Creating a new game
This page explains step by step to setup a new game.
Minimum required setup
Create a new game
Execute the following command to create a new arena file.
/blockball create game1 My first game
Confirm that the arena has been created
Execute the following command to list all games:
/blockball list
Output:
game1 [My first game] [disabled]
You can see that the arena is still disabled and cannot be joined yet.
Get the selection axe
Get the blockball selection axe for selecting playing areas and goals.
/blockball axe
Enable highlighting
You can toggle highlighting important areas when editing your game. This makes it easier to edit them.
/blockball highlight game1
Setting the playing field
Select Point A with left-clicking using the BlockBall axe and Point B with right-clicking using the BlockBall axe.
Then execute the command below.
/blockball select game1 field
Setting the goal of team red
Select Point A with left-clicking using the BlockBall axe and Point B with right-clicking using the BlockBall axe.
Then execute the command below.
/blockball select game1 red_goal
Setting the goal of team blue
Select Point A with left-clicking using the BlockBall axe and Point B with right-clicking using the BlockBall axe.
Then execute the command below.
/blockball select game1 blue_goal
Setting the ball spawnpoint
Move to the location where you want the ball to spawn. The current location of your player is used as a value when you execute the /blockball location
sub command. Execute the command below.
/blockball location game1 ball
Enable the game
Once every location has been set, you can try to activate the game by executing the following:
/blockball toggle game1
Confirm that the game is listed as enabled.
/blockball list
Output:
game1 [My first game] [enabled]
You can join the game by running into the arena or executing the /blockball join game1 command.
Optional steps
The following steps are not necessary but allow you to further customize the experience.
Setting the leave-spawnpoint
Players can leave your game by running out of the field. However, you can also leave by typing /blockball leave, which causes the player
to be launched out of the forcefield. To avoid this, you should set a leaveSpawnpoint.
/blockball location game1 leave_spawnpoint
Setting the team-spawnpoints
Currently, players spawn at the location of the ball. You should also set individual team spawnpoints.
Disable the arena to be able to move into it.
/blockball toggle game1
Move to the first location and execute:
/blockball location game1 red_spawnpoint
Move to the second location and execute:
/blockball location game1 blue_spawnpoint
Creating a Minigame
Converting the HUBGAME to a MINIGAME
- Currently, players can join and leave a game at any time. The timespan of a game is also infinity. In order to convert it to a standard Minecraft minigame, with a lobby and a max time, you should execute the following command.
- If your arena has been enabled before, you may encounter and error message. You can ignore that because we will fix it in the next steps.
/blockball gamerule gameType game1 minigame
Setting the team-lobby-spawnpoints
Move to the lobby spawnpoints of your teams and execute the corresponding commands.
/blockball location game1 red_lobby
/blockball location game1 blue_lobby
Enabling the game
If your game is disabled in the game list, you should now be able to enable it with the toggle command.
/blockball list
/blockball toggle game1
Half-time, over-time
You can configure periods like half-times, breaks and overtimes in your game1.yml file. See the further customization section below.
Further Customizations
Further customization options can be found in the plugins/BlockBall/arena/<name>.yml file.
The arena_sample.yml file contains explanations for each property.
Execute the reload command to load your file changes.
/blockball reload game1