Trophy Hunt | Mob Trophy Progression v1.0.0

Trophy Hunt
Trophy Hunt turns mob kills into a real progression system. Kill a mob enough times and you unlock its trophy: a passive buff while equipped, and for most trophies a grounded active ability on a cooldown. No spellcasting, no magic system, just mob-tied gear that gets stronger the more you hunt.

Built for: survival and SMP servers that want a kill-based progression loop without adding a full skill or class system.

12 mobs, 12 trophies

/trophy opens the Trophy Collection GUI showing every trophy, locked or unlocked, with kill counts. Kill a tracked mob and there is a chance it drops its trophy; the chance rises with your weapon's Looting level. Trophies span zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, endermen, blaze, wither skeletons, iron golems, rabbits, horses, axolotls, and phantoms.

Passive buffs and grounded active abilities

Equip up to 2 trophies at once (configurable) for their passive effects: jump boost from the Rabbit Trophy, speed from the Horse Trophy, resistance from the Iron Golem Trophy, and more. Most trophies also carry an active ability triggered with /trophy use, on its own cooldown: Berserk (strength and resistance), Dash, Leap, Regen, Phase (short blink), Fire Ward, Shockwave (knockback), Snare (root nearby enemies), Night Eyes (night vision), and Bulwark (heavy resistance). Every ability plays a sound and, on activation or denial, tells you exactly what happened.

Kill count drives real tiers

Each trophy tracks your kills against that mob and advances through 5 tiers as you rack them up. Higher tiers shorten active cooldowns and raise ability strength, both by a configurable percentage per tier. /trophy stats shows your equipped trophies and their current tier at a glance.

Features

• 12 trophies tied to specific mob kills, each with its own drop chance.
• Drop chance rises with the killing weapon's Looting enchantment level.
• Passive buffs while equipped: jump boost, speed, resistance, water breathing, slow falling, and more depending on the trophy.
• 10 grounded active abilities on individual cooldowns: Berserk, Dash, Leap, Regen, Phase, Fire Ward, Shockwave, Snare, Night Eyes, Bulwark.
• 5-tier progression per trophy based on real kill counts, with configurable cooldown reduction and magnitude scaling per tier.
• Configurable equip slot cap (how many trophies a player can wear at once).
• In-game Trophy Collection GUI showing every trophy, its lock state, and kill progress.
• Per-player progress saved automatically on an interval, on logout, and on server shutdown.
• Admin commands to give any trophy at any tier, and to reset a player's progress with a confirm step.
• Every message lives in messages.yml and reloads live with /trophy reload, no restart needed.
• Full tab completion filtered to what the sender can run.

Commands

• /trophy or /trophy gui open the Trophy Collection menu.
• /trophy help list commands for your permission level.
• /trophy list show every trophy, lock state, and kill count.
• /trophy info <trophy> show a trophy's passive and active details.
• /trophy stats show your equipped trophies and their tiers.
• /trophy equip <trophy> equip an unlocked trophy for its passive.
• /trophy unequip <trophy> remove an equipped trophy.
• /trophy use <trophy> fire that trophy's active ability.
• /trophy give <player> <trophy> [tier] give a trophy at a chosen tier.
• /trophy reset <player> confirm wipe a player's trophy progress.
• /trophy reload reload config and messages live.

/trophy can also be run as /trophies or /th.

Permissions

• trophyhunt.use collect trophies, open the menu, equip, and use abilities. Default: everyone.
• trophyhunt.admin give trophies, reset progress, and reload the plugin. Default: operators.

Configuration
config.yml holds the equip slot cap, passive refresh rate, tier kill thresholds, cooldown reduction and magnitude scaling per tier, Looting drop bonus, autosave interval, sounds, and GUI materials. Every one of the 12 trophies has its own entry: entity, name, description, item material, drop chance, passives, and active ability tuning (cooldown, duration, magnitude, radius). messages.yml externalizes every player-facing line. Run /trophy reload to apply changes with no restart.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21 to 26.1.2.
• Paper, Spigot, or Bukkit.
• Java 21.

Installation

1. Put TrophyHunt-1.0.0.jar in your plugins folder.
2. Start the server once to create config.yml and messages.yml.
3. Adjust trophy drop chances, tiers, and ability tuning in config.yml to fit your server, or leave the defaults.
4. Run /trophy reload, or restart, to apply your settings.

Try it first
Trophy Hunt is straightforward to try. Drop the jar in your plugins folder, kill a few tracked mobs, and open /trophy to see the GUI fill in as trophies unlock.

Support
Questions and bug reports are welcome. Join the No Click Studios Discord at https://discord.gg/drBwA958bn.