Level#

To customize Level Addon GUI's you need to have version 2.10.0. This is a first version that has implemented them. Addon will create a new directory under /plugins/bentobox/addons/level with a name panels

Currently you can customize 3 GUI's:

• Top panel: top_panel - allows to see top 10 islands.
• The detail block panel: detail_panel - allows to view detailed list block values in game.
• The block value panel: value_panel - allows to view each block value in game.

Each GUI contains functions that is supported only by itself.

This button is available in detail_panel and value_panel. The PREVIOUS and NEXT button types allows creating automatic paging, when you have more blocks than spaces in GUI. These types have extra parameters under data:

• indexing - indicates if button will show page number.

Example:

    icon: TIPPED_ARROW:INSTANT_HEAL::::1
    title: level.gui.buttons.previous.name
    description: level.gui.buttons.previous.description
    data:
      type: PREVIOUS
      indexing: true
    action:
      left:
        tooltip: level.gui.tips.click-to-previous

This button is available in top_panel. It shows island at the top X by island level.

The icon by default will be PLAYER_HEAD with a proper player skin. Enabling it will replace it with specified material.

index in the data field allows to specify which place of Top 10 should be showed in current spot.

Top panel has 2 implemented actions which funstion requires extra addon:

• warp - requires Warps addon. Will be shown only if warp sign exists on players island.
• visit - requires Visit addon. Will be shown only if visiting is allowed on players island.

Fallback allows to change background icon, when there are no player in top spot.

Example:

    #icon: PLAYER_HEAD
    title: level.gui.buttons.island.name
    description: level.gui.buttons.island.description
    data:
      type: TOP
      index: 1
    actions:
      warp:
        click-type: LEFT
        tooltip: level.gui.tips.click-to-warp
      visit:
        click-type: RIGHT
        tooltip: level.gui.tips.right-click-to-visit
    fallback:
      icon: LIME_STAINED_GLASS_PANE
      title: level.gui.buttons.island.empty

This button is available in top_panel. It shows viewer island level.

The icon by default will be PLAYER_HEAD with a proper player skin. Enabling it will replace it with specified material.

The action view allows to see detailed menu of players island.

Example:

    #icon: PLAYER_HEAD
    title: level.gui.buttons.island.name
    description: level.gui.buttons.island.description
    data:
      type: VIEW
    actions:
      view:
        click-type: unknown
        tooltip: level.gui.tips.click-to-view

This button is available in detail_panel and value_panel. This button shows given material as icon.

Example:

  #icon: STONE
  title: level.gui.buttons.value.name
  description: level.gui.buttons.value.description
  data:
    type: BLOCK

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You cannot do it directly because BentoBox level calculation happens at once, and not iterative for each level.

However, this can be done using the level-calc formula, if you know what formula you need. If we use your example of making each level 50% harder to reach than the previous level, then the approximate formula for that is:

level-calc: 2.4661 * log(blocks) - (2.4661 * log(level_cost) - 1)

where level_cost is the cost in blocks to get to level 1. e.g., if level 1 costs 100 blocks, the level 2 costs 150 blocks, level 3 costs 225, etc.

Here's the graph:

Note that that particular formula does start to asymptote around level 25, i.e., it becomes really hard to get to level 26 or 27 because so many blocks are required, so having that particular rule might not be that good an approach because eventually almost everyone will end up with the same level.

Anyway, although I understand what you're asking, the level-calc formula should actually be able to provide what you want so long as it supports the right formula. Having the next-levelcost is problematic from a programming standpoint because the level calculations would have to be done iteratively instead of by just applying a single formula to the blocks counted. I can't quite work out how to do that right now but I do know that the current method of having a formula for how you want levels increased does work for sure.

How can I work out a formula for levels?

The best way is to start with a formula and plot it to see if it makes sense, e.g., by using something like Excel. If you want to work out what formula you need from say a table of values, then Excel (or maybe some other spreadsheet) can do that too: make a graph of levels and how many blocks for each level and then plot a graph of the table (X Y Plot). Right click the graph to add a trend line, select the approximation, e.g., linear, log, exponential, etc. that best fits, and then select "Display equation on chart" to display the formula and substitute blocks for x. Here's some screenshots of what I did you find out the equation for increasing by 50% each time with a starting cost of 100 blocks.

So, for that, it would be:

level-calc: 2.4661 * log(blocks) - 10.357

I hope that helps.