Interactive Spawn Island - Is it possible? [Infinity]

[Kaori1]

Oh hai! I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to give new players the ability to interact with objects placed in an area marked "spawn". Say for example I make a starter house on spawn island where players first log onto the server which would have a few basic essentials: a furnace, anvil, a few beds and a community chest. The only problem is that these new players would be unable to interact with any of these objects using default settings. As such, I was wondering if anyone here knew of a way to prevent pubs from destroying/griefing the spawn zone...but still allow them to interact with the objects Admins place there for them to use.

We are running the latest version of FTB Infinity if that makes any difference.

Thanks in advance for any help provided!

 

[GreenZombie]

The vanilla spawn protection is pretty useless as, as you have noted, the spawn protection is very absolute.

I think that most vanilla servers that have spawn areas with interactive things are using a server side framework like bukkit, and lots of server sided plugins to manage their granular permissions infrastructure.

Some of those granular permissions capabilities has been ported to modded MC as forge compatible mods - such as Forge Essentials.

Forge Essentials allows admins and players to claim chunks, and set up very atomic permissions within those chunks. Open chests, remove contents, or just deposit etc.
I don't know if it completely replaced vanilla protection, so you might need to disable the server.properties spawn protection so it doesn't prevent access to items Forge Essentials thinks you should be able to access.

 

[Kaori1]

Thanks for the response, I shall pass this along to our server Admin.