Events

After you learned how to create conversations we will now take a look at events. These allow you to change the game world. This can be anything from modifying a player's inventory to placing blocks.
In this tutorial, we will give the player items and teleport them to different locations using events.

Requirements

• Conversations Tutorial

Related Docs

• Events Reference
• Events List

Download Tutorial Setup

Don't do this if you already have the configs of the previous tutorial step.

Enter this command in the chat to download the pre-made setup for this tutorial:

/bq download BetonQuest/Quest-Tutorials 0a587838ea52c57efd07ca3a74e45651b5ff87e9 QuestPackages /Basics/Conversations/1-DirectoryStructure /tutorialQuest

You can now find all files needed for this tutorial in this location: "YOUR-SERVER-LOCATION/plugins/BetonQuest/QuestPackages/tutorialQuest"

1. Creating the folder structure for your first event

Add a new file to your "tutorialQuest" QuestPackage named "events.yml". Here is an overview of what your directory structure should look like now:

• tutorialQuest
  • package.yml
  • events.yml
  • conversations
    • jack.yml

We now have our file structure ready and can start writing events!

2. Defining your first event

Open the events.yml now that we have created it and add the following content:

events: # (1)!
  giveFoodToPlayer: "give steak:16"

1. All events must be defined in an events section.

So what do we see here?

• giveFoodToPlayer is the name of the event. You are free to choose any name. However, it is recommended to name it after what it does. That just makes it easier to understand your quest.
• The Event Instruction.
  • give The first value in the instruction is always the event type.
  • steak:16 This is an option of the give event. It defines which item you want to give and which amount seperated by a colon.

Before we can test if the event works ingame we have to create the item steak because BetonQuest doesn't know what a steak is.

3. Creating the item in the items section

For some event types like give you need to specify an item in the items section. It holds definitions of all items you want to create/use in your quest. We will create the item section in the "package.yml" file.

npcs:
  '1': "Jack"

items:
  steak: "COOKED_BEEF" # (1)!

1. Links the steak item name from your BetonQuest configs to the ingame minecraft:COOKED_BEEF item.

Now steak is an item name that can be used throughout your quest.

4. Integrating events into conversations

Let's run the event from your conversation.

Tip: Highlighted lines in blue are new compared with the previous example.

conversations:
  Jack:
    quester: "Jack"
    first: "firstGreeting"
    NPC_options:
      #... (1)
      foodAnswer:
        text: "Your welcome! Take it... &7*gives food*"
        events: "giveFoodToPlayer" # (2)!
        pointer: "thankYou"
    player_options:
      #...
      thankYou: 
        text: "Oh that smells really good!"

1. The tutorial will only show relevant parts of the examples from now on.
2. The event argument must contain one or multiple event names. These events are executed when the corresponding option is shown to the player.
   This argument can be used on both player and npc options.

Make these changes to your conversation, reload and test! The NPC should now give the player food.

5. Testing your first event ingame

You can also run events using commands.

It is very important to save all files everytime you test something! Type /bq reload on your server after saving.

The easiest way to do this is by running a command:

Enter /bq event NAME tutorialQuest.giveFoodToPlayer on the server. This command will give you the specified amount of steak if you've done everything right!

Command Part	Meaning
/bq event	Tells BetonQuest that some event should be executed.
NAME	A player's name.
tutorialQuest	The name of a QuestPackage. This is required because you could have events with the same name in different packages.
giveFoodToPlayer	The name of the event to execute. Don't forget to separate it with a dot from the package tutorialQuest.giveFoodToPlayer.

You can also run this command from the console (without the slash at the start).

Is the example not working?

Get the correct configs by running the following command.
This will overwrite any changes (including NPC ID's and locations) you have made to the example.
Linking NPCs to conversations is explained in the basics tutorial.

/bq download BetonQuest/Quest-Tutorials 0a587838ea52c57efd07ca3a74e45651b5ff87e9 QuestPackages /Basics/Events/1-FirstEvent /tutorialQuest overwrite

6. Creating folder events

Now we will create a tour through the mayors city. Meanwhile, we will learn about the teleport and folder events.

Open the "events.yml" file and add these lines:

events:
  giveFoodToPlayer: "give steak:16"
  townTour: "folder tpLocation1,tpLocation2,tpLocation3,tpBlacksmith delay:2 period:5"
  tpLocation1: "teleport 100;70;100;world" # (1)!
  tpLocation2: "teleport 200;73;200;world" # (2)!
  tpLocation3: "teleport 300;71;300;world" # (3)!
  tpBlacksmith: "teleport 50;70;50;world" # (4)!

1. Adjust the coordinates and world name to your world. It must be in the unified location format
2. Adjust the coordinates and world name to your world. It must be in the unified location format
3. Adjust the coordinates and world name to your world. It must be in the unified location format
4. Adjust the coordinates and world name to your world. It must be in the unified location format

As you can see, there are a few new events of the types folder and teleport. The folder event wraps multiple events inside itself. Once triggered, it simply executes its events. Every event type is documented in the events list, read more about the folder and teleport events there.

Running the townTour event will teleport you to a new location every five seconds until we get to our final destination, the blacksmith. The folder event is done after the tpBlacksmith event was run.

Danger

Make sure you are in creative mode when testing this event. Otherwise, you might die from fall- or suffocation damage. Running /gamemode creative will change your game mode to creative.

Now we will add the folder event to Jack's conversation.

conversations:
  Jack:
    quester: "Jack"
    first: "firstGreeting"
    NPC_options:
      #...
      foodAnswer:
        text: "You're welcome! Take it... &7*gives food*"
        events: "giveFoodToPlayer"
        pointer: "thankYou"
      townTour:
        text: "Yeah that's true. You know what also smells good? The fresh air in my town! Would you like to take a little tour?"
        pointer: "enoughTime,noTimeForThat" # (1)!
      startTheTour:
        text: "Great! It is a honor for me to guide you through the town."
        events: "townTour" # (2)!
      noProblem:
        text: "That's fine! Maybe you have time another day... Just talk to me again. See you!"
    player_options:
      #...
      thankYou:
        text: "Oh that smells really good!"
        pointer: "townTour" # (3)!
      enoughTime:
        text: "Yes of course! Show me everything."
        pointer: "startTheTour"
      noTimeForThat:
        text: "Sorry but I don't have time now..."
        pointer: "noProblem"

1. The player once again has a choice.
2. This is the event name for the new event that we will create. It gets triggered when the startTheTour NPC option is shown.
3. This extends the existing conversation.

These modifications allow the player to choose whether they want to take a town tour or not.

Now speak with the NPC again to take the tour.

Is the example not working?

Get the correct configs by running the following command.
This will overwrite any changes (including NPC ID's and locations) you have made to the example.
Linking NPCs to conversations is explained in the basics tutorial.

/bq download BetonQuest/Quest-Tutorials 0a587838ea52c57efd07ca3a74e45651b5ff87e9 QuestPackages /Basics/Events/2-TownTour /tutorialQuest overwrite

Summary

You've learned what events are and how to create them. You can now give a player some food or even teleport him through the whole town! More events can be found in the events list. Next you will learn how to give tasks to the player using objectives.

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Objectives Tutorial