#bukkit

[slushyseals]

[splatatattat]

@davionarts Mine now you’ll never be rid of me!

[3xixeel]

[awesome-power-cat]

Minecraft: Fade to Black Transition Using Resource Packs!

I've always been so fascinated by Minecraft server plugins and their ability to push the boundaries of what's possible in the game; some servers go even further with the use of custom resource packs. I find the most amazing thing about server resource packs are the creative techniques utilized to go beyond the limits of the game. Common examples of such techniques are custom GUIs, HUDs, shaders, entities using models, and cosmetics.

One technique that completely baffled my mind, was the Minecraft Championship's (MCC) fade to black transition effect. I had never seen such a smooth transition and was extremely curious about how they achieved it. I considered and attempted many different approaches: custom models, animated textures, potion effects, and shaders, but none came close to the same smooth transition.

I wondered if there was a way to do it with packets. Perhaps Minecraft already had some fade to black transition that I could trigger. I searched for the word "fade" on the Minecraft Protocol wiki, and instantly realized how it was done. Titles already have a built fade-in and fade-out feature, so utilizing my previous knowledge of custom GUIs using fonts. I was able to recreate the same smooth fade to black transition, and this is how I did it.

You are going to need your custom resource pack. If you don't already know how to make a custom resource pack you can find more information here.

You are only going to need two files to achieve this effect, a texture and font json. The font file will tell Minecraft to render a specific character with our custom texture. This is how we'll display a fully black image as a title.

The texture file ("black.png") will be a 256x256 fully black image placed somewhere in your pack's texture folder. I put mine in a subfolder named "font"

assets/minecraft/textures/font/black.png

Now for the font file. It's important to know that Minecraft text components allow you specify a font path, so the name of your font json file is important.

You DO NOT want to override minecraft's default font json. If you override the 'default.json' font by adding your custom black character, technical players will be able to exploit your transition and spam the chat with black boxes. We can avoid this problem by creating our own font file with a custom name as opposed to overriding an already existing one. I'm going to name mine "fade.json"

We're going to place the font file ("fade.json") in the font folder directly under the namespace, which is Minecraft in this case.

assets/minecraft/font/fade.json

The contents of the font json will be simple.

We're going to create a new bitmap type font using our black texture.

{     "providers": [         {             "file": "font/black.png",             "type": "bitmap"         }     ] }

Now we still have to specify our character. In theory, you can use any character you want because we control the context in which this font is used. BUT it's probably best to use a blank unicode character just to be safe.

I'm going to use this blank character "" the unicode is "\uE01F"

Note: Characters can be inserted directly or as their hex unicode value prefixed with "\u" You can learn more about how resource pack fonts work here

{     "providers": [         {             "file": "font/black.png",             "chars": [                 "\uE01F"             ],             "type": "bitmap"         }     ] }

Lastly we need to set a height and ascent. The height value is important because if it's too small, our black character won't fill the screen of high resolution displays or people who play on small GUI scale. This will break the transition effect.

I'm using 1024 for the height. I did some tests and I think this value should be good enough.

You can try higher values if you're worried, but keep in mind I'm not sure what the limit is and going too high will likely cause problems.

As for the ascent value, I'd recommend using half the height. This will center our black character and assure it fully covers the screen.

{     "providers": [         {             "file": "font/black.png",             "chars": [                 "\uE01F"             ],             "height": 1024,             "ascent": 512,             "type": "bitmap"         }     ] }

Now our fade transition is done, and you'll need to run the title command in order to trigger it.

The title text will be your chosen black character, and it's important that you remember to specify your font name.

/title @p title {"text":"","font":"minecraft:fade"}

You can change the duration of the fade by using the title timings command. Here's the command for a one second fade in, two second stay, and one second fade out.

/title @p times 20 40 20

Finally, thank you for reading. I hope you learned something new. I'm so surprised at how easy it was to acheieve. I find it interesting how simple solutions can sometimes take so much thought.

[dissentcomic]

May I humbly suggest these two dorks?

Love it when a character is like “I can tell you’re trying to smooth talk me and I’m fully aware you’re trying to manipulate me but it’s working. Keep complimenting me.”

[pseudophan]

if hypothetically i was setting up a phannie survival minecraft server rn does anyone have any plugin requests

[anartificialsatellite]

If I had one genie wish to spend on something truly petty it would be that nobody who is not in Hetalia fandom (and probably half the people who are) gets to bring it up ever again.

[octal-codes]

Hi! I'm a Minecraft modder, and I can explain

You mentioned slimefun, which is a spigot plugin, so I'm assuming you're using a bukkit derivative

Bukkit and it's derivatives are *super old*, with the first CraftBukkit versions being in beta Minecraft.

