[MECH] PistonsBreakBlocksOverWater v1.04 - Turn blocks to Items via Pistons [953/1000]

Pistons Break Blocks over Water
Version: 1.04

Quite simplistic, whenever you push/pull a block over water with piston, it will get dropped as the item. Means, you pull stone over it, and get a stone drop. You push glass over water via a piston, glass drops, etc.

Make a backup of your world. I've tested it and nothing broke, but it's always good to have a backup just in case.

Features:

• Pull any blocks over a water source to break them
• Push any blocks over a water source to break them.
  This needs to be the block immediately against the piston's base - blocks further away won't work. Fixed in 1.04 - any blocks that the piston pushes are now checked.

Download:

• Source Code
• Current version from DropBox
• 1.04/CB1000 from GitHub
• 1.03/CB953 from GitHub
  

Github thingies includes the version at the end - be sure to delete/overwrite previous files.

Changelog:
Version 1.04

• CraftBukkit 1.04

Version 1.03

• Check for canceled events before processing the piston updates
• Water and Lava are no longer dropped when pushed/pulled

Version 1.00

• Initial version

Requested by: PureDark

 

Cool, need to try this!
You'll probably be Spammed with

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IT NEEDS PERMISSIONS SUPPORT!

 

Issue is just, how would I even detect which user activated the piston?

 

Wait you want to know how to integrate permissions?

http://github.com/TheYeti/Permissions/wiki/API-Reference

Download Permissions.jar (As you would for your server)
Then Import it as an external jar

 

It's not about implementing permissions per se, but to know when users can even activate the pistons so that they'd drop items. Tracking who activated which redstone current how is fairly complex if includes logic gates and whatnot; I've seen a topic about that recently - the other option would be to keep track of who placed the pistons, and if it was a user with the applicable permission allow that feature. I'm not sure which of the two you mean?

 

You have to get player name or permission and you if..else statement.

 

When a piston pushes a water flow, it very quickly spawns water blocks. This is a huge bug. Could this please be fixed? Other then that, great plugin.

 

Fixed that now; link above is updated, just overwrite the file.

Updated for CraftBukkit 1000 - uses the new piston events now, means you can have your water further away - as long as a block is pushed over it, it'll be dropped.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Thanks! <3 My cobble generator was making more water then cobble

 

Not to be a pain, but could you add an option to only activate this feature on selected pistons, or regions selected by WorldEdit? Maybe a command like /pistonbreak <enable/disable>, then you punch the piston to set the feature on that piston only. This way it doesn't interfere with other player's stuff

 

config file for specific item probably?

 

amazing, building large structures without having to go mining for cobble is really useful, this goes greatly with http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mech-dropchest-v0-8-3-chests-that-absorb-dropped-items-1060.3835/ although it hasn't been updated to 1185, speaking of which, does this still work with 1185? i've been afraid to try it.

 

Still works with 1529 thankfully. It's working just fine in conjunction with Item Scanners, a chest that absorbs whatever it already has in it.