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    World Downloads

    Check out our example moon, “what if” earth and exoplanet worlds! Read about them here.

    WHIMC Plugins

    All of our plugins are open source and can be downloaded for free from http://guthub.com/whimc and adapted to your own server. There are pre-compiled JARs or you can modify and compile your own version!

    See our section on AI tools for our plugins related to pedagogical agents and integrated learner analysis tools.

    WHIMC-Journey – A multi-world path-finding solution and alternative to teleportation

    WHIMC-Lockbar – Lock players’ inventory slots to prevent moving items or dropping them

    WHIMC-Observations – Show /observation signs on the map

    WHIMC-Portals – Create portals out of “end portal” type blocks to allow players to teleport between worlds

    WHIMC-PositionTracker – Internal plugin for saving player positions, uses MySQL database to store positions

    WHIMC-ScienceTools – Creates values for oxygen, altitude, wind speed, etc.

    WHIMC-WorldChatPrefixer – For prefixing chat with a formatted world name (indicates where a player is presently)

    ProtocolLib – prerequisites (libraries) for WHIMC Plugins

    WHIMC Plugin Explanation Videos

    Tools For World Design

    There are lots of great 3rd-party free and open source tools we use to create the worlds and maps you can find on our server.

    Worldpainter – create entirely new alien worlds or import existing maps to modify them on a macro-scale!

    Amulet Editor – “meso-scale” editing to replace blocks, import existing schematics, etc…

    MCC Toolchest – a collection of tools to help fix maps or convert formats to one another in the different Minecraft ecosystems (Bedrock/phone and Java/computers)

    Binvox – a simple script that uses your GPU to convert a 3D file (like terrain) to voxels (a schematic) for import to create custom worlds

    Recommended Plugins and Resources

    Using Datapacks to create alien-looking worlds!
    Most of our plugins can be found on Spigot, as we use a current PaperMC install.
    • Cartographer 2 – minimap plugin to help users know where to go
    • Citizens – Create and control interactive NPC’s
    • CoreProtect – block change logging and roll-backs
    • EssentialsX – Player-made homes, server warps and kits, player-to-player private messages, teleports and teleport requests, custom player nicknames, various moderation tools including kicks, temporary bans, mutes and jails
    • FastAsyncWorldEdit, FastAsyncVoxelSniper and WorldEditSelectionVisualizer – world manipulation plugin for painting blocks, editing regions, etc
    • HolographicDisplays – API used for plugins like Observation Displayer – creates floating text labels that can be used to direct players or label areas
    • ImageOnMap – Render images onto maps by embedding an external image URL into a custom and placing it on one or more item frames
    • Head Database, InfoHeads – Custom player heads (small blocks) that you can click to execute commands (used to prompt science tool validation on the moon)
    • LuckPerms – Permissions management – prevent players from running commands or affecting parts of the world you don’t want them to
    • Multiverse-Core – Allows a single Minecraft server to host many worlds
    • Quests – use with NPC’s (Citizens) to create and assign quests to players
    • SignBoard – displays dense text information as an overlay in front of signs, NPC’s or on separate tablets (books)
    • Vault – Permissions, chat, & economy API required for other plugins
    • Worldguard-bukkit and WorldGuardExtraFlags – Create regions in-game with special flags to manipulate gameplay behavior
    • WorldResourcePacks – Apply a different resource pack for each separate world

    WHIMC Prism / Multi-MC Package

    Setup is super easy with our MultiMC. It includes several plugins, such as Voxelmap, Optifine, WorldEdit and ReplayMod. To begin, select your Operating System:

    OSX (mac)
    Windows (pc)

    Need help? Ask ginger@illinois.edu questions