BlazeEffects

BlazeEffects plays a cosmetic when a player gets a kill: particles in shapes like spirals and rings, sounds, fireworks and lightning, all at the victim's position. Players pick their kill effect, kill sound and death message from a menu, and you decide who unlocks what with permissions.

Every effect is a small YAML file, so you can design new ones without code. 28 effects, 14 kill sounds and 12 death messages ship with the plugin. It also has a combat tag with a live countdown and combat-log protection.

Why use it

• 28 ready-made kill effects, plus unlimited custom ones in YAML.
• Kill sounds and death messages players choose themselves.
• Every cosmetic is gated by its own permission, so it works with ranks, crates and stores.
• Optional death effects, win effects and projectile trails.
• Built-in combat tag that kills players who log out mid-fight.
• PlaceholderAPI support and a developer API.
• Folia supported.

Commands

/blazeeffects also works as /be, /blazefx and /killeffects.

Command	What it does
/be	Opens the menu.
/be sounds / /be messages	Opens the kill sound or death message menu.
/be select <id>	Equips a kill effect.
/be preview <id>	Plays an effect on you.
/be toggle	Turns your effects off or on.
/be list	Lists every effect.
/be demo [player]	Plays every unlocked effect back to back on a dummy target.
/be set <player> <id> / /be clear <player>	Sets or clears a player's effect.
/be win <player>	Plays a player's win effect, for minigame plugins.
/be reload	Reloads every file.

Permissions

Permission	Lets a player	Default
blazeeffects.menu	Open the menus.	Everyone
blazeeffects.toggle	Turn their own effects off or on.	Everyone
blazeeffects.preview	Preview an effect on themselves.	Everyone
blazeeffects.effect.<id>	Use one kill effect. blazeeffects.effect.* gives all.	OP
blazeeffects.killsound.<id>	Use one kill sound. .* gives all.	OP
blazeeffects.deathmessage.<id>	Use one death message. .* gives all.	OP
blazeeffects.combat.bypass	Use blocked commands while combat-tagged.	OP
blazeeffects.admin	All admin commands.	OP

A cosmetic with default-unlocked: true in its file is free for everyone.

Making an effect

Copy a file in effects/, rename it and run /be reload. An effect is a list of steps:

display-name: "<gradient:#7b5bff:#19d3ff>Galaxy</gradient>"
icon: NETHER_STAR
default-unlocked: false
steps:
  - type: SHAPE
    shape: SPIRAL
    particle: END_ROD
    radius: 2.2
    points: 80
    rotations: 3
    y-offset: 1.4
    delay: 0
  - type: SOUND
    sound: "block.beacon.activate"
    volume: 0.7
    pitch: 1.6
    delay: 4

Step types: PARTICLE, SHAPE (CIRCLE, HELIX, DOUBLE_HELIX, SPHERE, SPIRAL, WAVE, BURST, VORTEX, STAR), SOUND, FIREWORK and LIGHTNING (no damage). delay is in ticks from the kill.

Install

1. Put the jar in plugins/ and start the server.
2. Grant the effects players should have, for example blazeeffects.effect.galaxy, or set default-unlocked: true in an effect's file.
3. After editing files, run /be reload.

Requires Paper, Purpur or Folia 1.21+ and Java 21.

Data collection

BlazeEffects sends anonymous usage statistics to bStats (server count, Minecraft version and similar). You can turn this off for every plugin in plugins/bStats/config.yml. It makes no other network connections.

Support

Questions and bug reports: BlazeZ Discord.