Server Mall

Revision as of 06:01, 23 April 2020

The Dogcraft.net Server features a buying and selling plugin simply known as "Shop". This plugin creates 'chestshops' that can be used to buy or sell items for the server's currency, Dogcraft Dollars, or barter for specific items.

As of the April 2020, the Survival 4 world does not yet feature a server-run Mall. Once one was been opened, advice on how to use it will be recorded here. For now, several player-run shops are available. For information on these, please ask in-game using chat.

Using Shops

This section will guide you in using the Shop plugin on Dogcraft. The plugin also has a tutorial video that can be found here.

File:Shop sign example.png

An example of the sign formatting for a shop. The shop is selling 5 of an item for 2 DCD.

To create a chest shop, players will need a chest and a sign. First, place the chest, and then the sign onto the chest or on the block in front of it. The vanilla sign writing interface will appear. Each of four written line of the sign indicate a certain specification of the resulting shop. As previously mentioned, there are three types of shop that can be created, each has a slightly different creation process.

Sell Shops

Must be formatted as such;

Top Line: To indicate to the server that this will be a shop, the sign must contain the text [shop] on the top row.

Second Line: Type the numerical amount of an item you would like to sell for a certain amount of DCD (Note: this is not the amount of stock currently stored in the shop, as was the case in the formerly used QuickShop plugin).

Third Line: Type the numerical amount of DCD you would like in return for the entry placed on the second line.

Bottom Line: Type the text sell, to indicate a sell shop.

Once this is entered onto the sign, press enter. Afterwards, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to sell. At this point, the text on the sign should turn from red to green, and the shop is activated. Remember to stock the shop with the items it is selling.

To purchase from a sell shop, go up to it and right-click the sign itself. There is no confirmation step, so be careful as you will be charged for your purchase. To see a preview of the shop's specifications, right-click the chest itself.

Buy Shops

Must be formatted as such;

Top Line: To indicate to the server that this will be a shop, the sign must contain the text [shop] on the top row.

Second Line: Type the numerical amount of an item you would like to buy for a certain amount of DCD.

Third Line: Type the numerical amount of DCD you would like to spend for the entry placed on the second line.

Bottom Line: Type the text buy, to indicate a buy shop.

Once this is entered onto the sign, press 'Done'. You will exit the sign interface and the text will format and turn red. Afterwards, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to buy. If you do not own the item you would like to buy, punch the chest without an item in your hand. Then, open your inventory using as usual, and you will enter the creative menu. Find and select the item you would like to buy and 'throw' it out of your inventory (an example is featured to the right). At this point, the text on the sign should turn from red to green, and the shop is activated.

To sell to a buy shop, go up to it and right-click the sign itself. Ensure that you have the item the shop is buying in your inventory. The shop will take items from there in increments of the amount the shop buys. To see a preview of the shop's specifications, right-click the chest itself.

Barter Shops

Must be formatted as such;

Top Line: To indicate to the server that this will be a shop, the sign must contain the text [shop] on the top row.

Second Line: Type the numerical amount of an item you are willing to barter away.

Third Line: Type the numerical amount of a different item you are willing to barter for the entry placed on the second line.

Bottom Line: Type the text barter, to indicate a buy shop.

Once this is entered onto the sign, press 'Done'. You will exit the sign interface and the text will format and turn red. Afterwards, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to barter away. Then, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to barter for. If you do not own the item you would like to barter for, punch the chest without an item in your hand. Then, open your inventory using as usual, and you will enter the creative menu. Find and select the item you would like to buy and 'throw' it out of your inventory. At this point, the text on the sign should turn from red to green, and the shop is activated. Remember to stock the shop with the item it is bartering away.

To use a barter shop, go up to it and right-click the sign itself. Ensure that you have the item the shop is bartering for in your inventory. The shop will take items from there in increments of the amount the shop barters for and replace them with the item and amount it barters away. To see a preview of the shop's specifications, right-click the chest itself.

Other players will not be able to open or break someone's chest shop irrespective of the claim situation, and it is not possible to allow people to do so with commands. To remove your chest shop, break the sign attached to the chest. The chest will become a vanilla instance.

