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On this page you learn how to compile MassiveCore and Factions.

Create your MassiveCraft Directory

Step one is to create your MassiveCraft code project directory. It can be a new directory on your desktop for example. The location of this directory does not matter. Place it anywhere you like. Call the directory “MassiveCraft”.

Check out from GitLab

Step two is to check out a few projects from GitHub. You should check them out into your MassiveCraft directory.

On a unix OS the commands could look like this:

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cd MassiveCraft
git clone https://gitlab.massivecraft.team/massivecraft/Factions.git
git clone https://gitlab.massivecraft.team/massivecraft/MassiveCore.git
git clone https://gitlab.massivecraft.team/massivecraft/MassiveCoreXlib.git
git clone https://gitlab.massivecraft.team/massivecraft/MassiveSuper.git

You don’t have to use the command line if you don’t want to. Feel free to use any Git client of your choice. (I.e. GitKraken)

Create the MassiveCraft meta POM

Step three is to manually create a file called pom.xml with the following content:

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    4.0.0
 
    <!-- Basics -->
    com.massivecraft
    MassiveCraft
    1.0.0
    pom
 
    <!-- Modules -->
    
        Factions
        MassiveCore
        MassiveCoreXlib
        MassiveSuper
    
 
    <!-- Build -->
    
        install

Use a text editor of your choice. Could be Notepad++, SublimeText, or Atom or any text editor you like. What is important is that the file has that content, is called “pom.xml” and placed within your MassiveCraft directory.

Build using Maven Command Line

Step four is to build this project using the “mvn” command in your terminal. While standing in your MassiveCraft directory type “mvn clean install”. It will then build all of the four repositories you checked out in the proper order.

Creating an IntelliJ project

Step five is to create an IntelliJ project using this meta pom.xml you just created.

Start the IntelliJ application. In the screenshots I use IntelliJ Ultimate but the Community edition works just fine. Click “Import Project” select your “MassiveCraft/pom.xml” file. The dialog below will open.

Check the checkbox “Import Maven projects automatically”. The other options are fine as is. Click next a few times till the project is fully imported.

Since IntelliJ does not understand the Maven Shade plugin too well we must ignore MassiveCoreXlib.

That’s about that. As can be seen above you may now hack away!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

The version numbers must match

The version numbers in all of the 5 sub projects must match. The version number in MassiveCraft/pom.xml can be 1.0.0 forever. That is just a dummy version number. For the version numbers in the sub projects however, they must be in sync. So it is important to remember to pull all Git repositories at the same time. I always push in such a way that they are the same in the repositories. If you want older versions I recently started tagging the special version commits. You can for example do “git checkout v2.13.6” as can be seen here: https://gitlab.massivecraft.team/massivecraft/Factions

Is there an official MassiveCraft Maven repository?

Sadly no. Not at this point. This is something we would like to look into so that you would not have to compile everything yourself. Currently however there is no Maven repo and you really have to check all of these repos out, make a meta pom, and compile as described in this tutorial.

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