Hi everyone! I wanted to give an insight into the current features on our Minecraft server before it gets too long to list.
The old “YASMP” you used to play on had a protected spawn area and the rest of the world was fair-game for PvP and griefing. The new server design features Towny and an economy, plus a “No Griefing” rule. Seeing other people make their stuff available for public-use and sharing resources has been pretty awesome to see. It makes me happy to see that the server has evolved into this cooperation style rather than the grief and steal style server we used to run.
I have plans to add a plethora of new features to try to make your experience here a lot more fun and interesting than just plain old vanilla Minecraft. There’s a lot to initially go over, so I will break this up into multiple posts. First things first:
Live Map
There is now a live-map located at https://pwn9.com/map/ – Thanks Sage for setting that up. Note that if you try to go to /map, and it’s a blank page, add a trailing slash to make it /map/ and it will work.
Horses
There’s now a fancy way to see a horse’s stats without having to build an obstacle course to test jump-height or speed and guess their stats. Simply hold a book in your hand and interact with the horse.
Now you can set up a horse-breeding ranch and create the perfect horse.
But wait, there’s more. After all this effort of breeding perfect horses, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to easily sell them to someone? Well now you can! When you are riding a horse, type “/horse despawn” (I might make a command alias later to shorten this to simply /despawn) and it picks up the horse into an item you can store in your inventory! To respawn it, use the “/horse respawn” command or just right-click on the ground with the saddle in your hand.
You can also use the command “/horse neuter” (with the saddle in your hand) to permanently castrate a horse so whoever you sell it to can’t create their own perfect horses by stealing all of your hard work.
Later on, there might be some special horse skills added, such as “Frost Hooves – Freezes water below the horse” or “Dashboost – Increases the horse’s movement speed significantly for a short amount of time when the ability is used.” There are a handful of skills that will have a small chance to appear on newly born horses, but currently this feature is disabled, so don’t castrate your horses yet. I’ll make a new post about this later when it’s enabled.
Villagers
A handful of features have been added to make villagers far more enjoyable to manage. You can now pick up villagers and store them in your inventory (or horde them in a chest, you monster) with the new Villager Head item it gives you when you shift + right-click on them. While they are in item-form, you see their description and a list of trades just, like the horse stats!
Anchor the villagers in-place by shift + right-clicking on them with SHEARS.
Claim them by shift + right-clicking on them with any SHOVEL.
Claimed villagers can’t be stolen by other players, and they won’t take any damage. Perfect for those of you who are making giant towns and want to populate it with villagers but don’t want them stolen.
You can place the villager down directly into a boat or minecart, or have them dispense out of a dispenser. You can also automatically pick up adult villagers by creating a special villager hopper using 1 hopper + 1 emerald.
Quality of life features
- Chest sorting: Place a button next to a chest, and when you press it, it’ll automatically sort the chest’s contents.
- Item Finder: Do you have a lot of chests and forgot where you put an item? Use the new command
“/finditem <item>” to mark the matching chests! If you already have one of the item in your inventory, you can shift + right-click on it to mark the chests that way too. - Double doors will now automatically open the pair of doors, no redstone required.
- Invisible item frames are now possible by right-clicking on an item frame with a pair of SHEARS.
- File, sort of like the debug_stick, lets you adjust the joints of walls, fences, glass panes, etc. (Craft it like this)
- Trowel, a block-placing-randomizer. When you right-click with this item, it will place down blocks in a random order from a row in your inventory. Example. (Craft it like this) – If you right-click on the item in your inventory, you can select what row the item pulls blocks from.
- North Compass, a real compass that actually points North. (Crafting recipe)
- Slime Bucket: right-click on a slime with a bucket to pick it up. It will wiggle when you are in a slime chunk.
- Repair Cost Removal: The default Minecraft prevents you from repairing items if the repair cost exceeds 39 levels. This change removes that limit (but it will still say “Too Expensive!” because that is hard-coded into Minecraft.) The levels required to repair will still continue to exponentially increase though.
- A new kind of Pouch to replace the useless vanilla Bundle. Right-click with it in your hand to open it, or drop items directly into it. (Crafting recipe)
Custom Recipes
Currently there are 2 custom recipes. If you have ideas for any new ones, suggest it in the Discord server!
Rotten flesh into Leather (shapeless), (7x rotten flesh, 1 honeycomb, 1 ball of clay)
and Diorite into Calcite (using a Stonecutter station), (1:1 ratio), for those who want the nicer white marble decorative blocks.
Bugs and other Notes
There are some bugs that I haven’t been able to fix yet, such as explosions automatically repairing itself. Also the auto-sell chest is broken in many ways, so please use caution if you have one.
The list of upcoming features I want to add are: some kind of cosmetics such as items, hats, and/or particles, more mob variety, and more bosses. Maybe a plugin that overhauls the Enderdragon to give it new attacks and new attack patterns to keep it fresh. Bookshelves to have a small inventory like a tiny chest, and Chiseled Bookshelves to have the ability to store other items besides only books. Maybe something to give more Bee varieties. Funny death messages. An actual player-to-player trading GUI. More minecart enhancements would be neat. I really want to add a plugin to have really nice mailboxes to let players easily donate items to each-other, but the 2 that I found were extremely outdated, and another was more like a post-office where you can claim a P.O. Box that other players can deposit items into, but I feel like it needs more features built in to make it viable. Give me more suggestions on the discord server!
As always, you can connect to the Minecraft server with the ip: pwn9.com. The version doesn’t really matter too much, we have plugins to allow clients with different versions to join us, but we are currently on Java 1.21.10. We need to wait for the PaperMC server software to update to 1.21.11 before we can update to it for the new features. Also Bedrock players can join our server too! Give it a try.
Next post will be about either Towny + towny commands, or explaining the global shop + player shops.