Minecraft plugin DecentHolograms

🔌 About Decent Holograms

Decent Holograms is a Minecraft plugin that provides configurable floating holograms (multi-line text and icon displays) for Spigot/Bukkit servers. It focuses on flexible presentation and developer integration, offering a public API and integration points for other plugins.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin solves the need to display persistent in-world information (labels, leaderboards, instructions, status displays) as floating text or small visual icons. It is intended for server administrators and plugin developers who require customizable, scriptable holograms without extra required dependencies.

⚙️ Features

• Create multi-line floating holograms (text lines that face players).
• PlaceholderAPI support for dynamic text replacement.
• Public developer API for plugin integrations and custom tooling.
• Icon support (small entity/item visuals that rotate and bob).
• Lightweight design with no mandatory external dependencies.
• Usage telemetry via bStats (reported by the project repository).
• Explicit Minecraft limitations documented by the author (text always faces the player; text size/font cannot be changed; some entity icons may produce sounds).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server owners and admins who need in-world labels, information boards, or decorative text.
• Plugin developers who want to integrate holograms via an API.
• Survival, SMP, and minigame servers that use placeholders for dynamic displays.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Display a dynamic leaderboard using placeholders to show top players.
• Place informational signs at spawn that update automatically.
• Use the API to spawn holograms from other plugins or custom scripts.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin JAR from the project's distribution page.
• Place the JAR into your server's plugins/ directory (Spigot/Bukkit-compatible server).
• Restart the server and check the server console to confirm the plugin loaded.

📦 Dependencies

• No required dependencies. PlaceholderAPI is supported for dynamic placeholders (optional).

🧠 Technical Notes

• Source code and releases are maintained in the project's public repository.
• Licensed under GPL-3.0 as published in the repository.
• The project provides a developer API and instructions for building the plugin from source.
• The plugin is tested across multiple Minecraft versions (see official distribution page for exact tested versions).

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need configurable, scriptable in-world text or small icon displays with placeholder support and an API for integration, Decent Holograms provides a maintained, dependency-light solution for Spigot/Bukkit servers.