🐝 PollinatorPlus
PollinatorPlus is a lightweight Spigot/Paper plugin that fixes natural mob behaviors being blocked by other plugins — most notably PlotSquared.
Developed by Baumkrieger69.
❓ Why does this plugin exist?
PlotSquared cancels many entity events inside and around plots to protect builds and prevent griefing. Unfortunately this also blocks completely natural and harmless mob behaviors:
| Mob | Blocked Behavior | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 🐝 Bee | Entering beehive / nest | EntityEnterBlockEvent |
| 🐝 Bee | Spawning from beehive | CreatureSpawnEvent |
| 🐸 Frog | Laying frogspawn eggs | EntityChangeBlockEvent |
| 🐸 Frog | Hatching from eggs | CreatureSpawnEvent |
| 🐢 Turtle | Laying turtle eggs | EntityChangeBlockEvent |
| 🐢 Turtle | Hatching from eggs | CreatureSpawnEvent |
PollinatorPlus listens at HIGHEST priority after PlotSquared has cancelled
these events and simply un-cancels them — so the mobs behave naturally again
without compromising plot protection.
✨ Features
- ✅ Fixes cancelled Bee hive entering (
EntityEnterBlockEvent) - ✅ Fixes cancelled Bee spawning from beehives (
CreatureSpawnEvent) - ✅ Fixes cancelled Frog & Turtle egg laying (
EntityChangeBlockEvent) - ✅ Fixes cancelled Frog & Turtle spawning (
CreatureSpawnEvent) - ✅ In-game config reload command
- ✅ Per-event toggle in config
- ✅ Debug logging mode
📋 Requirements
- Spigot / Paper 1.21+
- Java 17+
- PlotSquared (or any other plugin that cancels these events) entity-enter-block: true
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
debug | false | Enables detailed debug logging in console |
handle-entity-change-block | true | Fixes Frog/Turtle egg laying & Bee hive events |
handle-creature-spawn | true | Fixes Frog/Turtle hatching & Bee hive spawning |
handle-entity-enter-block | true | Fixes Bee entering beehive/nest |
💬 Commands
| Command | Description | Permission |
|---|---|---|
/pollinatorplus | Reloads the config | pollinatorplus.reload |
🔐 Permissions
| Permission | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
pollinatorplus.reload | OP | Allows reloading the config |
🔧 How it works
PollinatorPlus registers all its events at HIGHEST priority with
ignoreCancelled = false. This means it runs after PlotSquared
(which uses NORMAL or HIGH priority) and can selectively un-cancel
only the specific harmless natural behaviors listed above.
Plot protection for players remains completely intact. ✅
🧪 Tested Configuration
This plugin was developed and tested under the following specific server setup. Other configurations may or may not work as expected.
| Setting | Value | Where |
|---|---|---|
doMobSpawning gamerule | true | Minecraft Gamerule |
| Mob Spawning | deny | WorldGuard Region Flag |
⚠️ Important: The plugin was tested with mob spawning enabled via gamerule but blocked by WorldGuard on a per-region basis, combined with PlotSquared. This is the exact setup it was built to fix. Behavior under other configurations (e.g.
doMobSpawning false, no WorldGuard, different protection plugins) has not been tested and may differ.
🔧 Compatibility
| Plugin / Setting | Status |
|---|---|
| PlotSquared | ✅ Fully compatible & designed for it |
WorldGuard (mob-spawning deny) | ✅ Tested & working |
WorldGuard (mob-spawning allow) | ⚠️ Not tested |
| GriefPrevention | ⚠️ Not tested |
doMobSpawning true | ✅ Tested |
doMobSpawning false | ⚠️ Not tested — likely breaks behavior |
| Any other protection plugin | ⚠️ Untested, may work |