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Woodcutting skill

Players gain experience for every log of a tree they cut and reach levels (skill, 50 by default). The perks grow with every level, their values at the highest level can be changed or disabled in the config:

• Faster cutting: more logs per tick of the animation.
• Shorter delay between two trees.
• Bigger trees: additional logs on top of maxblocks.
• Bonus drops: a higher chance that a log drops a second time.
• Careful with the axe: some logs don't damage the axe.
• Lower costs of hunger and experience.
• Forester's luck: decaying leaves sometimes drop a stick, a sapling or an apple.
• Unlocks: free replanting from level 10 and drops into the inventory from level 20, even if these features are disabled for everyone else.

The experience is shown over the action bar after a tree, a new level with a title. /woodcutter level [player] shows the level and the perks, /woodcutter top the best players. PlaceholderAPI: %woodcutter_skill_level%, %woodcutter_skill_xp%, %woodcutter_skill_xp_needed%. skill.enabled: false switches the skill off, e.g. on servers with another skill plugin.

Tipping trees

animation.mode: topple – the tree is cut at once and tips over, away from the player. The default is still layers, the tree falling log by log.

More ways to get the enchantment

Librarians and wandering traders sell books with WoodCutter for emeralds, and chests with loot contain them (sources, 3 % each by default).

Menu and languages

• /woodcutter menu – players switch WoodCutter on and off and see their level, perks and the best players. Admins switch the settings of the config on and off there.
• language: de – German texts (messages_de.yml).

More

• Huge mushrooms are cut like trees (mushrooms).
• Leaves required: logs without leaves are no tree, which also keeps buildings that are older than the plugin (require-leaves, enabled by default – disable it to cut bare trunks).
• Big trees with a trunk of 2x2 logs (dark oaks, big spruces and jungle trees) get four saplings when replanting.
• Ranks: woodcutter.delay.<seconds> gives a rank a shorter delay.
• Forester's luck: the items leaves drop can be changed (skill.lucky-drops).
• PlaceholderAPI: %woodcutter_top_<rank>_name%, ..._level% and ..._xp% for the ranking.
• Axe protection: cutting stops before the hit that would break the axe, so a tree never destroys it (protect-axe, enabled by default).
• Experience drops: trees can drop experience points for every log (experience-drops, disabled by default).
• WorldGuard (optional): the region flag woodcutter – /rg flag <region> woodcutter deny disables WoodCutter in a region.
• PlaceholderAPI (optional): %woodcutter_enabled%, %woodcutter_level%, %woodcutter_max_blocks% and %woodcutter_delay%.

Changed

• Falling animation: every layer of the tree falls from the trunk to the tips of its branches, and the sound gets higher towards the top.
• Fast leaf decay: with the animation the leaves follow the logs from the bottom to the top instead of disappearing at once.
• Config update: files without missing settings are not rewritten anymore, so own comments stay. Broken files are never overwritten.

Fixed

• Texts that are missing in the messages.yml have the default text instead of being empty.