SkipNight - Vote to Skip the Night! ☀️

Let your players democratically vote to skip the night with a modern, feature-rich plugin!

🔹 Description

SkipNight is a lightweight and highly configurable plugin that allows players to initiate a vote to fast-forward through the night. It's a simple, fair, and modern solution for any survival server, giving your community control over the day/night cycle with an amazing user experience, including multi-world support, clickable messages, a real-time vote GUI, boss bar timers, sound effects, and a powerful reward system!

✨ Key Features

✔ YES/NO Voting System – Players can vote YES or NO, not just abstain! Full democratic control.
✔ Interactive Voting – Vote with /skipnight yes/no, sleeping in a bed, or clicking chat buttons!
✔ Boss Bar Timer – Visual countdown at the top of the screen showing votes and time remaining.
✔ Action Bar Updates – Real-time vote progress displayed without chat spam.
✔ Real-Time Vote GUI – Use /skipnight gui to see who voted YES (green), NO (red), or abstained (gray).
✔ Sound Effects – Configurable sounds for vote start, voting, success, and failure.
✔ Voter Rewards – Reward players with XP, custom items, or money for participating!
✔ Flexible Thresholds – Choose percentage mode (50% of players) or absolute mode (X number of votes).
✔ Instant Skip – When 100% vote yes, skip immediately without waiting.
✔ Admin Controls – Cancel ongoing votes with /skipnight cancel.
✔ Advanced Multi-World Support – Easily blacklist worlds where you don't want night-skipping enabled.
✔ Automatic Nightly Votes – Can start a vote the moment it gets dark.
✔ Broad Version Support – Works on Minecraft 1.16.5 through 1.21+.
✔ Fully Customizable – Change all messages, colors, sounds, rewards, and vote requirements.
✔ Optimized Performance – Minimal server impact, runs smoothly.

📥 Installation

1. Download SkipNight.jar and place it in your plugins/ folder.
2. Restart your server to generate the default config.yml.
3. Configure settings in plugins/SkipNight/config.yml.
4. Reload with /skipnight reload or restart to apply changes.

⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)

Customize every aspect of the plugin to fit your server perfectly.

vote-settings:
  # Automatically start a vote when night begins?
  auto-start-vote-at-night: true
  # Threshold mode: "percentage" or "absolute"
  threshold-mode: "percentage"
  required-percentage: 50
  required-absolute-count: 3
  # Allow players to vote NO (against skipping)?
  allow-vote-against: true
  # Skip instantly when 100% vote yes?
  instant-skip-at-100-percent: true
  # Disable night-skipping in these worlds.
  blacklisted-worlds:
    - "world_the_end"
    - "world_nether"

display:
  # Show updates in action bar (less spam)?
  use-action-bar: true
  # Show timer as boss bar at top?
  use-boss-bar: true
  use-chat: true

sounds:
  vote-started: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_PLING"
  player-voted-yes: "ENTITY_EXPERIENCE_ORB_PICKUP"
  player-voted-no: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_BASS"
  vote-success: "ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP"
  vote-failed: "ENTITY_VILLAGER_NO"

rewards:
  enabled: true
  only-on-success: false
  xp-levels: 1  # Set to 0 to disable
  items:
    - material: "DIAMOND"
      amount: 1
      name: "&b&lVoting Reward"

⌨️ Commands

🔑 Permissions

🌟 Why Choose SkipNight?

✅ Modern User Experience – Boss bars, action bars, clickable buttons, and real-time GUI make voting engaging and intuitive.
✅ Full Democracy – YES/NO voting gives players real control, not just a "yes or abstain" system.
✅ Reward Your Community – Incentivize participation with XP, items, or economy rewards.
✅ Flexible Configuration – Percentage or absolute thresholds, instant skip, rewards on/off, display toggles.
✅ Sound & Visual Effects – Immersive feedback with configurable sounds and boss bar timers.
✅ Empower Your Community – Let players decide when to skip the night democratically.
✅ Plug & Play – Works right out of the box with zero setup needed.
✅ Modern & Maintained – Built for modern Minecraft versions (1.16.5+).

🎯 Perfect For:

• Survival & SMP Servers – Enhance the vanilla experience with modern features.
• Community-Focused Servers – Promote player interaction and democracy.
• Reward-Based Servers – Incentivize participation with customizable rewards.
• Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle.

Lightweight ✔ Interactive ✔ Customizable ✔ Democratic ✔ Rewarding ✔

📥 Download now and empower your community to control the night! ☀️🌙

🆕 What's New in v2.0?

• 🗳️ YES/NO Voting – Players can vote against skipping, not just abstain
• 📊 Boss Bar Timer – Visual countdown with live vote counts
• 💬 Action Bar Updates – Less chat spam, cleaner interface
• 🔊 Sound Effects – Customizable audio feedback for all vote events
• 🎁 Reward System – Give XP, items, or money to voters
• ⚡ Instant Skip – 100% yes votes skip immediately
• 🎯 Threshold Modes – Choose percentage or absolute vote counts
• 🛑 Vote Cancellation – Admins can cancel problematic votes
• 🎨 Enhanced GUI – Color-coded player heads (green/red/gray)