Prison Pearl
Description
PrisonPearl allows players to imprison and control other players through the use of ender pearls. If you kill a player with an ender pearl in your possession, the pearl is converted to a prison pearl, and the player is imprisoned in the end. You must then secure the pearl from anyone who might wish to free the evildoer. You can also elect to use your prisoner as slave, by holding his pearl and summoning him from the end. He is bound to the pearl, and will die and return to the end if he attempts to flee.
Imprisoning
Players are imprisoned when they die and have taken sufficient (configurable) damage from a player who has one or more ender pearls placed in his hotbar. The person who dealt the most damage to the player gets one pearl converted into a prison pearl. If a player stops taking damage for a configurable a period of time, his damage log is reset and he will not be imprisoned if he dies.
Securing pearls
A pearl is only secure when placed in an inventory block, such as a chest or dispenser. A prison pearl in a players inventory will be freed if that player logs out. A prison pearl left on the ground will be freed if it despawns, or if the chunk containing it is unloaded. A burned or laved prison pearl will also be freed. Also Pearls will need to be stored with the food item the admins have selected for the server. You will have to place the food item in the chest along with the pearls.
Freeing players
To free a player, simply throw his prison pearl, or use the ppfree command with the pearl in your inventory. If the player is online and free_tppearl is set to true, the player will be teleported to your location. If not, he will be respawned normally in the overworld.
Using slave labor
Use the ppsummon command with a pearl in your inventory to summon that player back to the real world. This player can do anything as he pleases, but if he travels a configurable distance from the pearl he will begin to take damage. You can place the pearl in the chest if you think it is secure enough to prevent the prisoner from freeing himself. If he dies for any reason, he will be respawned in the end. You can reward your slave by using the ppreturn command, which sends him back to the end where he was with his inventory intact. A bad slave can instead be punished by using the ppkill command, which will put him back at the end spawn with no inventory.
Be careful not to allow your slaves to come in to contact with other people, because they could be stolen! Simply re-imprison an enslaved player to obtain their prison pearl, and use them for your own needs or free them on the spot.
Rescue missions
An imprisoned player can at any time locate his pearl with the pplocate command. Any interested parties can then attempt to break in to the pearls storage location to free it.
Commands
All commands operate on the pearl in your hand. You can also use a command on a pearl in your inventory by supplying the name of that pearl.
- /ppl or /pplocate locates a prisoner's prison pearl
- /ppf or /ppfree [player] frees the pearl
- /pps or /ppsummon [player] summons a prisoner
- /ppr or /ppreturn [player] returns a prisoner to the end, inventory intact
- /ppk or /ppkill [player] instantly kills a prisoner, sending them to the end with no inventory
- /ppb or /ppbroadcast player broadcast your pplocates to the given player automatically.
- /ppi or /ppinfo [player] tells you the pearl's damage value and the location/status of the player in the pearl. This can be used to set up shops or other mechanisms which require the damage value of an item.
- /ppsetdist [player] Sets distance prisoner can move.
- /ppsetdamage: Sets damage prisoner receives.
- /pptogglespeech: Toggles whether prisoner can talk in public chat.
- /pptoggledamage: Toggles whether prisoner can damage players and mobs.
- /pptoggleblocks: Toggles whether prisoner can break blocks.
- /ppsetmotd: Sets prisoner's MOTD.
Op commands
- /pplocateany player will locate player's pearl
- /ppfreeany player will free any player
- /ppsave will cause PrisonPearl to save its data to the disk
- /ppimprisonany player will imprison any player.
- /ppf activates the feed command.
Configuration options
- free_world is the name of the world a player will be teleported he's freed and has no bed (or if prison_resetbed).
- free_respawn causes players to be killed (allowing them to respawn) instead of teleporting them to the free_world's spawn, which allows respawn altering plugins to kick in.
- free_tppearl when an online player is free, teleport the player to the pearl instead of free_world
- damagelog_min minimum amount of damage a player must inflict before he will be considered a candidate for imprisoning a player.
- damagelog_ticks causes damage logs on a player to expire after he goes this many ticks unharmed.
- ppkill_enabled allows the ppkill command to be used when true.
- prison_stealing allows prisoners to be reimprisoned by another player when summoned.
- prison_musthotbar requires players to hold an ender pearl in their hot bar when they wish to imprison someone.
- summon_damage_radius is the distance a summoned player can travel from his pearl before taking damage.
- summon_damage_ticks is the amount of ticks between damage inflicted to a summoned player.
- summon_damage_amt is the amount of damage inflicted to a summoned player.
