SKYBLOCK SETUP 13

The spawn world’s game rules now stop all natural spawning: mobs, monsters, phantoms, patrols, wandering traders and wardens. I also turned off mob griefing.
WorldGuard’s world-wide region now denies mob spawning too, as a second layer.

Meet Skyhaven, the new floating village spawn for our Skyblock setup!

This update replaces the previous spawn experience with a detailed fantasy village featuring red-roofed buildings, landscaped gardens, a central fountain and dedicated areas for shops, crates and island services.

What’s new:
• Guild Hall with island management, guide, upgrades, generators and challenges.
• Market Street featuring all eight existing shop vendors.
• Crate Garden with Vote, Wood, Stone, Obsidian and Lucky crates.
• Skyward Inn with statistics, ranks and kits.
• All 16 existing NPCs repositioned throughout the village.
• Updated holograms, with improved heights for easier reading.
• Updated service warps and protected spawn area.
• Skyhaven configured as the default arrival point for new players and /spawn.
• Compatibility workaround for physical crate locations in CrazyCrates 5.2.0.

Existing shop prices, crate rewards, keys and NPC interactions are preserved.

Built and checked on Minecraft Java 26.2.

Skyblock Setup 11.0: rebuilt for Paper 26.2

This is a full rebuild of the setup for Paper 26.2 (Java 25). Every plugin has been updated or replaced, and every config has been converted from 1.8.

Upgrading from 10.6: this is a fresh install. You can’t upgrade a 1.8 server in place, so follow INSTALL.md in the download.

Easy install

• Plugins are no longer bundled. The included downloader fetches the latest builds for you and checks each file’s checksum.
• Windows: double-click download-plugins-windows.bat.
• Mac/Linux: run download-plugins.sh.
• There’s a step-by-step guide for shared hosts like PebbleHost and FourSeasons (panel and file manager, no command line needed) and for VPS servers.

Server

• Updated to Paper 26.2 and Java 25. The world has been upgraded.
• New start scripts.
• Removed the hard-coded server IP.
• New server icon and a new server-list MOTD.

Plugins replaced with maintained versions

• ASkyBlock → BentoBox + BSkyBlock with Level, Challenges, Warps, Biomes, Border, MagicCobblestoneGenerator and Upgrades
• NametagEdit, AnimatedNames, FeatherBoard and the TitleManager tab list → TAB
• HolographicDisplays → DecentHolograms
• ShopGUIPlus → DeluxeMenus shops (free, with 11 categories)
• ObsidianAuctions and AuctionHouse → zAuctionHouse
• EpicSpawners → SmartSpawner
• NoCheatPlus → GrimAC
• CombatLog → PvPManager
• Lockette → Bolt
• ChairStairs → GSit
• CoinFlipper → CoinFlip
• MergedMob and most of ClearLag → RoseStacker
• Vault → VaultUnlocked
• WorldEdit 6 → FastAsyncWorldEdit
• WorldBorder → ChunkyBorder
• New: CoreProtect, for block logging and rollbacks

Converted content

• 17 ranks in a ready-to-import LuckPerms file
• 33 challenges across 5 levels
• 13 kits and 186 item prices
• 5 crates with 97 prizes, with the odds shown in the preview
• Scoreboard and tab list, 11 island biomes, block values for island level, and voting rewards
• All menus rebuilt for DeluxeMenus: /is, /upgrades, /generators, /spawnershop, /kits, /ranks, /warps, /stats, /help and /shops
• NPCs (skins and click actions) and 27 holograms carried over

Store and ranks now follow Mojang’s Minecraft Usage Guidelines

• Supporter ranks (SkyHero, SkyLegend, SkyLord, SkyMage) are cosmetic only: chat prefix and tag, chat colors, nicknames, /hat, particles, and Cosmetic Crate keys.
• Gameplay kits and perks are now earned in-game by completing challenge levels.
• New Cosmetic Crate with 23 prizes (chat tags, particles and decorative heads). It has no gameplay advantage, so its keys can be sold.
• New /keys shop: gameplay crate keys are bought with in-game money only. Vote keys come from voting.
• New /tags menu with 12 chat tags.
• Removed the anticheat bypass from paid ranks.
• Ready-made Tebex package commands are in migration/store-packages.md.

Fixes

• Fixed the chat format and placeholders left over from removed plugins.
• Removed every reference to plugins that no longer exist.