floAuction
floAuction - In-game auction software
There are no supported versions of floAuction v3.0.x higher than 3.0.4.
floAuction provides a powerful chat based auction system with many options to help control "spam" and scams and many customizable features making it perfect for any server. Help support development of floAuction: Donate
Notable Features!
floAuction has too many customizable features to reasonably put on the main page here, but here's a list of notable ones.
- Full language customization, even (with the use of WhatIsIt) item names themselves.
- Auction house, silent auctions, sealed auctions, countdown suppression, individual opting-out of all auctioning, and many other "spam" limiting features!
- Reserves funds (i.e. removes them from the player account), ability to disable auctioning damaged and renamed items, full item details displayed, and other abuse and scam prevention features!
- Percent of winnings or price per auction taxes, limits on max's and min's of different auction aspects, banned items list and other economy protection features!
- And, finally ss of the release of floAuction version 3: Auction scopes. The ability to designate world grouping and create multiple auction houses, each with distinct language and config settings.
A list of main features, complete, in progress, planned and under consideration can be found here. Specific per-version history can be found here. And GitHub here.
Important Notes and Disclaimers
- Before commenting, read the FAQ!
- This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt, make sure they're installed if you want floAuction to work.
- floAuction uses PluginMetrics to create pretty graphs and charts on mcstats.org. All the data uploaded to their site is impersonal data, including version numbers of your server and floAuction, hardware capabilities, and ip info. If you are uncomfortable with this, go into your /plugins/PluginMetrics folder, change the "opt-out" value to "true" and restart your server.
- floAuction version 3 uses gravitylow's Updater functionality. You can disable it in floAuction's config.yml by setting "auto-update" to "false" or disable it for all plugins using that code in the /plugins/Updater/config.yml by setting "disabled" to "true". This Updater functionality contacts Bukkit's servers to determine if an update is available and installs it so.
- The GitHub for version 2 has moved to 2.x.x-archive as it is no longer under active development. The 2.x.x branch on GitHub is temporarily being used to develop version 3.
- A number of technical difficulties have corrupted floAuction versions 2.10.0 through 2.10.2, do not use these versions!
Videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPU3c8eFM8 - Admin How-To for version 3
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhZKwejao8 - Usage tutorial (v3)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XScxexjbTQs - A great installation tutorial for version 2, but version 3 is basically the same on all these points.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7XOsLisdI0 - Me rambling on about version 2, and kinda just rambling
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgG4gSkUCJk - How to use floAuction (v2)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsws7f4Rwh0 - floAuction Overview with some very distracting stuff going on (v2)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpMrRnE1KNQ - A long, but good showcase video (v2)
Send me a message if you know of any videos I missed here and I'll see about getting them added.
Commands
- /auction - Main auction interface, use "/auction ?" in-game for more information, permissions vary per functionality. Requires permission "auction.bid":
- /auc - Shortcut for "/auction" (v2.6.0+)
- /sealedauction same syntax as "/auction" but forces sealed auction. (v2.6.0+)
- /sauc - Shortcut for "/sealedauction" (v2.6.0+)
- /bid [bid amount] [max bid] - Bidding, all parameters optional. If [bid amount] is omitted, bid automatically becomes the current bid + minimum bid increment. In sealed auctions, [bid amount] is required and [max bid] is ignored.
Permissions
- auction.start - Allows creation of auctions.
- auction.bid - Allows bidding on auctions.
- auction.admin - Allows administrative functions including cancelling current auctions, suspending player's auction capability, pausing and restarting auctions. (default: op)
Setup and Configuration
This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt.
Click here to view a detailed list of all config options for floAuction version 2 and how to use them. As of the release of floAuction 3, floAuction 2 will no longer be supported. floAuction 3 has all the features that version 2 has, plus more!
Click here to see detailed configuration and setup details for floAuction 3. It is multiple pages, but if you take the time to go through it, you will discover that floAuction is by far the most powerful auction plugin available for Minecraft.
