Introducing PowerItems+

The code of PowerItems isn’t great. I wrote a lot of it a few years ago when I was still fairly new to Java. However, it did fulfil its purpose: to allow Minecraft server admins to create items that look more interesting than normal items.

PowerItems also allows you to bind commands to items, which are run when a player right clicks whilst holding it. While this wasn’t the main purpose of PowerItems, I personally found it to be quite useful.

Anyway, recently, multiple people have requested that I add other stats that can be added to items, such as Crit Change, Crit Damage, and Strength. Adding these to PowerItems would be quite difficult, and require me to change a lot of the code anyway, so instead I will be creating a new plugin called PowerItems+ (or PowerItemsPlus) which will add these, and give server admins more control over items created with it. PowerItems+ will include a few default items and abilities, which you can assign to items. You will be able to create addons for PowerItems+ in Java that add more abilities and rarities.

To create a new ability, you will create a class that looks something like this:

public class MyNewAbility implements PIPAbility {
    private String ID = "myNewAbility";
    private String NAME = "My New Ability";

    public void onLeftClick(Player p, PIPItem item) {
        p.sendMessage("Left clicked with " + item.getName());
    }
    public void onRightClick(Player p, PIPItem item) {
        p.sendMessage("Right clicked with " + item.getName());
    }
}

Adding new rarities will probably be done in the same way as done in PowerItems, you can find an example here.

To be clear, PowerItems will still be supported, and it won’t be going away any time soon, it may be updated less frequently, but I do plan on continuing to fix bugs and potentially add new features.