Sterlcraft » Server features

Protection & anti-grief

Sterlcraft uses CoreProtect to comprehensively log block interactions, deaths and so forth. It’s my (the server owner’s) philosophy that, on a server of this scale, land claim and/or grief prevention plugins add unnecessary obstacles to enjoyable gameplay. As such, in the rare instance of griefing (usually by tween trolls), CoreProtect can roll back changes quite accurately… except for item frames, for some reason.

Despite the philosophy on grief prevention plugins, door locking is a feature on Sterlcraft, courtesy of Bolt. It’s as simple as typing /lock and left-clicking your door. For rationale, refer to the follwing excerpt from in-game /help lock:

Sifting through tons of container interactions to determine
whether something was stolen is tedious for server staff.
Whilst lockable chests seem the best solution, it detracts a
bit from the vanilla-esque fun of the game.  As a compro-
mise, players can lock doors, which forces potential thieves
to break blocks—something which is more easily detected—to
access a secured container.  ¶  For general command help,
see: <https://github.com/pop4959/Bolt/wiki#commands>.

Additionally, do note that unvetted players—marked in chat and tablist as Player instead of Member—cannot light fires or place lava or TNT.

Teleportation

To focus more on community interaction and less on long-distance travelling, especially in the context of such a small playerbase, Sterlcraft has a few basic teleportation commands enabled, courtesy of the EssentialsX plugin.

Regarding homes: regular Players may have one home, while Members (vetted players) may have up to three.

Convenience & speed

Sort-of in line with the teleportation rationale, Sterlcraft implements a couple features for the sake of reducing rote, repetitive work. Chiefly, sneaking while cutting down a tree will fell the whole tree and replant a sapling, courtesy of Thizzy’s Tree Feller. Also, using a hoe to break a crop will simultaneously harvest and replant it, courtesy of Purpur.

There exists a dynamic server map with an overhead view; feel free to use this as you please.

Cosmetic additions

For Java Edition players who use OptiFine (or, for Quilt/Fabric users, Entity Texture Features and Entity Model Features), as well as for all Bedrock players, you can enjoy some of the uselessly custom textures in the server resource pack, including but not limited to:

• countless varieties of parrot, both naturally occurring and nameable
• a polar bear with purple and turquoise hair when named “Kuma”
• a pig with a crown when named “Technoblade”
• a 1-in-50 chance of a frog being a strawberry frog

Players can set their in-game handle to whatever they’d like using /nick nickname. Colour is supported via standard formatting codes, substituting & for §.

Sitting on stairs and slabs can be achieved by right-clicking with an empty hand, courtesy of GSit. Whether this is actually useful or gameplay-altering is debatable.

Everything else

Trains—a chain of minecarts that stay connected—can be formed by pushing one minecart into another, courtesy of TrainCarts. Link up a furnace minecart and you’ll have a self-propelling train. All the fancy features such as station signs and tickets have been disabled; those are a bit too non-Vanilla for my taste.

Sterlcraft has some plugins which provide or enhance compatibility with certain client-side mods:

• AppleSkin — Accurately view saturation and hunger details thanks to AppleSkinSpigot.
• Customized Player Models — Swap skins in-game.
• Simple Voice Chat — Chat with other users of this mod whilst on the server.