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@ekyl I love how you count "minecraft command blocks" as coding. I wish it was…
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@calmyourtities It's a type of development that's completely different from any other programming, since you gotta do weird af methods just to create a timer. It's definitely not easy, and it's not the most useful skill, but it's rare enough that I can call myself one of the best.
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@ekyl Command blocks are quite fun for small stuff but it feels like im coding with massive gloves on. Or I'm walking throigh thick, soupy water. Its so limiting and frustrating. Then I just open up Eclipse and write the same thing in like 20 mins and it feels as if I can breathe again lol.
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@AlgoRythm it's the ability to not get frustrated by them (or at least to not give up) that makes vanilla servers really want people like me. I make all kinds of systems with clickable book links and the like.
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@ekyl Thats the easy stuff! I'm talking custom behavior. I tried for a couple of hpurs to make custom projectiles but it's not possible.
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@AlgoRythm sure it is ;D
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@AlgoRythm how were you trying to fire them off? Did you have a predefined direction and velocity, or does the player use a bow or something?
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@ekyl If the player had an item named something specific in their left hand it would fire a snowball in the direction they were looking. And the book stuff IS easy, its actual code. Just JSON strings.
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@AlgoRythm I mean a book that has links to do /suicice, /warp, /sethome, /vote, and such with vanilla. Also, completely command-block based vote triggered drop parties. And anti-dupe systems for the book so you can't do villager exploits, and donor perk systems, and a book auto-updater so players with old versions get the new one when I make changes, and stuff. I did http://tiny.cc/gpr too, a one-command thing. (it's most certainly broken in recent versions.)
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@ekyl Is the /sethome vanilla? I haven't firgured that out. My favorite vanilla creation is either my particle engine (You can buy and choose what particles you want on your player, and it has a system for spawning persistent particles) or my server management/ whatever thingy that welcomes and broadcasts their names and gives money ever 5 minutes or so (Which you can buy particles with)
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@ekyl welcomes new players* and boadcasts their names
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@AlgoRythm you can do it in vanilla, yeah. I made some cool particle things, like jump effects, but I don't have a buy system. By the way, this doesn't work with vertical movement, but look at http://tiny.cc/trdyn
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@ekyl Thanks for the links, I really haven't touched a command block since the summer though.
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