ZArena
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A fun arena based zombie survival game, vaguely based off of Call of Duty Zombies, only taken to a whole new level. Setup an arena in minutes and fight against wave after wave of unique, customizable zombies to see how far you can get before being overrun!
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Features
- Fully customizable zombies, skeletons, and wolves. Design your own types using YAML files. You can customize path finding range, speed, damage, equipment, special abilities, damage immunities, special effects, and more!
- Unlimited waves. The only limit is how far you can get without being killed!
- Wolf and skeleton waves.
- Easy to make arenas, with definable spawns, purchase signs, toll signs for doors, and death spawns.
- Games automatically run without maintenance. When a game ends, you have the option (in the config) to start a vote for which map should be run next.
- Different gamemodes to keep the game interesting. Such as, a hardcore gamemode, and a scavenger gamemode. These, like custom zombies, can be created using YAML files.
- Incredibly customizable. Along with customizable zombies, you can also customize the number of zombies per wave, the health of zombies per wave, starting items for players, how often wolf/skeleton waves occur, how much money you get per kill, whether or not the game auto runs, whether or not players auto-join the game, and more!
- Smart zombies with pathfinding, so players can't just hole up on one end of the map and only have to face the zombies that spawn near them.
- Built in kill counter to show who the top killers in the game are.
Spout Features
- You can press the 'o' key to configure personal spout options.
- You can press the ' ~ ' key to view a custom tab screen, with shows the stats of all ingame players.
- Entities can have custom textures.
- A custom voting popup comes up during voting.
Potential Upcoming Features
- Option for zombies to open doors instead of just destroying them.
- Support for World Guard, so that you can set a region for each level. The region will reset after each game back to its original state, and players/zombies will be unable to leave the region. Non-ZArena entities will also be unable to spawn in this region. Having a level have a region will be optional.
- More entity abilities and special effects.
Tutorials
The plugin can get fairly complicated if you want to use all of its features to their full extent. Here are some tutorials on how to use it, ordered (somewhat) by importance.
- Permissions
- Level Making Guide
- Command Guide
- Custom Entity YAML files
- Custom Gamemode YAML Files
- Custom Items
- Advanced Signs
Something not covered here that you need to know? Write up a ticket, or ask on the forums.
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@Zoyer2
A "smart multiplier" for zombie amounts is being added in the next update, which is currently awaiting approval. In that update, the bug where you leave the game in adventure mode is also fixed. Also, a tutorial for custom gamemodes will be written soon.
Tutorial 1 for ZArena has been uploaded. Go check it out!
@Zoyer2
This was a suggestion that many players on my server were suggesting. I'll talk to kabbage about this.
Also, I think you should ad smart multiplier, so how many mobs that spawn is adjusted to how many players there is in the game,
like this: 1 player, 1st wave: 12 mobs
2 players, 1st wave: 20 mobs
or something :)
Is it possible to do own game modes? also, I found a bug, when somone have played this and they leave, they can't break any block only grass and snow layers :/ they come in adventure mode
@kabbx
yup, it worked, now I can have this plugin as a minigame in my server, thanks :)
@10jared105
See here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/howto-upgrading-your-server-to-java-1-7-jre-7-for-windows.71767/
@kabbx
I updated my Java to 7 and it still spits it out..
@kabbx
How do I get it? Why do I need it?
@kabbx Thanks for the tips, i'll try it out when the mincraft servers are up again :D
@Zoyer2
Danielzxzx was incorrect, you can have animals spawn by setting world exclusive to false in the config file.
@Danielzxzx
I see, :). Well i want to use this with my mo' creatures server and then i can't have both :/, Otherwise really nice plugin love it :)
@10jared105
You need Java 7, which you don't have.
@kabbx
yes I have
@xleumas Just added the guide for it. http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/zarena/pages/advances-signs/
@ms0244412 Did you set the death spawn? If you don't set one, than players will just be tp'd to the initial spawn when they die, as the plugin won't know where else to send them.
@Danielzxzx There already is an option for it, kind of.
@Zoyer2 You have to set world exclusive to false in the config. Or, just use ZArena in a separate world from your main world, using a multiworld plugin.
i have seen in the video unlockable doors. where is the guide of this?
@Zoyer2
This is normal since we found animals to be annoying when playing ZArena. We may however add an option to the config to allow spawning of animals.
Animals stopped spawning when using this plugin :/