Questionable Substance
Questionable Substance
What is Questionable Substance
Questionable Substance is a plugin that adds hallucinations to the game! Simply get a Red Mushroom, eat up, and watch the magic unfold!
What are these hallucinations like?
Hallucinations aren't just potion effects! Unlike some other plugins, Hallucinations are far more than potion effects, these hallucinations can appear to be completely world changing!!!
Currently there are five hallucinations available, these are:
- Turns the world around you to wool, trees made of wool will sprout out of the ground, you'll turn your world into a wool wonderland!
- Everything becomes fire! It all will burn around you! There's no escape!
- Skews your vision, and makes you feel very lightheaded.
- Meteor shower! It's the apocalypse! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
- Spooky hallucination, made just for halloween!
But won't that destroy my world!?
NO!
That's the best part! Everything that happens in a hallucination is completely client side! You're actual world will be completely unaffected! In fact, two people can be hallucinating two different things, at the same time, and the real world will never change!
GAH! This hallucination scared me! How do I stop it!
If anything gets REALLY bad, and you feel you have to stop, (hopefully minecraft can't actually scare you that much though...) simply drink a bottle of water. It should help calm you down, and it will all fade away.
Questionable Substance is in beta
Though this is being released for you all as of right now, there still may be a few bugs. None of them will be detrimental to your experience as a used, just know they may exist! If an error is logged to the console, it would be super helpful if you would PM me with the entire error message, and what was happening at the time it was shown! If you can do that, I'll try and get it fixed as soon as possible :)
What's to come?
- More hallucinations!
- Hallucinated mobs
- A configuration system
- Bug fixes (of course...)
- What ever you all request!
will there be a new build for halloween tomorrow?
A feature I would really love would be the possibility to change the duration of the hallucinations, and be able to turn disable certain ones. Other than that, it's a super fun plugin, and I can't wait for more hallucinations!
When I'm working, I generally don't like to think about what's within the realm of bukkit, but rather how can I push bukkit's limits to do really cool stuffs XD But yeah, That sounds good! I like the idea of pumpkins that disappear when you look at them, I might add that! And can I make imaginary inventories... I suppose so! I would have to do some... fancy trickery, but I think I have an idea how! I dont think I have time to do that before halloween, but that would be really cool for future versions! Lighting is done client-side, so I sadly can't modify that :(
And endless creeper hiss... I could have some fun with that one >:) As of now, I plan to not use spout, as the fun of making this plugin for me anyway is sort of having the challenge of doing cool stuff with the limitations that bukkit alone imposes. Thanks for the suggestions! I'm probably going to have something posted by tomorrow, as one of the two hallucinations is done, and I have a bunch of free blocks durring school tomorrow!
@slam5000
thinking within the realms of what bukkit can do, its hard to come up with ideas.
pumpkins that appear when you turn your head, but disappear when you look directly at them.
have the ground collapse?
is it possible to make torches not shed light/lanterns turn on and off?
skeleton riding a minecart!
with 1.4, can you have a mob wear a pumpkin?
flashmob of endermen
when the player turns around, see a solid wall, and do that until they are walled in...
can you make imaginary inventories?
endless creeper hiss
have you thought about making this a spoutplugin.. erm plugin?
*edit* didn't take any of my line breaks..
Thought you all might want to see something cool...
So, I've been working on custom entities recently for future hallucinations, and I decided that in the first hallucination that does include an entity, I'd add someone who's not very near, but still dear to the minecraft community...
However cool it is, due to extreme instability, which I'm still working out, our friend will unfortunately not be in this next halloween update, (even though that's what he was originally intended for), but still expect to see a cool halloween themed hallucination! And sometime in the future, if I can work out the kinks, except to see herobrine make a return to minecraftia!
Also, anyone have any thoughts on what they think the halloween themed hallucination should be like? I already have creepy music and lightning in it, but I'm stumped for what to add from there, definetely something pumpkin related... but I can't think of what!
Oh! And, I forgot to mention, I removed most of the lag from the fire hallucination,
the only time my crappy laptop lags from it is when it has fancy graphics + smooth lighting + a bunch of other fanceh optifine stuff on, so I think that problem is generally dealt w/ so long as you're not using max graphics settings on a slow computer
I'm leaning more towards water bottles, as brown mushrooms have potential to later be used for different types of hallucinations
In reply to t3hd0n
Awesome video! When I get on my computer (on my iPhone now, I'll be sure to embed that in the plugin description XD, if anyone else makes videos, I'll be sure to throw those in as we'll :) (to an extent... Can't have like 10 vids in my plugin description! Haha)
An update on the current state of the plugin:
As of earlier today, the meteor shower hallucination is complete, involving exploding, lava filled meteors >:D I'm yet to implement the config options I mentioned, and may postpone them to a future update, as I really want to get this out before Halloween! The Halloween hallucination is nearing completion, all that's left to add to it is hallucinated mobs! If you have any cool ideas for things to add to the Halloween themed hallucination though, let me know and I'll try to add it in before the next release!
