Horse Spawning Plugin

[thesillychicken Profile]

I know we have horses already but I found a plugin that will force spawn them in pre 1.6 chunks.

Sorry PA but your monopoly must end. ;)

http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/naturalhorses/

[PosterAnonymous Profile]

I know you were joking, TSC. I just wanted to make it clear to anyone else who might think otherwise that I'm not being vindictive/punitive in my mount dealings.

At this point, having mounts is quickly becoming more trouble than it's worth (See: "The Plank of Shame" and multiple complaints I've heard about mount/mount-related item theft prior to the return of /modreq*). As soon as someone knows you have them and where you keep them, you're griefed into next week and all of your good mounts are stolen if not just outright slain. I highly advise against riding into/doing mount deals in Leoville proper because it isn't very difficult for a player to pull out a bow and arrow, kill your mount, and steal the saddle/other items it drops before you're even aware of what happened.

Sure, a mod could technically use spawn eggs to create more mounts but the odds of getting a mount with the exact same stats are definitely not in your favor. To add to the frustration, from what I understand spawn eggs (at least for mounts) have been turned off due to problems with (a) certain player(s) over in Flatland/Creative abusing the privilege (Surprising no one). If true, that means that you'll be left to depend upon the kindness of some other player to first have two mounts capable of breeding, second be willing to breed for you, third have the supplies required for said breeding, fourth be willing to transport the offspring for you, and fifth that you'd get the random stats the exact way you wanted including speed, coloration, etc. in order to get your exact horse back. Lord help you if you used a name tag on your original mount or left your saddle or armor on/items in your chests if it's a donkey or mule.

Like I said, a lot of hassle. Especially if, a week later, the same player who griefed you before and got a week ban decides to return for a repeat performance... But we all know that *NEVER* happens, right?

Right now, my goal is to try and get some horses and even donkeys/mules out there slowly but surely. I'm doing it in the form of a scavenger hunt because, instead of constantly complaining about the lack of community involvement, I wanted to actually DO something about it in one of the few ways I am capable. My secondary plan is to keep some horses with better stats and animals that could be used to repopulate the server if/when all other mounts have been killed off far away from the clutches of our random/habitual griefers and their weekly escapades down Sarah Lane (Ha! Road reference!). I'm not making a profit on a single horse I've given away - In fact, I've taken a substantial loss in time, materials, and transport and have not charged a single coin for it. I have other unfinished projects like the Aquadome I'd gladly go back to if someone who is trusted enough among the server population was willing to take over the mount dealings or a plugin would make them as readily available as even squid are currently.

If that makes me a monopolist, then call me Mr. Money-Bags. Personally, it sounds like a lesson in Derpnomics 101 to me...

* Yes, I referred complaints to the forum.