tough crag
Good day! I'm currently working on a minigame where I want players to place blocks while at the same time prevent them from breaking the map blocks. Right now, my current method is to clone the area and constantly check whether those two areas match and only re-clone the area if they're a mismatch. Issue is it heavily lags my game, a lot of red spikes in the TPS section in the debug screen which I expected. I'm asking if there's a better way to do this and make it less laggy?
hardy bladeBOT
Good day! I'm currently working on a minigame where I want players to place bloc...
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slender oasis
Is there a possibility to put the players in adventure mode?
You can still allow players to place blocks by giving the items a can_place_on component. You can also give them a pickaxe which allows them to break certain blocks
tough crag
That's one way of fixing it yes, players would then need tools to break the wool blocks. But then players couldn't break those blocks using only their hands.
Couldn't check for item drops or scoreboard checks either cause what if the player mines a stone block using their hands, it doesn't detect it.
I also have this idea of maybe doing a constant raycast for every player on what blocks they're looking at. If they're looking at stone or grass, change their gamemode to adventure and if they're looking at wool or concrete blocks, then change it to survival. Problem is, it would introduce lag for players playing on a server that's far away from their region. I have a feeling those gamemode switches would be noticeable for laggy players.
ionic hare
That's one way of fixing it yes, players would then need tools to break the wool...
you could allow wool blocks to be used to break wool blocks
dense wind
I also have this idea of maybe doing a constant raycast for every player on what...
the gamemode switch would not be the problem, but all the raycasts.
ionic hare
I also have this idea of maybe doing a constant raycast for every player on what...
ive seen this done and its relatively stable and efficient
dense wind
you could allow wool blocks to be used to break wool blocks
read the whole text, they talked about that.
but scoreboards would work. Just that you have to make one for every block that can be mined on your server.
tough crag
mining a block without using the correct tool doesn't count in the scoreboards tho
dense wind
what scoreboard are you talking about?
tough crag
the /scoreboards one
/scoreboard objectives add .mined.stone minecraft.mined:minecraft.stone
It doesn't count? Since when?
round kindle
That's one way of fixing it yes, players would then need tools to break the wool...
I believe (unsure if this was fixed) there is a bug you could utilize, I will test it first and let you know if it still works
Okay I tested it, it works for specific components nevermind
tough crag
thanks for trying
round kindle
By the way
By your question, are you ONLY referring to player destruction? like a player mining a block
Because I'd reckon you could just like, put their mining speed attribute to 0
tough crag
no i have other problems as well, I got tnts to work with
round kindle
I think that's a thing
round kindle
no i have other problems as well, I got tnts to work with
tnt's power can be turned 0 instantly if it's in the area that's not a big problem
I think that's possible
tough crag
will that still damage the players? or do I have to setup a custom /damage?
round kindle
I don't think so no
oo nevermind, apparently explosion power is not stored in the entity's nbt once ignited
tough crag
only creepers have it i think
round kindle
but in this case just kill the tnt and drop an item one instead
tnt has it but just for the block form
tough crag
and fireballs
tough crag
oh wait no xd
round kindle
what
tough crag
theres a tnt purchasable from a shop somewhere that players can place to combat other players. This tnt would then damage players, breaks blocks that were placed by other players, but would not break the blocks that are from the map itself
tough crag
yeah its a little bit complicated
round kindle
why not make the floor of barrier blocks, and place a concrete block display on it
that wouldn't lag your game
not as much as constantly cloning would at least
tough crag
what about the lighting of the block?
round kindle
there is an option for block displays to be lit, but even if they aren't, those are barrier blocks, you could place light blocks under
and just keep the game in survival
tough crag
how bad is it if i replace the top layers in my 1000x500 map with barrier blocks and have each one have a block display?
round kindle
oh that's
that's quite huge
unless your server is powerful, and even your client, yea that will be a problem
tough crag
wait maybe im exaggerating, its prolly only like 400x320 or something, its oval shaped based from the previous screenshot
but its still pretty bad
round kindle
well not bad bad, display entities generally are more of a problem for the client more than the server
but yea it is recommended to avoid large amounts if possible
why is your arena this huge though, are there parts where you could compromise the barrier blocks
tough crag
well im just gonna tell it straight away
im trying to make a capture the flag map for a server that can be played with like 6v6 max, the screenshot above there was meant to be like a floor guide, surrounding the edges with mountains to cover the void
but yeah, really the main issue was to figure out how to prevent players from breaking the world while also at the same time allow them to build on it
tough crag
yeah, two bases, one for each team, a bridge perhaps, some random structures in between
round kindle
well
tough crag
its essentially an arena
round kindle
if you could compromise on the block's texture quality, you can have the whole arena be one block display
tough crag
wait thats so smart, imma try that rn
round kindle
Im not gonna lie I tested it and it's barely noticeable if you are using concrete
by the way @tough crag you could use this if you want https://eszesbalint.github.io/bdstudio/editor
for easier block display generation
tough crag
thanks for the support, ill try my luck with the block displays instead