Glowstone Lanterns

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Make glowstone lanterns, daytime glass & nighttime glowstone

Version: v1.0.1

Glowstone Lanterns

With this plugin Glowstone Lanterns you can make lanterns, when it's going dark the glass of the lanterns will change in glowstone and when it's daytime it will change in glass again. The great thing is that you don't need to place a full lantern but only a glass/glowstone block, so you can use it for everyting. This plugin is very usefull for a large city to light it up, that looks really cool that the lanterns will change in glowstone! You can also place prebuilt lanterns, so that's really usefull if you want to plase a lot of lanterns in a little time. You can enable glowstone lanterns with /gl, when you place a glass or a glowstone block it is marked as a glowstone lanterns, this block will change to glowstone if it is night and to glass if it is daytime. If you use /gl l 1 you will enable prebuilt glowstone lanterns, if you place a glass or a glowstone block there will apear the prebuilt glowstone lantern you selected right there. There prebuilt lanterns are in external files, so you can make your own prebuilt lanterns and share them with other pelople.

Video

In this video you can see how the plugin works: (Outdated Video)

Features

Permissions support
Multi world support
Place prebuilt lanterns that are located in external files, you can make them and share them with other pelople
Possibility to create your own lanterns
Players can only destroy lanterns if he have permission
And a lot more!

Upcoming features

Custommessages and color support
In-game prebuilt lanterns creator

Player Commands

Action	Command	Permission node
Enable build mode	/gl	glowstonelanterns.gl
	/glowstonelantern
	/glowstonelanterns
Enable prebuilt mode	/gl lantern <name>	glowstonelanterns.gl
	/gl l <name>
Disable prebuilt mode	/gl lantern
	/gl l
List prebuilt lanterns	/gl list lanterns
	/gl list l
View help	/gl help
View info	/gl info	glowstonelanterns.info
Save lanterns	/gl save	glowstonelanterns.save
Reload lanterns	/gl reload	glowstonelanterns.reload
Check current version	/gl version

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Download

You could download Glowstone Lanterns with the link on the top-right of this page above the sidebar.

Installation

1. Download the plugin 2. Add the GlowstoneLanterns.jar file and the folder 'Glowstone Lanterns' from the downloaded .zip file to the /plugin folder of the Minecraft server. Also add the included folder 'Glowstone Lanterns' to your plugins folder. 3. Add the permissions if you have; (Look at the permissions paragraph underneath) 4. Start your game and use Glowstone Lanterns!

Permissions

Action	Permission node	Default
/gl command	glowstonelanterns.gl	Operators
Destroy lanterns	glowstonelanterns.destroyLanterns	Operators
Info command	glowstonelanterns.info	Operators
Save command	glowstonelanterns.save	Operators
Reload command	glowstonelanterns.reload	Operators

How to make your own prebuilt lantern

You could find the guide for this on the following page:

Page: Tutorials : How to create your own prebuilt lanterns

Suggestions, Ideas and bugs

I've you have any suggestion, ideas or bugs found. Please reply on this page or create a ticket.

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Posted Oct 14, 2012
New version available, Glowstone Lanterns 0.6!

I just released a new version of Glowstone Lanterns. The first thing which is changed is that all the lanterns won't change instantly, but with a little delay. Before you had a spike lag for 3 seconds and this delay should fix this issue. You could tweak the delay, and you could even disable it in the config file. Also a new feature is that Glowstone Lanterns will finally generates it's own config files if the don't exists, so there is no need to copy the Glowstone Lanterns folder from the downloaded .zip, although I still suggest you to do so. Another great feature which has been added is better permissions support. Glowstone Lanterns finally fully supports PermissionsEx, Essentials Group Manager and the default permissions system. The other things that have been changed are mostly little bug fixes.

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Because the bukkit administrators need to validate the new plugin file, the download probably isn't available yet on this page. I hightly recommend you to download the file from my website:

Direct link: http:www.timvisee.com/download/75

All versions: http:timvisee.com/projects/bukkit/dungeon-maze/downloads/

How to update Glowstone Lanterns from 0.5

If you want to update Glowstone Lanterns to the new 0.6 version, the only thing you've to do is download the files. You've to update the .jar file inside your plugins folder. You also have to update your config.yml file inside the plugins/Glowstone Lanterns folder, I suggest you to just overwrite this file, and after that you could make your changes in the config file.

How to install Glowstone Lanterns 0.6

If you haven't installed an earlier version of Glowstone Lanterns you've to do the following to install the plugin. At first you've to download the file. Then you need to copy the .jar file inside the downloaded .zip into your servers plugin folder. I hightly suggest to also copy the Glowstone Lanterns folder inside the downloaded .zip file, but if this isn't possible the plugin should auto generate it's config files.

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Posted Oct 5, 2012
@timvisee

Cool thank you

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Posted Oct 5, 2012
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Ah I understand. I've to say that I haven't planed one of these updates yet. I might try to make this update today :)

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Posted Oct 4, 2012
@timvisee

i meant just like a regular update but with the exception of the framerate issues fixed

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Posted Oct 3, 2012
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For the redstonelamps. I don't know since I'm not able to add this feature yet in the current minecraft version.

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Posted Oct 2, 2012
When can we expect an update?

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Posted Sep 27, 2012
@xH3LLRAIZ3Rx

Not yet, you could give it a try with redstone torches. It's because minecraft will automaticly turn the lanterns instantly off when you change them. That's why it isn't possible yet.

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Posted Sep 26, 2012
Can you add redstone lamps as well to gl so when at day lamp is off at night lamp on

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Posted Sep 25, 2012
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Ok, I might send you a dev build later then haha.

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Posted Sep 25, 2012
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Ok, I will try to add an delay to the lanterns then.

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Posted Sep 25, 2012
oh btw timvisee i can test the dev builds for you if you ant, im currently testing samkio`s GlobalBank plugin

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Posted Sep 25, 2012
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it is, my friend tested with a block update detector and we found out the plugin uses block update, to many block updates in an area = Frame rate drops

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Posted Sep 25, 2012
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Yeah that could be right, but when I'm just updating 2 lanterns I've also a little frameratedrop which is very strange then!

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Posted Sep 22, 2012
1.3.2 ???

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Are there any plans to updating this plugin to 1.3.1/1.3.2? If you can try to update this plugin that would be awesome!

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Posted Aug 25, 2012
@timvisee

I just found out the problem of the framerate drops is becuase of the massive amounts of block and light updates

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Posted Aug 20, 2012
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I think it's because that chunk wasn't loaded. I'm planning to add a feature that the lanterns wouldn't change in unloaded chunks, untill the chunk is loaded again. I think this will fix the problem (actually, I hope so) this will be added later then.

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I'm thinking about the following.. What I could do is if the chunk of a lantern isn't loaded, it wouldn't change the lantern, and when that chunk starts loading it will change it automaticly. Also, that when the lanters should change, that they wouldn't change instatly, but all of them with a little delay. If you know what I mean. I've to think about this, the thing with the chunks is a good idea anyway.

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Posted Aug 20, 2012
@AcidSikeO

Thanks, about SQL, I never thought about that. That might be a usefull feature for some servers. Actually, I never worked with SQL, well, I use it a lot for website programming, like for a Social Network I'm working on ;) (http://www.yupe.nl/), but I never used it in java programming for plugins, as I said, I like the feature, so I'll try to add it later on. If anyone has a suggestion for a tutorial or something, which could easily help me with adding the SQL support, it would be great!

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Posted Aug 20, 2012
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I can't fix that. It's a minecraft problem.

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