Minecraft plugin SimpleScore

🔌 About SimpleScore

SimpleScore is a Minecraft plugin for showing animated side scoreboards to players. It updates lines without flicker, supports modern color formatting, and can choose which scoreboard a player sees based on permissions, configurable conditions, the current world, or the WorldGuard region the player is in.

🎯 Purpose

SimpleScore's core purpose is to display dynamic, localized information (server stats, player stats, announcements, timers) on the player's scoreboard area in a way that avoids flicker and integrates with other plugins through placeholders.

⚙️ Features

• Animated, flicker-free side scoreboards with configurable animations.
• Show/hide numeric scores (support for hiding score numbers where supported).
• Full RGB/color support on servers running modern versions (1.16+ behaviour available).
• Select which scoreboard to display using: permissions, conditions, world, or WorldGuard region.
• Integration with PlaceholderAPI for many external placeholders.
• Built-in placeholders for common values (player name, display name, UUID, level, health, hearts, ping, kills, deaths, world, online counts, server max players).
• No character line limit on 1.13+ servers (legacy limits apply on older versions).
• Designed to be compatible with other plugins that temporarily modify the scoreboard.
• Translation/messages support via the plugin's messages system.

🧩 Who It Is For

Server administrators and moderators who want a reliable, animated scoreboard for Survival, SMP, PvP, minigame, or other server types where displaying live player/server information on the screen is useful.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• A Survival server displays player balance, online count, and active event timer via a permission-based scoreboard.
• A minigame world shows a match timer and player kills only to participants in that WorldGuard region.
• An admin configures different scoreboards for staff and regular players using permissions and PlaceholderAPI placeholders.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the plugin JAR from an official distribution (project releases or an official plugin catalog).
• Place the JAR in your server's plugins/ directory for your supported server software.
• Restart the server and check the server console to confirm the plugin loaded successfully.

📦 Dependencies

• PlaceholderAPI (optional integration for many external placeholders).
• WorldGuard (integration to select scoreboards by region; not required for basic use).

🧾 Configuration

• The plugin uses a configuration system documented by the project (scoreboard definitions, conditions, placeholders, and translations are configured through the plugin's config files and wiki).

🧠 Technical Notes

• Confirmed supported server platforms include Bukkit-compatible implementations such as Spigot and Paper and forks; some releases also list Purpur and Folia support.
• Confirmed supported Minecraft versions cover a broad range (project releases document support from legacy 1.8 through recent 1.21-era server builds).
• The project provides a public source repository and a documented wiki for configuration, placeholders, and WorldGuard integration.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need a configurable, animated scoreboard that integrates with PlaceholderAPI and can switch displays by permission, world, or WorldGuard region, SimpleScore provides a maintained implementation with a documented configuration and placeholder system.