📢 Announcement

A simple and flexible Minecraft Spigot/Paper plugin that lets you send colorful announcements to all players on the server.
Perfect for staff notifications, server messages, or global event announcements.

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⚙️ Features

• 📣 Send custom messages to all online players
• 🎨 Choose from a wide range of text colors
• 💬 Automatically prefixes messages with a styled “Announcement” tag
• ⚡ Lightweight, fast, and easy to use
• 🧑‍💻 Works from both console and in-game

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📁 Installation

1. Download the plugin .jar file
2. Place it inside your server’s plugins/ folder
3. Start or reload your server — ready to use immediately!

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💡 Usage

Command

/announce <message> <color>

Example

/announce Server restart in 5 minutes! red

Result (visible to all players)

[Announcement] Server restart in 5 minutes!

(Displayed in red color)

If no color is provided, the message defaults to yellow.

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🎨 Available Colors

You can use any of the following color names:

Color Name	Example
black	black
dark_blue	dark_blue
dark_green	dark_green
dark_aqua	dark_aqua
dark_red	dark_red
dark_purple	dark_purple
gold	gold
gray	gray
dark_gray	dark_gray
blue	blue
green	green
aqua	aqua
red	red
light_purple	light_purple
yellow	yellow
white	white

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🧩 Developer Information

Main classes:

• de.scholle.announcement.Announcement – main plugin class
• de.scholle.announcement.AnnounceCommand – handles /announce
• de.scholle.announcement.MessageUtils – formats and sends messages

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🧰 Compatibility

• ✅ Works with Spigot, Paper, and Purpur
• 🧱 Tested for Minecraft 1.18+
• ⚙️ Requires Java 17+

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🧑‍💻 Author

Developed by: Scholle
Package: de.scholle.announcement

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
You may use, modify, and distribute it in compliance with the terms of that license.
For more information, see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0