Void Sponge - Ultimate Solution v1.0

Vanilla sponges drain 7 blocks in each direction. That is 343 blocks total. Your players spend hours clearing ocean monuments, draining flooded builds, and dealing with mob-infested caves. There is no variety, no progression, and no reason to care about which sponge you placed.

VoidSponge fixes that. Each of the 16 sponge types has a defined purpose, a tiered progression system, and fully configurable mechanics. A Void Sponge removes water across 65 blocks at tier 3. A Silence Sponge suppresses mob spawns for up to 10 minutes. An Anchor Sponge prevents sand and gravel from falling mid-construction. These are not radius tweaks. They are entirely different tools.

• Void Sponge Removes all water in a sphere. Radius up to 65 blocks at tier 3. Multi-phase absorption prevents water from flowing back mid-process. The baseline tool, optimized for any environment.
• Magma Sponge Removes lava in a sphere. Same mechanics as Void but tuned for lava environments with higher smelting time and optional double-fuel to reflect its value.
• Frost Sponge Freezes water into ice instead of removing it. Useful for frozen biome builds, ice roads, and trapping mechanics. Configurable radius up to 55 blocks.
• Flood Sponge Fills air and cave air with water. Works underground. Useful for traps, moats, and intentional flooding. Has a built-in cooldown by default to prevent spam.
• Steam Sponge Removes lava and adjacent water simultaneously, creating obsidian and cobblestone via the standard Minecraft steam mechanic. Clean controlled conversion with no lag.

• Harvest Sponge Auto-harvests all mature crops in radius and replants them. Drops land at the sponge block. One placement clears and resets an entire farm in seconds.
• Magnet Sponge Pulls all nearby item entities directly into the player's inventory. Overflow stays on the ground rather than deleting items. No more diving into lava pools for dropped gear.
• Breach Sponge Clears obstructions: cobwebs, vines, cave vines, glow lichen, sculk veins, hanging roots, moss. Fully configurable list of target blocks. Drops all cleared items naturally.
• Smelt Sponge Instantly smelts all smeltable ores and items in the player's inventory. Uses the server's actual furnace recipes. No need to run back to base for a furnace array.

• Soul Sponge Absorbs all nearby experience orbs and delivers the XP directly to the player. Radius, charges, and cooldown are fully tunable per tier.
• Banish Sponge Teleports hostile mobs 150 to 200 blocks away at a random angle instead of killing them. Perfect for servers that prefer non-lethal mob control or mini-game mechanics.
• Gravity Sponge Pulls all nearby entities toward the sponge's center point with configurable force. Useful for mob traps, sorting systems, and combat scenarios.

• Silence Sponge Suppresses natural mob spawning in a radius for a configurable duration. Up to 40-block radius at tier 3, up to 10 minutes. Invaluable for peaceful build sessions and mob farm setup.
• Fortune Sponge Grants the placing player Haste II, Luck, and Night Vision for the sponge's duration. Effects are cleanly removed when the timer ends or the block is broken early.
• Light Sponge Places light-level-15 blocks across the radius. Tracked individually per sponge. When the timer expires, all placed light blocks are removed automatically with no orphans.
• Anchor Sponge Prevents gravity-affected blocks (sand, gravel, concrete powder, anvils, and more) from falling within radius. Configurable block list. Prevents sand cannon exploits and protects builds during excavation.

◆ Tier System

• Each of the 16 types has 3 independent tiers controlling radius, charges, cooldown, duration, and economy cost
• Admins distribute tiers via command. Choose your progression model: shop, quest reward, rank perk, or donation incentive
• Every value is clamped and validated on startup. No crashes from typos or extreme settings

◆ Folia-Native Architecture

• Built from the ground up for Folia's regionalized threading model. All block operations use RegionScheduler pinned to the correct chunk
• Entity operations use EntityScheduler. No unsafe main-thread access. No compatibility layer
• If your network runs Folia, VoidSponge runs correctly. No workarounds needed

◆ Batch Processing

• Large radius operations spread work across multiple ticks using a configurable batch size (100 to 10,000 blocks per tick)
• A tier-3 Void Sponge at 65-block radius processes tens of thousands of blocks without a single lag spike
• Multi-phase removal prevents water regeneration mid-process

◆ Charge System With Furnace Recycling

• Each sponge has a charge counter embedded via NBT. When charges hit zero, the sponge converts to wet in-world
• Players dry wet sponges in a furnace with configurable time and optional double-fuel requirement
• The economy loop is self-contained. Vault cost gating is optional per type and per tier

◆ Persistence Across Restarts

• Active timed sponges save their remaining duration to sponge_data.yml and resume correctly on restart
• Tracked block locations persist via YAML file. No ghost blocks, no lost state, no phantom effects
• Atomic operations prevent item duplication on chunk load or crash recovery

◆ BossBar HUD

• Live BossBar display for all TIMED_PASSIVE sponges showing remaining duration
• Ticks every 20 server ticks (1 second). No unnecessary overhead
• BossBar color changes per sponge type for instant visual recognition

◆ Vault Economy Integration

• Optional per-use cost configurable per type and per tier independently
• Double-check pattern (balance verify then charge) prevents race conditions on high-concurrency servers
• If the charge fails mid-action, the sponge placement is cancelled and the player is refunded

◆ Multi-Language Support

• 6 built-in languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Russian
• Every player-facing message is translatable via simple YAML language files
• Language switch is a single line in config.yml. No restarts required

◆ Granular Permission System

• Wildcard voidsponge.use grants access to all types. Individual permissions like voidsponge.use.void restrict per type
• Cooldown bypass via voidsponge.bypass.cooldown for staff ranks
• Works with any permission plugin. No compatibility issues

• Survival and SMP servers Tier-gated sponges integrate naturally into progression systems. Sell higher tiers through your shop or lock them behind rank perks. Each sponge type solves a different survival problem.
• Economy and RPG networks Vault cost gating per tier makes every sponge use a meaningful economy transaction. Players weigh value against cost. The furnace recycling loop creates ongoing demand for fuel resources.
• Folia networks One of the only sponge plugins with genuine Folia support using RegionScheduler, not a workaround or compatibility shim.
• Servers with large player counts Batch processing and thread-safe internals mean the plugin does not become a liability under load. Configurable batch size per type lets you tune for your hardware.
• Admins who want control Disable any type, restrict any tier, set costs, set cooldowns, set permissions. Nothing is hardcoded. Configuration validation catches typos before they cause problems.

◆ Commands


Aliases: /vs, /vsponge, /voidsponge

◆ Permissions