[Accepted] [SUGGESTION] Mobs can't enter spawn

[Wimali]

What I've seen happen a lot is someone joining a map and inmediatley getting spawnkilled by a creeper (especially on Sanctuary) or getting pushed into lava by a zombie. A lot of people have been complaining and raging about this, but here's a simple solution:

Make it so (hostile & passive*)mobs can't enter spawn.
Don't think I need to explain it any further. Another thing could also be to have them be able to be inside of the spawn, but when in the spawn, they can't harm the player.

*also passive mobs because those could also push players into lava

 

[dirtcake]

This is an obvious problem, but the solution isn't so obvious. It's been on my list for a while now and I haven't found a perfectly working solution that doesn't lag the server all to hell.

 

[Dess]

As for now the only temp suggestion I can think of is add a wall with stairs in it to get over.

 

[kuilin]

I say that if people in spawn couldn't die, then people could just run back into spawn. Making spawn no-mob-can-enter could work, but what about skeletons? If you make it so that only players who have hurt mobs while in spawn can be hurt by mobs, what about the problem of luring creepers?

My proposed solution is that there is a 15 second delay where you are invincible upon entering the map, and that delay is instantly nullified once you move or attack something or do anything that signifies that you are alert and ready to begin. It takes like 5 seconds (on my computer) to enter and download the map, and this will ensure that during those 5 seconds while your client is loading the map, you won't die. Also, there is no potential for cheating the system, since every time you do anything you get un-invincible'd.

This would also solve the rare spawn-in-lava-and-die glitch, though I've only seen it once or twice.

 

[dirtcake]

Players will be invincible for 10 seconds upon joining the map in the next update later this week. Attacking a mob will immediately cancel that invincibility, but moving won't.

 

[RaizzanX]

Or we could make the spawn two blocks high or something similar to classic lava by preventing players getting pushed out.