[Tutorial] Scoreboards/Teams with the Bukkit API

Hoping you have found your answer by now, but really not sure. Either way, here's some information.

[ For the lazy ]
This topic is at the top of the Plugin Development forum
And this post is the 7th one down in that topic

[ For the tl;dr ]
If you're using Eclipse:

1. Right click your project in the Package Explorer
2. Select Build Path -> Configure Build Path
3. Go to the Libraries tab
   • If you don't have Bukkit added here, add it
4. Go to the Order and Export tab (top near the right side)
   1. Click on Bukkit (middle)
   2. Click Up (right side) until it's higher than CraftBukkit
5. All done!

If you're not using Eclipse, then Google how to do it in whatever IDE you use.

May His Noodliness have mercy on your soul.

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chasechocolate,

Do you know if there's a way to have each player appear with a different objective under their name? Such that Player A has the objective "Moderator" under his name, and Player B has the objective "Admin" under his name, and Player C can see both Player A and Player B correctly? I've been unable to do this with the standard API, but not sure if you have any idea on how to fake this data though packets.

Would be really cool to make an API plugin that can do this easily, as server owners could have group names, titles, or any other text under their name. I'd take the leading 0 in front any day.

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

 

Do you know how to separate SIDEBAR teams?, I would like to have titles like:

PlayersA
player1 5
player2 8

PlayersB
player3 0
player4 7

So there are 2 teams clearly separated, I don't want them to be mixed.

 

NemesisMate you could try making a score with no name (Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer("")). Since scoreboard scores get organized by score, you will need to find a way to have it be placed in between two other scores.

 

chasechocolate Just that is what I can't find :S, a way to place it between the scores.

 

Can't seem to figure out this problem. I want the scoreboards to be set and reset at some events. But when i'm setthing the manager and board outside any methods, i get NPE errors on this line: Scoreboard board = manager.getNewScoreboard();.
how can i set the manager and board outside evertyhing so i can reach them from different methods?

 

Won't show up. I copied the code and edited it to my liking, no errors, no problems but it still wont show up when I run my server. Is it a plugin.yml issue possibly?

 

mollekake do you have a "manager" variable?

_Giggs_ what's your code?

 

WhaleAnarchy You are probably using wrong getHealth(); or havent defined the actual player as a (Player)

 

Anybody know how to create 2 timers in this format:

5:00 Blitz-SG 20:00
Kills: 0
Players: 24

 

chasechocolate
I have a bug i cant find:
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/help-with-scoreboard.173284/

billman555555
For the timers simply use my Better Time Formatting util.

 

Yep, i do. My very basic code, that gives an NPE:

Code:java

ScoreboardManager manager = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager();
    Scoreboard board = manager.getNewScoreboard();
    Team team = board.registerNewTeam("teamname");
    Objective objective = board.registerNewObjective("test", "dummy");

NPE on Scoreboard line

 

mollekake make sure you are importing the Bukkit scoreboard class as opposed to the NMS scoreboard class.

 

After 3 day's of hard thinking p) i dont have any solution for my problem:
I wrote 2 plugin's: one of them counting points, and second make guild's.
First plugin is showing points in scoreboard on the right side and now i want second plugin to show prefixes above players head (teams). And now i dont have a clue: How can i do that? If i'll set new scoreboard for player in second plugin, it will override first scoreboard. I tried to save in first plugin a scoreboard per player in metadata and than adding teams in other plugin but now i see its pointless becouse every player will have their own team (?!). So, is that possible to make individual scoreboard for player AND other scoreboard for teams? Sorry for my bad english, if you dont understand i'll try to explain it more clearly

 

Yep got the right imports, had to declare the objects outside the onEnable, then declaring them in then onEnable:

Code:java

ScoreboardManager manager;
Scoreboard board;

Code:java

manager = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager();
board = manager.getNewScoreboard();

 

mollekake what's the error?

