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Courier

Courier

Courier

A player to player mail system for Bukkit Minecraft servers

by defxor



Allows creation of text note items and sending of letters to players no matter if they're online or offline. The letters are delivered by postmen at intervals specified in the config file, and letters can be stored and handled as any other item for later reading. We wanted something that not only allowed us to pass notes to each other, but also felt like it was part of the regular Minecraft environment.

We believe we succeeded.

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Courier in-game screenshot Framed Letter



Usage

/letter [text]
Creates a Courier Letter with the supplied text. Hold the Letter in your hands and write /letter [text] again to add more text to the Letter. Use &nl or \n to insert newlines. Multiple page Letters are supported, use right-click and left-click to turn the page.
/post [playername]
Sends the Letter held in your hands to another player, name verified to be a player on the server. Depending on the config, the received Letter will be privacy-locked to that player (can be unlocked by simply adding text to it with /letter).
/courier fees
Lists the fees, if any, that apply for sending mail or creating letters
/courier unread
Requests re-delivery of all unread mail, even if they have been delivered to you before. Courier knows the difference between a mail having been delivered and actually read, and this is meant to be used in the cases where you've managed to misplace the Letter without having read it first.
/postman
Intended for OPs only, if postman delivery happens seldom and you want to force one to appear. NOT NEEDED in actual gameplay.

To receive messages, simply poke the friendly postman when he appears or right-click him to receive the message directly into your hands or inventory.

The strings "%loc" and "%pos" will be replaced with the current X,Y,Z position in any Letters written, if surrounded by spaces.

Permissions

Quick version: Give your players courier.write, courier.send and courier.list

Long version:

courier.write
Allows players to create Letters (default: op)
courier.send
Allows players to send Letters to other players (default: op)
courier.list
Allow players to see name suggestions if there's more than one match when sending (default: op)
courier.info
Allows seeing command help, fee structure and requesting of re-delivery (default: true)
courier.theonepercent
Allows posting of mail even if you have no credits and Economy support has been activated (default: false)
courier.privacyoverride
Allows the player to read privacy locked Letters (default: false)
courier.useitemframes
Allows the player to put Letters into ItemFrames (default: true)

(For anything but the defaults a Superperms compatible permissions plugin needs to be installed)

Configuration options

Privacy.SealedEnvelope
Whether Letters that have been Posted to another player should only be possible to read by that player. If you want to change this option, please read this forum thread. (default: true)
UseFees
Whether Courier should activate and require Economy support through Vault. (default: false)
Fee.Send
The postal fee withdrawn from the player if UseFees is set to true (default: 10)
Fee.BankAccount
The Bank or Player account fees will be deposited into (default: none)
UpdateInterval
The interval between checks towards dev.bukkit.org to see if there's a new version of Courier available. A value of 0 disables. (default: 18000 seconds)
Route.InitialWait
How long will Courier wait until sending out the first postman after players have started joining the server (default: 10 seconds)
Route.NextRoute
How long between rounds. This is the maximum amount of time a delivery can take between two online players (default: 60 seconds)
Route.WalkToPlayer
Currently not functioning due to changes in Minecraft. If friendly postmen (Villager) should walk up to players or not. Unfriendly mobs (Enderman) ignore this setting and never do. (default: true)
Postman.Type
Which Minecraft Creature to use as Postman. Courier will accept all valid Creatures but only 'Enderman' and 'Villager' are supported. (default: 'Enderman'). Note: This setting is case sensitive! 'villager' does not work, 'Villager' does.
Postman.QuickDespawn
How quickly will a postman despawn after having taken damage or delivered the mail (default: 3 seconds)
Postman.Despawn
For how long will a postman stay around each round waiting for the player to take his mail (default: 20 seconds)
Postman.SpawnDistance
What's the maximum line of sight distance a postman will spawn in front of a player (default: 10 blocks)
Postman.BreakSpawnProtection
Whether Courier should try to override mobspawn protection in order to spawn its Postman (default: true)
Postman.VanishDistance
The distance a Postman will check to see if a vanished player would be betrayed by appearing within (default: 20 blocks square)
Postman.CreativeDelivery
Whether Postmen should deliver mail to Players who are in Creative mode (default: true)
Letter.ShowDate
Whether to display the date a Letter was sent or not (default: true)
Letter.FreeLetter
If players should receive free Letters or if they need to have the necessary resources (default: true)
Letter.Resources
List of resources needed if FreeLetter is set to false. Example: [CobbleStone, Paper, CobbleStone] (default: [Coal, Paper])
Letter.RequiresCrafting
Whether Courier should just deduct the resources or if players need to manually craft letters (default: false)
Letter.Frameable
Should it be possible to put Courier Letters into ItemFrames - in effect creating posters/flyers (default: true)

In addition to the above all user visible strings can be edited. Some translated configs are available in the translations folder as well in the plugin data folder. Move and rename them to 'config.yml' to use.

Trivia

As you've understood (and seen if you've looked at the in-game images) I use Maps to render Courier Letters. If you're a plugin developer and your plugin handles maps and you either want to make sure your map system isn't screwed up by Courier Letters, or maybe if you want to handle Courier Letters in a special way, you can easily identify them:

The actual Maps used by Courier to render Letters ALWAYS have their X coordinate set to 2147087904 (or INT_MAX - 395743, if you want).

The ItemStacks(Material.MAP) that point to those Maps are Enchanted with DURABILITY and the enchantment level is used as a database key to find the matching text.

