[FUN] MobArena v0.96.8 - Become a mob-fighting gladiator! [1.7.x, 1.8.x]

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    garbagemule

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    MobArena - Become a mob-fighting gladiator!
    [​IMG] Latest build: v0.96.7 (1.7.x)
    [​IMG] Wiki
    [​IMG] IRC Channel
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    BukkitDev Project Page - Find MobArena on dev.bukkit.org here: LINK.

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    Old description (open)
    If you enjoy fighting monsters for glorious prizes or just the sheer thrill of battle, you and your friends can now join forces against hordes of Minecraft evils in the exciting gladiator-style survival mini-game MobArena!

    Heavily inspired by Deminetix' Fight-plugin, MobArena is a PvE-take on arena-gameplay, with a similar class-based system. Instead of fighting other players, you team up with them to beat oncoming waves of monsters, earning rewards in the process. MobArena can be played alone, or with as many friends as you like!


    Features:
    • Fight oncoming waves of monsters
    • Play alone or team up with friends
    • Earn glorious prizes
    • Customizable classes, rewards and waves
    • Easy to set up
    • Extremely easy to use
    • Very few user commands
    • Supports Permissions and all major economies
    • Supports Spout
    • Supports Heroes
    Note: When you post a bug report, please provide a stacktrace/error from the server log/console window. Post this stacktrace in either a pastebin, a pastie, or a CODE-block! The same applies for config-files, permissions-files, etc! Please don't put them directly in your posts, as they become gigantic and annoying to read. If you don't follow this guideline, I might ignore your post!


    Wiki - Instructions, commands, FAQ, etc.
    I have set up a Wiki for MobArena. It contains a bunch of information and guides on how to set up and customize arenas, an overview of all the commands, how to set up Permissions, as well as frequently asked questions.

    New: MobArena now has its own IRC channel (#mobarena @ EsperNet). Click here for a web-based IRC client. Feel free to stop by to get help setting everything up if you really don't understand the Wiki and the instructional video, or to have a chat about MobArena (or anything else, for that matter) :)

    Relevant links:
    Videos:
    Getting started with MobArena, by Flamers
    Flamers made this really easy-to-follow, simple video of how to get started with MobArena. It covers installing the plugin, defining an arena region and setting up basic leaderboards, as well as a few pointers for arena design.
    Old instructional video (open)
    Instructional video for setting up MobArena:

    Note: This video was made for v0.67, but all the in-game instructions still work the same for the latest versions. The config-file has changed, so make sure to read the Wiki on how to set it up.
    More Videos (open)
    Review of MobArena by plugin reviewer jamescosten (v0.84):

    Note: My nickname "garbagemule" is pronounced "garbage mule", as in "trash donkey" ;)

    Hilarious showcase of MobArena by Daniel James and Daniel Cherry (v0.92.3):


    Delios showing off his beautiful arena setup:


    slowmonkey1227 in his interesting "island" arena: YouTube
    French video by avalondrey (v0.87.3): YouTube
    German video by blutherz and his friends (v0.91.2): YouTube



    Troubleshooting:
    To avoid wasting not only your own time, but mine as well, I expect everyone to do some extensive troubleshooting before posting bug reports. What does this mean?

    Try MobArena on a fresh server.
    MobArena works perfectly fine when I release it. Sure, there are a few bugs, but it works. If it doesn't work for you, something is most likely wrong on your end. Set up a local test-server, and verify that MobArena works before claiming that it doesn't. When you have verified that MobArena does indeed work, you can start adding other plugins and settings until something conflicts.

    Disable other plugins.
    The first thing you need to do is disable all other plugins. If you can't reproduce the bug with other plugins disabled, you know that you have a conflicting plugin. Now perform a binary search on the other plugins, or if you don't know how to do that, just add a couple of plugins back to the plugins-folder, try to reproduce the bug, and if you can't, the conflicting plugin must be in the remaining set of plugins.

    Write down reproduction steps.
    Figure out the exact steps to reproduce/trigger the bug. I need precise steps, and as much information as possible, because there are often many things that could be going on. An example of reproduction steps could be:
    1. Type /ma join
    2. Punch the Archer class sign
    3. Wait for someone else to join
    4. Punch the iron block
    5. Type /ma leave before the other player picks a class

    Check the console window/server.log
    Make sure you check the server.log file for any MobArena errors or exceptions. If you find any, copy the ENTIRE exception (including all the lines that say "at com.garbagemule.MobArena...") and paste it (with the other information) in a CODE-tag here in the thread.