 

chasechocolate Chase i have a bug that maybe you will be able to fix:
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/help-with-scoreboard.173284/

 

Hey, trying to make a Kills scoreboard, I can't figure out how to display the scoreboard to one particular player... I even tried it once and whenever I got a kill, it showed up on everyone's board. Here's my code:

Code:

package me.Dead_Skeleton.kills;
 
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.event.entity.PlayerDeathEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerJoinEvent;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
import org.bukkit.scoreboard.DisplaySlot;
import org.bukkit.scoreboard.Objective;
import org.bukkit.scoreboard.Score;
import org.bukkit.scoreboard.Scoreboard;
import org.bukkit.scoreboard.ScoreboardManager;
 
public class Kills extends JavaPlugin implements Listener {
 
    ScoreboardManager manager = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager();
    Scoreboard board = manager.getNewScoreboard();
    Objective objective  = board.registerNewObjective("Kills", "dummy");
    Score score = objective.getScore(Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(ChatColor.RED + "Kills: "));
 
    public void onEnable() {
        Bukkit.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this);
        ScoreboardManager manager = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager();
        Scoreboard board = manager.getNewScoreboard();
        Objective objective  = board.registerNewObjective("Kills", "dummy");
        objective.setDisplaySlot(DisplaySlot.SIDEBAR);
        objective.setDisplayName(ChatColor.RED + "Kills");
        Score score = objective.getScore(Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(ChatColor.RED + "Kills: "));
     
    }
    public void onDisable() {
     
    }
 
    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerJoin(PlayerJoinEvent e) {
        Player p = e.getPlayer();
        p.setScoreboard(board);
    }
 
    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerDeath(PlayerDeathEvent e) {
        if (e.getEntity() instanceof Player) {
            Player p = e.getEntity();
            if (p.getKiller() instanceof Player) {
                Player killer = p.getKiller();
                int killer_score = score.getScore();
                score.setScore(killer_score + 1);
            }
        }
    }
}

That's my only class. Thanks for the help! (Btw, chasechocolate, I love your speed code videos! Thanks for the helpful post!)

 

double.intValue();
double being your double

 

I wanna let the players join the team with a command :/ What to do ?

 

Create a Team variable, and in the onCommand() method, use team.addPlayer(player).

 

Hello,
how can I put my own variables in scoreboard (string type or else). Like: points count, rank, players online and e.t.c?
Thanks for advance!

 

Hello peps, I have this test code:

Code:java

 
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerJoin(PlayerJoinEvent e) {
Player p = e.getPlayer();
ScoreboardManager manager = Bukkit.getScoreboardManager();
Scoreboard board = manager.getNewScoreboard();
Objective objective = board.registerNewObjective("test", "dummy");
objective.setDisplaySlot(DisplaySlot.SIDEBAR);
objective.setDisplayName("§5§lStats");
Score k = objective.getScore(Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer("§eKills§4:"));
k.setScore(235);
Score d = objective.getScore(Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer("§eDeaths§4:"));
d.setScore(456);
Score kdr = objective.getScore(Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer("§eKDR§4:"));
kdr.setScore(235 / 456);
p.setScoreboard(board);
}
 

but whenever a player joins the scoreboard shows for 1 sec or so, do I need to make a repeating task to rest it every sec or what? I have no idea ... probably cuz I'm tired...

I will give a Diamond to anyone who solve this xD

chasechocolate

 

spoljo666 so it removes itself after 1 second? Perhaps another plugin is interfering?

 

chasechocolate, to you!!!! I had a plugin that was setting players display names thru the scoreboard API, when I removed it, the scoreboard doesn't disappear anymore. Thanks!

 

score board works on my test server but when i put this on my normal server scoreboard dont appears on right side and there is no console errors why this happening_?

 

Speaw ,

 

I think you have Health Bar installed.

Does this problem occur without any plugins installed?

 

Hey guys anyone have any idea how to save the scoreboard on player leave/join?

 

DrTURTLE2 I believe the player will keep the same one when they login.

 

chasechocolate

Sorry forgot to mention, server restarts/reloads? My bad.