Bukkit and derivative servers try to keep backwards compatibility with their APIs, so something you write on, say, 1.8, will likely run on recent versions

This causes an issue as Mojang makes more and more changes to Minecraft's codebase (1.13's "the flattening", 1.18's worldgen overhaul, etc)

So the maintainers of the server software need to choose between keeping compatibility with old plugins or removing broken APIs. Most of the time they choose the former.

This has lead to a very big compatibility gap and general instability that can cause problems if not treated carefully.

An ever-growing alternative to Bukkit derivatives is the server-side Fabric and Quilt ecosystems. (Henceforth referred to as "fabriquilt")

Fabriquilt has the advantage of being newer, so they've seen the issues with older mod/plugin systems and addressed them in some way, the biggest thing being the separation of Loader and API.

If Minecraft makes a change that breaks one of the APIs, it's much easier to change or outright remove that API than it is for Bukkit derivatives.

If you ever need any functionality that isn't provided by any current mod, there's always someone willing to take on a commission! (Including me, sometimes)

For those who don’t know, I am the technical admin for a Minecraft server. Now I have slightly above average skills with computers, but nothing to call home about, since computers generally act weird around me. That said I was the best equipped for it so me and @the-seelie-court-official started it up together, me for technical stuff and Dion for community stuff.

Now let me tell you about the Haunting on the Minecraft server.

One of the things I wanted to set up was NPC shop keeps. Now these shop keeps look like players, and I can code them to type in chat and to walk around, but they aren’t players. They aren’t counted in the server list, they only say the words I’ve given them. One of these Npcs was Herb, the Herbalist. They sold plants.

This was their skin, by the way.

Now one day herb stopped talking, this was odd so I tried to select them, like I had done so many times before, but it wouldn’t work. Whenever I tried I was met with error messages. I couldn’t select them, so I couldn’t delete them, I couldn’t move them, they had cut their strings and I the puppet master was forced to place an end portal beneath them and drop them into the void.

I thought this would be the last of it.

Fast forward a couple months and the server is up and running for public use. The players got into the end to find the end dragon missing, and upon building out to make an enderman farm we found herb. They were hovering, in the void. Easily accessible, I still couldn’t select them to change them or edit them so we just let them stay, floating above the yawning void that was meant to get rid of them.

Over time the server got more and more glitchy, chunks were being loaded by the thousand with only one or two people on at a time. After some serious sleuthing we (me and my team) found that the server recognized a ghost player. One that wasn’t listed when you pressed Tab, but was listed on the server side. The console of the server was filled with error messages almost constantly, cascading errors of Null, of Not Found despite the fact herb was right there.

Eventually it came to a head, the corn plants and slimefun crops went Wrong. Corrupted just like herb. And with fields of Steve heads staring back from what should be a farm we agreed that we would completely delete the world. The world that herb was in, that whole dimension. In hopes it would finally get rid of them.

We thought it worked, that we had finally be rid ourselves of this beast of my own creation. An hour later Herb Appeared at the world spawn. As if nothing had happened.

Finally I had to resort to burying them in a bedrock box directly under world spawn, because while I couldn’t move them I could break the blocks under them to make them fall. They sit down there trapped, vomiting error messages any time they are looked at or touched. Waiting for the chance to destroy what we have built.

[ilterzouomo]

[fadbucker]

[hoarderofliterature]

so I have this minecraft server

it's a homebrew server that has the Dynmap plugin running on it, just for a few friends on a Discord server.

the way that Dynmap works is that you walk around, and the places you've explored show up on a webpage that you've set up through the plugin, kind of like Google Maps.

so I'm just walking around, and then I decide, well, hey, I guess I'll open up the Dynmap page for my server and see what I've explored so far.

hey, that's pretty cool.

wait.

hold on.

what is that.

that right there. no, not the split in the mountains. not the huge peaks.

what the fuck??

What The Fuck??

that's an Ancient City portal.

I walked right over an Ancient City without realizing it.

I don't think I ever would have realized it if I hadn't opened up the Dynmap at just the right time to catch the slice clean down the side.

that's cool as hell.

[puppethalo]

Moving some Instagram art over so have this series of mini portraits I made of various people that I love! Get ready for the tags cuz its about to get crazy-!

[razzle-zazzle]

you need to STOP IT with these ho/me/stu/ck aus. first psychonauts, now ninjago? STOP! BONKING YOU WITH A NEWSPAPER!

