BlipBot Interactive

Interactive livestreaming for Beam streamers

This mod allows viewers in your Beam livestream to affect you while you are playing Minecraft, by spawning in items, splashing potions, spawning mobs, striking lightning, and many other ways. All the possible ways of helping and hurting you are completely custom; you can configure exactly what your viewers can do and how much it costs. The mod comes with many standard options (such as giving random items, potions, healing, XP, explosions, etc.), though custom commands can also be specified.

Your viewers can do this by spending your BlipBot chat bot’s in-chat currency through the !spawn command, so your viewers get rewarded for being active in your channel. If you would like to take advantage of Beam’s interactive features, all the rewards you configure will be automatically converted to buttons below your channel, where viewers can spend Beam’s global currency, “sparks”, as well.

As an incentive, you can also configure the mod to give viewers a set number of points every time you die in game.

Installation

If you have not already, make sure that you have BlipBot in your Beam channel, by signing up from getblipbot.com. Once you have an account, please choose “Interactive editor” from the sidebar. You will be asked to enter your Minecraft username, and you will also be given an API key. After installing this mod on Forge 1.7, a configuration file named BlipBotPoints.cfg is created, where you will need to specify your API key.

After restarting your server/client, that’s it! The !spawn command will work in your channel, and you can start configuring rewards from the interactive editor. Be as creative as you can!

If you would like to enable the Beam Interactive integration, make sure you click the “Enable Interactive Support” button from the editor. You will be asked to sign in through Beam, and then clicking “Go Interactive” will start up interactive mode for your channel.

As a side note, the mod is a server-side mod. If you have this mod installed on your server, there is no need for anyone on the server to install it client-side. However, the mod will work fine on single-player, if you do not wish to use a server.

Support

If you need any help, you can find me on Twitter @Blip_Bot, or email ethan[@]streamjar.tv.