This plugin was written for my Velocity plugin development tutorial series and designed to be paired with the Plugin Messenger - Paper plugin. Plugin messaging has been around since Minecraft 1.1, which was released in 2012, over 11 years ago!
This plugin is extremely simple, it only listens for a "RequestCreeper" message on the demo:main channel, and replies to all servers with a "SpawnCreeper" message. The paper plugin handles the rest
It demos the following concepts:
- Working with Byte Streams and data outputs/inputs
- Registering custom channel identifiers with the Velocity Channel Registrar
- Listening to and responding with plugin messages.
For more information related to Plugin Messaging, please see the following links
- https://wiki.vg/Plugin_channels
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220711204310/https://dinnerbone.com/blog/2012/01/13/minecraft-plugin-channels-messaging/
I hope you learned something!
- Nate (TerrorByte)