Books Without Borders

This is a rewrite of the Books Without Borders plugin. This rewrite originally used the source code given at the original bukkit page. While the old plugin still worked the last time I checked, this plugin does not use any depreciated function calls, making sure it works for the foreseeable future.

Books without Borders!

Ever wanted to export your book to a text file? Ever want to import it back in? Accidentally sign it too soon? If so, Books without Borders has got your back!

Features

• Export written books and book and quills to .txt or .yml files
• Import books from files as written books or unsigned books
• Text files can be any length, and the import process fits the content to the correct page length
• Books can be saved privately, or to a directory visible server wide
• Encrypt books to prevent other players from reading them
• Give, encrypt, or decrypt held books with signs
• Give players books via command blocks
• Unsign or copy held books with a simple command
• Give first time players a single book or a set of books when they join
• Configurable option to require certain items or pay via Vault compatible economy to create books via command
• Add lore to any item with a simple command
• Supports adding and saving color to title, lore, and book contents
• Color and formatting codes can be manually turned into formatting using /formatbook
• Formatting and color codes can be turned into formatting once any book is signed. This is enabled through a config value
• Change generation of books. Create tattered books for your RPG server!
• Optionally, make it impossible to duplicate the original version of a book

Group encryption

• Group encryption allows every player with the bookswithoutborders.decrypt.<group> permission to decrypt the encrypted book without using a password.

Commands:

An in-game description of available commands is available through the /bwb command.

• /bookswithoutborders - Displays information about commands (and permissions if the user has bookswithoutborders.admin)
• /copybook <# of copies> - Copies the book the player is holding
• /decryptbook <key> - Decrypts the book the player is holding. "key" is required and MUST be IDENTICAL to the key used to encrypt the held book
• /deletebook <file name or number> - Deletes the specified file in the player's directory
• /deletepublicbook <file name or number> - Same as deletebook, but deletes files in the public directory
• encryptbook <key> [encryption style] - Encrypts the book the player is holding. "key" is required and can be any phrase or number excluding spaces. "style" is not required. Possible values are "DNA" or ""
• /formatbook - Formats the held written book (converts color and formatting codes to the corresponding formatted text)
• /givebook <file name or number> <playername> [# of copies (num)] [signed (true/false)] - Gives the selected player a book from your personal directory
• /givepublicbook <file name or number> <playername> [# of copies (num)] [signed (true/false)] - Same as givebook, but uses books from the public directory
• /loadbook <file name or number> [# of copies] [signed (true/false)] - Creates a book from the specified file and gives it to the player. If no file is specified, a list of available files is returned. If true is specified, the book will be signed, if false it will be unsigned
• /loadpublicbook <file name or number> [# of copies] [signed (true/false)] - Same as loadbook, but views files in the public directory
• /reload - Reloads BwB's configuration file
• /savebook [overwrite (true/false)] - Saves the book the player is holding to a text file in a private directory. If true is specified, a book of the same name by the same author will be overwritten by the new book
• /savepublicbook [overwrite (true/false)] - Same as savebook, but saves files in the public directory
• /setbookauthor <author> - Sets the author of the book the player is holding
• /setbookgeneration <generation> - Sets the generation (ORIGINAL, COPY_OF_ORIGINAL, COPY_OF_COPY, TATTERED)
• /setbookprice <item/eco> <quantity> - Sets the per-book price to create a book via commands. If "Item", the item in the player's hand in the amount of <quantity> will be the price. If "Eco", a Vault based economy will be used for price. If neither <Item/Eco> nor <quantity> are specified, the current price to create books will be removed.
• /setlore <new lore> - Sets the lore of the item the player is holding. Insert the lore_line_separator character to force a new line ("~" by default)
• /settitle <title> - Sets the title of the book/item the player is holding
• /unsignbook - Un-signs the book the player is holding

Permissions:

