Common Issues

This page covers common issues and gives you tips on maintaining stability over Confiscate and other Bukkit plugins in general.

Common Tips

• To use color codes using the & character, put the entire message in quotes (double quotes "" also work). Example: Random_Message: '&cHello &aworld'

• Use \n to make a new line. Put the message in quotes. Some systems require different file encodings, see below.

Check Your Encoding

WordPad or Notepad on Windows is known to cause issues

The plugin saves files like settings.yml in UTF-8 format. You need to use this encoding type especially if you are using special characters like smileys, symbols and other unicode characters in your files.

On Windows, using Notepad++ for editing your configuration is highly recommended. Most systems accept the UTF-8 (without BOM) encoding (see the green circle at the image for your current encoding). ANSI does not support unicode and may break files.

On Mac, Windows and Linux, we recommend using Atom for altering files. Check the green circle to detect your current encoding, click it to display a menu for changing it.

Problems and Solutions

Confiscate's Command is Interfering

The command '/c' may sometimes interfere or overlay with another plugin, for example ChestCommands or similar.

To fix this, Open Confiscate.jar with WinRar (or similar), then open plugin.yml, find the section commands.confiscate and insert # in front of the aliases key. You will need to do it every time you update the plugin.