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Frequently Asked Questions

Plajer edited this page May 14, 2018 · 29 revisions

Frequently Asked Questions

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❗️ Limitation of liability disclaimer

Village Defense 3 plugin SHOULD BE RUN on a separate map when using it on multi-mode servers like Factions, Survival, SkyBlock etc.

What Village Defense 3 modifies in world?

  • Blocks mob spawning other than Village Defense ones
  • Cleans hoppers inventories

Using Village Defense you accept GPLv3 license and limitations of liability VD can cause, please become acquainted with following warnings before using Village Defense on production server.


How to set up the shop?

If you follow this tutorial you will setup it properly.

You may want use Secret well too in your map, see how use it below.


Can I set up secret well?

Secret well is needed to throw out rotten flesh there. If players throw there enough rotten flesh they will get an extra heart.

How it should be created:

(2x2 hoppers and water above them)

Number of needed rotten flesh is based on simple algorithm:

First heart: 50 rotten flesh needed

Next hearts: bonus hearts * in-game players size + 10


language.yml file is empty

This problem is caused mainly when you try to delete this file before you restart the server.

Always delete VD 3 files when the server is stopped. It's recommended too to edit them manually when the server is stopped.


Supported versions of Village Defense 3

Supported versions are currently 1.8.x, 1.9.2, 1.11.x, 1.12 - 1.12.2. If your plugin doesn't startup and you don't have this version you're receiving this message:

  _   _           _                                                    _                _ 
 | \ | |   ___   | |_     ___   _   _   _ __    _ __     ___    _ __  | |_    ___    __| |
 |  \| |  / _ \  | __|   / __| | | | | | '_ \  | '_ \   / _ \  | '__| | __|  / _ \  / _` |
 | |\  | | (_) | | |_    \__ \ | |_| | | |_) | | |_) | | (_) | | |    | |_  |  __/ | (_| |
 |_| \_|  \___/   \__|   |___/  \__,_| | .__/  | .__/   \___/  |_|     \__|  \___|  \__,_|
                                       |_|     |_|                                        
Your server version is not supported by Village Defense!
Sadly, we must shut off. Maybe you consider changing your server version?

Players can't join through signs

This is a very common problem in every minigame plugin.

It's caused by spawn protection feature in vanilla Minecraft.

To disable this go to server.properties and change spawn-protection value to 0.


How power-ups work?

Power-ups added in Village Defense 3.3.0 enhances your game a bit.

Requires Holographic Displays to work!

There are few types of them right now:

  • Map clean power-up (cleans map from all zombies that are spawned, not every zombie from the pool)
  • Double damage power-up (Every player gets Strength I potion for 15 seconds by default)
  • Healing power-up (Every player gets Regeneration I for 10 seconds by default)
  • Golem raid power-up (3 golems are spawned in the village by default)
  • One shot one kill power-up (Every zombie can be killed for one hit (Strength 255) for 15 seconds by default)

Every option and messages from these power-ups are configurable. Drop chance, time of power-up, disabling/enabling specific power-ups are configurable via config.yml. Messages are configurable via language.yml.


What's new in VD 3?

There are many major and minor changes in Village Defense 3.

Primary changes:

  • Entire code refactor and improvement
  • Support for 1.9.2 and 1.11 versions
  • Implemented VillageAPI to create external add-ons
  • New kits and translations
  • Few locales support (German and Polish)
  • Creation of wiki (this wiki)
  • Golem upgrades
  • Revamped commands entirely
  • And many other fixes and additions...

How can I donate you?

If you really like my work you can donate me here: https://www.paypal.me/Plajer

If you are on my discord server I'll give you Donator role too.

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