- prison_world is the world players are teleported/respawned in when players are imprisoned.
- prison_resetbed causes all imprisoned players to lose their current set bed location.
- prison_motd is a list of strings which are sent to players whenever the teleport or respawn in prison.
- prison_grant_perms is a list of permissions granted to an imprisoned player.
- prison_deny_perms is a list of permissions denied to an imprisoned player.
- save_ticks is the amount of ticks between prisonpearl saving data to its text files.
- upkeep: resource: (item wanted to keep prisoners pearled. Quantity: amount needed.
Permissions
Source Code
Have something you want to contribute to Prison Pearl? Here is the Source Code.
Recommended Plugins
Citadel: Is a plugin that allows players to protect anything they have with either stone (25 breaks), iron (250 breaks), or Diamond (1800 breaks). This plugin combined with Prison Pearl gives the players a chance to be freed by another player once they are in the end.
CivChat: CivChat is a mod that used citadel groups to have group chats.
JukeAlert: A plugin that creates snitches and helps player's identify grief done by another player.
Expensive Beacons: A plugin that makes beacons expensive to use but limits the effects to citadel groups and a longer range.
Name Layer: A plugin that controls uuids and player names.
Better Associations: is a plugin that associates players. Has built in support for PrisonPearl and provides useful other services for managing player accounts.
Civcraft
PrisonPearl was designed and customized for Civcraft (ip= untamedears.com) as a way to allow players be able to take into their own hands the capturing of griefers or other players. The subreddit for this server is http://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/
The Civcraft Description.
@cosmicsquirrels
It's just a string list, so something like:
Now does it work with Essentials? I don't know off-hand. Did it work in 1.5.2? Do you also use PEX?
I have a problem! I'm trying to make a prison_deny_perms list in the config, but it just doesn't seem to work in 1.6.2. I'm trying to deny certain essentials permissions, such as essentials.tpa (that are organized using GroupManager). Is there a specific format for this in the file? I've tried writing it in the config file a few different ways. Or is this a bug with essentials and prison pearl?
@Molle1997
How would that work?
Do you think it'd be possible to allow people to become basically liches by trapping themselves?
@Dilluexe
No problem that was my original goal but not many people know about this or maybe they do i dont know. Either way we will pearl you guys eventually.
@rourke750
Fantastic seeing you here! Getting the Plugin info for a friend trying to explain civcraft. Gives a headache trying to explain....
@Mowstyl
just do ^prisonpearl.normal.pearlplayer for everyone else.
@Wardel6569
When bukkit comes out with a recommended build is usually when everything gets updated. If you pm me the error ill try upgrade for you.
Any chance PrisonPearl and or CivCraft will be updated to 1.6? I personally use Prison Pearl as a core plugin in my server
How can I let only one group of players to imprison other players, like cops group chasing thieves or something else. Im using PermissionsEx v1.19.6. Thanks!
Mowstyl
@kindledcrown
in config set to your end world.
@pat554
/pptoggleblocks saves for each pearl. Do you mean to toggle it each time for newly summoned pearls? Currently this is the case where pearled players can break blocks until /pptoggleblocks is used.
Im having trouble with prisoners being able to break blocks, any way that I can stop them from without having to do /pptoggleblocks every time?
@kindledcrown
Do you get any Exceptions reported on the server console?
I need help. I've been at it for days, but no matter how hard I try whenever I imprison someone in a prison pearl after killing them they spawn in the overworld and not The End, in the config by default it says "prisonworld: world_the_end", although the end world for my server is DIM1. (I also switched the config into that but they keep spawning in the overworld), I need assistance.
@semisubzero
Currently, it's on server restart, which for CivCraft works great as it restarts once per day. For others, maybe not so much, lol.
How often does the chest consume the upkeep item? I can't find that info anywhere.
@ryciera
As Rourke mentioned, you have resource upkeep enabled. You can change the following settings to adjust it.
@Zephedge
There is no licensing problem but bukkit doesn't let us give you a direct download page from our page.
@ryciera
Make sure they have the correct materials in a chest for feeding. Or disable it in the config.
This plugin is amazing. I'll start with that. It's exactly what I've been looking for for my rp server. I can do so much with it and players have been having a blast using it.
I have noticed though, that every time I restart or reload the server, all prisoners become freed. That's gonna frustrate a few people in the long run. I was curious if anyone else was getting this problem, and if there was a fix to it.
@Erocss
Why is there a licensing issue with including combat-tag support natively? According to BukkitDev, its licensed under the "I don't Care License", which simply states "Take it, use it, learn from it, make it better.", and probably also giving credit to the original plugin and author.