Tweeting Minecraft AI

Hi all, today I'm going to be showing you how to make your minecraft server think and talk, as well as announce it's thoughts to the world via twitter. you will need the following:
* A minecraft server
* A web browser
* A twitter account
that's all, so once you have that, you can get to work.

Step 1: Preparing your server

The first thing to do is to ensure your server is ready for the immense brainpower of it's new AI, but this is quite simple really. just go to www.bukkit.org and download the latest version of craftbukkit using the link on the right hand side. copy the download link from the resulting page, and save the file into the same folder as your minecraft_server.jar

if you are using a server hosting provider such as multiplay, then just ask them to install bukkit for you, as this will be a lot easier than getting access to one of their servers.

Comments

[shmikles]

Very good tutorials, thanks. Is there any way to disable the timestamp on Twitter messages? Exactly like the example image.

[CyberJacob]

could you show me this 'timestamp'?
I've never seen it, so it might be another plugin putting it there

[shmikles]

There it is, the time and then my timezone(South African Standard Time).

[shmikles]

here

[CyberJacob]

strange, this isn't happening on my server.
what other plugins do you have installed?

[shmikles]

Currently only serverevents.

In the XML config file, before the end of the twitter section, there is this: "timestamp_hour_offset="0" />". Could that have anything to do with it?

[CyberJacob]

that's just the offset from the system clock. I haven't taken a look at this plugin for a long time, so posting on the bukkitdev page might get you more luck

[shmikles]

ok, thanks

[NatNoBrains]

This is someone else's work, you shouldn't be using it, anyway, it doesn't work on my server.

[CyberJacob]

could you be a little more helpful than 'dosen't work' ?

[NatNoBrains]

The thing is, I don't know what's wromg with it, and I'm not trying any more.

[CyberJacob]

then I can't help you. please stop trolling.

[NatNoBrains]

This is not your WORK!
Get rid of it, unless you have permission...

[MrCantThinkOfAName]

Very nice! I've never used bukkit on my server before, I would love to use this, but could I still use my zMod? I have been using zMod since I bought the game, and I'd still like to be able to use it.

[CyberJacob]

I did, that's half the reason I created this 'able

[zazenergy]

You should totally enter this into the "make it tweet" contest!