Minecraft plugin Vault

🔌 About Vault

Vault is a Minecraft plugin that provides a lightweight abstraction API for other plugins to access permissions, chat, and economy systems. Instead of each plugin supporting every permissions/economy/chat provider, developers can rely on Vault as a single bridge so plugins interoperate with a variety of provider plugins.

🎯 Purpose

Vault's core purpose is interoperability: it exposes common service interfaces (permissions, chat, economy) so server plugins can query or modify those systems without depending on a specific implementation.

⚙️ Features

• Provides an API layer for Permissions, Chat, and Economy services.
• Acts as a runtime bridge: Vault detects and hooks into available provider plugins.
• Includes a small set of admin commands for plugin information and converting economy data between registered economy services.
• Distributed with a separate API artifact for developers to compile against.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server administrators running Bukkit/Spigot-based servers who need multiple plugins to share permissions, chat formatting, or economy data.
• Plugin developers who want a single integration point for those systems.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• A shop plugin queries the economy service through Vault so it can work with any installed economy provider.
• A plugin reads player prefixes via Vault's chat service and thus supports multiple chat/permission plugins without extra hooks.

⌨️ Commands

🔐 Permissions

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official Vault jar and place it into your server plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server (or start it) so the plugin loads.
• Check the server console/logs to confirm Vault loaded and detected available provider plugins.

Vault runs as a standalone plugin and does not require bundling its source into other plugins.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Vault is an abstraction layer for Bukkit-style servers and is distributed with an API artifact for developers.
• The project lists many supported provider plugins for permissions, chat, and economy (for example: LuckPerms, PermissionsEx, GroupManager, SuperPerms) — Vault relies on those provider plugins to be present to expose services.
• License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL-3.0).

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need multiple plugins to share permissions, chat formatting, or economy data without adding individual hooks for each provider, Vault provides a single, confirmed integration point that simplifies development and server configuration.