    Donations:
    I develop MobArena for the fun of it and the positive feedback is all it takes to make me happy, but a few people have asked for a link, so if you're one of them, here's a link: Donate - You can donate as much as you want, even down to a few cents! If I get enough donations, I will spend the money on an extra Minecraft account to aid me in developing/testing/debugging MobArena :)


    Changelog:

    Version 0.94.3.24
    • Updated for CB 1337.
    • The repair-delay node is now unused! The reason for this is that it is now possible (with the release of 1317) to cancel block damage in explosions, and still retain the animation and sound! This also means that arenas should be fully pistons-compatible (for arenas that don't use soft-restore or force-restore)! I'm hoping to see some screenshots and videos of shifting arenas! :)
    • You can now right-click signs in the lobby! I finally found a super easy solution to the improperly updating inventory issue with right-clicking class signs. The result is that players can now left- or right-click as they please. This should solve all issues related to players not being able to choose classes, due to spawn region and WorldGuard/Factions/whatever conflicts.
    • It is no longer possible to warp out of the lobby.
    • New per-arena setting: final-wave - Allows for setting a final wave, meaning on that wave, the arena will end, regardless of how many players are alive.
    Version 0.94.3.11 (open)

    • v0.94.3.11 - Updated Register, built against CB 1240.
    • v0.94.3.8 - Added basic leaderboards.
    • v0.94.3.6 - Fixed MagicSpells support - MobArena no longer supports MagicSpells pre-v1.1!
    • v0.94.3.5 - Fixed a bunch of bugs introduced with CB 1185, as well as a couple of minor MobArena bugs.
    • Updated for CraftBukkit #1185
    • Updated economy support (now supports iConomy 6).
    • Added the three new mob types, Enderman/Endermen, CaveSpider/CaveSpiders, Silverfish. They can be used just like the other mob types in the waves.
    • Endermen cannot pick up arena blocks (this is why).
    • Endermen cannot place blocks in arena regions.
    • The per-class permission syntax has been fixed and changed slightly. The Wiki has been updated (clicky).
    • Fixed MagicSpells issues.
    Version 0.94.2 (open)

    • Redstone circuits now work properly in arenas.
    • Lightning now properly strikes on spawnpoints on special waves.
    • Fixed an issue where players somehow warping/cheating out of the arena world get kicked from the server when discovered.
    • Added MagicSpells support. Use the magicspells.yml file to ban certain spells from the arena either for the whole session, or only during boss waves.
    • Fixed the Heroes death conflict. MobArena and Heroes should now play nice together. Further Heroes support is planned for upcoming releases.
    • [COLOR=#1000000]MobArena will no longer support the discontinued Permissions 2.x and 3.x permission systems.[/COLOR] Recommended permissions systems include PermissionsBukkit (defacto standard) or PermissionsEX.
    Version 0.94.1 (open)

    • Added two new boss abilities: 'shuffle-positions' and 'flood'. Try them out!
    • Players disconnecting/crashing during an arena session no longer get corrupted data files due to economy rewards.
    • Weapon durability is now correctly set to "unlimited".
    • Item sub-types (cocoa beans, bonemeal, colored wool, etc.) now work again.
    • Players can no longer join the arena without first picking a class.
    • MobArena now works with spawn-monsters=false again.
    Version 0.94 (open)

