floAuction
floAuction - In-game auction software
There are no supported versions of floAuction v3.0.x higher than 3.0.4.
floAuction provides a powerful chat based auction system with many options to help control "spam" and scams and many customizable features making it perfect for any server. Help support development of floAuction: Donate
Notable Features!
floAuction has too many customizable features to reasonably put on the main page here, but here's a list of notable ones.
- Full language customization, even (with the use of WhatIsIt) item names themselves.
- Auction house, silent auctions, sealed auctions, countdown suppression, individual opting-out of all auctioning, and many other "spam" limiting features!
- Reserves funds (i.e. removes them from the player account), ability to disable auctioning damaged and renamed items, full item details displayed, and other abuse and scam prevention features!
- Percent of winnings or price per auction taxes, limits on max's and min's of different auction aspects, banned items list and other economy protection features!
- And, finally ss of the release of floAuction version 3: Auction scopes. The ability to designate world grouping and create multiple auction houses, each with distinct language and config settings.
A list of main features, complete, in progress, planned and under consideration can be found here. Specific per-version history can be found here. And GitHub here.
Important Notes and Disclaimers
- Before commenting, read the FAQ!
- This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt, make sure they're installed if you want floAuction to work.
- floAuction uses PluginMetrics to create pretty graphs and charts on mcstats.org. All the data uploaded to their site is impersonal data, including version numbers of your server and floAuction, hardware capabilities, and ip info. If you are uncomfortable with this, go into your /plugins/PluginMetrics folder, change the "opt-out" value to "true" and restart your server.
- floAuction version 3 uses gravitylow's Updater functionality. You can disable it in floAuction's config.yml by setting "auto-update" to "false" or disable it for all plugins using that code in the /plugins/Updater/config.yml by setting "disabled" to "true". This Updater functionality contacts Bukkit's servers to determine if an update is available and installs it so.
- The GitHub for version 2 has moved to 2.x.x-archive as it is no longer under active development. The 2.x.x branch on GitHub is temporarily being used to develop version 3.
- A number of technical difficulties have corrupted floAuction versions 2.10.0 through 2.10.2, do not use these versions!
Videos
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPU3c8eFM8 - Admin How-To for version 3
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhZKwejao8 - Usage tutorial (v3)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XScxexjbTQs - A great installation tutorial for version 2, but version 3 is basically the same on all these points.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7XOsLisdI0 - Me rambling on about version 2, and kinda just rambling
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgG4gSkUCJk - How to use floAuction (v2)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsws7f4Rwh0 - floAuction Overview with some very distracting stuff going on (v2)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpMrRnE1KNQ - A long, but good showcase video (v2)
Send me a message if you know of any videos I missed here and I'll see about getting them added.
Commands
- /auction - Main auction interface, use "/auction ?" in-game for more information, permissions vary per functionality. Requires permission "auction.bid":
- /auc - Shortcut for "/auction" (v2.6.0+)
- /sealedauction same syntax as "/auction" but forces sealed auction. (v2.6.0+)
- /sauc - Shortcut for "/sealedauction" (v2.6.0+)
- /bid [bid amount] [max bid] - Bidding, all parameters optional. If [bid amount] is omitted, bid automatically becomes the current bid + minimum bid increment. In sealed auctions, [bid amount] is required and [max bid] is ignored.
Permissions
- auction.start - Allows creation of auctions.
- auction.bid - Allows bidding on auctions.
- auction.admin - Allows administrative functions including cancelling current auctions, suspending player's auction capability, pausing and restarting auctions. (default: op)
Setup and Configuration
This plugin requires Vault and WhatIsIt.
Click here to view a detailed list of all config options for floAuction version 2 and how to use them. As of the release of floAuction 3, floAuction 2 will no longer be supported. floAuction 3 has all the features that version 2 has, plus more!
Click here to see detailed configuration and setup details for floAuction 3. It is multiple pages, but if you take the time to go through it, you will discover that floAuction is by far the most powerful auction plugin available for Minecraft.
Development Participation
I sometimes upload development or "alpha" versions of my plugin to a folder on my own website. If you would like to participate in helping me make sure these major changes have been well tested before I make an official release here on Bukkit, feel free to visit http://www.flobi.com/projects/floAuction/files/ and download the most recent version available on that site. Read the readme file there before participating. I recommend against using any of these files for any server where you need to guarantee up-time or functionality, but only on development or test servers. If you choose to use these against this recommendation, do so at your own risk (though technically it's your own risk in any case, lol, I'm not guaranteeing anything).
Misc
Sometimes I post development stuff here: https://twitter.com/flobiKenobi
I don't always play Minecraft, but when I do, I play on:
Drop by and pay us a visit!
One small thing, we translated this plugin on our server. However its not able to read our characters even though we changed the language.yml's file format to UTF-8.
Could this be fixed?
Hmm, When people sell more than 1 potion if a player wins it, they receive the item as a stacked potion... Any idea if this could be fixed?
@xDrapor
gBay is just floAuction renamed, but I added Essentials as a load before and it worked fine, so thanks.
@ShakyTom
And that error is for the plugin "gBay", not floAuction.
@ShakyTom
Add a loadbefore: [Essentials, Vault] to the plugin.yml.
Errors with the latest Essentials.
Can we use Minecraft names like? - dirt or does it need to be the number
@ShakyTom
Okay, I think I might know what's causing that.
@Curtis4321
There's already a feature in the config to block certain items from being auctioned.
Though, I have to admit, suspention from auction altogether would be my choice.
Dang, I really need to document this thing better. I guess it had just grown faster than I upkept documents. The config part is documented here though: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/floauction/pages/configuring-flo-auction/
And I think it's "/auction suspend DumbAss 60" will suspend a user (DumbAss in this case) for the specified time (60 seconds), omit the time for indefinite. "/auction resume DumbAss" to allow him to reauction. suspend and resume can be used without usernames to stop/start all auctioning on the server without having to disable the plugin. You'll have to try it, because I'm not really in a position to do so atm.
Ok thanks.. Suggestion:
Perm nodes for blocks to be stopped from being sold
example - -auction.start.dirt
This will stop dirt from being sold
This way we can stop stupid Auctions for stupid items ;)
@incredinex
If the owner of the auction leaves and they have an auction in the queue, the auction is not removed from the queue and it either throws a nullpointer when their auction comes around or sends insufficient-supply-2 to every player on the server.
@Curtis4321
Download 2.4.4
EDIT: I have removed the offensively broken file. No one can download it anymore.
Updated to lastest version. /auction is not recognized.
@incredinex
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@KevinEssence
I must have been out of it when I uploaded it. I didn't even type the version number correctly. This was all my fault. Total fail on my side.
@incredinex
Oh I see no worries hehe, thanks a lot bro sorry for the confusion! Keep up the good work!
@KevinEssence
Sorry, I guess I need to be more thorough. Just use the 2.4.4 for now, I'll get a fixed update when I get back to a computer. On the iPhone at the moment. The 2.4.5 update was supposed to make unsafe enchantments auction able. It only affects a small group (I think)
@ShakyTom
Yeah :s I typed it and it keeps saying "Type /gbay for instructions."
@KevinEssence
He/she left the command as /gbay looking at the git. (partly my fault sorry!)
I updated to latest craftbukkit and latest flo auction build and no one can start auctions nor is there even a command to do it anymore, says unknown command. The bidding is still available although.