] Archer - Arrow Damage and Enemy Feather/Arrow Drops
[87] Swordsman - Sword Damage and Durability

Hunting Skills: These skills allow a player to gather more resources for killing enemies with sword or bow. Note that this mod completely removes drops from creatures killed in any other way, to prevent "automated mob farming"

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[81] Animal Hunter - Pig, Cow, Sheep, Chicken
[82] Monster Hunter - Creeper, Skeleton, Spider
(Repeat)[85] Archer - Zombie

Exploration Skills: These skills benefit activities related to exploring, travel, and adventure. The effects vary widely, but should result in more successful forays into the wilderness, and more valuable materials brought home.

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[71] Sailor - Boat Travel Speed and Boat break results (sailor>15 allows recoverable boats)
[73] Survivalist - Health gained from uncooked pork, fish, and mushroom stew
[75] Dungeon Delver - Monster Spawners can drop Iron, Gold, Diamond, and Lapis blocks

Other Skills: See details -

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[8] Smelter - Effects the duration of smelter fuel, especially lava buckets. Not implemented.
[91] Citizen - (With Towny) contributes to the resident's town max size.
[92] Leader - (With Towny) affects the maximum town size, for town mayors.
[99] Noble - Dwarf Fortress nobles are useless. DwarfCraft nobles mine obsidian better, and it costs 100s of eggs to train. Any player that collects 100s of eggs and spends all day mining obsidian is just like a Dwarf Fortress noble.

Proposed Skills: These skills are ideas brought up in the thread or elsewhere, and are candidates for future implementation. None of these will be worked on before v1.0 is bug-free and widely used. -

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[?] Repair Skill
[?] Dyer or Wool/Cloth skill - produces more dye or more colored cloth per dye - costs dyes or colored wool to train
[?] Running, Travel, or other movement speed related skill
[?] Sandstone crafting skill
[?] Fishing
[?] Skills that unlock crafting recipes
[?] Fertilizer skill affecting bonemeal and crops/saplings/pumpkins?.

Training Item List

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1 Pickaxe Use Cobblestone
2 Shovel Use Dirt
3 Axe Durability Log
4 Plowman Wheat, Seeds
8 Smelter Lava Buckets
11 Excavator Cobblestone
12 Quarry Worker Cobblestone
13 Ore Miner Coal/Iron Ingot
14 Gem Miner Gold Ingot/Diamond/Redstone
21 Sand Digger Sand
22 Gravel Digger Gravel
23 Dirt Digger Dirt
31 Lumberjack Log
32 Woodsplitter Log
41 Wheat Farmer Wheat, Seeds
42 Plantation Farmer Reed, Cactus
51 Mason Half-steps
52 Glassworker Glass
53 Woodcrafter Plank/Stick
61 Bookmaker Paper/Books
62 Brickmaker Bricks/Brickblock
63 Demolitionist Gunpower/TNT
64 Firestarter Fint + Tinder
65 Railworker powered cart
66 Cook Cake Block
67 Fletcher Arrows
71 Sailor Clay "ore"
72 Climber Pumpkin
73 Survivalist Mushrooms
74 Florist Flower
75 Dungeon Delver Saddles
81 Animal Hunter Pork Leather Wool
82 Monster Hunter String/Gunpowder
83 Scout Leather Breastplates
84 Soldier Iron Breasplates
85 Archer Feather/Flint
86 Exotic Armor gold hat/diamond shoes
87 Swordsman Leather/String
91 Citizen Bread
92 Leader Cake
99 Noble EGGGGS

Obviously, this plugin was partially inspired by Dwarf Fortress. If you haven't played it yet, I highly recommend you play and donate: Dwarf Fortress & donate

The goals of this plugin were to enable some sort of character progression in Minecraft with a focus on specialization and distinction between player capabilities.Because all players are equally adept at every task, making someone an "expert" miner costs 3 diamond and nothing more. We wanted to foster a community and world where players could distinguish themselves by becoming the go-to person for certain tasks.

The first conceptualized skill was "Precious Stone Miner", which allows a skilled dwarf to gain more diamond, gold, or redstone from their ores. The thinking is that, by making it expensive to train the skill, each Town (or sub-group, or group of friends, etc.) would want to "invest" their resources in training up only a few individuals in that skill. If a non-skilled player found a large diamond vein or two, it would be beneficial for him to request the aid of the skilled player. The diamond player might only be passable at woodcutting, and would go to someone else for more efficient tree-cutting and plank crafting.

Even with players becoming specialized, we didn't want anyone to feel 'gimped' and unable to compete. The skills were balanced so that at a moderate level (5 in most cases) a player was as good as a vanilla Minecraft player at the associated tasks. Next, we addressed how training should work so that it would be easy to get to level 5, but require significant teamwork to get above 20.

For training, we wanted to use as wide an assortment of materials as possible while keeping the costs aligned with the benefits. Additionally, in vanilla Minecraft some materials are gathered in huge quantities and are rarely used because they are "ugly" such as dirt, gravel. Others are used sparingly because they have limited direct usefulness or are quickly out-classed such as flint, eggs, gold, string, even leather. We tried to make training use up the rarely used items in large amounts, while keeping often used items available for both training and use. The table below lists which items used are used to train which skills. Quantities are balanced so that level 0-5 should take less than 15 minutes, and never more than an hour.

