Drills

Description

Drills is a plugin that brings a whole new idea to how we mine. Drills allows you to make your own drill that mines blocks directly under the drill and adds those blocks/ores to your inventory. Drills has an easy setup which enables users to create a drill very simply, as it's hard to find diamonds etc. with the drill. Players can use the drill parts over and over again in a new way instead of mining in caves. See "Creation of a Drill" to find out how to make one.

Permission

The player only needs one node for creating the drill which is:

- drills.use

Creation Of The Drill

As stated before, the drills are very easy and simple to create.

Items needed:

• 1 Lever

• 3 Cobblestone Walls

• 1 Redstone Torch ON

Text Tutorial:

1. Get Items needed as shown above
2. Place one of your Cobblestone walls down
3. Place your fence next to it
4. Place another of your cobblestone walls on top of the fence
5. Place your redstone torch on top of the cobblestone wall on top of the fence (I know this line sounds really weird)
6. Place another cobblestone wall to the right of the fence
7. Take out your lever and give the fence a good whack (left click)

Your Setup should look like this...

Video (For those who don't like to read :))

Valid Blocks

Here's a list of Valid-Blocks, these blocks the Drill will mine and will not ignore, all other blocks will still have a timer, but will be untouched

• iron
• diamond
• coal
• emerald
• gold
• lapis
• obsidian
• grass
• stone
• redstone
• dirt
• sand
• gravel
• mossy-cobble

How it works

• Mines 1 block every 5 seconds or 100 server ticks (Depending on Lag) Unless Editted in config.yml!

• After Breaking 1 block you'll get a information message of what it did Unless quiet-mode is on!

• After breaking a block, it replaces the block with part of the drill bit

• Auto stops after bedrock and gives you a result of what you mined

• Drill will stop when the user logs out or if the drill breaks

• Drill will say nothing when it hits an unknown block (So when your restarting your drill you will most likely see nothing for a while)

• Drill makes a sort of drill noise when mining a block

• Drill will be quiet if set to "quiet-mode" in the config and more options below in "Config Editing"

Config Editing

Config editing added in V. 1.2

Edit however you'd like to the following features

• Speed

• Logging

• EXP adding on whatever blocks you'd like

• Quiet mode

• Config automatically built when you start the server or restart/reload

• But, config to look at here: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/drills/pages/config-yml/

Installation

Installation of Drills is very simple just follow these few steps:

1. Download the latest version
2. Drag and drop to your plugins folder
3. Start, reload, or restart to create files

• Edit plugins/drills/config.yml to your liking (Optional)
• Save edits by restarting/reloading
• Enjoy :)

Questions and Answers

Q: My Drill registers but says nothing for a very long time, why is this?

• Your drill is hitting an invalid block, that the drill doesn't touch and ignores. Remember, a Cobblestone_Wall is an invalid block that the drill ignores but still counts it as a block and has a timer, for every invalid block 5 seconds, or 100 server ticks just like any other block.

Q: My Drill isn't registering at all and I'm sure it's set up properly

There are 3 possible answers for this please try...

1. Checking your permissions
2. Make sure you are left clicking with the lever in your hand not right clicking or anything else.
3. Make sure you have the latest version of Drills

If all else fails, submit a ticket

Q: I'm running lots of Drills and it's creating a lot of lag, why?

• If you run a lot of drills, f.e. 20, then it creates whats called "Client-Lag" client lag does not cause your server to lag; but yet causes you to lag. The reason for this is the drills are adding several objects to your inventory at all different times.

Q: If I download this plugin will players be able to get Bedrock, lava, etc.

• No, I thought back to the key features of Minecraft when I made the plugin. Is Bedrock able to be mined? No. So then the drill shouldn't either. Same scenario for Lava and Water, can water or lava be mined? No, you need a bucket. So the drill will mine through the lava and water, like it should. But it wont ever give any of your players Bedrock, Lava, or Water.

Q: When my drill breaks Iron Ore, and Gold ore it gives me the ore back, why?

• When you do mine iron and gold ore it's supposed to give you the ore back. The reason being is that those 2 blocks need to be smelted in order to be turned into an ingot. So you basically you have to do the same process that you would do regularly mining.

Q: How do I shut-off my drill?

Note: V. 1.1 + is required for this feature!

• You can shut-off your drill simply by breaking it. Just break one of the pieces off like the redstone torch or one of the cobble walls. This will stop the drill and notify you that your drill stopped and cannot continue due to whatever blocks broken.

If these Questions didn't help...

Please just comment, I'll get to your question ASAP, :)

ToDo

• Add a time-out per-drill creation (Maybe)

• Add optional chest for drill to place objects in.

• Add a auto-drill "restarter" (Maybe)