    • Completely revamped the waves system! Undeniably the biggest feature in MobArena since multiple arenas in v0.92, the new customizable waves are guaranteed to bring much more awesomeness to your MobArenas. The waves system brings two new wave types, swarm waves and boss waves. The latter is a very elaborate feature, and the whole waves system has been given its own page on the Wiki. Note: MobArena will ignore all old wave settings, but use sane defaults.
    • Revamped the logging system. Instead of logging: true, you can now use logging: yml/xml. The logging system will now keep track of the last session only, but also maintain a collection of 'totals' for each arena. The idea behind these easy-to-parse files is making the stats available on server web pages.
    • Added SuperPerms/PermissionsBukkit support. Note that specifying mobarena.arenas.* and mobarena.classes.* probably won't work, but these nodes are given to everyone by default.
    • Added Spout support. Currently, the only Spouty thing MobArena does is print (some) announcements as notifications/achievements. This should limit the amount of "chat spam" that MobArena produces. Other Spout-features are planned, but don't expect something crazy. Note that MobArena does NOT require Spout!
    • Monsters will no longer target pet wolves. This is a major nerf to pet classes, but they were very overpowered as it was.
    • Fixed item amounts greater than 64 sometimes bugging out. You should now be able to put arrow:1024 for your Archer classes :)
    • Fixed players losing their stored items and/or earned rewards upon disconnecting from the arena.
    • Fixed blocks not restoring when burned by fire.
    • Fixed an issue with entry fees. They should no longer cause any problems.
    • Fixed slimes. That's right! Slimes that spawn as a result of bigger slimes splitting upon death are now considered arena monsters. This also means that Slimes no longer drop slime balls; as intended.
    • Revamped the repairing algorithm. It is now MUCH more sophisticated, and is capable of repairing not only signs and containers, but also torches, doors and beds. Redstone -should- repair properly as well, but it is still slightly buggy.
    • Added support for restorable containers. Registered chests, dispensers, and furnaces will have their contents stored upon arena start, and restored at arena end. This is useful for providing the arena players with chests with e.g. upgrades or food.
    • Added new commands (for the feature above) - /ma addcontainer <name>, /ma delcontainer <name>, /ma containers. These commands work much like the the spawnpoint commands. To add a container, simply look at the container and type /ma addcontainer <name>.
    Changelog (continued)
     
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    ACStache

    garbagemule I don't believe MobArena 1.0 to be a lie. The cake on the other hand... now THAT is a lie!
     
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    sniperdoc

    garbagemule: Curious, any way that in a future version that spawn points use decimal values...? Seems that my mob spawns, in single block width areas, spawn in the wall...? I tried changing it in the config file with decimals and it ended up crashing mobarena.
     
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    Bobcat00

    The mobs spawn on the north-west corner of the block specified. So you really need to have a 4 square block area (2x2) free for them to spawn. Make sure the north-west corner is in the center of the 2x2 area.
     
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    sniperdoc

    Bobcat00: Damn... not what I wanted to hear... but thanks for the info. I built an 8-level dungeon all using 3x1 hallways and a lot of the hallways have a single dividing wall between each other, so no go... crap... :(
     
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    Bobcat00

    If you look back in this thread (not far back) you'll find a discussion between me and garbagemule about the spawn points. Basically, each spawn point covers a 9x9x9 volume (11x11 in two dimensions). But the algorithm doesn't handle multiple levels very well.
     
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    Hedgehogs4Me

    Just a report after a ton of testing (read: avoiding work and instead playing on my server):

    Arenas are way easier solo than with a bunch of people. Your scaling formula might go a bit too far. :)

    Also, just a heads up, I stopped using obsidian bomb a looong time ago because it replaces non-solid blocks and sometimes doesn't stop targeting a player on player death. Yikes! Also, bosses sometimes warp into/through walls, which instantly kills them.

    One more thing: endermen still teleport, and can teleport to the spectating area of an arena if the spectating area is above everything else. I've been trying to fix this, and even turning enderman teleporting off using AntiCreeper doesn't seem to work. I'm thinking of writing my own simple plugin that just cancels all enderman teleport events, but if AntiCreeper doesn't work, I doubt that would either. Do endermen have their own behavior code in MobArena or something?
     
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    garbagemule

    sniperdoc
    I won't change the format of the spawnpoints, but I can change the way they're parsed, so that a half value is added to the x and z values. That should make the mobs spawn at the center of the blocks. 1.0 should allow for more sophisticated spawn algorithms to be pluggable, so maybe in the future you'll be able to do what you want :)

    Hedgehogs4Me
    If you don't specifically set a wave growth node in your waves, it defaults to "OLD", which is "number of players + 1". The other possible values plug into a non-linear formula, which you might be able to use in combination with the amount-multiplier to make it harder for solo players. Alternatively, you can set min-players and max-players to make it easier to balance the difficulties.

