Themes

The blocks a course is built from, the picker icon, and writing your own.

A theme is a list of blocks. Every block a course places is drawn from its list at random, so a theme of one block builds a course all of one block, and a theme of five mixes them. A theme changes nothing about the jumps. Themes live in the themes block of config.conf; the player menu calls them palettes.

The shipped themes

Theme	Picker icon	Blocks
`stone`	Stone	Stone, cobblestone, andesite, smooth stone
`wood`	Oak planks	Oak, spruce, birch and dark oak planks
`quartz`	Quartz block	Quartz block, smooth quartz, quartz bricks, quartz pillar
`glow`	Sea lantern	Sea lantern, glowstone, shroomlight, ochre froglight
`wool`	Pink wool	Pink, light blue, lime, yellow and magenta wool

run.default-theme (stone) is the theme of a player who has chosen none, in an arena whose own theme no longer exists.

The keys

themes {
  ice {
    icon      = "PACKED_ICE"
    materials = ["PACKED_ICE", "BLUE_ICE", "SNOW_BLOCK"]
  }
}

Key	Meaning
`icon`	The item that stands for the theme in the picker
`materials`	The blocks drawn from, as Bukkit material names. At least one, or the reload stops with the theme's id

The id on the left is what a player types after /parkour theme, what the picker shows as the name, and what an arena names. Run /uxmparkour reload after a change.

Choosing blocks

Full blocks only. A player lands on the top face, so a slab, a stair, a fence or a carpet makes a jump shorter or taller than the generator measured. Use blocks a full cube tall.
Light. In a dark sky, a theme with light blocks (glow) is the easiest to read.
Ice. ICE, PACKED_ICE and BLUE_ICE are slippery, which makes every jump harder than its difficulty says.
Gravity blocks are safe. Course blocks are placed without physics, so sand and gravel stay in the air.
A name the server does not know, or one that is not a block, is placed as stone. Check a new theme in game.

How a player picks one

Way	What it does
`/parkour themes`	Opens the picker; a click chooses
`/parkour theme <theme>`	Chooses by name
Nothing	The arena's theme, then `run.default-theme`

The choice is the player's in every arena and is kept in the database. A theme you removed from config.conf is skipped for a player who had chosen it.

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