How to protect a zone on a pvp server as ADMIN

[CDEEKS]

Hi i am trying to figure out how to stop players being able to damage blocks in a given radius around a shop i built. i want to fill the shop with loads of items for sale and i tried land claim blocks and various botman commands but nothing works. i can disable pvp but i can't figure out how to disable block damage like you get in trade posts.

[sbangs007]

Good question.. following for a reply.. thanks for posting

[Sangra69]

You would have to edit the blocks in the block.xml file I think.

[sbangs007]

I never play with creative, but is there a way in creative mode to build blocks and enable a switch to not take player damage?

[DrStrangePork]

ive posted asking for a special block with hold R properties pop up that will allow the plot area to be indestructable........hope theyll go for it! also just like in Empyrion galactic survival, i WISH theyd make building saveable blueprints you can just spawn in creative.....save alot of the hassle of rebuilding things when an update frags EVERYTHING

[darrylhs]

The blueprint system in EGS is great but it would take away from base building in game here I think. For your suggested reason I would be ok with it (after a wipe due to update) but otherwise I don't feel it's really workable here.

I have been asking for a shipyard in EGS for ever to take away the magic mega ship spawn moment lol kinda of breaks Emerson when a Death Star magically appears out of thin vacume

[sbangs007]

I think the bp system would be awesome here, espially for base repalments after forced wipes..

[darrylhs]

Look at it this way, building a base as it stands now requires that you don't look around for threats which makes sense. If your busy building a wall it's hard to watch your back.

But if I can just dump mats into a magic hopper and poof my hardened concrete bunker appears that's very Emerson breaking and frankly will get exploited terribly in MP

[sbangs007]

Originally posted by darrylhs:

Look at it this way, building a base as it stands now requires that you don't look around for threats which makes sense. If your busy building a wall it's hard to watch your back.

But if I can just dump mats into a magic hopper and poof my hardened concrete bunker appears that's very Emerson breaking and frankly will get exploited terribly in MP

yea, have to agree with that 100%. Maybe just a tool for admins to use :)

[CellNav]

Originally posted by CDEEKS:

Hi i am trying to figure out how to stop players being able to damage blocks in a given radius around a shop i built. i want to fill the shop with loads of items for sale and i tried land claim blocks and various botman commands but nothing works. i can disable pvp but i can't figure out how to disable block damage like you get in trade posts.

You might want to try the modding forum over at the 7dtd website ... There is a Prefeb Editor available that allows people to edit or create a prefab. Perhaps there is a way for you to create a prefab (like a trader outpost) but I don't know if it's possible with that editor (it's still work-in-progress), or maybe it's hard coded to protect that area (like a suedo LCB block). It might be best to join that forum and ask those gentlmen, maybe it can be added as a feature (if possible), idk.

Here's the link to the forum page for the editor, it has Utube videos to watch, I'll post one of those basic videos here as well :

Pille's Prefab Editor :
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?62501-Prefab-Editor-(Alpha)

Basic Video about the Prefab Editor :
https://youtu.be/2AIJz0kP5KQ

[DrStrangePork]

Thank you very much for the links! I wonder is there something like this for Empyrion (EGS)? being able to layout, layer for layer my ships would be SWEET. All of my prior web searches for a tool like this for EGS came up with some truly basic stuff, and they didnt export or create the file for you to insert. going to give this editor a shot love to make things for players to explore and do. In our previous server before it was all fragged by an update we had mini bike tracks and races, a 60 x 60 pyramid with mazes pitfalls and mirror maze, and traps that could kill or maim......and of course there was a dandy in game prize for those who made it. Since that was fragged, we have not built anyting really player interactive. Being able to SAVE that building, and drop it in game at a later date will be super!
Now if iI can just find a way to set spawn points, amount of spawn, spawn time and a death time (so if a spawn lives too long it will expire until respawn timer hits, or a trigger is activated by a player).

[sbangs007]

Originally posted by CellNav:

Originally posted by CDEEKS:

Hi i am trying to figure out how to stop players being able to damage blocks in a given radius around a shop i built. i want to fill the shop with loads of items for sale and i tried land claim blocks and various botman commands but nothing works. i can disable pvp but i can't figure out how to disable block damage like you get in trade posts.

You might want to try the modding forum over at the 7dtd website ... There is a Prefeb Editor available that allows people to edit or create a prefab. Perhaps there is a way for you to create a prefab (like a trader outpost) but I don't know if it's possible with that editor (it's still work-in-progress), or maybe it's hard coded to protect that area (like a suedo LCB block). It might be best to join that forum and ask those gentlmen, maybe it can be added as a feature (if possible), idk.

Here's the link to the forum page for the editor, it has Utube videos to watch, I'll post one of those basic videos here as well :

Pille's Prefab Editor :
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?62501-Prefab-Editor-(Alpha)

Basic Video about the Prefab Editor :
https://youtu.be/2AIJz0kP5KQ

That tool/video is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!

[CellNav]

Originally posted by brightwhiteknight:

That tool/video is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!

Quite welcome, hope it helps!
The videos themselves show how powerfull the tool is with other tools to import/export, it's really amazing!

Originally posted by brightwhiteknight:

Being able to SAVE that building, and drop it in game at a later date will be super!
Now if iI can just find a way to set spawn points, amount of spawn, spawn time and a death time (so if a spawn lives too long it will expire until respawn timer hits, or a trigger is activated by a player).

Yeah, watch some of the videos, there's an import/export program to help with editting (Hal's BBB Commands). Can even add remove spawning for sleepers. There's a request in for using any entity, but frankly, a prefeb with a modded sleeper could spawn any entity by just modding the gamestage (or add your own sleeper), perhaps say a group of chickens spawning maybe, haha, on a basic prefab of nothing but flat ground ... :)

Check out the import/export video (it was on that forum link) : Those guys run a server and shows the power of being admin and using just a server for their prefab work alone :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt9EtPkWUAw