MGlolenstine/awesome-minecraft

A curated list of awesome Minecraft related libraries for bukkit developers.

Awesome Minecraft

A curated list of awesome Minecraft related libraries for bukkit developer needs.

Note: This is my first awesome-list so formatting will probably be awful.

Contents

• Projects
  • Commands
  • Coroutine
  • Database
  • Lighting
  • Localization
  • Multi Purpose
  • NBT
  • Packets
  • Runtime
  • Sounds
  • Storage
  • User Interface

Projects

Commands

• Annotation Command Framework - ACF is an extremely powerful command framework that takes nearly every concept of boilerplate code commonly found in command handlers, and abstracts them away behind annotations

Coroutine

• Skedule - Coroutine library to help kotlin developers get out of callback hell with BukkitRunnables.
• TaskChain - Helps facilitate running tasks on an application's "Main Thread", and tasks off the main (async).

Database

• Intuitive Database Wrapper - A clean and intuitive API for Java to remove JDBC boilerplate.

Multi Purpose

• helper - Large set of utilities for making plugin development for bukkit faster and easier.
• Vault - Provides APIs for economy plugins, permission plugins and chat plugins.

Lighting

• LightAPI - Create invisible light sources.

Localization

• Languagy - Library for detecting player locale settings and auto translating provided messages.

NBT

• NBT-API - Add custom NBT tags to Itemstacks, Tile Entities and Entities, or modify existing ones.
• Kotlin NBT API - A 200 line NBT library for Kotlin!

Packets

• PacketListenerAPI - Listen to and handle incoming / outgoing packets and modify packet fields.
• ProtocolLib - Listen to and handle incoming / outgoing packets.
• TinyProtocol - Very barebones listening for incoming and outgoing packets with low overhead.

Runtime

• Libby - Runtime dependency management library for plugins running in Java-based Minecraft server platforms.
• Orion - Mixin loader for minecraft servers running Paper.
• PaperLib - Create faster plugins using Paper's optimisations if they're available, or slower if not on Paper.

Sounds

• NoteBlockAPI - API to be able to play .nbs files.

Storage

• Configurate - Simple configuration library for Java applications that provides a node-based representation of data, able to handle a wide variety of configuration formats.
• LightningStorage - Bukkitlike standalone java library to store data in YAML, JSON & Toml - Preserves comments!

User Interface

• ChatMenuAPI - Create interactive menus within minecraft's chat window.
• InventoryGUI - Create inventory GUIs with ease.

Considering this is a new list, PRs are always welcome as long as the library is either widely used or professional.