Difference between revisions of "Commands"

Revision as of 07:01, 18 January 2014

A command in Minecraft starts with a forward slash (/).

The seed command is a vanilla command, meaning it comes with Minecraft without any modifications.

Permissions

Some commands require permissions. If a player does not have the appropriate permissions for a command an error message is sent to the player. Vanilla commands that require permissions are acquired by becoming an Operator.

Though Minecraft server modifications such as Bukkit have a permissions implementation that allow you to apply permission nodes (String) to players, this allows for maximum flexibility.

A permission node is a String (text) usually seperated with fullstops/periods (.) instead of whitespaces.

Arguments

There are commands such as /seed which are simple that tell you the seed of the current world you're in, but commands do much more than that. As a developer, you can implement commands with arguments to allow your users to insert their own values and the rest is done behind the scenes (in the code).

The example above is copied straight out of the vanilla Minecraft which allows you to teleport around the world. Now, you might get confused since you see square brackets ([]) and angle brackets (<>), those are the arguments. Any developer can implement their syntax just the way they want so don't base the following information on all plugins, though I (SupaHam) tend to make mine similar to how Minecraft and many Bukkit plugins do theirs. So with the tp command the square brackets are optional and the angle brackets are required. Usually between these brackets are a descriptive one/two words.

So, the tp command has the [target player] and the <destination player> argument for one of the usages. If you understood well then you should know that the [target player] is not required but the <destination player> is.