Extra Hard Mode

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Extra Hard Mode changes the game rules to create NEW, INTERESTING CHALLENGES for players who have mastered the core game. Unlike Mojang's "hard" mode or other plugins' "hardcore" modes which just punish you more for making mistakes without actually changing game mechanics, Extra Hard Mode delivers interesting new challenges for advanced players.

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Important Info

Detailed rundown of all features and configuration help Check here or here (alternate formatting)

You can enable specific features only for specific worlds, Check here

Save yourself some time! Check "Troubleshooting and Common Questions" for the answer to your question.

Here is a playlist of a few 1 minute clips showcasing some features

If you have any questions feel free to ask, post bugs / feature suggestions in ticket section

Recommended Plugins

Make tree logs and branches fall when chopped with GraviTree. Set "FallingLogsDamagePlayers" to true in its config for an extra challenge!
For anti-grief, avoid plugins that disable explosions entirely, because that will undermine the cave-in mechanic and the new improved TNT.

Avoid plugins which allow players to teleport themselves out of danger when they're in combat or lost. Especially avoid plugins which add commands like /home, /back, and /tpa, since they will undermine the difficulty VERY much. Consider instead a teleportation plugin like Population Density, which allows players to teleport only between teleportation posts it places on the surface every 400 blocks.

You might want to look into balancing villagers. Having diamond gear tradable for very easily farmable materials will undermine the difficulty. I use Rebalance Villagers to make the trades harder.

Metrics

This plugin utilizes Hidendra's plugin metrics system, which means that the following information is collected and sent to mcstats.org:

A unique identifier
The server's version of Java
Whether the server is in offline or online mode
The plugin's version
The server's version
The OS version/name and architecture
The core count for the CPU
The number of players online
The Metrics version
Config options that are activated, allowing me to see what people use (or don't)

You can disable the stat collection via /plugins/PluginMetrics/config.yml if you wish. If you want to see the stats, you can go here

Source

Source can be found on github here. Contributions, pull requests and feedback are appreciated :).

Credits and Thanks

Coding: BigScary for creating this project; Mitsugaru for implementing awesome utility classes

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Posted Jun 7, 2015
@Diemex

Yeah I am on 1.8.6 Spigot right now.

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Posted Jun 7, 2015
@Mike7493

I downloaded 3.6.5 and it works on my server. But my spigot version is from January :D Is anyone else experiencing a crash on start?

@CyberDrifter

You mean to add support for multiple config files? Yes sometime. Testing if it actually works correctly this time will take some time.

@erdrickk

I plan on giving the option to completely switch of features which will also switch off all the bugs from those features. The explosion module is particularly wonky, there are lots of workarounds because of limitations of the bukkit api.

Off topic: Those anyone of you plan on switching to the sponge API?

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Posted Jun 6, 2015
@Diemex

The latest version fails to start up on my server and give the following error:

[14:59:41] [Server thread/ERROR]: Could not load 'plugins/ExtraHardMode-3.6.5.jar' in folder 'plugins' org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidDescriptionException: Invalid plugin.yml at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:162) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:133) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_8_R3.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:291) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:198) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:528) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.7.0_65] Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: invalid END header (bad central directory offset) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) [?:1.7.0_65] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:215) [?:1.7.0_65] at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:145) [?:1.7.0_65] at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:154) [?:1.7.0_65] at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:118) [?:1.7.0_65] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.getPluginDescription(JavaPluginLoader.java:150) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] ... 5 more [14:59:41] [Server thread/INFO]: Set PluginClassLoader as parallel capable

I am back to using the older version.

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Posted Jun 6, 2015
something is not working right at all with custom explosions. I have all custom explosions disabled because they bypass other plugin protection systems like Mob Arena.

Anyways when they are disabled Creepers, tnt etc.. cause no health damage at all. Yes they blow up the ground like default creepers and TNT but they don't hurt players. They only hurt players if custom explosions are on.

I would think that with custom explosions disabled that things like TnT and Creepers would act as default but they don't

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Posted Jun 4, 2015
@Diemex Are there any plans to fix mult-world support? Thanks.

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Posted Jun 4, 2015
@Mike7493

Should be fixed in version 3.6.5 :)

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Posted Jun 3, 2015
@Diemex

It is always the same task number for us. The whole error is below.

[17:03:32] [Server thread/WARN]: [ExtraHardMode] Task #36 for ExtraHardMode v3.6.2 generated an exception java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:922) [?:1.7.0_65] at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:956) [?:1.7.0_65] at com.extrahardmode.task.WeightCheckTask.run(WeightCheckTask.java:37) [?:?] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_8_R3.scheduler.CraftTask.run(CraftTask.java:71) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_8_R3.scheduler.CraftScheduler.mainThreadHeartbeat(CraftScheduler.java:350) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.B(MinecraftServer.java:726) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.DedicatedServer.B(DedicatedServer.java:367) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.A(MinecraftServer.java:657) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:560) [spigot-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Spigot-6a6b839-b0e81a4] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.7.0_65]

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Posted May 30, 2015
@Mike7493

If you copy the whole error I can tell you. The task number is always different.

