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@Armarr

I'm wondering if there'd be any way to have this only work on players, not mobs.
Add an 'if', telling the plugin to not start the timer if the damaged entity is not a player.. if possible :)
I have no idea how you wrote the plugin, so therefor I can not conclude whether or not this is possible!

@Armarr

Awesome but I love the plugin though :D

@TerraVale

good ideas, lol ;)

i am actuelly finding the plugin consumes about 100MB of RAM, and so i am not going to use it for a while :(

@alienfetus

This feature seems a bit much, but the tool breaking sound and the whole blocking thing got me thinking.

There should be some sort of an advantage for sword wielders versus bow wielders. This is my brainstorming:

If you have a sword and are shot at by an arrow, (I think this is fair because arrows do not take into account what armour you're wearing for dealing damage.. I think..), if you block within 1 second of the arrow hitting you, the damage will be partially negated. Probably best to just cut it in half, for the sake of critical arrow hits. When this happens and you successfully block an arrow, the tool breaking effect should occur. It'd even have pieces of tools sent flying, like the event (if possible!).

@Armarr

You were right! Your plugin seems to work just fine in 1.3.1's RB :)

Like joehot200 here said, take as long as you like! I just know that provided enough upgrades to the crappy default combat system, your plugin could get pretty popular taking into consideration how your small melee-based tweak makes minecraft a ton more fair when it comes to pvp :D

@Armarr

take your time :)

@TerraVale

there is already a plugin that makes it so npc's come when peoplwe log off. maybe, you should have it so if a players loggs off or teleports, it would make an npc of them for 15 seconds, where they could be killed. maybe, with the teleportation one, you could make it so the npc is spawned on teleport, and anyone hitting the npc will then give damage to the player (even though he is far away, cos his tp npc is there) just adding some suggestions :)

as a sidenote, could you please update to 3.1? the recharge is instant for some reason, so swords have X3 damage all the time!

still a great plugim, but i agree that it can develop into something awsome.

@Armarr

Actually, out of all the possible features, the one feature that really makes me rage is when two people start killing eachother, then one person logs off. Because your plugin is devoted to making combat better, maybe you should have it keep an NPC of the player online for <X> amount of time if they've engaged in combat with a hostile entity or another player! And add a configurable custom death message for players to read when that NPC gets killed? That's another extremely important feature I feel should go alongside the [way] better sword combat you've introduced via BetterCombat :)

If it's possible, you could have some really flashy effects! Loading an arrow into your bow would be simple. Instead of telling people they've loaded an arrow into their bow, when people try to fire their bow without one loaded it would tell them this, because once the person learned that's what you had to do, the chance of that message showing up is now completely nullified and is more of a check for them to see if an arrow is loaded or not.

On a headshot or crippling shot, you could use a block break effect on the player that got hit! To be more precise, a good ol' redwool block break!

This is an amazing plugin. Since your plugin's name is "better combat" you should definitely proceed into an ever-growing operation of making combat MUCH better. Being the next best thing, ranged combat should be next! :)

Headshots with arrows would be amazing, crippling shots would be amazing too! (Full charged arrow shot to the foot could cripple your character, slowing movement speed for X amount of time). And to prevent arrow spamming, there could even be an option to load an arrow into your bow by tapping shift or your crouch button quickly! So many possibilities.