PortableHole
Want to get through that wall or floor but don't feel like digging a hole and repairing it again? Then PortableHole is for you!
If you've used the excellent Thaumcraft 2 mod in SSP, you'll have a good idea of what to expect - this is a shameless clone: you can create temporary tunnels through walls and terrain which close up after a short delay. PortableHole behaves largely (but not entirely) like the Thaumcraft 2 portable hole, and adds a few extra features such as permissions checking, highly configurable tunnelling costs, and respecting protection plugins.
PortableHole uses a Written Book item as the trigger item. The book must have a specific title (by default "Portable Hole") - when players left-click any terrain with that book in hand, the plugin will attempt to create a temporary tunnel through the world. The tunnel can be no longer than 31 blocks long (configurable), and there are certain blocks (configurable) that may not be tunnelled. The tunnel ends when any passable block, or bedrock, is reached. Although any player can craft a written book with the right title, the plugin does allow restriction of whose books may actually be used, both by player name and permission group (Vault is needed for the latter).
Latest Version
Note: PortableHole v1.0.1 will not run on CraftBukkit 1.4.5-R1.0 or later.
Features
- Create temporary tunnels in your world which close after a delay (tunnel lifetime dependent on length and configuration settings)
- Permissions support via Bukkit superperms (plus Vault for extra group support)
- Configurable tunnelling costs (items, item durability, money, hunger, health, XP)
- Respects protection plugins (any plugin which cancels block breaking events)
- Configurable sounds & particle effects for tunnels
Videos
Installation
- If you want economy-based tunnelling costs and/or permission group checking, you will need to have Vault installed, along with an economy and/or permissions plugin.
- Copy PortableHole.jar into
bukkit/plugins
and restart/reload your server. - Edit
bukkit/plugins/PortableHole/config.yml
to your liking (see Configuration) and type/ph reload
to reload the edited configuration.
Documentation
Source
Bukkit Forums
Changelog
Donations
If you use and enjoy PortableHole, you are welcome to make a donation by clicking the "Donate" button at the top right. However, donations are strictly optional, and don't confer any special benefits over non-donors.
@oliver276
Economy support has been in there from day one, you just need Vault installed. http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/portablehole/pages/costs/
Maybe add economy support or make the book dissapear after a configurable number of uses
@desht
You're right, i thought i removed that, but now checked again and it works.
@poiNt3D
I'm guessing you still have a "R: REDSTONE" line in your "ingredients" section. Remove that or comment it out and you should be fine. There has to be an exact mapping between the letters in the "recipe" section and the letters in the "ingredients" section.
(I can probably relax that restriction so that any ingredient letters which aren't in the actual pattern are just ignored).
Works fine for me, but there is a bug when using only 2 ingredients, for example:
[WARNING] [PortableHole] can't set up crafting recipe: Symbol does not appear in the shape:82
Thanks anyway! Great plugin.
v1.2.0 released with a crafting recipe included - give it a go :)
@poiNt3D
Good thinking. It's implemented in dev now, and the docs are updated. Have a read of Crafting a Book and see if it makes sense...
I'll be uploading the new release shortly.
@desht
I use author validation to avoid that. You could add an option for the recipe to give a book of specific author.
@poiNt3D
Funny you should ask, I just added a recipe to the dev code yesterday :) Although it's not configurable right now, but I could add that easily enough. Only problem is, there's no way currently to intercept/cancel players just writing their own books with the right title, so a crafting recipe is just for convenience (i.e. if you add an expensive recipe, players can easily bypass it by writing their own book).
Could you please add configurable crafting recipe for the book?
I really love this plgin!
@ximntoyoux
Sure, be my guest :)
Want us to make A youtube tutorial?
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@desht
That sounds great. I think it would fit in with MagicSpells so well, but as I think about it there might be people that just want this and not a massive thing like MagicSpells. I should have said something more like "could you also make this or something else that could be used in MagicSpell?"
@fuzyfeet
That's a possibility, yes. What I might do is have a standalone version and a MagicSpells version (using the same core code). Something to look at for a later revision...
Love it, any possibility that instead of it being it's own plugin you make it a spell for MagicSpells?
This looks awesome, will give it a shot when it has a release :)