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72 lines
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# Regions
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A plugin to carve up your minecraft world into named regions.
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For most of minecraftian history, players, server owners, and content builders
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have sought to find a way around one of the least exciting problems in
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minecraft: How to travel long distances on a big world.
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In 2010, Mojang gave us minecarts. Using some clever physics glitches,
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minecrafters devised minecart boosters to send them through distant lands at a
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modest speed.
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Later that year, we all set sail for the infinite seas upon our new boats.
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Travel was swift, provided water.
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Soon after, we were blessed with the bright magicks of redstone and powered
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rails. No longer did minecrafters need to rely on janky collision physics to
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move ourselves through the non-aquatic world.
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With the Beta 1.9 release, Ender pearls and speed potions were introduced. We
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catapulted ourselves to terrifying new heights and found the world that much
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smaller.
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After the Beta era, Mojang bestowed upon us a terrifying and awesome power:
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Nether portals. Soon long distance travel was a reasonable idea, if you didn't
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mind losing your entire inventory to an errant ghast or lava pool.
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The 1.9 update allowed us to take to the sky with Elytra, and 1.11 sent us into
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the distant horizon with firework rockets. With enough determination, a compass,
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and some gunpowder, the world was all that much smaller to us.
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And yet, we remain unsatiated. Dissatisfied with the high cost of elytra and the
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regular need to move great distances quickly, a great number of server plugins
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that included teleportation proliferated the pages of spigotmc.org.
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And yet still, we remain dissatisfied. Typing out a /warp or /home command is
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trivial. Instantaneous teleportation at your fingertips might sound great, but
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there remains a distinct un-minecraftian feel about it.
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What if there was a more immersive way to add fast travel to your server?
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What if your players didn't need to do impossible feats like scrying some runes
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into a "chat box", something out of place from the minecraft world?
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For your consideration: **Regions**
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## Features
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- Point-to-point teleportation with a GUI
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- Create a point of interest in your world, give it a name, apply a banner.
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- Fast travel routes between POIs are automatically established.
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- Create World Hubs, accessable from any other POI on the world
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- Players can only travel to POI's they've already explored
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- An incredibly cool and flashy teleportation effect
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- Pay for your fast travel with XP levels
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- Attempting to jump without enough XP might lead to a dangerous misfire,
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dropping you an unexpected distance from your destination.
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- Level up your region posts with craftable Region Post Charges
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- Not enough XP? No worries, you can pay for the ticket with a post's stored
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charges
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- Craft a Region Compass to locate the nearest region post
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- Wrap a latern in charges to create an anchor with which any player can create
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their own local region post
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- Restrict any of the above features using permissions
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- Get a spiffy notification whenever you cross a region's border and enter a new
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land
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- Dynmap integration
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- Asynchronous chunk loading and teleportation on Paper servers that all but
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eliminates teleportation-induced lag
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