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+The [[Dogcraft.net]] Server features a buying and selling plugin simply known as "Shop". This plugin creates 'chestshops' that can be used to buy or sell items for the server's currency, [[Dogcraft Dollars]], or barter for specific items.
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-We hope to update this page shortly. Thank you for you patience!
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-The [[Dogcraft.net]] Server features a [[mall]], serving as a staff-built commercial district in which players can build shops on plots to sell or buy Minecraft items in exchange for [[Dogcraft Dollars]]. This '''Mall Guide''' covers the process of renting and unrenting a mall plot.
-The current iteration of the mall on the [[Survival 3]] world can be accessed via the ''/mall'' command, or via ''/warp mall''. Alternatively, it is accessible via a [[Survival Railway Network]] [[Mall Station (Survival 3)|station]] on the West Line
+As of the April 2020, the [[Survival 4]] world does not yet feature a server-run Mall. Once one was been opened, advice on how to use it will be recorded here. For now, several player-run shops are available. For information on these, please ask in-game using chat.
-The renting system of the mall is arranged through the AreaShop plugin. The chest shops themselves are arranged with QuickShop.
-[[File:2019-05-21 12.21.55.png|thumb|198x198px|Map of the [[Mall#Survival 3|Mall on Survival 3]].]]
-==Layout==
+<br />
-The mall is laid out into eight districts, each of different colors. The mall is built in an ocean such that plots can be built with both above water and underwater sections.
+==Using Shops==
+This section will guide you in using the Shop plugin on Dogcraft. The plugin also has a tutorial video that can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lDM1aAhgv0&t=4s here].
-Pathways connect each plot to the center of the mall which is the location of the station and where the warp will take you. The [[Mall Station (Survival 3)|station]] can be accessed via bubble columns here which you can walk into to be taken up or down to and from the station.
+[[File:Shop sign example.png|thumb|''An example of the sign formatting for a shop. The shop is '''selling 5 of an item''' for '''2 DCD'''.'']]
+To create a chest shop, players will need a chest and a sign. First, place the chest, and then the sign onto the chest or on the block in front of it. The vanilla sign writing interface will appear. Each of four written line of the sign indicate a certain specification of the resulting shop. As previously mentioned, there are three types of shop that can be created, each has a slightly different creation process.
-Of the eight districts there are the four larger districts: Green, Yellow, Blue and Orange. These each feature 7 large plots and 20 small plots.The four smaller districts are Black, Gray, Purple and White, each featuring 25 small plots.
+==== Sell Shops ====
+Must be formatted as such;
-At the corners where three color districts meet, are three colored beacon beams that identify those color districts.
+'''Top Line''': To indicate to the server that this will be a shop, the sign must contain the text ''[shop]'' on the top row.
-<br />
+'''Second Line''': Type the numerical amount of an item you would like to sell for a certain amount of DCD (''Note: this is not the amount of stock currently stored in the shop, as was the case in the formerly used QuickShop plugin)''.
+'''Third Line''': Type the numerical amount of DCD you would like in return for the entry placed on the second line.
+'''Bottom Line''': Type the text ''sell'', to indicate a sell shop.
+Once this is entered onto the sign, press enter. Afterwards, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to sell. At this point, the text on the sign should turn from red to green, and the shop is activated. Remember to stock the shop with the items it is selling.
+To purchase from a sell shop, go up to it and right-click '''the sign itself'''. There is no confirmation step, so be careful as you will be charged for your purchase. To see a preview of the shop's specifications, right-click '''the chest itself'''.
+==== Buy Shops ====
+Must be formatted as such;
-==Using Plots==
+'''Top Line''': To indicate to the server that this will be a shop, the sign must contain the text ''[shop]'' on the top row.
-This section will guide you in using the AreaShop plugin on Dogcraft. The plugin also offers online documentation of all commands [https://github.com/NLthijs48/AreaShop/wiki/Commands-and-Permissions here].
+'''Second Line''': Type the numerical amount of an item you would like to buy for a certain amount of DCD.
-To rent a plot in the mall, one must first find a plot that has not yet been rented. Walking around and looking for one would give you a good sense of what shops are available in the mall already, but there is also a command available to find one more easily: ''/as find rent''.
+'''Third Line''': Type the numerical amount of DCD you would like to spend for the entry placed on the second line.
-To rent a plot, you can either ''right click'' the sign on the plot, adding 1 month of rent per right click, or use the command ''/as rent <plot name>''. Leaving the plot name unspecified requires you to be standing inside the plot. Both methods can also be used to extend rent on the plot. Large plots costs 2,000 DCD to rent, the smaller plots 1,000 DCD.
+'''Bottom Line''': Type the text ''buy'', to indicate a buy shop.
+Once this is entered onto the sign, press 'Done'. You will exit the sign interface and the text will format and turn red. Afterwards, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to buy. If you do not own the item you would like to buy, punch the chest without an item in your hand. Then, open your inventory using as usual, and you will enter the creative menu. Find and select the item you would like to buy and 'throw' it out of your inventory (an example is featured to the right). At this point, the text on the sign should turn from red to green, and the shop is activated.
