🏔️ EightPeaksVent - Rock Climbing & Mountain Expeditions

EightPeaksVent is a hardcore, atmospheric plugin for Paper 1.21.11+ servers that turns conquering mountain peaks into a true survival challenge. Features realistic rock climbing mechanics, dynamic stamina depletion, ice axes, crampons, grappling hooks, high-altitude winds with snowstorms, an anemometer device, base camps with checkpoint systems, and expedition gear!

🧗‍♂️ Conquer the impregnable Eight Peaks - or fall into the abyss.

🌟 Key Features

• ⛏️ Full-Fledged Climbing Mechanics: Scale sheer cliffs using an ice axe and crampons. Latch onto ledges to catch your breath, and automatically vault over wall edges (Ledge Vaulting).
• ⚡ Dynamic Stamina System: Your vanilla EXP bar smoothly transforms into a stamina indicator. Deplete energy while climbing and recover it while resting or hanging from cliffs. When unequipping gear, your vanilla XP is restored with zero loss!
• 🪝 Grappling Hook: Cross chasms and ravines using a grappling hook with up to a 7-block range, complete with a cooldown timer in the Action Bar.
• 💨 High-Altitude Winds & Blizzards: Snowstorms automatically start within mountain zones. Gusts of wind periodically sweep through, knocking players off balance. The higher you climb, the fiercer the wind and the longer the storm!
• 🧭 Hotbar Anemometer: Equipping crampons places an anemometer device in your 9th inventory slot. Green light - safe and calm. Red light - danger! Storm winds will blow you off the cliff; lock onto the wall immediately!
• ⛺ Expedition Base Camps: Customizable 3D camp zones. Entering a camp automatically sets your spawn point there. Upon falling or dying, you return to the last camp reached instead of the world spawn!
• 🎒 NPC Guide & Backpack Integration: A special invincible NPC guide in camp equips mountaineers with an expedition backpack (CryBackpacks), pre-stocked with gear, water, and food.
• 🪙 Expedition Currency: Gold Marks (Gold Marka Westmarka) used for trading and rewards for conquering dangerous routes.

🎮 Gameplay & Mountaineer's Guide

1. Preparing for the Climb

1. Approach the Guide (Equipment) at base camp and Right-Click them.
2. You will receive an expedition backpack containing:
   • Ice Axe (Iron Pickaxe) - tool for latching and ascending.
   • Crampons (Iron Boots) - specialized spiked boots.
   • Grappling Hook (Carrot on a Stick) - tool for dashing to ledges.
   • Bread and water supplies.
3. Equip the Crampons. An Anemometer will immediately appear in your 9th inventory slot.

2. Climbing Technique

• Ascending (Climbing): Equip crampons, hold the ice axe in hand, walk up against a vertical wall, hold Shift (Sneak), and press Right-Click. Your character will climb steadily up the cliff face, consuming stamina.
• Ledge Vaulting: Reaching the top edge of a cliff automatically vaults your character forward onto the platform.
• Latching / Resting on Cliffs (Holding): If stamina runs low or a storm hits, hold Shift and Left-Click (attack/animation) against the wall. Your character will drive the ice axe into the rock, switch it to the off-hand, and lock in place:
  • Gravity turns off - you hang suspended above the abyss.
  • Wind gusts cannot blow you off while holding onto the cliff!
  • Stamina slowly starts recovering.
• Exhaustion: If stamina drops to 0, exhaustion kicks in. You cannot climb until stamina recovers to at least 50%, and stamina recovery while hanging on a wall is halved!
• Resting on Ground: Standing on solid ground restores stamina at maximum speed.

3. Wind and the Anemometer

• Keep an eye on your 9th inventory slot:
  • 🟢 Lime Block: Wind is calm. Safe to climb.
  • 🔴 Red Block: A fierce gust of wind has hit! Players in open areas will be swept toward the edge.
  • How to survive: Immediately lock onto the wall (Shift + Left-Click) or hide behind a rocky overhang!

4. Grappling Hook

• Hold the grappling hook and Right-Click while aiming at a block within 7 blocks.
• You will be pulled toward the target point with acceleration.
• Cooldown is 30 seconds (a timer is displayed above the Action Bar).

5. Camps and Checkpoints

• Intermediate base camps are situated along the path to the summit.
• Upon entering a camp zone, a chat notification appears: [Camp] Checkpoint updated. If you fall, you will return to <Camp Name>.
• If you fall and die, you respawn directly in that tent/camp, preserving your climbing progress.

🛠️ Administrator Guide: Setup & Mountain Creation

Step 1: Creating a Mountain Region

Mountain regions activate constant snowfall and high-altitude wind physics.

1. Stand in the lower corner of the mountain area and type:

   /epv mountain pos1
   

2. Ascend to the opposite upper corner at the summit and type:

   /epv mountain pos2
   

3. Save the mountain zone:

   /epv mountain save
   

(To remove a zone, use /epv mountain remove).

Step 2: Creating Base Camps

1. Select the camp boundary coordinates:

   /epv camp pos1
   /epv camp pos2
   

2. Stand at the exact location where players should respawn (e.g., next to a bed in a tent) and type:

   /epv camp save Camp1
   

(To remove a camp, use /epv camp remove <name>).

Step 3: Spawning the NPC Guide

1. Stand in the starting base camp at the foot of the mountain.
2. Spawn the guide:

   /epv npc spawn
   

3. To remove the nearest guide (within 5 blocks), type /epv npc remove.

💻 Commands & Permissions

Admin Permission: epv.admin

⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)

The plugin allows fine-tuning the climb difficulty:

# Stamina consumption and recovery settings
stamina:
  climb_drain: 0.015       # Stamina drain per tick during climbing
  climb_speed: 0.2         # Upward movement speed
  hold_recover: 0.005      # Stamina recovery rate while hanging on wall
  ground_recover: 0.05     # Stamina recovery rate on ground

# Wind and storm settings
wind:
  min_duration_seconds: 15 # Minimum wind gust duration
  max_duration_seconds: 30 # Maximum wind gust duration
  base_force: 0.05         # Base wind push force
  scale_force: 0.05        # Additional wind force per height increase

# Grappling hook cooldown (in milliseconds)
hook_cooldown_ms: 30000    # 30 seconds

📋 System Requirements

• Server Engine: Paper 1.21.11+ / Purpur (compatible with Paper API 1.21.4+)
• Java: JDK 21+
• Dependencies: CryBackpacks, CryBackpacks RP (for automated backpack distribution via NPC)
• Client: Vanilla Minecraft! No client-side mods required for players.