Bukkit

Understanding Area, Wilderness, and Default

This tutorial will help to explain the differences and possible combinations of Area, Wilderness, and Default flags. For the purposes of this tutorial we will use the following legend.

When we first create a new Flags installation, nothing has been set and all the defaults are active.

I want to set a flag, lets say the SpawnMob flag. The flag default for SpawnMob is true, which means monsters will spawn everywhere when the flag is unset. I don't want monsters spawning inside the areas so I'm going to set the world default flag

Command:
/flag set default SpawnMob

As you can see, now monsters will spawn only in the outside wilderness, but not in the areas themselves. What if I changed my mind, now I want monsters to only spawn inside the areas.

Command:
/flag set default SpawnMob (put it back the way it was)
/flag set wilderness SpawnMob

Now the monsters will only spawn inside the areas. However, I really don't want them to spawn in Area 1, just all the other areas. So I'm going to walk over and stand inside area 1 and issue the following command:

Command:
/flag set area SpawnMob

Now we have successfully configured the SpawnMob flag so that monsters can only spawn in Area 2 or any other area except Area 1.