Minecraft plugin Lottery

🔌 About the Lottery plugin

Lottery — is a Minecraft plugin that allows players to buy lottery tickets and participate in automated, configurable draws with a rolling jackpot. The Lottery plugin introduces chance‑based economy features, ticket storage, partial prizes and visual countdowns to increase player engagement on Paper/Spigot servers.

🎯 Purpose

Lottery addresses the need for a simple, configurable gambling/minigame mechanic on Minecraft servers that integrates with an in‑game economy. It solves:

• the lack of an out‑of‑the‑box ticket/lottery system for communities
• the need for configurable jackpots and partial prize tiers
• the need for persistent ticket storage across restarts

Lottery allows server owners to add timed draws that encourage repeat participation and economy activity. ()

⚙ Core features

• Ticket purchases (random or custom numbers, if enabled).
• Configurable jackpot and rollover amount.
• Automated draws on a configurable interval.
• Partial prize system based on digits matched (configurable percentages).
• Persistent ticket storage (tickets.yml) and winner logging (winners.log).
• BossBar countdown and configurable announcements to notify players. ()

🧩 Who it's for

Lottery is suitable for:

• Economy and survival servers wanting low‑effort minigames.
• Servers running Paper or Spigot where plugin commands and plugin permissions are managed by staff.
• Admins who want configurable, file‑backed lotteries without external DB setup. ()

🏗 Examples of use

• A server runs draws every 6 hours; the jackpot rolls over until someone wins.
• Players buy tickets via /lt buyticket and view current tickets with /lt tickets.
• Partial prizes paid when tickets match some digits of the winning number (e.g., 3/4 digits = 10%). ()

⌨️ Commands

(Commands and exact aliases are taken from the official resource pages.) ()

🔐 Permissions

(Defaults — true/op/false — are not listed on the official resource; the plugin page documents permission nodes but does not declare default values). ()

⚙ Installation

📥 Installation

• Download the plugin JAR from the official resource (Spigot / Modrinth).
• Place the JAR in your server plugins/ folder.
• Restart the server (full restart recommended, not /reload).
• On first run the plugin generates its data files (see configuration). ()

📦 Dependencies

• Official pages do not list mandatory external dependencies. No Vault or PlaceholderAPI requirement is documented on the official resource. If your economy integration requires Vault, test it separately — the plugin page does not declare a required dependency. ()

🧾 Configuration

• The plugin generates configuration and data files on first run (e.g., config.yml, tickets.yml, winners.log).
• Configurable keys (from official docs): lottery_digits, starting_amount, ticket_price, draw_interval, jackpot_sum_amount, allow_custom_numbers, and partial_prizes levels/percentages. ()
• No official mention of MySQL/SQLite support was found on the resource pages; storage appears file‑based. ()

🧠 Additional information

• Known conflicts: Not explicitly listed on official pages. Test for overlaps with other plugins that handle the same commands or economy hooks. ()
• Limitations: Storage appears file‑based (tickets.yml); large servers should test performance under high ticket volume. Supported loaders: Bukkit / Paper / Spigot (per Modrinth metadata). Game versions listed on Modrinth: 1.20–1.20.2 (see Modrinth entry). ()

FAQ

Q: Does Lottery require Vault or economy plugin? A: The official pages do not list Vault as required. If you want economy integration beyond the plugin's built‑in usage, test with your economy plugin—official sources do not declare a dependency. ()

Q: Where are tickets stored? A: Tickets are persisted to a file (tickets.yml) and winners are logged to winners.log per the official description. ()

Q: Can I allow players to choose numbers? A: Yes — allow_custom_numbers is a configurable option in the plugin config. ()

Q: Is there a Discord for support? A: The Spigot resource links to a support/Discord entry for asking questions; specific official community links are provided on the resource page. ()

Q: Does the plugin use bStats? A: bStats is not mentioned on the official pages; information about telemetry is not listed in the resource descriptions. ()

When using Lottery on production servers, validate plugin behavior on a staging server, verify plugin permissions in your permission manager, and monitor ticket file sizes if you expect high participation. The above is based on the official Spigot and Modrinth resource pages for Lottery. ()