Theonia 1.1 'Patch' Explanation and Details

Hello everyone!

Theonia has been doing well in most aspects sense our release just a couple weeks ago with a steady growing population and several communities popping up around the server. However we are plagued with annoying bugs and errors we cannot fix as they happen at completely random times to random people for no apparent reason and have no viable cause. I am not a java/plugin coder for Minecraft so cracking open these plugins is not an option right now so i must work with what is available to me which thankfully is quite a lot.

Draymorden and myself have been working on new mechanics and plugins we think the server could benefit from and fixing our issues with the server from adding in mini-games like Spleef to a jail plugin for punishing people who like to break the rules but don't quite diverse to be banned. All of these changes were not simply thrown together nearly a week of configuration, testing, and troubleshooting went into the various plugins and mechanics we are adding to our humble server. We would like to thank Ezurath for helping us test various things related to the new plugins so if you see him be sure to thank him! Below I will explain the plugins we are adding to the server and the various roles they will play in our community.

Spleef

Simple Spleef is a plugin designed for making Spleef tournaments and areas easy to manage and quick and easy to use. The tournament settings are incredibly varied ranging form having the floor both decay slowly and repair over time having the ability to delete blocks players are standing on for to long to prevent 'Islanding' as well as supporting team play, victory prizes, and much more! Once we build our Spleef tournament and everything is setup on the server players will be able to play on a variety of arenas from base Spleef play to advanced intense battles in a ever changing arena. We will have tournaments for Town Vs Town player VS player and Team Vs Team every week with grand prizes as well as the ability for anyone to play at any time for small prizes such as food (to keep farming to a minimum).

Jail
Simple Jail is a very easy to use and basic plugin that supports jailing players for a time period and thats about it. players who are jailed will have all permissions removed and must simply wait out their sentence in peace.

Mobhealth
Mob health is a plugin that is very simple and shows how much damage you did to something and how much health it has remaining.

Now for the big changes please make sure you read this carefully and thoroughly it is extreamly important and will be a complete game changer for Theonia.

Heroes
Heroes is a fully featured classes plugin that is widely used and quite famous it is stable and developed by a good coding team. It supports dozens of skills in fact on average each class now has at least double the amount of skills they used to have previously and that's just for rank 1. It also allows me to make certain classes only capable of wearing certain armor and weapons so a Mage for example isn't walking around with diamond armor and weapons being all overpowered and such. this is meant to keep the game play interesting so your not just 'facerolling' everything I know this is Minecraft not World of Warcraft but it cant hurt to make combat slightly more interesting.

Noitem
Noitem builds upon the limiting restrictions that heroes has allowing me to make the economy actually mean something and forcing you lot of anti-social people to actually communicate and rely on each other weather you like it or not in this case. This may make some of you very angry but there is simply no way to have a meaningful economy and class system when everyone can do everything for themselves. In our current setup why would you pay someone for bread when you can make it yourself? You wouldn't unless of course it was dirt cheap and you were going to die of starvation or something. Which really is just not how I envision Theonia to be. It is supposed to (best it can on Minecraft) simulate a real living fantasy world and i don't know about you all but I defiantly don't know how or have the equipment to manufacture everything I use on a daily basis. Being completely self-sufficient is nearly impossible so we want to enforce that here as well.

So that said a lot of changes are coming some of which not everyone will enjoy but if you keep an open mind and look at the big picture these changes are a must.

'Patch' 1.1 will be released very soon you are welcome to read about the various plugins mentioned in this thread on your own time before then and prepare.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and i hope to see you all in game soon!