    As for Obsidian Bomb, it's been reported before, but I can't seem to reproduce it. I might give it another peek after exams (ultimo June), though. It appears that monster teleportation events are only modified, if the teleportation "from" or (logical OR) "to" locations are within the arena region. In other words, if the teleport starts inside the arena, the event is blocked. If it doesn't start in the arena, it is only blocked if it ends in the arena. At least that's what the code is supposed to do. What other plugins may be doing to the events is uncertain. You could try running a troubleshooting session with MobArena as the only plugin and a tonne of Enderman-waves, just to see if you can reproduce it in a fresh setting.
     
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    ged712

    Garbage could you help me please? I did everything in the checkdata command and it says arena is ready to be used. But when I do /ma j it says 'The arena has not been set up yet'. Any ideas??
     
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    Hedgehogs4Me

    I can't set min players reliably because of the autostarttimer (but don't change that, or if you do, make it configurable! I want to let people do it solo if no one else is on the server), and the rest doesn't really make that much of a difference. It's mostly the boss health, actually - they take a few shots when solo, but when you have a ton of players it's nearly impossible. Abilities like living bomb can make up for that, but I don't want to do that with all the bosses, though - that'd get repetitive.
    Maybe in version 1.0 you can make the formulae configurable? ;)

    EDIT: get712, it might give that error while checkdata seeing it as fine if you have an arena without waves. Check your config. Just a guess, though, Garbagemule may have another idea.
     
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    ged712

    I fixed it thanks for the help anyways Hedge :)
     
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    garbagemule

    ged712 Try restarting your server. Sometimes the setup bugs out, but restarts usually fix it.

    Hedgehogs4Me I plan on it (configurable formulas). Until then, you could set it to a flat integer value that's moderately difficult for 5 players. That would make it much harder for a solo player.
     
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    sniperdoc

    garbagemule: Is there a known issue with dispensers? I tried building some traps and when the arena reloads, it gives me the following error:
    Code:
    [SEVERE] Block at X,Y,Z is DROPPER but has net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R2.TileEntityDispenser@65fcd178. Bukkit will attempt to fix this, but there may be additional damage we cannot recover.
    When people go back in, if the dispenser was activated, then it reloads as a Dropper and makes the traps non-functional.
     
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    garbagemule

    sniperdoc If there is no more to the error, then it's a Bukkit vs. vanilla thing that I have no control over (which is what the message suggests). I've never seen that error before, and MobArena doesn't have any error messages that even resemble it.
     
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    sniperdoc

    Probably some 1.5.1 R2 issue then... :(
    garbagemule: Any possibility it might be LWC causing the issue? I have the default build container setting on it set to make containers private. I ended up removing all the /cprivate's off of the chests, but left them on the dispensers because I thought it'd be nice so that people couldn't disable the "traps" by removing all the slow/harm/poison potions...

    I'll test it tonight to see if removing the private setting on the dispensers changes anything on a reload.
     
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    sniperdoc

    garbagemule: I think it was LWC causing the problem. Since containers get privatized on placement, you have to go in and remove the "lock."

    I ended up replacing all the containers, did /cremove, then put all the stuff in the dispensers, loaded up the arena and the used 3 of the 7 dispensers and when I got killed and did /ma leave and saw no error in the server window. So.... methink's might be ok...?
     
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    saveryan

    Hi I promised I would show a video, sry for it being late but here it finaly is:
    (Btw this plugin is fantastic I'm looking forward for the 1.0 release especialy with what you said just above)



    In this video you will see what I think are bugs:
    As you can see at the start of the arena we have the scoreboard but whenever we get hit once it disappears, this happens to all the players. I'm using serveral plugins: Worldedit, chestshop, MultiVerse, Mobhealth, MCjobs, Safecreepers, Lockette, MCMMO, Iconomy with vault and Myhome and Mywarp but I couldn't think of one that would overwrite the scoreboard and I never made one myself.

    The second bug is that a lot of mobs tend to drop stuff; At the start of the arena we kill a lot of pigmens and you see the cameramen (I'm saveryan) picking up a gold sword. This sword will then act like a stuff from the class: it won't break and this way my unarmed class gets a sword and my classes with wooden sword also get's a gold sword from the pigmens. The same happens with bows from skelly's I dropped a almost broken one but the first shot I fired repaired it completely.