Release history

(see the Changelog for detailed information)

Known issues

  • Moving Letters between slots in creative mode (/gamemode 1) causes them to become empty later (eg. after logout/login)
    • This seems to be a Bukkit issue, please do not handle Courier Letters in creative mode until this is better understood.
  • Courier does not support extended character sets, it will skip such input when writing Letters.
    • This is due to Bukkit Maps only supporting the 'old' standard Minecraft Font. If support is extended in Bukkit I will implement it into Courier as well.
  • ... and all open tickets and issues, of course.

Future development

(Not to be taken as promises!)

  • Usually the roadmap for the next version is available on the forum.
  • Allow items to be attached to mails
  • /courier list (will list offline players as well as online)
  • ... and all accepted enhancements.

Donations

I made this plugin for our own use at a private server. If you like it, and feel you want to show appreciation other than just posting a message, you can throw some bitcoins at this address: 1GA8XDDwxeSvHAbuySY9TnnBXNMqriEYcP

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  • Avatar of o0Julia0o o0Julia0o May 23, 2013 at 18:11 UTC - 0 likes

    @a support for nicknames would be great - f.e. roll-playing servers(or until it is possible just do an option in config-file for not show the name, just showing the head). Ticket: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/courier/tickets/100-support-for-nicknames

    -> couldn´t you ask the autor of the nicknameplugin, how to cooperate with this plugin?

    thx!

    Julia :)

    Last edited May 23, 2013 by o0Julia0o
  • Avatar of PackerbackrGJ85 PackerbackrGJ85 May 12, 2013 at 04:08 UTC - 0 likes

    @crohakon: Go

    Don't want to speak for him but I think that would be possible. I know for vanished players the mailman holds their post until they are no longer in vanish mode so I think it would be a similar situation here to just hold it until they are in "mail receive" mode. Although I have no need for this feature I think it would be a good addition if you have the time, defxor.

  • Avatar of crohakon crohakon May 07, 2013 at 23:51 UTC - 0 likes

    @defxor: Go

    I don't know if an opt out permission node would be the best way, as I can see players wanting to turn it on and off at will so they can in fact check their mail should they choose.

    Would it be possible to have it be switchable in game whether they are receiving mail at the time? Just have the postman hold it until they have mail turned on?

  • Avatar of defxor defxor May 05, 2013 at 16:46 UTC - 0 likes

    @crohakon: Go

    I can absolutely see the interest in such an option - it would be an opt-out permission node. Thanks for the suggestion!

    @o0Julia0o: Go

    I've not used nick name plugins myself - I would have to investigate how to cooperate with them before I can have an opinion on your ticket. Thanks!

  • Avatar of crohakon crohakon May 05, 2013 at 16:20 UTC - 0 likes

    Is there an option to allow players to reject the ability to get mail? Most of my players love this plugin, but a small few a protesting it. Would love an on off switch for plays to opt out!

    Related ticket: #102
  • Avatar of defxor defxor Apr 29, 2013 at 10:06 UTC - 0 likes

    @Shooty_: Go

    Courier already tries to override mob spawn deniers the best it can. If it doesn't work I'd urge you to point it out to the developers of the mob spawn denier plugin since they should be able to fix it by just changing the level at which they filter events (i.e, less than Highest).

    This is the relevant code in Courier.

  • Avatar of Shooty_ Shooty_ Apr 29, 2013 at 04:12 UTC - 0 likes

    The plugin seems to don't works when world guard have mob-spawning deny, can you override ? plz :/

  • Avatar of DekuHero DekuHero Apr 25, 2013 at 01:45 UTC - 0 likes

    I used this when it was on 1.1

    I dunno if enderman still deliver the mail or not... but I really liked this plugin I remember.

    Ill have to re-add it to my server. Glad I saw this, brings back good memories!

    Website: nerdysociety.com Server Ip: play.nerdysociety.com

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  • Avatar of o0Julia0o o0Julia0o Apr 16, 2013 at 08:49 UTC - 0 likes

    Support for nicknames

    What steps will reproduce the problem? use a nick-name-plugin like: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/nick-namer or http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/nametags/tickets/32-pex-user-works-fine-admin-not or http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/nametags etc. & send a letter to the nickname of the player(the other name you don´t know, because you only see the nickname. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? ..the letter will never arrive, because it´s stored to the nickname & not to the real PLAYERNAME.

    What version of Courier are you using? 1.19

    What version of CraftBukkit ("Bukkit") are you using? 1.0.1-R1, dev build number etc. Bukkit craftbukkit-1.4.7-R1.0

    Do you have an error log of what happened? no - it´s no errer... ist locigal.

    So - it would be nice, if you can make a config-file for nicknames like: NICKNAME1 = PLAYERNAME2 NICKNAME2 = PLAYERNAME1 etc.

    In this config-file, the admin can write down the nicknames matching the real Playernames. So the courier(your plugin) watches first in this config if the letter has to be stored to another Name(the Playername) if the Sender posts(/post) it to the nick(because the users only know the nicks).

    thx

    Julia :)

  • Avatar of domdomegg domdomegg Mar 29, 2013 at 19:08 UTC - 0 likes

    Can't wait for items to be attached to mail :D Extra charge for parcel would make it even more awesome :D

    domdomegg, owner of the HyperCraft server. IP = mc.ajones.tk

Table of contents

  1. 1 Courier
  2. 2 Usage
  3. 3 Permissions
  4. 4 Configuration options
  5. 5 Trivia
  6. 6 Release history
  7. 7 Known issues
  8. 8 Future development
  9. 9 Donations

Facts

Date created
Dec 23, 2011
Categories
Last update
Jan 16, 2013
Development stage
Release
Language
  • enUS
License
GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
Curse link
Courier
Downloads
37,606
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Optional dependency
Vault