AntiElytraBorderDamage

AntiElytraBorderDamage

A lightweight Minecraft Paper/Spigot/Purpur/Folia plugin that prevents players from taking Elytra kinetic (crash) damage when flying into the world border at high speed.

On Minecraft servers with a world border, players flying quickly with an Elytra can collide with the border and take kinetic damage, sometimes killing them before they have time to react.

AntiElytraBorderDamage fixes this by cancelling Elytra kinetic damage only when the player is touching the world border. Normal Elytra collision damage is unaffected.

This is useful if you have players with zero situational awareness and a habit of flying into a bright blue pulsating wall.

How it works

AntiElytraBorderDamage registers a lightweight bukkit listener that fires whenever a player experiences kinetic damage (damage from flying into something with an elytra). If the player is touching the world border, this damage is cancelled. This is highly accurate (even a trapdoor between the world border and the player will cause the player to receive the damage) while being incredibly lightweight and taking approximately 0% of your server's tick time.

Supported Versions

AntiElytraBorderDamage is incredibly simple, so all Minecraft versions since MC 1.11.2 are supported, on all Spigot-derivative platforms including Folia. This simple design means that it should continue to work forever without updates.

AntiElytraBorderDamage is compiled with Java 17, so if you are running on a Minecraft version from 1.11.2-1.17.1, you will need to ensure that you are running on Java 17 and not Java 8-16. Minecraft versions 1.18.0+ require a higher Java version than AntiElytraBorderDamage, so it will always run with no modifications.