🗺️ Waystones

Travel instantly across your worlds

A lightweight, 100% server-side teleportation plugin for Paper/Spigot and Purpur

Create named teleportation points anywhere on your server — Overworld, Nether, End — and let your players travel with a single click through a clear, intuitive menu. No client mod, no resource pack required.

Inspired by the well-known Waystones mod in the Minecraft community, this plugin reuses its core idea — named, reusable teleportation points — but as a server-side plugin only. Nothing to install on the client, no resource pack to distribute: everything runs directly on the server, through a simple in-game menu. A lightweight alternative for Paper/Spigot servers that can't or don't want to use client-side mods.

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✨ Features

• 🗺️ Menu sorted by world — points are automatically grouped by dimension: Overworld, Nether, End
• 🏷️ Renamable categories — customize the menu category names (e.g. "Nether" → "Underworld") to fit your server's theme
• 🎨 Colored icons — green, red, or purple glass depending on the point's world of origin
• 🌐 Available in 30 languages — from the major European languages to Ukrainian, Georgian, Swahili, Japanese and Korean, changeable anytime via an admin command (see full list below)
• ⚡ Free, instant teleportation — with a configurable anti-spam cooldown
• 🔒 Admin-only management — only OPs can create, rename, or remove a point
• 🏷️ Custom names — every point can be named and renamed at any time
• 🖼️ Customizable icons — pick the block/item shown for each waystone and each menu category
• 🔄 Periodic update checks — the menu icon tells you whether you're up to date or a new version is out
• 💾 Reliable storage — persistent YAML storage, no data loss on restart

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📖 How it works

1. An admin goes to the desired spot and types /waystone create <name> → the point is created instantly
2. A player types /waystone → the world selection menu opens
3. They pick a world → the list of points in that dimension is displayed
4. Clicking a point → immediate, free teleportation

No complex configuration, no block to craft: everything happens through commands and the menu.

🖼️ Choosing a custom icon

Add @<material> at the end of the name when creating, or use /waystone seticon afterward:

/waystone create Village Spawn @DIAMOND_BLOCK
/waystone seticon Village Spawn @NETHER_BRICK
/waystone seticon Village Spawn @reset

The material must be an exact Bukkit API name (e.g. DIAMOND_BLOCK, NETHER_BRICK, EMERALD_ORE). An invalid material is rejected without changing anything.

📝 Adding a description

/waystone setdescription Village Spawn &7The starting point &e|&7Watch out for zombies at night
/waystone setcategorydescription nether &cDangerous zone

The | character separates lines, and & color codes work just like everywhere else in the plugin. reset (or no text) removes the description.

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🧭 Commands

Player commands — available to everyone with waystones.use

Command	Description
/waystone	Opens the teleportation menu
/waystone list	Lists all existing points (can be disabled by an admin)
/waystone tp <name>	Direct teleportation via command (can be disabled by an admin)

Admin commands — require waystones.admin

Command	Description
/waystone create <name> [@material]	Creates a point at the player's position
/waystone remove <name>	Removes a point
/waystone rename <old> <new>	Renames a point
/waystone setlang <code>	Changes the plugin's language (30 languages)
/waystone setcategoryname <overworld|nether|end> <name|reset>	Renames a menu category
/waystone seticon <name> @<material|reset>	Changes a point's icon
/waystone setcategoryicon <overworld|nether|end> <material|reset>	Changes a category's icon
/waystone setdescription <name> <text|reset>	Adds a description to a point
/waystone setcategorydescription <overworld|nether|end> <text|reset>	Adds a description to a category
/waystone setcommand <list|tp> <enabled|disabled>	Enables/disables the list or tp command
/waystone reload	Reloads the configuration

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🔑 Permissions

Permission	Effect	Default
waystones.use	Use the menu and teleport	All players
waystones.admin	Create / rename / remove, reload config	OP only

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⚙️ Configuration

The config.yml file lets you customize:

• language — plugin language (30 languages available, see dedicated section below), changeable in-game via /waystone setlang
• teleport-cooldown-seconds — anti-spam delay between two teleports
• effects-enabled — enable/disable sound and particle effects
• update-checker-enabled — enable/disable update checking
• update-check-interval-hours — interval between automatic checks (12h by default)

Player-facing text is not editable: it's built into the plugin, in all 4 supported languages, to guarantee reliable and consistent behavior. Category names, however, are customizable via the /waystone setcategoryname command.

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🌐 Supported languages

30 languages, laid out two per row to keep this compact.

