Minecraft plugin SkBee

🔌 About SkBee

SkBee is a Skript addon that extends the Skript language with a wide set of elements that expose server internals and modern Minecraft features to script authors. It provides syntaxes and utilities for working with NBT, advanced text components, scoreboards, recipes, block data, structures, world creation and simple region/bounds — letting server administrators implement complex mechanics using Skript rather than Java.

🎯 Purpose

SkBee's core purpose is to give Skript users direct access to features of the Bukkit/Paper server APIs and Minecraft internals that are otherwise difficult or impossible to achieve with vanilla Skript. It is intended for server owners and scripters who need more precise control over items, entities, text formatting, world manipulation, and structure handling inside Skript scripts.

⚙️ Features

• NBT elements: get/set NBT of items, tile entities (blocks) and entities (noted as available for older versions down to 1.8.8+ where supported).
• FastBoards: a scoreboard implementation designed to reduce flicker (available on newer Minecraft versions where supported).
• Recipes: add custom recipes and remove vanilla recipes (features noted as available from later versions, e.g. 1.13+ for recipe APIs).
• BlockData: simplified get/set block data access for modern block states (available on supported versions).
• Structures: save and paste vanilla Minecraft structures using the game's structure system.
• TextComponents: build and manipulate JSON/TextComponent style messages with hover and click events and item-hover support.
• WorldCreator: create custom worlds with configurable options exposed to Skript.
• Bounds: create simple bounds/regions similar to lightweight region protection for use in Skript.
• GameEvents: hook into Minecraft's GameEvent system (used by skulk sensors and related mechanics).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server administrators who use Skript and need deeper API access without writing Java plugins.
• Skript developers building advanced GUIs, custom items, structured messages, or world/structure tools.
• Survival, SMP, and custom game servers that rely on Skript for gameplay mechanics and want to extend functionality.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• A scripter reads and modifies item NBT to implement custom item behavior and attributes inside Skript.
• An admin creates custom crafting recipes and removes unwanted vanilla recipes using Skript syntax.
• Designers save and paste prefabricated structures during world generation or in-game building tools.
• Chat or GUI systems that need JSON text components with hover/click actions and item previews.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Obtain the SkBee plugin .jar from an official download source and place it into the server plugins/ directory alongside Skript.
• Restart the server so Skript and its addons load cleanly.
• Check server console logs to confirm SkBee loaded successfully and that it detected the installed Skript version.

📦 Dependencies

• Skript (SkBee is an addon for Skript; recent SkBee builds require recent Skript releases — check the plugin's release notes for exact required Skript versions).

🧠 Technical Notes

• SkBee is maintained as an open-source project under the GPL-3.0 license.
• Different features may be version-gated: some elements (for example NBT handling) have compatibility notes for older Minecraft releases (examples in upstream docs reference availability from 1.8.8+ for some features and 1.13+ for others).
• SkBee provides JavaDocs and a wiki for syntaxes; consult those references when writing Skript files that use SkBee features.
• SkBee aims to support recent Skript releases and recent Minecraft releases; specific required Skript or Minecraft versions vary by SkBee release — verify the release notes for the build you download.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you rely on Skript as your server scripting system and need access to NBT, structured text messages, custom recipes, structure saving/pasting, or simple region and world creation tools without writing Java, SkBee provides a broad set of confirmed syntaxes and utilities to extend what you can implement purely in Skript.