Minecraft plugin PlayerPoints

🔌 About PlayerPoints

PlayerPoints is a Minecraft plugin that provides a point-based currency system for servers. It exposes an API so other plugins can integrate directly, offers optional hooks for popular plugins, and includes SQL-backed storage support.

🎯 Purpose

PlayerPoints is intended to offer servers a lightweight secondary economy (points) that can be awarded, spent, or queried by other plugins. It solves the need for a simple, scriptable points/currency system without requiring a full monetary economy plugin.

⚙️ Features

• Point-based currency system for player accounts.
• Public API for other plugins to read and modify points.
• SQL support for persistent storage (repository describes SQL support).
• Optional integration hooks for Vault and PlaceholderAPI.
• Creates its own plugin data folder on first run and stores configuration/data there.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Survival and SMP servers that want a secondary point currency.
• Servers that need a simple API for plugin authors to award or check player points.
• Servers that prefer optional integration with Vault/PlaceholderAPI.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Awarding points as rewards for minigames or quests.
• Using points as a currency to buy cosmetic items or server permissions via another plugin.
• Plugins reading points to create rank systems, leaderboards, or progress tracking.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the plugin jar from the official resource and place the jar into your server's plugins/ directory.
• Start the server. On first startup PlayerPoints will create a plugins/PlayerPoints folder containing its configuration and data files.
• Confirm the plugin loaded by checking the server console for PlayerPoints messages.

📦 Dependencies

• No required dependencies.
• Optional: Vault (optional hook) and PlaceholderAPI (optional hook).

🧠 Technical Notes

• Official sources state compatibility with Spigot and its forks; Paper is recommended. CraftBukkit is not supported.
• The project states support for Minecraft versions 1.8.8 and newer.
• The plugin is open-source under the GPL-3.0 license and exposes an API for integration by other plugins.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

When you need a straightforward, scriptable points system with an API and optional integration with common ecosystem plugins, PlayerPoints provides a focused solution that other plugins can reliably hook into.