MiniGameCore

MiniGameCore is a central plugin for managing minigame lobbies in Minecraft Paper Servers. It handles hosting, joining, starting, and stopping games – with animated scoreboards, statistics, and multiverse support.

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🔧 Installation

1. Download the latest .jar from Modrinth or Releases.
2. Place the file in the plugins/ folder of your Minecraft server.
3. For permission-management, you can optionally use a plugin like LuckPerms.
4. Restart the server once.

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📜 Commands & Permissions

Command	Description	Permission
/mg host <game>	Creates a new lobby	mgcore.host
/mg join <lobby-id>	Join the lobby	mgcore.join
/mg ready	Set your Status as Ready	mgcore.ready
/mg unready	Set your Status as not Ready	mgcore.ready
/mg confirm	Confirm an action	mgcore.confirm
/mg leave	Leave the lobby or game	mgcore.leave
/mg start	Start the game manually (if allowed)	mgcore.start
/mg spectate <lobby-id|player>	Join a game as a spectator	mgcore.spectate
/mg reload	Reload the plugin	mgcore.admin
/mg stop <lobby-id>	Stop a specific game	mgcore.admin
/mg stopall	Stop all active games	mgcore.admin
/mg ban <player>	Ban the player from using most MiniGameCore commands	mgcore.admin
/mg version	Displays the version of MiniGameCore you are using	mgcore.use (default)
/party create <name>	Creates a new party	mgcore.party.create
/party join <player>	Join the player's Party	mgcore.party.join
/party leave	Leave your party	mgcore.party.join
/party invite <player>	Invite a player to your party	mgcore.party.invite
/party deny	Deny a player's invitation to their party	mgcore.party.invite
/party list	List the Party's Members	mgcore.party.list

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⚙️ Plugin-Configurations

Plugin Configurations are located in the folder: ./plugins/MiniGameCore. The main configuration file is config.yml.

config.yml

Example config:

available-games:
- Game1
- Game2
- Game3
banned-players:
- 2e0749e5-4ec0-4201-b58d-c4277014749c
- 337482fe-8a15-47f6-bea5-a84918a86393
keep-worlds: false

Note: if keep-worlds: true, the plugin is going to move them to ./plugins/MiniGameCore/ArchivedWorlds instead of deleting them.

Loading Game-Worlds & Configuring them

The Folder for Gameworlds and configs is ./MiniGameCore. Every Game World should be named like this: <Game name>_world. The world configs are named config.yml and should be located in the Game's world folder.

All available options:

Field	Description	Required / Default
name	Display name of the game, e.g. in the scoreboard or at /mg host	✅ Yes
maxPlayers	Maximum number of players for this game instance	✅ Yes
teams	Maximum number of teams (0 for no teams, 2-8 teams possible)	❌ No (default: 0)
spawnPoints	Default spawn points for players without a team	✅ Depends
teamSpawnPoints	Spawn points per team (e.g. 0: [...], 1: [...])	✅ Depends
inventory	Starting items at game start (e.g. ["WOODEN_SHOVEL"])	❌ No
allowed_break_blocks	Which blocks can be broken (e.g. ["SNOW_BLOCK"])	❌ No
respawnMode	Control of respawn behavior: "true" or "false"	❌ No (default: false)
respawnDelay	Seconds delay until respawn (if enabled)	❌ No (default: 0)
doDurability	Control ItemDamage: true (vanilla) or false	❌ No (default: true)
allowPVP	Allow PVP: true (vanilla) or false	❌ No (default: true)

Example config for an 8 player Spleef-Game:

game:
  name: Spleef
  maxPlayers: 8
  teams: 0
  spawnPoints:
    spawn1:
      x: -11
      y: 64
      z: 0
    spawn2:
      x: -7
      y: 64
      z: -7
    spawn3:
      x: 0
      y: 64
      z: -11
    spawn4:
      x: 7
      y: 64
      z: -7
    spawn5:
      x: 11
      y: 64
      z: 0
    spawn6:
      x: 7
      y: 64
      z: 7
    spawn7:
      x: 0
      y: 64
      z: 11
    spawn8:
      x: -7
      y: 64
      z: 7
  inventory:
    - "iron_shovel"
  allowed_break_blocks:
    - "snow_block"
  respawnMode: false
  doDurability: false
  allowPVP: false