AlphaEventSetupArena setup

Arena setup

How to create arenas, check them and run several per event.

On this page

How arenas work
Select, then edit
Checking an arena
Several arenas for one event
What the plugin does to your regions
Coming from 2.x

How arenas work

An arena belongs to one event and has a name, for example spleef/main or spleef/winter. It stores a handful of generic things, and each event says which of them it needs:

Kind	What it is	Example
Lobby	Where players wait between rounds: a point, a WorldGuard region, or both. With a region, each player lands on a random surface spot inside it.	`/aevent setspawn`
Exit	Where everyone is sent when the event ends or they leave. Without one they return to where they joined from.	`/aevent setexit`
Regions	Named WorldGuard regions: `lobby`, `arena`, and event-specific ones such as `finish` or `hill`.	`/aevent region finish <region>`
Points	Single locations such as `fight-a` or `flag-red`.	`/aevent point flag-red`
Lists	Numbered locations such as `spawns`, `checkpoints` or `chairs`, in the order you add them.	`/aevent addpoint checkpoints`

Arenas are saved by the plugin in arenas/<event>/<name>.yml. Create and change them with the commands, not by hand.

Select, then edit

Setup works on a selection, like WorldEdit. Select an arena once and every setup command edits that arena until you select another.

/aevent select tntrun main        create or select tntrun/main
/aevent setspawn                  lobby point (your position)
/aevent region arena tnt_floor    the region that holds the floor
/aevent addspawn                  a spawn point (your position), repeat
/aevent check                     what is still missing?
/aevent start tntrun

With nothing selected the setup commands edit spleef/main, which is what they always did before 3.0, so existing setups keep working.

Checking an arena

/aevent check [event] [arena] lists every requirement with a tick or a cross, and for each cross the command that fixes it. /aevent start runs the same check and refuses to start an arena that is not ready, printing the same list.

ALPHAEVENT » SETUP CHECK ― spleef / main
  ✔ lobby (point or region)
  ✖ arena region (the floor) → /aevent region arena <region>
  ✔ spawn points

Several arenas for one event

Run /aevent select spleef winter to create a second arena. /aevent start spleef then picks a random ready arena; /aevent start spleef winter picks that one. /aevent arenas spleef lists them and /aevent delarena spleef winter removes one that is not in use.

What the plugin does to your regions

Regions are yours; the plugin only changes a WorldGuard flag while a round is live and puts it back to exactly what it was afterwards.

Flag	When	Why
`block-break` allow	Spleef rounds	Avoids WorldGuard's "you can't build here" message on every break. The plugin still decides who may break what.
`block-place` and `block-break` allow	Build Battle building phase	Players build in their own plot.
`pvp` allow	Sumo, Knockback Stick, Snowball Fight, Hot Potato and every PvP event	WorldGuard otherwise answers "you can't PvP here" to projectile hits.
`ride` allow	Boat Race	Players are seated in boats at the start.

While a round is live, nobody who is not taking part can break or place blocks inside the arena region, or hit a participant.

Coming from 2.x

On the first start of 3.x the plugin converts arena.yml into arenas/spleef/main.yml and keeps the original in backup/2.x/. Spawn point numbers are renumbered from 1. See Configuration → Upgrading.