-The sign next to the plot lists the duration of the remaining rent. Players can also check the remaining time of their own plot with ''/as me''. Once rent expires, the plot gets reset completely to its original state, erasing all of its contents with no reimbursements. As players can only rent 1 plot at a time, wanting to move plots means a player will have to manually unrent their previous plot. To do so, they can use ''/as unrent <plot name>'', or leave the plot name unspecified while standing inside their plot. This too, will erase the contents of the plot, so be sure to empty it before unrenting. Remaining rent on the plot will not be reimbursed.
+To sell to a buy shop, go up to it and right-click '''the sign itself'''. Ensure that you have the item the shop is buying in your inventory. The shop will take items from there in increments of the amount the shop buys. To see a preview of the shop's specifications, right-click '''the chest itself'''.
-Once rented, players can build on their own plot. Players can not build on other people's plots, open chests or interact with blocks such as doors or buttons. To allow people to do all of those things, players can use ''/as addfriend <player name>''. To remove this permission for a player, one can use ''/as delfriend <player name>''. To check on whose plots you have permissions, you can use ''/as me''.
+==== Barter Shops ====
+Must be formatted as such;
-To get to your plot quicker, you can use ''/as tp <plot name>''. This form of teleportation is instant, sometimes unintentionally providing a "cop-out" when a player is in a lethal situation. The command can only teleport you to solid blocks, and if the plot is not built on (fully made up of water), it will not work. To set the teleportation spot to a specific block, you can use ''/as settp'' while standing on the block.
+'''Top Line''': To indicate to the server that this will be a shop, the sign must contain the text ''[shop]'' on the top row.
-<br />
-==Using Shops==
+'''Second Line''': Type the numerical amount of an item you are willing to barter away.
-This section will guide you in using the QuickShop plugin on Dogcraft. The plugin also offers online documentation [https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/quickshop.18676/ here].
+'''Third Line''': Type the numerical amount of a different item you are willing to barter for the entry placed on the second line.
-To create a chest shop, players should place a chest or trapped chest, and then ''left click'' that chest ''while crouching'', ''holding the item'' they want to sell. To complete the chest shop creation, a price for 1 item must be entered in chat with ''/n <price>''. This will create the shop, after which the creator can stock it. A sign will automatically be generated on the chest (which you don't get as an item if broken), providing information on the owner, stock, item and price of that chest shop.
+'''Bottom Line''': Type the text ''barter'', to indicate a buy shop.
+Once this is entered onto the sign, press 'Done'. You will exit the sign interface and the text will format and turn red. Afterwards, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to barter away. Then, left-click (punch) the sign with the item you would like to barter for. If you do not own the item you would like to barter for, punch the chest without an item in your hand. Then, open your inventory using as usual, and you will enter the creative menu. Find and select the item you would like to buy and 'throw' it out of your inventory. At this point, the text on the sign should turn from red to green, and the shop is activated. Remember to stock the shop with the item it is bartering away.
-Other players will not be able to open someone's chest shop, and it is not possible to allow people to with commands. To remove your chest shop, you can either break the chest, or ''right click'' the automatically generated sign and click ''[Remove Shop]''. Normally the plugin allows changing price with ''/qs price <new price>'', but due to how permissions are set up this is not possible on Dogcraft.
+To use a barter shop, go up to it and right-click '''the sign itself'''. Ensure that you have the item the shop is bartering for in your inventory. The shop will take items from there in increments of the amount the shop barters for and replace them with the item and amount it barters away. To see a preview of the shop's specifications, right-click '''the chest itself'''.
-Creating a chest shop will default the chest to Selling Mode, which is what most shops in the mall are set to. However, it's also possible to have a chest shop ''buy'' items from players. To do so, you must select the created chest shop by ''left clicking'', and use ''/qs buy'' and ''/qs sell'' to switch between modes. Alternatively, you can rightclick the automatically generated sign and click the ''[Switch]'' option.
+</br>
+Other players will not be able to open or break someone's chest shop irrespective of the [[Guide to Claiming|claim]] situation, and it is not possible to allow people to do so with commands. To remove your chest shop, break the sign attached to the chest. The chest will become a vanilla instance.
-To buy from a chest shop (or sell an item to a buy shop), you can ''left click'' the chest or the sign and use ''/n <amount>'' in chat, where 'amount' is the amount of items you want to buy. Left clicking the shop also brings up more information on the shop, and allows you to click ''[Preview Item]'' to see the item itself, which may be helpful for enchanted items or [[Heads Guide|mob heads]]. Lastly, you can use ''/qs find <item>'' to find chest shops with a certain item in the area near you.
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