How to schedule recurring commands?

[Baaleos]

Is there any plugin / config / script file I need to look at to schedule recurring commands.

Eg: Say 'The Server will clean up loose items in 2 minutes'
wait 2 minutes, then
exceute the following '/xu_killitems' to kill ground items.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

Would also love this.

 

[Henry Link]

I do this with a shell script and cron on my Minecraft Ubuntu server I use. Not sure what you are using to host your server though. But, if it is linux based I can post my crontab and the scrip file I use. In my case it is used to notify users of backups, restarts and then execute those function. But it could be tailored for what you have in mind as well.

 

[Inaeo]

You could go ghettorig and bury a few command blocks and some timers in a bedrock box. If you bury it in spawn chunks it will always be loaded. Not perfect, but you could do it without outside programs.

 

[Baaleos]

Turns out my host - BisectHosting - they use multicraft and it has a commands / scheduled commands web interface.
I created a custom command for the cleaning up of items, scheduled it to run at a specific time and recur every 2 hours.

Only problem is that you have to do this for the message and for the cleanup itself.

Eg@ Message recurs every 2 hours, and the cleanup is carried out every 2 hours, but happens 2 minutes after the message etc.

 

[rhn]

If you are hosting the server yourself, then McMyAdmin also makes scheduling things like this pretty easy.