Hey, I've been looking through the lists of available plugins for quite a long time now, looking for something that allows easier storage of large quantities.. Basically, I have a LOT of items to store (Entire smp server using same chests), and it's far too hard to have just a huge chest room, since no-one likes going through the entire thing to find where they put stuff.. So I was just looking to see if anyone could make a plugin that allowed easier storage. No restrictions - ideas such as, chest linking so you can view multiple chests by clicking a next button or something from one chest. - A larger chest interface, or repeated interface with scroll or something.. ANYTHING, it just needs to be able to access large amounts of storage easily.. Bump? EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
Ok Thanks husky, I get it now.. I did read that, but I still missed the point.. So there's no way to achieve this? I saw the ItemCraft plugin note, but can't seem to find that specific plugin anywhere
Ok this is feasable... Do I just rename this post to say it's a spout mod.. or.. am I in the wrong place now?
You could try. or go ahead for the spout forums (http://spout.org) and try their plugin request section
If you're willing to require client mods, I highly recommend Iron Chests. It's not a plugin rather a mod, but it adds several new chests to the game of varying sizes, including copper, iron, gold, silver, diamond, and crystal. The largest stores an impressive 108 stacks of items. Best of all it works on CraftBukkit and is open source. I use it on my server and it has become indispensable, I hardly ever use old-fashioned wooden chests anymore if I can avoid it. There is also a mod for Multipage Chests, it supposedly supports CraftBukkit but I haven't tried it. (There is even a mod which has several features including a Black Hole Chest for infinite storage, I ported it CraftBukkit, but unfortunately it has a bug where it loses all but the first page, so the author only recommends using it in SSP.) I don't know if Spout has anything like this, does anyone know? Unfortunately these mods are not compatible with Spout. However. You actually don't need a client mod for larger chests. openInventory() accepts any size, as long as its a multiple of 9. You can give it larger sizes than that of a large chest (54), and although the inventory window is not drawn properly on the client, items can be taken from and put into the extra slots. If you want to see this in action try configuring a larger size in my Chestpack plugin. Chestpack focuses on mobile chests (carried on your chest), but there is no reason why someone couldn't make a plugin adding the same capability of larger inventories to stationary chests.
You wouldn't be able to do this would you? I know it's asking a lot, but I really have no idea how to do it myself, or anyone to help me better than you could. If you really want to know what sort of storage I'm looking at... around 50,000...stacks.. of items.. Meaning about 864 Double chests... and yes, this is a lot of wood.. survival server anyone? lol.. you can see why I want as much as I can get in a small space.. Imagine having to sort through that many chests.. takes forever No but really, all these chests were done on a survival server, with legitimate gathering methods lol.....
This is implemented into Tekkit, I have a tekkit server and you can get chests that can hold like 500 items in one! its amazing!
Not sure what mod AppleDev is referring to (I haven't used Tekkit myself), but it may be the Iron Chest mod mentioned above. It's Bukkit-compatible . I have it on my own (non-Tekkit) server as well.
Thanks for the suggestion lol, but read see: Even the Diamond chests, holding 108 stacks, is still a very large amount of chests to sort through, I need something twice more efficient than them even. Ideally, a way to link all the chests to a single chest interface is what I'm looking for, but I get what I can get I guess lol
How about the Multi-Page Chest http://www.mcportcentral.co.za/index.php?topic=2574.msg14074;topicseen#msg14074 ? It can store up to 585 stacks. Linking all the chests through a single interface.. something like this could be offered using the automation capabilities of mods like Buildcraft or RedPower (ported to Bukkit), but it may be more than you are looking for. I think what you're asking could be approximated in a server-side plugin, to some extent. Adding new GUI will require client mods but you could have a chat command or special slot to click to change between chests. Seems like a cool plugin idea, anyone want to try it?
I'm not really bothered if I have to use client side mods aswell, but of course, try and avoid them... Multipage chests would work quite well.. Have a look at this mod, in particular the "Quantum software" option http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/286677-173-magic-chest-wood-on-steroids/