• bookswithoutborders.* - Grants all permissions
• bookswithoutborders.admin - Grants all permissions
• bookswithoutborders.use - Allows player to use commands to save/load/delete in their personal directory
• bookswithoutborders.alterbooks - Allows player to change books' data such as lore/title/author/formatting and unsigning books
• bookswithoutborders.reload - Allows player to reload this plugin
• bookswithoutborders.format - Allows a player to format a book
• bookswithoutborders.save - Allows a player to save books to their personal directory
• bookswithoutborders.load - Allows player to load books from their personal directory
• bookswithoutborders.delete - Allows player to delete books from their personal directory
• bookswithoutborders.unsign - Allows player to un-sign books
• bookswithoutborders.copy - Allows player to copy books
• bookswithoutborders.loadpublic - Allows player to load from the public directory
• bookswithoutborders.savepublic - Allows player to save to the public directory
• bookswithoutborders.encrypt - Allows player to encrypt books
• bookswithoutborders.groupencrypt - Allows player to use group-based encryption
• bookswithoutborders.decrypt - Allows player to decrypt books
• bookswithoutborders.decrypt.agroup - Allows player to decrypt books group-encrypted for group "agroup"
• bookswithoutborders.signs - Allows player to create signs that give/encrypt/decrypt books
• bookswithoutborders.give - Allows player to give another player one of their privately saved books
• bookswithoutborders.givepublic - Allows a player to give another player a book from the public directory
• bookswithoutborders.settitle - Allows player to set the title of the currently held book
• bookswithoutborders.setauthor - Allows player to set the author of the currently held book
• bookswithoutborders.setlore - Allows player to set the lore of the currently held item
• bookswithoutborders.bypassauthoronlycopy - Allows player to ignore Author_Only_Copy config setting
• bookswithoutborders.bypassauthoronlyunsign - Allows player to ignore Author_Only_Unsign config setting
• bookswithoutborders.bypassauthoronlysave - Allows player to ignore Author_Only_Save config setting
• bookswithoutborders.bypassbookprice - Allows player to ignore Price_to_create_book config setting
• bookswithoutborders.setbookprice - Allows player to set the cost of creating a book
• bookswithoutborders.setgeneration - Allows player to change the generation of a book (Original, Copy, Copy of Copy)

Signs

This plugin supports several custom signs with special functionality. Each plugin sign must have [BwB] on its first line.

Give sign

The give sign must have [Give] on its second line. The third and fourth line contains the book to be loaded. This can either be a numerical id pointing to a publicly saved book, or the full text identifier of the book (book name, author).

Encrypt sign

The encrypt sign must have [Encrypt] on its second line. The third line must contain the encryption key The fourth line can be empty or contain "dna" for dna-based encryption.

Decrypt sign

The decrypt sign must have [Decrypt] on its second line. The third line must contain the decryption key

Configuration options:

• Save_Books_in_Yaml_Format - Whether to use YAML for saved books instead of just storing them as text
• Max_Number_of_Duplicates - The maximum number of duplicates of a saved book allowed
• Author_Separator - The separator used to separate the book title and the book author
• Lore_line_separator - The separator used to denote a new line in the book/item lore
• Books_for_new_players - A list of books given to new players the first time they join the server
• Message_for_new_players - An optional message displayed to new players the first time they join the server
• Price_to_create_book.Item_type - The item type used as currency for copying books. Use "Economy" to use money instead of items
• Price_to_create_book.Required_quantity - The quantity of currency required to pay for each book produced
• Admin_Auto_Decrypt - Whether any admin can decrypt any book regardless of the group it was encrypted for
• Author_Only_Copy - Whether to only allow the author of a book to create copies
• Author_Only_Unsign - Whether to only allow the author of a book to unsign it
• Author_Only_Save - Whether to only allow saving a player's own books with /savebook
• Format_Book_After_Signing - Whether to automatically format every book when it's signed
• Change_Generation_On_Copy - Whether to display "COPY" or "COPY_OF_COPY" instead of "ORIGINAL" when a book is copied. This also uses the vanilla behavior where a copy of a copy or tattered book cannot be copied further.