Development Participation
I sometimes upload development or "alpha" versions of my plugin to a folder on my own website. If you would like to participate in helping me make sure these major changes have been well tested before I make an official release here on Bukkit, feel free to visit http://www.flobi.com/projects/floAuction/files/ and download the most recent version available on that site. Read the readme file there before participating. I recommend against using any of these files for any server where you need to guarantee up-time or functionality, but only on development or test servers. If you choose to use these against this recommendation, do so at your own risk (though technically it's your own risk in any case, lol, I'm not guaranteeing anything).
Misc
Sometimes I post development stuff here: https://twitter.com/flobiKenobi
I don't always play Minecraft, but when I do, I play on:
Drop by and pay us a visit!
If I want a option to show the real name of a item (when auctioning a item that is named someting) what would I put in then? Like Actual Item: (some wierd code here)?
Currently its just Auctioning 1 nameditemthingyhere Actual Item: (blank) so im a bit lost on this..
Language.yml:
- '&6%A1&8 is auctioning &6%A3 &6%L2&8%C5 for &c%A7&8.%C8' - '&bActual Item: %C4&a%L1&8%C5' <- assuming there is supposed to be something else right here.. Any ideas?
@Toxic__Waste
Go in Essentials, and put min amount of money to 0.
I was testing the plugin and i put a item up for auction for 50 and had a person bid on it who only had 34 dollars and after the auction was over they won the item but also was -16 in money.is there a way to stop bidders who dont have enough money to buy that item.this is a problem anyone can max bid an item and win it with no consequences.
update to 1.8 please
Alrighty then, what about the written book issue? I'm using the latest version and books with titles still show up as "Written Book".
@RenHax
There is no such feature. All bids are final unless the auction itself is cancelled.
@RenHax
No idea, sorry.
Also a feature suggestion: Is there a possible way to add the ability to cancel a bid within say, 3 seconds? I am having issues with players trying to bid fast and accidentally over bidding. For example; they want to buy something for 100, but accidentally bid 1000. Thanks!
hi I found an issue;
When a player is qued for an action and goes to sell say '1 dirt for $1' - if the current auction ends and the player that was qued is holding a diamond/or any other item at that time point, it will auto bid the item in hand or this case: '1 diamond for $1' instead of the dirt.
@BiGUNMAN
/auc resume
@broluigi
It should do that by default.
@danielfr789
I gave the program to her since it was developed primarily for her server. I do not know her plans for this plugin.
@mr_zertgy_1999
There is a line you can edit in launguage.yml.
@xxtreepuncherxx
Holy crap. Banners would be as hard to program as fireworks were. I don't play Minecraft anymore. I had to look up what banners are, and they are seriously complicated.
I accidentally suspended auctions globally, and to one player... How do you unsuspend? Its not a toggle.
how do we make it so auctions show the actual item?
Please add compatibility with WorldGuard 6.0 for auction scopes
@xxtreepuncherxx
Go into "WhatIsIt" and edit the names.yml file, add the appropriate item value and name.
~ Developer ~
Is there any plans to re-code this plugin? optimize it out a little more and release anymore updates? Both here and the GitHub have had no changes. I also notice that the new "developer" who has taken over this project has not logged on in over a month.
@incredinex is there a way you can tell me how i can remove the floAuction prefix and make it only Auction ?
Banners are not able to be auctioned, Is there a way to make them actionable? Thank you
@delsolsi213
It wouldn't be that difficult to program into the software, but I'm no longer doing that. You could try making a feature request ticket. I'm not sure how the new owner is handling this sort of thing though.
Hi, is there anyway i can turn the blacklist to whitelist and only add allowed items in there? i run a modded pixelmon server and it will be easier to add items i want to be auctioned then adding over 1000 item ids to the blacklist.
@SpamTheClicker
the source code may not be copy pasted from the actual file. I feel bad for you because the only other way is a $180 program and that puts it into a very complex form of code
@developer
can you give a link to the WhatIsIt plugin? it says the plugin wont run without it and i cant find it
@TechNMods
Remember to install Vault and Whatisit.
When I do /pl the plugin is red Please Help Need This Plugin ASAP!