[Open Source] SkyBlock Minecraft Addon - We Need to Go Deeper [New feature #14]

Because the nether is a separated world, it is needed that SKYBLOCK.SK can handle the world like the normal SkyBlock world to prevent any gliches or griefing. Fortunately, most parts of SKYBLOCK.SK were already made to support a nether automatically. Now, what had to be done to make it possible?

• Problem 1: The default portal spawning
  If a player builds a nether portal in the vanilla game and then goes through it, it won't place the portal on the exact same location as in the normal world, because the locations are used differently. With default Minecraft, every step in the nether is 8 steps in the normal world.
  While this is a nice thing for transportation, it isn't that nice for SkyBlock, since everyone should have the portal on his island at the same spot and no special portal placement behaviour and also no difference to the normal world in distances.
  
  To prevent the default portal spawning behaviour, we have to cancel the teleport event, which is caused by the nether portal.

• Problem 2: No portal is being created on the other side
  The teleport has been cancelled; now, we have to create our own portal on the opposite site of the world (nether or world). For this, I created a new function, which is called syncobsidian, which is going to need one obsidian to start and then searches all nearby obsidian blocks and portal blocks and copies them to the other world.

• Problem 3: Obsidian duplication
  The player could deconstruct the portal in the nether and repeat endlessly to get more and more obsidian. This is normal and also possible in vanilla Minecraft.
  But in vanilla Minecraft, it doesn't make sense, since there is lava all over the place. But in SkyBlock, it is rare. We have to prevent that; I'll show that later in the post. Here is how I done the teleportation cancellation and the call of the syncobsidian function.

With this done, the player will now no longer be able to teleport using the vanilla way and gets a obsidian portal created on the other side of the world (nether or world). Now, we just have to focus on Problem 3, the player shouldn't be able to duplicate obsidian endlessly.

Because it makes kind of sense to simply remove the obsidian on the other side of the world at the same location, if there is an obsidian block, I now simply remove the block on the opposite site.

Example: I created a portal and thinking: I might be able to trick the system. Then I go to the nether, farm all the obsidian off and go back to my normal island using /island home. Then I see that the portal is gone on the normal world. That means, I have removed obsidian in the nether but it also got removed in the normal world because it is linked together. This is not included in vanilla so I had to include it. I added this to Events.sk

I only show new code here, but this event has some more code, I linked the Events.sk above.

Thanks to the new changes, the on world change event has now been removed, the same functions are now within the on teleport event, which works better than before with the on world change event.

Pull request: https://github.com/Abwasserrohr/SKYBLOCK.SK/pull/115

This new addition makes it a lot easier for server operators to change the experience per block, because all the materials are already predefined and only have to be changed in blocks.yml. The default block experiences are not balanced perfectly yet and are going to get some changes with feedback from users later.

Pull request: https://github.com/Abwasserrohr/SKYBLOCK.SK/pull/115

4. Pull requests

https://github.com/Abwasserrohr/SKYBLOCK.SK/pull/115

5. GitHub Account

https://github.com/Abwasserrohr

6. How to contribute

If you like Minecraft and also have some fun by playing around with Minecraft server tools, SKYBLOCK.SK is a project you might want join. If you want to get more information, join the Discord below, I'm Abwasserrohr there, the sewage pipe guy. =)

Discord: https://discord.gg/FRuK5BC

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Thank you for reading my contribution post. :) People have all kinds of ideas, sometimes they're very nice and sometimes either completely overpowered or hard to accomplish. But the nether was something that had to be added, it is just a nice opportunity for players to farm enough obsidian, and then go in the nether to have more space to use.
I'm sorry that I added the blocks.yml in the pull request, I could have done that separately, since it doesn't really have much to do with developing, it's more like configuring something... =D

As suggested in the last comment by @helo, I tried out https://carbon.now.sh for the code part to make it more comfortable for the eyes to read. Adding Skript to carbon is not that hard as I tought. But making it better than now with all the RegExp seems painful for me. :3

For that reason, I'm not going to finish it completely for now and work with it or use screenshots of Notepad++, where I use a custom language syntax which works nicely. I also asked the Skript community if they're interested in adding Skript to carbon and if there would be someone who could help me with it. But the people there are more interested in a fully working editor and not that much in carbon to create pictures of code. ._.

Do you have any feedback regarding this post, the new nether, the new calcisland function or SKYBLOCK.SK as a whole? Feel free to tell me your feedback, suggestions or other things either here in the comments, on Github or on Discord.

Have a nice weekend and keep on steeming

@immanuel94