EZvac

Prerelease. The fourth pilot of 2.1, Realism: EXTENDED: EZvac can now be extended. The save format is the same as 2.0 (format 6), so it's a drop-in upgrade, and servers have nothing new to set up: nothing changes for players unless an addon is installed. It includes everything in Pilots 1, 2 and 3.

A public API for addons (API 1.0)

Other plugins can now build on EZvac's climate. Addons are ordinary Paper plugins that depend: [EZvac] and call EzvacApi.get(). They can read:

• the climate at any spot, or around any player: temperature, feels like, humidity, the outdoors, weather, season, and which system conditions it. These are the same numbers the HUD shows;
• the outdoor climate: air, natural water, humidity, dew point, and how much the season shifts it;
• thermostats and their systems, and dehumidifiers and humidifiers;
• the seasons, and whether the server shows °F or °C.

And listen to events:

API 1.0 reads only, and EZvac builds events only while something listens, so servers without addons see no difference at all.

For developers: the API is on JitPack:

<repository>
    <id>jitpack.io</id>
    <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.EZvac-Plugin.EZvac</groupId>
    <artifactId>ezvac-api</artifactId>
    <version>ALPHA-2.1-P4</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

The guide, with a complete example addon, is The EZvac API.

Coming next

LiveExposure, the first EZvac addon: heat and cold that wear down survival players caught in the elements, built on this API.

See the changelog for details.