1.x/Guard

Guards perform protection, attacking enemy mobs and/or players. They can be hurt by others, so will die (and respawn). You can set a guard to follow you or to patrol an area.

Having a problem with Guards? Try this dev-build posted to the forums by fullwall on 1/29/2012: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6701575/Guard.jar

Configuration Nodes

These nodes can be found in citizens.yml.

Setting - path of the setting
Default Value - default value of the setting
Description - short description of the setting

Setting	Default Value	Description
guards.default-bouncer-protection-radius	10	The default protection radius for guard bouncers (measured in blocks).
guards.respawn-delay	100	How many ticks after a guard's death before it should respawn.

Commands

[] - Mandatory
() - Optional

Command - command's syntax
Args Description - description of the command's arguments
Require Selected - whether the command requires an NPC to be selected
Require Ownership - whether the commands requires you to be the owner of the NPC
Permission - command's permission node
Description - short description of the command

Command	Args Description	Require Selected	Require Ownership	Permission	Description
/guard help	None	false	false	citizens.guard.use.help	View the help page for guards
/guard [type]	type - type to set a guard as, available options are 'bouncer', 'soldier' and 'bodyguard'	true	true	citizens.guard.modify.type	Change the guard's type
/guard flags [-g,m,p] (page)	-g,-m,-p - flag type to view page - page number	true	true	citizens.guard.use.flags	View currently set flags
/guard addflag (priority) [target] (-a,g,m,p)	priority - priority of the flag target - name of the entry to add to the flags list -a,-g,-m,-p - flag type to set the target as	true	true	citizens.guard.modify.flags	Add/modify flags
/guard delflag [target] [-p,m,g] (-a)	target - name of the entry to remove from the flags list -p,-m,-g - flag type of the target that is being removed -a - whether to remove all of the flag type specified	true	true	citizens.guard.modify.flags	Delete a flag
/guard radius [radius]	radius - number of blocks to set the guard's radius as	true	true	citizens.guard.modify.radius	Modify a bouncer's protection radius
/guard aggro	None	true	true	citizens.guard.modify.aggro	Toggle a guard's aggressiveness

Flags

-p - player
-m - mob
-g - permission group (supports PermissionsBukkit, bPermissions, and PermissionsEx)
-a - all

Usage

Flags

Flags are the core features of guards. They define which entities should be targeted (or not targeted) by the guard, and are created by using the /guard addflag command. Flags can target monsters, players, and groups. The group targeting feature is only available with PermissionsBukkit.

Flags are by default blacklists - however, whitelists are also possible. By using '-' as the first character of a target, the flag is designated as a whitelist flag. For example, 'fullwall' is a blacklist target, while '-fullwall' is a whitelist target.

Flags can also take a priority, ranging from 1-20, where lower numbers give a higher priority. Essentially, when faced with two targets, the guard will attack the entity with the higher priority. If more than one target has the highest priority found, the guard will attack the entity closest to it. This features is mainly for advanced configuration of guards, and priority will default to 1.

Types

So far, guards can be toggled to two types - bodyguards, and bouncers.

Bouncers

Bouncers are primarily area protection guards. They will stand still, protecting the radius from configured flags. When an enemy is defeated, they will path back to their base point. If an enemy moves out of the protection radius, the guard will stop targeting them (and teleport back if necessary).

Bodyguards

Bodyguards are for personal protection, and will follow you around, protecting you as necessary. They will actively seek out configured flags, until they come outside the protection radius, whereupon they will teleport to you.

Soldiers

Note: only available post-1.1.2. Soldiers are essentially commandable guards. Players can select soldiers they own and command them to attack players, mobs and move to blocks.

Future

An inventory hotbar, for weapon switching and healing. Perhaps more guarding types.