Quest Editor

Let's make a quest! By default, the Quest Editor is available only to server ops. However, with the correct permissions in place, it's as simple as running /quests editor in-game (or from the console, with limited features). You will be greeted with the following:

Enter '1' in chat so the plugin may prompt you to enter a name for your quest. This can be any alphanumeric sequence, which means letters and numbers are OK, but no special characters or symbols! Don't worry, you can change it later if you're unsure.

After you've chosen a valid name, this screen will appear:

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1. Change the name of your quest

2. Shown to player when accepting quest

3. Shown to player after completing quest

4. Must speak to this Citizens or ZNPCsPlus NPC to start quest

5. Must right-click on this block to start quest

6. Must stand in this WorldGuard region to start quest

7. Use NPC GUI to start quest instead of chat

8. Change what a player needs to take your quest

9. Change the time(s) that your quest is available

10. Change what objectives your quest consists of

11. Change what a player gets for taking your quest

12. Change settings purely specific to your quest

13. Finish working on your quest

14. Discard all work on your quest

That's a lot of choices! Enter '2' and then input the first thing you'd like the player to hear for your quest. Once you're done, enter '3' to input the final message to come from your quest.

Pro-tip: If you have Citizens 2 or ZNPCsPlus installed for NPCs, you may enter '4' to select an NPC that you'd like to hand out the quest.

Great job! Now, if you go to save your quest, you'll get an error. This is because all quests must contain at least one stage. So, let's create one! Enter '11' to begin, then '1' to add your first stage.

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1. Includes objectives to break, place, damage, or use blocks

2. Includes objectives to craft, smelt, enchant, brew or consume items

3. Includes objectives to deliver items to, talk to, or kill NPCs

4. Includes objectives to kill or tame mobs, catch fish, or shear sheep

5. Objective to kill an amount of players

6. Objective to travel to a specific radius of world coordinates

7. Objective to enter a specific string in chat

8. Objective from an installed custom module

9. After setting at least one objective, run an action at the start, end, or during the stage

10. After setting at least one objective, check a condition during the stage

11. Number of seconds to wait before the next stage may begin

12. After setting a delay, show a message to the player once the delay starts

13. Show a message to the player once the stage begins

14. Show a message to the player once the stage ends

15. Override the message shown to the player about what their objectives are (use <count> or %count% to insert objective progress)

16. Permanently remove this stage

17. Finish working on your stage

Behold the magic of Quests! There are so many different objectives to choose from that the possibilities seem endless! Let's try a basic quest to break some blocks. Enter '1' to continue to the Blocks menu, then '1' again to select Break blocks.

Pro-tip: Custom objectives come from special add-ons which often link with other plugins, found here. To use one, it must be installed in your /Quests/modules folder at startup.

Here, you can enter whichever block you would like the player to break. Dirt makes for an easy challenge, so let's have the player break five of them. If you're using a Minecraft version older than 1.13, you can also set durability to use block variants (for example, a value of '3' would equate to Podzol rather than Dirt).

Pro-tip: Players may break blocks without affecting the quest by using a pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment. This feature can be disabled in Options.

Enter all the appropriate prompt numbers for 'Done' until you're back at the ask/finish message screen. You're nearly finished! Enter '13' and then '1' to save your quest.

Great work! To give your new quest a try, either run /questadmin reload or restart the server (do not use /reload) and then /quests take [yourQuestName]. Once you make a few more, you should share your most interesting quest lines on our Discord. Have fun!