AutoBroadcast — Complete Automatic Broadcasting Plugin for Spigot / Bukkit / Paper 1.20 → 1.21
AutoBroadcast allows you to automatically send messages to your players with full control over display type, timing, worlds, colors, and individual player preferences. Everything is configurable through YAML files or directly in-game using GUI menus — no server restart required.
Display Types
Each message can be sent simultaneously using one or more display types:- CHAT — Classic chat message, supports multi-line messages
- ACTIONBAR — Message displayed above the player hotbar
- TITLE / SUBTITLE — Full-screen title and subtitle with configurable fade-in, stay, and fade-out durations set individually per message
- BOSSBAR — Bar displayed at the top of the screen with configurable color (PINK, BLUE, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, PURPLE, WHITE), style (SOLID, SEGMENTED_6, SEGMENTED_10, SEGMENTED_12, SEGMENTED_20), and display duration
Colors & Gradients
- Standard color codes &0 to &f
- Formatting codes:
- &l bold
- &o italic
- &n underline
- &m strikethrough
- &k obfuscated
- &r reset
- Inline hex colors: &#RRGGBB
- Full gradient support:
<gradient:#FF0000:#0000FF>Your text</gradient>
Each character receives its own interpolated color between the two hex values and works in all display types.
Placeholders
Available in every line of every message regardless of display type:- %online% — Current number of online players
- %max% — Maximum server slots
- %time% — Current server time (format configurable in config.yml)
- %date% — Current date (format configurable in config.yml)
- %world% — Name of the world the receiving player is currently in
Timing & Logic
- Global delay configurable in config.yml (in seconds)
- Per-message delay overriding the global delay
- Two broadcast order modes:
- SEQUENTIAL — Cycle through messages in order
- RANDOM — Pick a random message every interval
- Automatic pause when no players are online using the pause-if-empty option
- Each message can be individually enabled or disabled using enabled: true/false without deleting it
Per-World Broadcasting
- Messages can target:
- A single world
- Multiple worlds
- All worlds using the value all
- Players outside the assigned worlds will never receive the message even if they are online
Sounds
- A Minecraft sound can be played with every broadcast
- Fully configurable per message
- Supports any in-game sound such as:
- ENTITY_EXPERIENCE_ORB_PICKUP
- BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_PLING
- ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP
- Leave the field empty to disable sounds
Admin GUI — /ab menu
A complete in-game management interface. No need to edit YAML files manually.Main Page
- Paginated list of all messages
- Displays status, delay, types, and worlds
- Left-click to open a message
- Right-click to enable/disable a message
- Shift + Right-click to delete a message
- Buttons for:
- Creating a new message
- Starting/stopping broadcasts
- Forcing the next message
- Reloading the configuration
Message Detail Page
- Enable/disable the message
- Open the display type editor
- Open the world selector
- Open the BossBar configurator
- Adjust delay with:
- +30s
- -30s
- +300s
- -300s
- Force-send the message instantly to all players
- Delete the message with confirmation
Display Types Page
Toggle these independently:- CHAT
- ACTIONBAR
- TITLE
- BOSSBAR
World Selector Page
- Select all worlds with one click
- Or choose individual loaded worlds from the server list
BossBar Config Page
- Choose among all 7 colors
- Choose among all 5 styles
- Adjust duration using:
- +1s
- -1s
- +5s
- -5s
Player Preference Menu — /ab toggle
Players can open their own personal preference menu and individually toggle:- Chat broadcasts
- ActionBar broadcasts
- Title broadcasts
- BossBar broadcasts
Example: a player may disable chat broadcasts while still receiving BossBars.
Commands
- /ab reload — Reload config.yml, messages.yml, and players.yml without restarting the server
- /ab start — Start the broadcast scheduler
- /ab stop — Pause broadcasting without losing configuration
- /ab next — Immediately send the next message in rotation
- /ab list — Show all configured messages in chat with status, delay, and worlds
- /ab menu — Open the full admin GUI
- /ab toggle — Open the player preference GUI
- /abmenu — Direct shortcut to the admin GUI
- /abtoggle — Direct shortcut to the player preference GUI
Permissions
- autobroadcast.admin — Full access to all admin commands and GUI (default: OP)
- autobroadcast.reload — Permission for /ab reload only (default: OP)
- autobroadcast.toggle — Access to the player preference menu (default: true)
- autobroadcast.bypass — Player never receives broadcasts of any type (default: false)
Configuration Files
- config.yml — Global delay, order mode, pause-if-empty, date format, and time format
- messages.yml — All broadcast messages and their individual settings
- players.yml — Player broadcast preferences, generated and managed automatically
Technical Information
- Compatible with Spigot, Bukkit, and Paper
- Supports:
- Minecraft 1.20
- 1.20.1
- 1.20.4
- 1.20.6
- 1.21
- 1.21.1
- 1.21.4
- Requires Java 17 or higher
- No external dependencies
- Single .jar file installation
- DRM-free and fully unobfuscated source code
- Hot-reload supported — no server restart required after configuration changes
