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JManhunt

JManhunt is a deeply configurable Paper plugin for 26.2+ Manhunts. It comes with a lean world reset engine, compass tracking, placeholders, statistics, and a variety of built-in actions and custom modifiers.

Key Features

• Deep configurability — Toggle built-in mechanics on or off, or create entirely new gameplay through easy-to-use custom modifiers.
• World reset engine — Grid-based single-world manhunt engine with persistent spiral cell assignment and automatic End resets.
• Compass tracking — Hunter compass with configurable refresh and right-click behavior.
• Placeholders & statistics — Career statistics with PlaceholderAPI support.
• API — Developers may hook into the Manhunt lifecycle through the API.

Challenges

Install the JManhunt-Challenges plugin to enable custom challenges for additional gameplay such as lucky blocks balanced to fit the game's difficulty.

Installation

Download the latest release from GitHub or Modrinth and place the jar in your server's plugins/ folder. Restart the server to generate the default configuration files.

Update

When installing an update, backup existing config and messages and manually move all customized sections to the new regenerated ones. This is a limitation of the current system, thus you should only update when necessary as it can get time consuming.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at the JManhunt documentation site.

Download / Build

Pre-built releases are published to Modrinth.

To build from source, Java 25 is required:

./gradlew build

On Windows:

.\gradlew.bat build

The plugin jar is written to build/libs/.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for contributor setup and the GitHub repository for issues and pull requests.

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