Minecraft plugin DecentHolograms

🔌 About the plugin DecentHolograms

DecentHolograms — is a plugin for Minecraft servers that allows creation and management of rich holograms (animated text, icons and heads) without external dependencies.

🎯 Purpose

DecentHolograms solves the need to display floating information and interactive visual elements on a Minecraft server. It provides configurable holograms for information boards, shop displays, leaderboards, damage/heal indicators and other visual UI needs on Paper/Spigot servers.

⚙ Main capabilities

• Create and manage holograms with multiple lines and pages.
• Support for icons and player/head lines (icon/head line types are available). (Confirmed: icons and head types present in config).
• Animations and per-line configuration (animations supported via config and commands).
• Placeholder integration (PlaceholderAPI support documented).
• Damage and healing temporary displays (damage-display, healing-display features configurable).
• Full command-based in-game editing (powerful /dh command set with aliases).
• Lightweight: no mandatory plugin dependencies and uses bStats for metrics.

🧩 Who it fits

DecentHolograms is suitable for:

• Survival servers that need in-world information panels.
• Minigame and hub servers showing dynamic leaderboards or status.
• Economy/shop setups where floating displays are useful.
• Admins who want in-game command editing for holograms.

🏗 Example usages

• Server lobby shows rotating icons and animated title with DecentHolograms lines.
• Shop areas display item/prices via holograms using PlaceholderAPI placeholders.
• Combat shows temporary floating damage/heal numbers using the damage-display feature.

⚡ Verified features & notes

• PlaceholderAPI support (optional).
• Damage and healing displays configurable in config.yml.
• Icons and head lines supported (config height entries for text/icon/head exist). ()
• No required dependencies listed on the official resource; plugin runs without mandatory external plugins. bStats is used. ()

⌨️ Commands

Note: The plugin exposes a rich set of subcommands and aliases (main command /decentholograms with /holograms, /lines, /features, /pages and aliases /hologram, /holo, /dh). For the complete, up-to-date command list use /dh help in-game. ()

🔐 Permissions

Note: The permission nodes above are taken from the official documentation. The wiki documents the node names but does not publish a full default map for every node; operator (op) is typically required for admin-level subcommands unless a server admin grants specific nodes. ()

⚙ Installation

📥 Installation

• Download the plugin .jar from the official resource (Spigot/Modrinth/GitHub releases).
• Place the .jar file into your server plugins/ folder.
• Fully restart the server (do not use /reload).
• On first run the plugin generates its data folder and config files.

📦 Dependencies

• No mandatory dependencies listed (the plugin runs without required external plugins).
• Optional integration: PlaceholderAPI (for placeholders). ()

🧾 Configuration

• The plugin generates config.yml on first start. The main config contains options for display ranges, update intervals, animation settings and feature blocks such as damage-display and healing-display.
• Many features (animations, damage/heal displays, icons/head heights, placeholders inside animations) are configurable in config.yml. ()

Database support

• No official documentation indicates MySQL or SQLite usage; configuration and features are driven via config files. If database support exists for a specific extension it is not documented in the main docs. (Information not found in official docs). ()

🧠 Additional information

Known conflicts

• May conflict with other hologram/entity/visibility plugins that use the same entity types or intercept the same events (standard caution for hologram plugins).
• If using a proxy (BungeeCord/Velocity) verify multi-server compatibility separately (not explicitly documented).

Limitations

• Minecraft client limitations: text always faces the player, font/size cannot be changed by the plugin, some entity icons may produce entity sounds (noted in the project README).

FAQ

Q: How do I create a hologram? A: Use the in-game command /dh holograms create <name> (then edit lines/pages via /dh lines and related subcommands). ()

Q: Does DecentHolograms support PlaceholderAPI? A: Yes — PlaceholderAPI integration is supported and referenced in official pages. ()

Q: Does the plugin collect anonymous statistics? A: The project references bStats usage in its repository and resource pages. ()

Q: Where to get support? A: Official support is primarily via the project's Discord and GitHub issue/discussion pages. ()

When adding DecentHolograms to your server: test on a staging environment if you run many visibility/packet plugins, enable placeholders only when PlaceholderAPI is available, and rely on the in-game /dh help to see the exact available subcommands for your installed version. Official docs and downloads: check the plugin's GitHub, wiki and Spigot resource for the latest releases and full command reference. ()