Minecraft plugin WorldBorder

🔌 About WorldBorder

WorldBorder is a Minecraft plugin for enforcing and managing world boundaries on Bukkit/Spigot-based servers. It provides per-world borders (round/elliptic or square/rectangular), prevents players from passing borders unless exempted, and includes chunk management commands to pre-generate or trim areas outside a border.

🎯 Purpose

WorldBorder’s primary purpose is to limit and control world growth while giving server administrators tools to manage chunk generation and storage. It reduces uncontrolled world expansion by enforcing borders and offers utilities to generate missing chunks inside a border or remove chunks outside it.

⚙️ Features

• Per-world borders (one border per world) with round/elliptic or square/rectangular shapes.
• Command-based configuration and border setup (no manual config file edits required for basic setup).
• Fill (generate) command to pre-generate missing chunks up to the border, with a configurable buffer zone.
• Trim command to remove chunks beyond the border, leaving an optional buffer zone.
• Bypass functionality to allow specific players to cross borders.
• Optional automatic display of borders in DynMap if DynMap is installed.
• Safe player repositioning when moved back inside a border; vehicle momentum handling to prevent bypass.
• Support for permission systems that integrate with Bukkit's built-in superperms mechanism.
• Automatic saving of plugin data when borders or settings change.

🧩 Who It Is For

Server owners and administrators who need to control world size and chunk generation: survival and SMP servers, public servers with resource constraints, and any server that wants deterministic control over world boundaries.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Pre-generate all chunks within a specified radius before opening a new map to players.
• Trim unused chunks outside a set border to reclaim disk space on long-running worlds.
• Enforce a playable map area for minigames or curated survival experiences.
• Allow staff or specific users to bypass borders while enforcing limits for regular players.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the plugin JAR from the official Spigot resource or the plugin repository.
• Place the JAR into the server plugins/ directory on a Bukkit/Spigot/Paper server.
• Restart the server and confirm the plugin loads by checking server console logs.

📦 Dependencies

• DynMap (optional) — WorldBorder can display configured borders in DynMap if that plugin is present.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Official source code is licensed under BSD-2-Clause.
• The original author indicates the project is no longer actively supported; forks and updated builds exist in the community.
• Officially listed/tested Minecraft major versions on the primary resource are 1.13 and 1.14; an update added async chunk generation support for Paper in later releases.
• The plugin was written as a Bukkit plugin and is distributed via Spigot/CurseForge and the original GitHub repository.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need deterministic control of where players may travel and tools to pre-generate or remove chunks around a defined play area, WorldBorder provides command-driven border enforcement and chunk-management utilities suitable for administrated servers.