Language	Code	Language	Code
🇫🇷 French	fr	✨ Ukrainian	uk
🇬🇧🇺🇸 English	en	🇧🇾 Belarusian	be
🇧🇷 Portuguese (Brazil)	pt-br	🇪🇪 Estonian	et
🇵🇹 Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-pt	🇱🇻 Latvian	lv
🇨🇦 French (Québec)	fr-ca	🇱🇹 Lithuanian	lt
🇪🇸 Spanish	es	🇷🇸 Serbian (Latin)	sr-latn
🇳🇴 Norwegian (Bokmål)	nb	🇧🇬 Bulgarian	bg
🇸🇪 Swedish	sv	🇬🇪 Georgian	ka
🇫🇮 Finnish	fi	🇹🇿🇰🇪 Swahili	sw
🇮🇹 Italian	it	🇮🇩 Indonesian	id
🇳🇱 Dutch	nl	🇯🇵 Japanese	ja
🇩🇪 German	de	🇰🇷 Korean	ko
🇮🇸 Icelandic	is
🇭🇺 Hungarian	hu
🇷🇴 Romanian	ro
🇨🇿 Czech	cs
🇸🇰 Slovak	sk
🇵🇱 Polish	pl

The language is set globally by the server admin (no automatic per-player detection), with an automatic fallback to English if a text is missing. It can be changed at any time, without a restart, via /waystone setlang <code>.

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📋 Compatibility

Plugin version	Minecraft lines covered
v6.5 (current, latest features)	26.2.x
v5.2	1.12.2 · 1.13.x · 1.14.x · 1.15.x · 1.16.x · 1.17.x · 1.18.x · 1.19.x · 1.20.x · 1.21.x · 26.1.x

✅ Complete compatibility roadmap — Waystones covers every officially supported Minecraft version, from 1.12.2 up to the current version. New features (v6.0 through v6.5, breakdown below) are available on the 26.2.x line; earlier versions intentionally remain on the v5.2 feature set, with no backport planned. The exact jar for each line is listed in the Installation section below.

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🧩 Which feature is in which version?

Every version listed below only applies to the 26.2.x jar (the only one receiving new features). The other 11 jars (1.12.x → 26.1.x) all stay on the v5.2 feature set, which already includes: per-world menu, free teleportation, configurable cooldown, custom names, YAML storage, a basic update checker, and 4 languages (fr/en/pt-br/fr-ca).

Version	Minecraft version(s)	Feature added
v5.2	1.12.2 → 26.1.x (11 lines)	Common baseline for every Minecraft line (see above)
v6.0	26.2.x only	Renamable menu categories (setcategoryname) · improved update checker (periodic checks, green "up to date"/red "update available" line)
v6.1	26.2.x only	Customizable icons for points and categories (@material, seticon, setcategoryicon)
v6.2	26.2.x only	8 additional languages (es, pt-pt, nb, sv, fi, it, nl, de), 12 languages total
v6.3	26.2.x only	Customizable descriptions for points and categories (setdescription, setcategorydescription), multi-line via |
v6.4	26.2.x only	18 more languages (30 total)
v6.5	26.2.x only	Togglable list and tp commands (setcommand)

In short: if you're on the 26.2.x line, you get everything listed above (v6.5 includes everything before it). If you're on an earlier line (1.12.x → 26.1.x), you're limited to the v5.2 baseline.

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🏷️ Understanding version numbers

Every plugin file follows a simple format: Waystone-<plugin version>-<Minecraft version>.jar. For example, Waystone-6.5-26.2.x.jar means: plugin version 6.5, compatible with the current Minecraft 26.2.x version. The same plugin is also available as Waystone-5.2-1.12.x.jar for the 1.12.x line — different version numbers, since 1.12.x hasn't received the v6.x features yet.

Two important things to know:

• The plugin version and the Minecraft version evolve independently. Porting Waystones to a new Minecraft version without any feature change doesn't change the plugin's version number — only the Minecraft suffix changes.
• The plugin version number follows a major.minor logic (e.g. 5.0 → 5.1):
  • A minor change (5.0 → 5.1) is a small adjustment or addition to an existing feature.
  • A major change (5.1 → 6.0) is a significant new feature or a major rework of the plugin.

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📊 Statistics

Waystones uses bStats to collect anonymous usage statistics (server count, versions, language used...). No personal data is collected. Publicly viewable, and can be disabled at any time server-side via plugins/bStats/config.yml.

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🚀 Installation

1. Download the jar matching your Minecraft version:
   • Waystone-5.2-1.12.x.jar for 1.12.2
   • Waystone-5.2-1.13.x.jar for the 1.13.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.14.x.jar for the 1.14.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.15.x.jar for the 1.15.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.16.x.jar for the 1.16.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.17.x.jar for the 1.17.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.18.x.jar for the 1.18.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.19.x.jar for the 1.19.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.20.x.jar for the 1.20.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-1.21.x.jar for the 1.21.x line
   • Waystone-5.2-26.1.x.jar for the 26.1.x line
   • Waystone-6.5-26.2.x.jar for 26.2.x (current version, latest features)
2. Drop it into your server's plugins/ folder
3. Restart the server
4. Grant the waystones.admin permission to your team to start placing points

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🐛 Found a bug or have a suggestion? Leave a comment or open a support ticket — all feedback is welcome.