@slam5000
You could use the brown mushroom as the cure... Or water potions (Bottles of water)
I just tested this on my server tonight, it looks awesome! of course please fix the fire bug asap but otherwise great work.
i even threw up a quick and dirty video: http://youtu.be/oivFCZAL-Wg
some things to scare the crap out of the player would be nice. also, would it be possible when someone died they 'wake up' with their full inventory? It would encourage people liking hallucinations that make playing difficult.
@slam5000
thanks for the update. This is honestly the only plugin im excited to see future updates on :D
@Punkred
OK, the running at the speed of light thing is actually a bug, and I have no idea what's causing it. I'm working on modifying intensity of the hallucinations, but that's a lower priority compared to some other problems. The fire lag is a problem I'm aware of, a temporary fix, is to lower your render distance before hallucinating, as the cause of lag there is though you can't see all the fire around you (blindness) your game still tries to render it. I thought of removing fire once it's out of the player's range, but it turns out removing it actually increases lag due to the game being forced to recalculate lighting :/ Until all that gets resolved, I'm probably going to add an option to disable the fire hallucination (and any others that make it harder to play) if you don't want it with the next build. I'm planning on focusing in the future on hallucinations more along the lines of the wool one, in that they make you go crazy, but don't inhibit your ability to play that much. The fire and vision flip hallucinations are more placeholders than finalized things. As I said, expect a halloween, and apocalypse hallucination with the next build, that will hopefully be less inhibiting than fire, and vision flipping. Once again, thanks everyone for all the support!
On another note, sorry for not being able to finish the next build as early as anticipated, schoolwork sucks :P I'll have it up as soon as it's ready!
@slam5000
Ok back with some updates. The whole bed thing was because my admin wanted to take the effects away so i told him to sleep in a bed. I set the server to /night and he was laying in bed but the effects would not change. The fire does indeed lag the hell out of players now. I literally was getting 4 fps under the fire hallucination and everyone on my server who ate red mushrooms and had the fire hallucination too were complaining about low fps. Maybe weaken the fire hallucination a bit?
Edit:
It would be awesome if like mushrooms (shrooms), dead bush (weed), and sugar (coke) all had different effects. Also instead of having the same level of hallucinations make it vary on how much youve taken, for example if you want to have slight hallucinations :D. Its fun when everything is wool world but its a bit annoying when your screen is flipped and you run at the speed of light. Id like to be able to take, say one shroom and still be able to enjoy the game with a few effects but if i feel like going full retard, id eat a whole stack and experience some serious **** if you know what i mean :P
@Punkred
I do too, but I wouldn't consider 70 unplayable at all! lol
Do you mean you can't enter the bed? Because if so, you have to keep in mind, the Hallucinations change what the time appears to be only for those hallucinating, so it may not actually be night time even though it appears for you that it is! That's why i'm thinking of adding in some kind of safety item, that would be expensive, but an insta-cure, as you sometimes have to wait until it's ACTUALLY night before you can stop your hallucination.
@slam5000
i get 120+ fps with minecraft lol. i also noticed sometimes sleeping in the bed does nothing even if its night time.
Wow! I'm impressed this already has so many people interested in it within one day! Just responding to some requests / questions presented by users:
You scared me there! lol, glad to see a restart helped! Also, 70+ FPS??!!! If you
consider that bad, you must have one amazing computer! are you sure you didn't mean 7?
One step ahead of ya! I already implemented that in the version I'm currently testing! :)
I understand why you might want that, but I feel like, (for me at least) It ruins the immersion to have something as simple as that be a way of escaping. If you eat the mushrooms, you do so at your own risk! :P I do play however to add some item you can eat to remove the current effects of the trip, but it will be pretty expensive! (not as in like diamonds, more along the lines of multiple of a relatively cheap item)
Thanks for pointing that out! I've been testing it with essentials' /unlimited command enabled for mushrooms (to avoid constantly using /give) so I didn't notice that! It should be consuming them! I'll make sure to fix that!
I'll get to work on making those changes as soon as I finish my homework, and may (hopefully) be able to have a build submitted by as early as tonight XD
-Slam
can there be a configurable amount of time that the hallucinations last?
i can see some of my players raging that they cannot get to a bed would be nice to limit effects to 2-3 mins max and/or have the effects remove themselves on player quit.
also can it consumed the mushroom on eating?
thanks
So far im liking the plugin but when i get the fire effect its extremely laggy and the wool world crashed my client. My computer dropped nearly 70+ fps while i had the fire hallucination. its pretty much game breaking :/
EDIT:
After a minecraft restart it seems to be fine again. the fire isnt dropping my frames and the wool isnt crashing me either.
Well, you're in luck! Just got officially approved! Meteor showers still to come though, I'll try and get those in by halloween, also, you just gave me an idea, Halloween themed hallucination! Definitely adding that one! Glad to hear you guys like the idea ^_^
sounds great! hope its released in time for halloween
This. Is. Amazing. I'll be following this.