Timberella

Drop-in quality-of-life plugin for Paper servers: instant tree felling, tidy leaf cleanup, and automatic replanting with safety rails so mega-builds stay intact.

Why server owners love it

• ⚡ One axe swing can clear an entire tree while damage, particles, and timing stay configurable.
• 🌱 Optional replant + soil checks keep forests alive.
• 🛡️ Species-aware limits (per-tree caps, radii, durability rules) stop griefing before it starts.
• 🔁 Live config + locale reloads merge new defaults automatically—no manual diffing.
• 🔔 Update checker (Modrinth + Hangar) and join reminders keep your fleet current.
• 🌐 MiniMessage-powered localization lets you style player + console feedback exactly the way you like.

Server requirements

• Paper 1.21.x (Spigot/vanilla forks are not supported).
• Java 21 runtime.
• Optional: a permissions plugin (LuckPerms, etc.) for fine-grained access to /timberella commands.

Setup in 3 steps

1. Copy the latest timberella-paper-<version>.jar into plugins/.
2. Boot the server once—config.yml, lang/, and leaf_mappings.yml appear automatically.
3. Tweak plugins/Timberella/config.yml (modules, safety caps, labels) and run /timberella reload.

That’s it. The async watcher keeps configs + locales synced, and every reload revalidates permissions, caches, and message bundles.

Everyday tips

• Use sneak-mode to decide when timbering should trigger (only sneaking, only not sneaking, or always).
• Flip specific logs/woods/fences on or off in categories.*. Unknown materials are ignored safely.
• Watch the console after reloads: Timberella prints how many saplings, soils, and species are active plus any typos it auto-fixed.
• Update notifications surface in console and (optionally) to ops with timberella.update.notify; set update-check.notify-console-always-shown true if you still want “no update” provider summaries every cycle, and leave update-check.filter-by-server-version true so Modrinth/Hangar matches your server build.

Supported languages

Timberella bundles each locale as a MiniMessage YAML file so you can recolor or restyle them freely:

• 🇺🇸 English (en_US)
• 🇩🇪 German (de_DE)
• 🇸🇦 Arabic (ar_SA)
• 🇪🇸 Spanish (es_ES)
• 🇫🇷 French (fr_FR)
• 🇮🇹 Italian (it_IT)
• 🇯🇵 Japanese (ja_JP)
• 🇰🇷 Korean (ko_KR)
• 🇳🇱 Dutch (nl_NL)
• 🇵🇱 Polish (pl_PL)
• 🇵🇹 Portuguese (pt_PT)
• 🇹🇷 Turkish (tr_TR)
• ✨ Ukrainian (uk_UA)
• 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Missing keys fall back to English, and /timberella reload hot-reloads both config + language edits.

Need deeper guidance?

This README keeps things short on purpose. All developer and deep-dive documentation (config matrices, command charts, operations guides) lives in the project wiki. Start there whenever you need advanced workflows or contribution notes.

Milestones

Thank you for using my plugin!

• 25 active servers on 2025-11-25
• 50 active servers on 2025-12-06
• 100 active servers on 2025-12-25

More plugins

Check out my other projects:

Underwater Trees: Allows placing and growing tree saplings underwater, with optional lightning requirements override. Get it!

License & Credits

• Timberella is released under the Apache License 2.0 (see LICENSE).
• Third-party components such as MiniMessage (MIT), Gson (Apache 2.0), Shadow (Apache 2.0), and bStats (MIT) ship with their respective notices inside THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md and the packaged licenses/ folder.
• Parts of this plugin and documentation were produced with AI assistance (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and reviewed by the maintainer before release.