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Unless it changed, the section symbol is what enables colors (double S thing)

 

Sorry I should have said "picked" color not "enabled" color.

 

A different way to "enable" color is to use the escape code for the section symbol instead of the printed section symbol itself, which is prone to getting lost in translation.

Example:

Code:

message = message.replace("&1", "\u00A71");

Or, more dynamically:

Code:

message = message.replace("&([0-9a-fA-F])", "\u00A7$1");

 

I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to get sqlite to work with dwarfcraft.

I don't really have a lot of experience with databases management or setting them up. If someone could give very basic (even the obvious) tips to get this to work that'd be awesome. Below is a copy of my most recent server log. I have all the plugins working that I want now, except for dwarfcraft.

Also is there anyway to make it so that when u die - you loose all or at least some of your experience?

 

DwarfCraft has not been officially released for the version of CraftBukkit you are using.

 

is this working with 1.4? if so i am doing something wrong.

 

It is not.

 

thank you for the fast response. i'll await its release.

 

i see thanks

 

Cool, personally I think that stripping the color codes would be best as a temp fix so that some of us can upgrade bukkit It worked perfectly except those color codes.

So thank you for uploading this im trying it now.

 

Code:

message = message.replace("&1", "\u00A71");

Brought the color back. It was indeed an encoding/Java editor issue, where the character from one didnt match the other.

Interestingly enough, it introduces a new bug, where color is stripped when minecraft wraps the text to the next line.

 

My server does that whenever I use the /say command. The message will come out

[SERVER] <COLOREDMESSAGE>
<UNCOLOREDMESSAGE>
<UNCOLOREDMESSAGE>

I accepted it as normal until I saw Dwarfcraft wrapping colored text.

 

Thank you for this, but can you turn off all the server messages? Its causing my server log to get REALLY large REALLY fast... im actually worried to go to sleep now but please god don't tell me that I gotta downgrade again lol.

 

ok thanks for replying! sorry im a bit noobish to this whole bukkit thing

 

I feel i may be missing something when trying to install this plugin....

ive tried both versions, 1.04 and 1.01, but im getting errors thrown up!

i've put the contents of the plugin folder in with the plugins, and the lib folder in the main root directory with the main craftbukkit file. i've also tried taking the file out of the lib folder and putting that directly in the root directory too.

I run the server and get errors along the lines of:

[SEVERE] PLAYER_ITEM loading DwarfCraft v1.01 (Is it up to date?)
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: PLAYER_ITEM
at com.smartaleq.bukkit.dwarfcraft.DwarfCraft.onEnable(DwarfCraft.java:94)

followed by some other spamming of the console....

any help would be great! I really want this working on my server!

Thanks

 

Dwarfcraft is not officially updated to Minecraft 1.4 yet. Use daemitus' forked version or wait it out until it's officially updated.

I noticed that too. A single night-time combat session fills my log with THOUSANDS of lines of Dwarfcraft messages.

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Yea its the debug level, its set to 0 I assume because every single debug message I could find is being shown here and well we tried to set it to 7 with the /debug 7 command and that didn't work but then tried to add it to the file hoping it would stop it and well... we can't compile it cause there are so many damn files we need lol.

Ok so if anyone can recompile this real fast... would it be ok if they permadisable the debug messages by setting the variable to 7?

Lol when I get more than 20 people on my server it starts to lag... and in about 2 hours stuff is gonna get interesting because ill have a LOT more than that exploding the .log

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

 

Likely update this sunday, fixing many many issues. Reinstalled motherboard and OS on testing computer last night

 

Woot we can't wait We had to turn of DC because lol the server messages started to rape us D: Just be warned notch wants to release another update in like a week or so

 

So updated again, same link as before. Set the debug to 7, the message that was spamming you wasnt stuck behind an IF statement checking the debug level, so I just commented it out. Ive been notified that my fix for the CraftListener didnt work, so you dont get extra items when using a workbench either. Should still get extra ore though, so I think thats a fair trade.

Back to my advanced programming class project.

 

So pro, thanks seems to work flawlessly right now. This will last until Sunday at LEAST Lifesaver!

 

Could I get a list of commands to post?

 

If not, can you please make this capable with 1.4 CB recommended build 617+ or 670. Please I miss this plugin.

 

So I was getting a little impatient waiting on dwarfcraft, and I decided to try your update, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm using the latest recommended build of craftbukkit, and none of my other mods seem to complain, but yours freaks out.

 

Literally 5 posts above yours the smartaleq said he would probably update to CB by this Sunday...

 

Is there way to make it so when some dies they loose like X number of levels in their top 1/4 of professions or something? I think this plugin could provide an excellent death consequence.

Also how do I give my players an option to not be a dwarf and play like vanilla minecraft but still let other player be dwarfs?

 

Back several pages in the thread it say that the elf (vanilla) option was one of the non functioning sections and that Smartaleq has implemented changes to fix it in the 'yet to be released' version. Just have to wait for the release.

 

It's Sunday! Do we get our update now?

 

sorry new to bukkit moding and things....what do i do with the lib file? and do i need to install anything other than this into my server?

 

drop both directories into your bukkit root. the lib has the SQL drivers that save your levels.