{"id":123,"date":"2011-07-11T21:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cores2.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-07-11T21:59:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:59:33","slug":"introducing-basicbukkit-an-open-source-minecraft-craftbukkit-server-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cores2.com\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Introducing BasicBukkit – An open-source Minecraft CraftBukkit server plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past year I’ve been playing Minecraft off and on. The game is pretty simple: you play in a 3D cuboid-world, where everything is a cube with a few smaller exceptions. It’s essentially a lego-like 3D world. Since I like to play with friends, I started hosting my own server which I made public and advertised on Reddit: I did not<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0expect this many people to consistently show up on my server. After a few days I installed CraftBukkit<\/a>, a more\u00c2\u00a0manageable\u00c2\u00a0server software base for Minecraft, but I still found all existing plugins not stable nor feature complete (I had to install 5+ plugins to get all the features I wanted). Since I know Java, and I like to do small side projects for a few days, I started programming BasicBukkit<\/a> last week and now have a stable release version this week!<\/p>\n

BasicBukkit<\/a>: A starting point for a simple Bukkit-based (CraftBukkit) Minecraft server. Implements many of the commonly used mods into a centralized code base and unified plugin file.<\/p>\n

My goal was to learn the Bukkit library for Minecraft and learn more about creating stand-alone jar files that load dynamically server-side. Also, I wanted to create a mod that was\u00c2\u00a0truly\u00c2\u00a0stand-alone that didn’t have any large (i.e. ProtectionMod?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or SQL) dependencies. The resulting mod is a single jar file that produces all files necessary for managing a simple SMP \/ Creative Minecraft server.<\/p>\n

Learn more by reading our commands list:\u00c2\u00a0Commands<\/a>. I’ve now implemented roughly 40 commands and are still adding many more!\u00c2\u00a0Want to setup your own server? Read the installation notes and configuration on the\u00c2\u00a0Configuration<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0page.\u00c2\u00a0An active test server can be found at nint22.dyndns.org:25565 (Default port)<\/p>\n

One big learning\u00c2\u00a0experience\u00c2\u00a0I’ve had with this project is that users tend to dislike writing bug reports, or even reporting bugs: period. It’s very frustrating for me to track bugs on this project – so I’ve taken an extreme and pushed myself to do massive testing with this, much much more than I normally do. Because I’ve now seen three servers in the wild using my code, but only one non-developer writing up bug reports, I know I have to persue higher quality by doing heavy testing msyef, though this takes away quite a bit of my developer time (unless the bug is small to fix, which actually has increased by programming speed!).<\/p>\n

I wonder how large companies with large developer groups do debugging and manage user error reports. I know from my\u00c2\u00a0experience\u00c2\u00a0at Microsoft, bugs are taken very seriously, but I’ve only worked with internal testing. I’ve never seen how managers manage incoming user-reported bugs. I know Google has this very neat crash-reporting library<\/a> that I want to integrate with existing code, but I can’t imagine that gets users to write many more comments other than “it crashed”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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