    The third bug is a little bit later in the video: the angry dog's don't attack you immediately (wich isn't that bad) but they also don't damage us wich makes the wave a little easy :p. And the Iron gollems we make (with iron blocks and pumpkins) don't deal any damage to the enemies. This only started a while ago. Before it worked even with monsters in fight set to false wich is what I need so that creepers don't blow away entire waves.

    The last bug is that when blazes shoot on ice it becomes water (sometimes still and sometimes flowing). This is kind of anoying. I need to repair my arena all the time and I kind of like the effect of ice it's better than glass so it would be cool if that was fixed.

    Enjoy the video and if you want a better one to put in this forum I would be pleased to make one for you.

    Thanks a lot in advance
    Saveryan (The cameraman is TheDudeBoy)
     
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    HarryM

    Code:
    2013-06-05 21:13:33 [INFO] Mrhazzabo issued server command: /ma setregion p1
    2013-06-05 21:13:33 [SEVERE] null
    org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'ma' in plugin MobArena v0.94.4.98
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:46)
        at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:189)
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R3.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:523)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerConnection.java:965)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.PlayerConnection.chat(PlayerConnection.java:883)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:840)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.Packet3Chat.handle(Packet3Chat.java:44)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:292)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.PlayerConnection.d(PlayerConnection.java:109)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.ServerConnection.b(SourceFile:35)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.DedicatedServerConnection.b(SourceFile:30)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.r(MinecraftServer.java:581)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.DedicatedServer.r(DedicatedServer.java:226)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.q(MinecraftServer.java:477)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:410)
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:573)
    Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.garbagemule.MobArena.commands.setup.SetRegionCommand.execute(SetRegionCommand.java:37)
        at com.garbagemule.MobArena.commands.CommandHandler.onCommand(CommandHandler.java:88)
        at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44)
        ... 15 more
    Getting this error when I try to set region? Any help appreciated.
     
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    ArtisticPixel

    OMG!!! How do I make it so a rank can only use that class and others can't? Your description on how to negate it doesn't even work. Doing - mobarena.classes.Knight still gives them the permission to use that class and the other ones!
    How do you put the permission in for PermissionsEx so that a rank, in this case, called Novice be able to use all classes I have plus another class that only they can use, and no other player????
     
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    garbagemule

    OMG!!!!!1!!!1!!!!!1!11!!! Maybe if you did it correctly, it would work!!1!"!!!!1!"1!!one!!111


    Mocking of excessive punctuation usage aside, is there ANY part of you that believes that MAYBE it actually DOES work, and you're just doing it wrong?
     
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    jjacobson

    Seeing as it works fine for thousands of other servers using the plugin, I think it is safe to say that you are doing it wrong.
     
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    aeronetwork

    Great plugin, easy setup, recommend it with MobBounty.
     
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  23. Is it possible to give a player a reward with a custom name? Like a gold ingot called Super Ingot! This also includse color and special things like underline and bold.
     
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    Veryan1

    Is there a way to make players gain levels by killing mobs and make it so that better classes require a higher level?
     
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    Bobcat00

    Sometimes when people do /ma leave, they respawn before that area of the world is loaded, so they fall through the earth and die. Any way to fix that?
     
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    Tehsin

    Hello,

    The first couple of days that I had this plugin on my server, it worked great.Though for some reason starting last night, the armor that the classes have on doesn't regenerate. The weapons do, but it seems for some reason the armor has stopped. Any clues as to what would make it do that?
     
  27. garbagemule Can you please add something of this two things?
    A suport to Command Signs so people can right click a sign to join a arena?
    A join sign build in Mob Arena?

    I would love this and all my players too!
     
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    garbagemule

    HerobrineLivesHere The commands work fine with ServerSigns.

    Version 0.95 is out!
    Get your copy here

    This build has quite a few exciting new features/additions as well as some important bugfixes. Check the changelog for all the details.

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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  29. Awesome new update! :D But can you fix so the waves doesn't come right after eachother. It is like
    Wave#1 Wave#2, waits 15 seconds, Wave#3 Wave#4 e.t.c
     
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    Bobcat00

    I'll give it a try. Do you think you'll be able to extinguish fires started by blazes soon?
     
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    emptychild7

    okay im downloaded this plugin and got it all set up... but when i went to make the signs, only the archer sign worked. How do i fix this it is really bugging me. im not using any special permissions on it but i don't know how to get it working, i have read the forum and nothing.
     

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