EggCatcher
EggCatcher
This plugin allows the players to get the new Spawn Eggs from Minecraft 1.1 by throwing regular eggs at mobs. It is intended to be simple to set up and use. The plugin is open source and can be forked on github. If you make any changes, pull requests are appreciated.
Current features
- Configurable mob health limit.
- Respects animal protection plugins such as GriefPrevention
- Compatible with all trading plugins.
- Very simple, throw an egg at a mob and it will be turned into a spawn egg.
- Permissions support.
- Configurable catch chance.
- Configurable cost (vault support, or items).
- Explosion effects.
Installation and requirements
Vault is not required unless you intend to use it
Download the jar file and the configuration file will be generated on the first startup.
Configuration and permissions
Video
Video credits: VariationVault
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Forge_User_28583343 Owner
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Posted Feb 8, 2015@shansen1
This stupid plugin even autoupdates when the updater is disabled! Can you please fix this crap? Thanks!
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Posted Feb 8, 2015I'm almost certain this isn't a problem with eggcatcher, but I'll ask anyways. Is anyone having a problem with spawned villagers disappearing after the player gets too far, exactly like hostile mobs? Or know of anything that could cause that?
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Posted Feb 5, 2015@MikeGold
No it doesn't have to be updated. Only to add in new mobs etc. So if you are running the 1.8 server with the EggCatcher version for 1.7 it will still work but you'll be unable to catch the new 1.8 mobs.
Although it hasn't happened for 3 years there is of course always a chance that something major changes in the Bukkit/Spigot/whatever api that breaks the plugin. But the whole point of the Bukkit API is to keep the plugins forward compatible.
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Posted Feb 5, 2015I'm totally new to your plugin. So you mean that your plugin doesn't have to be updated with each server update? That would be a huge thing for me, as my users are heavily dependent on mob catcher and I always have to wait for it to update.
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Posted Feb 4, 2015@MikeGold
When I made EggCatcher I made it to have a way to get the vanilla spawn eggs with vanilla features. I wanted it to be simple and compliant with other plugins. Shortly after MobCatcher was introduced and released with additional features. It is though not as compliant with many plugins (they can't handle the extra data on the items). Also MobCatcher has to release an update for each new build of bukkit/spigot, which means waiting.
If I were to put the same features into EggCatcher I would end up with the same limitations as MobCatcher. It also seems like the users of EggCatcher chooses EggCatcher over MobCatcher because of simplicity and stability (I've been told this over and over again). Same as MobCatcher users chooses MobCatcher over EggCatcher for the extra features.
So it's much better that if people want those extra features that they just use MobCatcher, instead of starting to add the same features to EggCatcher. To have 2 different plugins with the exact same features doesn't make much sense :)
I personally like both plugins. It completely depends on how you run your server. As you can see on www.mcstats.org there's many users of both plugins.
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Posted Feb 4, 2015@VariousArtist
I am aware of this problem but it's not an easy fix as the versions (2.0+) that use the bukkit Updater is already deployed. The Updater can be disabled entirely for all plugins in config/Updater/config.yml which I would suggest for all 1.7 servers.
It never happened before because the 2.0 is the first version with the new updater and there's been no updates since then.
Right before 2.0 was released bukkit changed their guidelines for auto updating. EggCatchers own updater was no longer compliant. I was therefore forced to change the auto updater to be compliant and changed it to the recommended Updater at the time.
The default behaviour of Updater is to always update to the latest version no matter what version the server is running.
The instructions for using that Updater has since changed but I can't change the 2.0 version that is already deployed.
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Posted Feb 4, 2015Thanks for the reply. It was a feature that was in the plugin that I have previously used and it's name starts with "mob" if you catch my drift. None the less it's ok and my users are happy to have mob catching in game once again ;].
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Posted Feb 4, 20152 days ago your plugin autoupdated to version 2.3 on a 1.7.10 server. Not cool! Even with "checkforupdates" true it shouldnt autoupdate without the input from an admin! And especially not on a server that cant run the plugin! Why did that never happen before? Fix that please!
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Posted Feb 4, 2015@MikeGold
The plugin uses the spawn eggs Minecraft already has, which spawning on the ground where you right click is the only way, so I doubt there could be a way to do it, at least not easily.
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Posted Feb 4, 2015Great plugin! The only thing I'd love to see is the way to throw the spawn eggs. At the moment I can only place them on the ground and the mob spawns from them.
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Posted Feb 2, 2015Awesome plugin
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Posted Jan 31, 2015@eichi92
Thanks. It's fixed in version 2.3 that has just been uploaded.
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Posted Jan 31, 2015config.yml reset to default after server restart I checked before ... YAML Parser said all okay
I changed the config while the Server was stopped... The config reset always on plugin load to default ... I use version 2.2 and Spigot 1.8
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Posted Jan 30, 2015@EmpathyHeals
The new entity types has been added in 2.2. Until it's approved you can keep using 2.1.1.
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Posted Jan 29, 2015Are you updating this to work with 1.8.1?
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Posted Jan 29, 2015@DrkMatr1984
Where can I find your update? I really like this plug-in!
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Posted Jan 29, 2015@mike_x1
I re-did the method for removing the entity upon capture to make it so it actually "kills" the entity in my updated version. Also, you can now catch mobs by walking up to them and "hitting" them(Left-Clicking) with an egg. Lastly, I've added all the new Mob-Types and variants, and added in a way to serialize individual mobdata for respawn down the road with the Egg.
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Posted Dec 10, 2014I recently updated this plugin to 1.8 for my server! I'll Submit a pull request soon. In the meantime if anyone needs a copy, just PM me. And Yes, I added the new mobs!
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Posted Aug 24, 2014Could you please add a Worldguard flag for this? I would like to disable the plugin in a specific area but players should still be able to harm animals (Which are NPCs)...
If that wouldnt work, please make it so that it kills the animals upon catching... This would save some of us server owners a lot of time I think...
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Posted Jul 6, 2014May its possible to include an Option for Changing the Item?
Like:
Hit an Mob with an Endereye to catch it and remove the Endereye if Catch is Sucessed?