Distant Farm
Are you tired of talking a walk away from home, and coming back noticing that nothing has grown at all? Is your house situated far from the populated areas where people rarely travel? Perhaps you knew that plants can only grow when there are players nearby?
Distant Farm keeps your plants growing while you're away using the same algorithms Minecraft uses. The plugin keeps track of plants and attempts to calculate their growth based on the time you've been absent. It uses very little memory and CPU, and doesn't require any commands or setup to work!
Credits to KeepGrowing for the base idea.
Current version: v0.2[Alpha]
Notes
- The code will be open-source once the project is near final release.
Features:
- Plants that keep growing with no players nearby:
- Crops
- Nether Warts
- Trees (All types)
- Melon
- Multi-world support
- Plants only grow while the server is online.
- Lightweight with minimal impact on server memory/CPU usage.
- Easy to use, no configuration needed.
Upcoming features:
- Plants to be added:
- Mushroom (brown/red)
- Sugar Cane
- Cactus
- Pumpkin
- Vines
- Permissions-support
- Allow only certain players to use the features.
- Ability to block the feature on specific worlds.
- Support to disable unwanted features to improve performance.
- Add the ability to register existing plants to the system (e.g. by right-clicking with a hoe)
Known issues:
- Plants destroyed by other sources than by hand aren't unregistered, they should unregister on growth-check though.
I would also love to see this updated! I just found it and remembered all the times I got so mad when I would see my wheat the same as it was when I left the day before.. If only it had grown just a little...
id love an update
Update please ! :(
Please update! I love this plugin!
==Viable Alternative==
CHDistantFarm * Functional with v1.2.3@skiffman7080
btw great job with what you have done so far!
this needs to be updated!! i need it for my minecraft 1.2.3 netherwart farm
Very good plugin, makes farming so much better. Hope to see this updated along with bukkit!
Please can you try and add these soon:
I really need them for my drug server, thanks.
@Jimmylobo
the newest file is stable ENOUGH....
but i would like to see some updates....
Also just wanted to show support. I hope this gets all fixy-worky soon. :) We're all very looking forward to not having to camp in the bloody nether to farm. haha... best of luck, and thanks very much from Isindel server.
How is the development going? :) I'm eager to install a stable version of the plugin on my server.
"Plants destroyed by other sources than by hand aren't unregistered, they should unregister on growth-check though."
Uhm - what if we uh disabled growth completely?
do you have to be in the same world for this to work? because it's not working with netherwart when i'm in a different world
@TomabScblieter
Yeah I made sure of that, replanted several times, and it didn't seem to work in a particular area, whereas in another area it did.
@domrin123
Assuming Thunder_Eye wrote his plugin anything like KeepGrowing, only crops planted after installing the plugin will have any effect. All wheat must be replanted.
@TomabScblieter
Yes I just tested this. Placed a farm in a completely different location, came back to find them grown.
@domrin123
I would appear to be getting this issue only some of the time. In some areas. I haven't recognized a pattern yet.
I am seeing similar textures, mostly netherrack, but distant farms are not even affected by the plugin. I will go back hours later and still only have seeds.
Update on the texture glitch. It is happening far more frequently, sometimes to an entire stock of wheat. (which considering my farm takes about 15 minutes to harvest fully) this is becoming a problem. The glitched crops do not yield any wheat, only seeds. I've only seen the following textures: redstone, stone brick, mossy stone brick, levers, redstone torches, iron doors, and wood doors.