Minecraft Plugin Development

Use this skill for Minecraft server plugin work in the Paper, Spigot, and Bukkit ecosystem.

This skill is especially useful for gameplay-heavy plugins such as combat systems, wave or boss encounters, war or team modes, arenas, kit systems, cooldown-based abilities, scoreboards, and config-driven game rules.

For grounded implementation patterns drawn from real Paper plugins, load these references as needed:

• references/project-patterns.md for high-level architecture patterns seen in real gameplay plugins
• references/bootstrap-registration.md for onEnable, command wiring, listener registration, and shutdown expectations
• references/state-sessions-and-phases.md for player session modeling, game phases, match state, and reconnect-safe logic
• references/config-data-and-async.md for config managers, database-backed player data, async flushes, and UI refresh tasks
• references/maps-heroes-and-feature-modules.md for map rotation, hero or class systems, and modular feature growth
• references/minigame-instance-flow.md for arena instances, countdowns, loot refreshes, wave systems, visibility isolation, and entity-to-game ownership
• references/persistent-progression-and-events.md for long-running PvP servers with profiles, perks, buffs, quests, economy, custom domain events, and extension registries
• references/build-test-and-runtime-validation.md for Maven or Gradle packaging, shaded dependencies, generated resources, soft dependencies, config validation commands, and first-round server test plans

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