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Posted May 29, 2015
Task #36 is generating an exception. Do you know what this is? If its a certain feature I'd love to disable it because it throws lots and lots of errors.

WARN Task #36 for ExtraHardMode v3.6.2 generated an exception

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Posted May 28, 2015
Creepers don't do damage to players. Is this a bug with the mod or with something in our config?

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Posted Apr 21, 2015
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confirm

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Posted Apr 12, 2015
This is my favour plugin, but make a lot of error message on log files :-( I used 1.8 spigot and the newest version EHM.

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Posted Apr 11, 2015
@Diemex

Could be clientside, since the server has 1gb/s uplink at a dedicated host. Thanks for getting back to me on this, appreciate it!

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Posted Apr 10, 2015
@kemmeo

Seems like the client and the server are not in sync. As far as I know the server tells the client that there is a FallingBlock entity and the client shows it and calculates the position. The server also has to tell the client that the block has actually landed. Somehow that is no happening quick enough. Laggy internet?

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Posted Apr 8, 2015
The Better Treefelling is acting very very weird. I'm on the newest spigot build and one of my player sent me this video of the bug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIfMoE4_9wA

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Posted Apr 7, 2015
@TheLecturer

Sorry if I take very long to respond. I check the project from time to time and try to fix errors that I can fix. But sadly I have to scratch my head with most errors posted. For example the one ArrayIndexOutBoundsException you posted points to MineCraft internal code, there is no Array at that position in my code.... If I don't know what causes the error I can't fix it.

Developing for spigot is not that easy. Everyone basically has a dev build, there is no versioning. It just depends on the date you have build your own spigot version. On top of that the devs working on spigot aren't that familiar with the code like the original bukkit devs. So they are more likely to break things.

I try to keep the plugin working, but will most likely not change anything in how the plugin works. I hope that the Sponge API releases some time this year, so I can leave Spigot behind.

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Posted Apr 3, 2015
Hello Devs.

Thank you for a great plugin. Just wondering if it is still being maintained? I can see a bunch of tickets building up. If it's no longer active, then I'll retire it from our server network. If it will still be maintained, then happy to wait.

Many thanks for letting us know.

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Posted Apr 2, 2015
There's a bug in Extra Hard Mode when used in an environment with multiple worlds (e.g. World1, World1_nether, World2, World2_nether etc.) but not enabled for some of those worlds. I noticed that in the Nether (on a world where EHM is NOT being used or configured for), when a ghast appears, users still get the EHM notification about the ghast difficulty level.

I wonder how many other facets of the plugin are not taking into account the worlds that they are configured for.

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Posted Mar 26, 2015
First of all, love the plug-in and the idea of it. So props to you guys for putting this together.

However... there are a few things that are pretty off-putting that I feel could be addressed to put better balance into the gameplay and give server administrators more control over the configuration of EHM.

Unable to be granular with stone hardness. I'd like to be able to set different hardness values of different types of stone and not just all hard stones.

Presently it just evaluates type of pick axe and how many hits it gets on all hardened stone (regardless of type) but completely disregards the effect that Unbreaking should have. If part of the nature of the plugin is to make getting that diamond weapon or pickaxe truly special then having the Unbreaking enchant should feel that same way and not as a throw-away. Degradation of the pickaxe should account for Unbreaking enchantments, too, not disregard them.

Bug? When you break a chunk of "overgrown grass" or a flower on top of a regular, unstable grass block, it still caves in. That just doesn't make sense. If I'm pulling a few blades of grass, it shouldn't cause a cave-in. Digging? Yes.

A better balance for tactical mob killing. I understand why the plug-in is configured to basically prevent a user from creating mob grinders, but it's too binary. When you've got quite a few mobs descending upon you, you have to find some tactical advantages to save your skin — water, height, depths, or other things that allow you to use tactics. AND you should get credit for those kills. Can you please make this portion of the plug-in allow for more granular control over mob kill tactics? With how much XP and drops I've "forfeited" because the mob was "out of reach" or I had a tactical advantage over, I'm about ready to say "screw it" have your mob grinder....can't get legitimate XP/drops simply because I was barely out of reach by a mob.

Nice job on the plug-in though. If those four things could be addressed, I think you'd have a winner on our server. Those are the most commonly complained about things on our EHM server.
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Posted Mar 25, 2015
Hi there

Am running this plugin with Grief Prevention and think it’s perfect combo.

I have started to see some problem, people have started to misuse stone, placing it in front of doors, trying to build in players, uses it to make ugly landscape and so on.

Do you have any thought how to get around this problem? Maybe option to block placement of stone ??

Have looked into Grief Prevention for option to only allow placement inside own claim, but dosent seam to be possible..

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