Lightning

Lightning 0.2.0, rebuilt from scratch.

Lightning has been rewritten from the ground up. New code, new configs, and a much bigger idea: instead of only adding commands, Lightning now makes every message on your server look the way you want, even the ones from plugins you can't change.

This is a beta. Please report anything odd at support.denizenmc.com.

Fresh out of the oven

• Charge any plugin's text. Write MiniMessage in any plugin's config and Lightning brings it to life right before players see it. No prefixes, no hooks.
• Everywhere players read. Chat, action bars, titles, boss bars, tab list, scoreboards, menus, items, holograms, dialogs, the server list, and kick and ban screens.
• Sparks. Your own reusable tags: colors, prefixes, formulas, scales, rotating lines, random picks, and lines in each player's language.
• Bolts. Move a message to the action bar or a title, play a sound, or hide it, all from inside the text.
• Player faces with <face>, plus <center>, <clock> and small caps.
• Rewires. Restyle messages baked into plugins or Minecraft itself, including the ban screen.
• Pulse keeps animated lines moving on scoreboards and tab lists that never refresh on their own.
• Guard keeps whatever players type as plain text, so nobody can sneak tags into your messages.

Custom commands, remade

• Real Brigadier commands with tab completion and red error hints as you type.
• Typed arguments, subcommands, cooldowns, usage limits and per-command messages.
• Actions read top to bottom: messages, console and player commands, broadcasts, waits, checks and chance.
• Player input is always safe. It can't become a tag, a placeholder or a selector like @a.

Kitchen tools

• /lightning inspect shows where any message came from.
• /lightning check finds broken tags across every plugin's config.
• /lightning convert turns old & codes into MiniMessage, with a backup.
• /lightning parse and /lightning debug for testing and troubleshooting.

Under the hood

• Text without tags is skipped after one quick look, and anything that reads the same for everyone is only prepared once.
• Folia support throughout.
• Cleaner configs with simple keys and plain explanations.

Before you update

• Lightning now needs Paper or Folia 1.21+ and Java 21. Spigot and older versions are no longer supported.
• Old configs don't carry over. Commands use a new layout, so start from the new commands/examples.yml.
• Action hooks on other plugins' commands are gone for now. Most of what they did is easier with rewires and bolts.