I am working my way further through the plugins and checking functionality, so far so good. I have tested more plugins and so far nothing dramatic. I think we can also continue with the sign clicking as it was. The biggest issue is that someone clicking on a sign to edit it, also executes the story at the same time. I think we can live with that.
There is one big issue regarding the darklands:
- We have much more new items emitting light.
- We are playing right now in the future darklands and placing torches everywhere. How do we deal with that once the server goes live?
Regarding the new sources of light: If we stick with past practice, we should disable all of those new light sources and stick to glowstone. That means that stuff like soul fire, copper bolbs, candles, lanterns, sea pickles, Amthyst clusters, cave wines with berries, frog lights, and shroom lights should all be banned. I am in favor to ban everything that is easy to farm or make. Glowstone is a perfect scarce resource that is not easy to get once a certain amount in the nether has been farmed. Let me know what you think. You can look up all sources of light in the wiki here.
Secondly, we are right now building and placing a lot of lights that will eventually become the darklands. I have now created a plugin that will automatically “mine” all defined light sources in a specified radius around the player. I am not sure yet how intensive that will be to avoid lag, but it seems to me that would be the most straightforward way to fix this issue. Recommened radius would be 10 blocks. Also, let me know what you think regarding that matter.
Ok, so I currently have placed a torch every 5 spaces by 5 spaces in the little base I made and every ten blocks in the tunnels in the new darklands. Roughly 600 by 600 blocks give or take. Should I start replacing them with glowstone? So my little base is not instantly covered in darkness And help reduce the lag. And could I use lava as a light source now before darkness falls upon the land?
Lava is now a renewable resource, at a very low cost. Meaning, placing lava into anything, including cauldron, should also be banned.
Campfires, in general, should be banned regardless of type.
Campfires are an obvious one. Lava is tedious and a bit expensive at least. It’s for sure hard to carry 64 lava buckets.
I think those torches placed now are okay, it’s not too much – just for the future it would not work anymore.
I love this thought, anyone playing now would be able to keep torches up. Those entering later will be in the darkness and I welcome new people to my little corner of the darklands,.if you can find me.
BTW, where (in terms of coordinates) will be Darkland’s entry (the protected area)?
Good question. We can decide that as we like. 0/0 or 1000000000/10000000000 …. really as we like.
AFAIK, currently everyone is more or less around (0,0), plus-minus.
Making the hub somewhat farther, where no base is built, could be a logical choice. Well, it would be interesting to know other opinions.
I love this thought, anyone playing now would be able to keep torches up. Those entering later will be in the darkness and I welcome new people to my little corner of the darklands,.if you can find me.