Any way to block withers before WG gets updated?

I'm pretty sure my players can conjure up a wither faster than sk89q can code a new WorldGuard flag to block wither grief. Is there any way to block spawning withers and/or their terrain damage? Thanks in advance!

 

devbuilds of essentialsprotect has updated to include wither protection, if you use it.

 

http://build.sk89q.com/

 

I use Essentials but not EssentialsProtect... Might have to get that if WG doesn't update soon.

There's nothing in the changelog about any 1.4 features, even though some builds are of today.

 

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/sec-nowitherexplode-1-4-2-r0-1.107898/

 

I am currently successfully blocking Withers from being spawned by adding "wither" to the "deny-spawn" region flag on my WorldGuard regions.

Code:

/region flag __global__ deny-spawn wither

I'm still on Build 643 of WorldGuard (built August 23, well before the Wither existed) so it seems WorldGuard is blocking the Wither by name via Bukkit's updated list of mob types.

 

Put 397 into blacklist.txt,

Code:

[397]
on-use=deny,notify

then they can't place the skulls to make the wither spawn. Bit rude, but works until WG can do it properly.

 

Find this "mob:" option in WG's config and add this:


mobs:
block-creature-spawn:
- witherboss


Adding this blocks out Wither spawning. On my server its working.

 

Development builds are for testing ONLY. Not for production servers. If you are using it on your server with players on, that is your choice. You will however have to wait for the plugins to update.

 

29/10 Albert ‏@sk89q
Nightly builds of WG and WE for Pretty Scary can be found at http://build.sk89q.com/ - wither blocking is supported with a few new setting