Sky Stone

Sky Stone is a plugin which lends it's name to the fact that it uses Lapis lazuli as a control block. Finally some use for all that Lapis Lazuli!

Features

Like Ruby, the language we used to develop this plugin, the plugin uses convention over configuration. What that means? It tries to follow simple design patterns to provide it's functionality. Check out these awesome features:

Minecarts routing

Switching rails based on block-types and/or wool-colors
Routing of minecarts based on using more than one switch
Remembers your destination with the press of a stone-button
Resets the destination to 'home' (which is configurable) when you exit the cart.
Override destination by holding the right block-type or wool(color) in your hand.
Messages it's intentions to the player.

How to

Switch

Basically the below image explains how you need to layout your tracks. In the center of it all is a block of lapis. In this example we've made four stops on each side.

Selector

A selector button is nothing more than the block you used to indicate directions a the switch with a button slapped on it AND a block of lapis adjacent to it (direction doesn't matter).

Commands

The plugin supports the following command to set the route:

/skystone route red

TODO

Default routes with glass
Collision detection / locking of switch
Eject player if on wrong side of the rails (at intersections)

Issues

Fix for players using the wrong side (left) of the rails

Two way terminal

Two-way terminal with AFK auto-pause-and-continue on rails

Storage & sorting

Auto sorter using minecarts

Power booster

Power booster for minecarts

tdegrunt/skystone