Minecraft plugin BetterTeams

🔌 About BetterTeams

BetterTeams is a Minecraft plugin for creating and managing persistent player teams on Spigot/Paper servers. It provides team-centric features such as private team chat, team homes/warps, team ranks, team chests/ender chests, and protections that reduce team-killing. The project is maintained from an open GitHub repository and exposes an API and extensions system for third-party integrations.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin's core purpose is to give server operators a structured team system so players can form groups that share chat, bases, storage, and progression. It targets survival, SMP, faction-like, and small network servers that want long-lived player groups and basic social/gameplay tools around teams.

⚙️ Features

• Persistent teams with configurable names, tags, colors, and descriptions.
• Team roles/ranks (owner, admins, members) and promotion/demotion controls.
• Private team chat and an optional chat-spy for moderators.
• Team homes and named warps; admins can teleport teams.
• Team chest/ender-chest access and chest claim management.
• Team banks and basic scoring/leaderboard hooks.
• Extension/API support for registering custom commands and features.
• Integration support for common plugins (hooks available for placeholder and hologram plugins).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Survival and SMP servers that want persistent groups.
• Small to medium public or private communities seeking team-based features (warps, chat, storage).
• Server owners who want an extensible team system with an API for plugin integrations.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Players create a team, set a team home, and use team chat to coordinate base defense.
• Admins create teams for events and use admin commands to teleport or manage team membership.
• A plugin uses the BetterTeams API or an extension to award score or leaderboard points to teams.

⌨️ Commands

(Full command list and subcommands are provided in the official plugin documentation.)

🔐 Permissions

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the plugin JAR and place it into your server plugins/ directory for a Spigot/Paper server.
• Start or restart the server and check console logs to confirm the plugin loaded.

📦 Dependencies

• Optional integrations include PlaceholderAPI and LuckPerms for placeholders and context support.
• Hologram plugins (HolographicDisplays or DecentHolograms) are supported for hologram features.

🧾 Configuration

• The plugin provides configuration and messages files which can be edited to adjust features, costs, cooldowns, and translations. Command costs and cooldowns are configurable per-command in the plugin config.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Officially distributed with an API and support for extensions so third-party plugins can add commands and features without modifying the core.
• Active development and releases are published from the project's GitHub repository.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need a team system that supports private chat, shared homes/warps, team storage, and an API for integrations on a Spigot/Paper server, BetterTeams provides a feature-rich and extensible solution without requiring additional core plugins.