Minecraft plugin PlayerParticles

🔌 About PlayerParticles

PlayerParticles is a Minecraft plugin for spawning customizable cosmetic particle effects around players and blocks. It focuses on player-facing cosmetics (trails, block particles, area effects and combined styles) and exposes an in-game GUI and API for configuring and applying those effects.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin provides server owners a way to offer configurable, permission-controlled particle cosmetics as perks or features without modifying gameplay mechanics. It is intended for servers that want player-facing visual customization (survival, SMP, minigame or hub servers).

⚙️ Features

• In-game GUI for players to configure personal particle effects.
• Apply particles to players and to blocks (block particles / trails).
• Save personal presets and particle groups (shareable preset groups).
• Many particle types and multiple visual styles available.
• Permissions available for each style/effect to control access.
• Optional storage/backing features referenced (MySQL support listed in official resource metadata).
• Public API/hooks so additional styles can be added by developers.

🧩 Who It Is For

Server owners and administrators who want to offer cosmetic particle effects to players, manage access via permissions, and integrate visuals into perks or server cosmetics systems.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Offer particle trails as a purchasable or rank-based cosmetic on an SMP server.
• Provide preset particle groups for staff or event participants.
• Use the API to add custom styles for a minigame lobby.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin JAR and place it in your server's plugins/ folder.
• Restart the server and check console logs to confirm the plugin loads.

📦 Dependencies

• No required third-party plugin dependency is listed on the official repository; run on a Spigot-compatible server (see Technical Notes below) and add optional integrations if you need external storage.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Confirmed server compatibility: Spigot and Spigot forks. The project recommends running on Paper for best results; CraftBukkit is not compatible.
• Supported Minecraft range: officially supports Minecraft 1.7.10 and newer (project metadata lists testing up to recent versions).
• Requires Java 8 or newer as indicated by the project repository.
• The project provides an API for adding styles and development builds are published by the maintainers.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need configurable, permissioned particle cosmetics for players or blocks and prefer an established plugin with an in-game GUI and an API for extensions, PlayerParticles provides those capabilities in a Spigot/Paper environment.