NOOOOO DON'T BONK ME!!! it won't stop me unfortunately, i love adding hs trolls to things 😌

anyway 💅 alternia as another realm within the 16 and maybe there was an invasion of ninjago at some point in the past, i'm still working out details. but the basic gist is a bunch of trolls immigrated to ninjago and honestly between the serpentine and munce and geckle and merlopians and the occasional skulkin and all of the all of it and everything else they fit right in tbh. they mostly keep to themselves but there is a bit of mingling between humans trolls and serpentine (up until the serpentine war at least), but trolls as elemental masters is next to unheard of given that trolls and humans can't really reproduce together that way.

except when wu goes to find all the holders of the elements of creation for the green ninja prophecy, well. Colton Bekkit and Nya are very obviously trolls, and wu knew that his brother had somehow managed to have a son with Tomeseek. what he wasn't expecting was for the masters of ice and lightning to have been raised by trolls, too. things are about to get chaotic (colton ends up crushing on the other three in three different quadrants pretty much. immediately. nya and kai had to raise each other and so nya's not really in touch with troll culture. things are only going to go off the rails from there)

[syn4k]

okay the question has been asked on the video, I’ll keep an eye on my email for a reply.

o7 thank you

[teafaeyay]

@fairykukla doesn't live that far from me, so if a fairy showed up at my door that's not far fetched, that's just a normal week.

A walrus on the other hand would have to get to my landlocked state, or be visiting from the local zoo, and I'm pretty sure they'd be caught long before they got to my house. Also I don't think we have any buckets in the house at the moment so I wouldn't be much help anyway.

walrus vs. fairy

the funny part is that people who answer walrus are mostly like 'I disagree, but I understand why you would answer fairy' and the people who answered fairy are tearing their hair out. some of them are getting mad and/or mean about it, which is kind of upsetting.

so, I will try to help explain.

this will not be about walrus logistics, I promise.

some people believe in fairies. full stop.

fully believe they are real. probably a lot more people than you would be happy about, but you have to allow for this to be true.

even among those who don't wholeheartedly believe in fairies, there's a lot more people who are agnostic about fairies.

people willing to admit that they're not sure if fairies are real, but willing to hedge on the side of maybe the fairies are real.

like, if you rephrased the question 'would you be more surprised to see an angel or a walrus at your door' you would probably be less surprised to see that people would be more shocked at the walrus, because you probably already understand that a lot of people believe in angels and consider them real, whether or not you believe in angels personally

also the SPN fandom would go ham on that, probably. (this is said with deep affection)

there was a fairly famous road built in Ireland that got rerouted because there was a bush that was important to fairies. (source) the fairy tree stalled the plans for the road for a fucking decade. this happened in my lifetime. people talked about it happening on the internet as it was happening, it's not some weird thing that happened in the middle of nowhere in the 1950s or something. they agreed to go around the damned bush in 1999. I know that seems a long time ago to some of y'all, but it really, really isn't.

there are still people who think the cottingley fairies were real. not a huge amount, but I hope enough to make my point- there's some people who believe in fairies so much and want them to be real so much that they think a famous prank (hoax is stretching it, imo, these girls were pranking their families and the press kind of coincidentally got involved) proves the existence of fairies.

there's a lot, lot, lot more people who believe in fairies and also will admit the cottingley fairies weren't real. the cottingley fairy truthers are a small a percentage of the people who believe in fairies.

I cannot emphasize enough that there are plenty of people who believe fairies are real and even more that could be very easily convinced that fairies are real

people have believed in fairies and been superstitious about fairies for a long, long fucking time

setting aside all of that

some people are more likely to see a thing that isn't real at their door than they are to see a living fucking walrus at their door.

fevers, migraines, mental stress, sleep deprivation (especially if you have sleep disorders, like insomnia or narcolepsy), and infection (among a very long list of other things), and prescription medication side effects can all cause visual hallucinations, and they're all states that you might not be aware that you're in when you start to see weird shit.

these are just the really mundane ones I plucked up off the list.

I have experienced hallucinations due to sleep dep and insomnia. unfortunately, for me, this manifested as a spider the size of a border collie (I wish I were joking) and not fairies, but fairies is a possibility that cannot be counted out.

I'm way more likely to have sleep deprivation and a migraine and a fever all at once than I am to see a walrus in person at a zoo, much less at my door.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it's happening right fucking now.

the fairies can have my birth name if they will take away my migraine.

just putting that out there.

I've never seen a walrus in person at all. I would like to, but it's not likely. there's not any in any of the zoos nearby that I could find.

current likelihood of me seeing a fairy on my doorstep is significantly higher than me seeing a fucking walrus. I am in a physical state where I have had visual hallucinations before, and it's not impossible I will have them again. I would not be particularly surprised, even.

as long as it's not the goddamn massive spider. I even like most spiders, but that is too much spider.

[fernsplaysthings]

I'll just let the dumb sketch speak for itself.