What is a Bukkit plugin?

A plugin is a program that hook into the Bukkit’s API and eventually achieve something on a Bukkit server. Let’s move into the next chapter. RESERVED. Chapter 1~3 is W.I.P. Mainly showing how to setup IDE and have your first plugin made. It shall introduces basics to Event API, CommandExecutor and permissions.

What’s wrong with Bukkit’s scoreboard?

The problem with that is it uses NMS code (specifically packets) and is version dependent so it will break every update. Bukkit recently added it’s own Scoreboard API into the latest development builds, and I wrote this to explain how to use it (all the links to the JavaDocs/other documentation are near the end).

Why can’t I use Bukkit’s API?

The reason is, Bukkit’s API has it’s own limits. An API can be viewed as an extension to a program, making this program interact-able with other programs. In the first 2 examples above, we used Bukkit’s API to done our objectives.

What is the valuevault plugin?

Vault is a Economy/Permission plugin for hooking into the various Economy and Permission plugins.