Bulwark
Bulwark adds cooperative wave defense events to your server. Players join an arena, then fight off waves of mobs that push toward a core the team has to keep alive. Points earned from kills and cleared waves get spent at a shop between waves. Survive every wave and the team wins.
Built for: Survival, SMP, minigame servers.
Waves that get harder
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Each wave spawns more mobs than the last, and mob health scales up with the wave number, so the fight never goes stale. Every few waves a boss mob joins in, tougher and worth more points. A boss bar tracks the core's health, the current wave, and how many enemies are left, and a title card announces each new wave.
The core
Any mob that gets close enough to the core chips away at its health. If the core drops to zero, the team loses. Keeping the core alive means spreading out to fight mobs before they reach it, or saving up points to repair it at the shop.
Between-wave shop
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Spend points on a full heal, a core repair, potion effects like strength, speed, and regeneration, or extra gear like arrows and an iron sword. Every shop entry is configurable, so owners can add, remove, or reprice items freely.
Stats and leaderboard
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Games played, wins, best wave reached, and kills are tracked per player and saved across restarts. Check your own record with /bulwark stats or see who is on top with /bulwark top.
Build arenas without leaving the game
Set a lobby, a core, and as many mob spawn points as the arena needs, all from in-game commands. Run as many arenas as the server needs, each running its own game.
Features
Commands
Permissions
Placeholders
Requirements
Installation
Try it first
Drop the jar into your own server's plugins folder and build an arena to try the waves and shop yourself in minutes.
Support
Questions and bug reports are welcome. Join the No Click Studios Discord at https://discord.gg/drBwA958bn.
Bulwark adds cooperative wave defense events to your server. Players join an arena, then fight off waves of mobs that push toward a core the team has to keep alive. Points earned from kills and cleared waves get spent at a shop between waves. Survive every wave and the team wins.
Built for: Survival, SMP, minigame servers.
Waves that get harder
View attachment 2221364
Each wave spawns more mobs than the last, and mob health scales up with the wave number, so the fight never goes stale. Every few waves a boss mob joins in, tougher and worth more points. A boss bar tracks the core's health, the current wave, and how many enemies are left, and a title card announces each new wave.
The core
Any mob that gets close enough to the core chips away at its health. If the core drops to zero, the team loses. Keeping the core alive means spreading out to fight mobs before they reach it, or saving up points to repair it at the shop.
Between-wave shop
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Spend points on a full heal, a core repair, potion effects like strength, speed, and regeneration, or extra gear like arrows and an iron sword. Every shop entry is configurable, so owners can add, remove, or reprice items freely.
Stats and leaderboard
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Games played, wins, best wave reached, and kills are tracked per player and saved across restarts. Check your own record with /bulwark stats or see who is on top with /bulwark top.
Build arenas without leaving the game
Set a lobby, a core, and as many mob spawn points as the arena needs, all from in-game commands. Run as many arenas as the server needs, each running its own game.
Features
- Escalating waves with a weighted mob table and per-wave health scaling.
- Boss waves on a configurable interval, worth bonus points.
- A core that takes damage from nearby mobs and can be repaired.
- Config-driven shop with heal, core repair, potion effect, and item purchases.
- Boss bar with live core health, wave number, and enemies remaining.
- Wave-start title cards and configurable sounds for kills, purchases, and core hits.
- Per-player stats and a top-10 leaderboard, saved across restarts.
- Configurable win rewards: XP and console commands run for every survivor.
- PlaceholderAPI support for player stats.
- In-game arena builder, any number of arenas.
- Config auto migration and an in-game reload.
Commands
- /bulwark help - list the commands.
- /bulwark join [arena], leave - join an arena or an open game, or leave your current game.
- /bulwark list - list all arenas and their status.
- /bulwark shop - open the shop, while in a game.
- /bulwark stats - view your own record.
- /bulwark top - view the top 10 leaderboard.
- /bulwark start <arena>, stop <arena> - force start or stop a game.
- /bulwark reload - reload the config and messages.
- /bulwark arena create <name> - create an arena.
- /bulwark arena setlobby|setcore|addspawn|clearspawns <name> - set up an arena at your location.
- /bulwark arena setplayers <name> <min> <max> - set player limits.
- /bulwark arena info|list <name> - check an arena's setup and status.
- /bulwark arena delete <name> confirm - delete an arena.
Permissions
- bulwark.use - join games and use player-facing commands. Default: everyone.
- bulwark.admin - build arenas, force start or stop games, and reload. Default: operators.
Placeholders
- %bulwark_wins%, %bulwark_kills%, %bulwark_games%, %bulwark_best_wave% - a player's lifetime record.
- %bulwark_in_game%, %bulwark_arena%, %bulwark_wave%, %bulwark_points% - a player's current game status.
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21 to 26.1.2.
- Paper, Spigot, or Bukkit.
- Java 21.
- PlaceholderAPI is optional, for placeholders.
Installation
- Drop Bulwark-1.0.0.jar into your plugins folder.
- Start the server once to generate the config.
- Build an arena with /bulwark arena, then edit config.yml to taste and run /bulwark reload.
Try it first
Drop the jar into your own server's plugins folder and build an arena to try the waves and shop yourself in minutes.
Support
Questions and bug reports are welcome. Join the No Click Studios Discord at https://discord.gg/drBwA958bn.
