SpyCore

SpyCore is a multi-world management plugin for Paper and Purpur (1.21+).

Traditional multi-world plugins dump every single world folder directly into your server root, which gets messy quickly on larger servers or minigame networks. SpyCore organizes worlds into categorized subfolders (called containers) using a virtual file system (VFS), while still letting you reference them with clean, simple world names in commands and APIs.

It also comes with built-in world hibernation to save RAM, fast template cloning for minigame arenas, per-world rule toggles (PVP, hunger, flight, autoheal), and target selector support (@a, @p, @s, @r, @e).

Features

• Folder-based World Organization (VFS): Keep your worlds organized. Group minigames, arenas, or seasonal worlds into subdirectories like spycore-worlds/Bedwars/Solo1 while players and scripts simply refer to Solo1.
• World Hibernation: Inactive worlds with zero players can automatically unload from memory to conserve RAM and CPU. Hubs and main survival worlds can be whitelisted to stay permanently loaded.
• Fast Arena & Minigame Templating: Clone template worlds on the fly with lazy chunk generators that skip Bukkit's slow spawn chunk loading. Ideal for disposable match worlds.
• Per-World Rule Control: Configure PVP, hunger depletion, natural regeneration, survival flight, time/weather cycles, and bed respawn behavior independently per world without needing extra rule plugins.
• Target Selector Support: Teleport commands natively accept standard Minecraft selectors (/spy world tp @a Arena1, /spy tp @p lobby, etc.).
• Chat & Tablist Isolation: Optionally isolate local chat, death messages, advancements, and tablist visibility to the world a player is currently in.
• PlaceholderAPI Hook: Includes placeholders like %spycore_world_alias% and %spycore_world_name%.
• Ecosystem Integration: Pairs directly with SpyInventories for per-world inventory grouping and SpyNetherPortals for custom portal links.

Requirements & Setup

• Server: Paper or Purpur 1.21+ (Java 21 or newer required).
• Setup:
  1. Download the latest spycore-1.1.1.jar from Releases.
  2. Put the .jar into your server's plugins/ directory.
  3. Restart your server. Existing worlds in the server root will be detected and registered automatically.

Quick Command Guide

All commands run under the /spy base command (requires spy.admin or specific sub-permissions).

Creating & Managing Worlds

# Create a standard survival world in the server root
/spy create world survival normal

# Create a void world inside a "Bedwars" container folder
/spy container Bedwars create world Arena1 normal --generator voidgen

# Clone an arena template into a match instance
/spy clone Arena1 Matches Match_01 voidgen

# Load an existing world from disk / unload an inactive world
/spy load survival
/spy unload Arena1

# Permanently delete a world folder from disk
/spy delete Match_01

Teleportation & Player Movement

# Teleport yourself to a world
/spy world tp survival

# Teleport another player or a target selector
/spy world tp Steve survival
/spy world tp @a Arena1

# Set the world spawn to your current coordinates
/spy world setspawn

World Rules & Hibernation

# Disable PVP and hunger in a lobby or arena
/spy world modify lobby set pvp false
/spy world modify lobby set hunger false

# Allow survival flight in a creative world
/spy world modify creative set fly true

# Prevent lobby from being unloaded by the hibernation task
/spy whitelist add lobby

For the full list of subcommands, permission nodes, generator flags, and storage file schemas, check out DOCUMENTATION.md.

Developer API

If you are developing plugins on top of SpyCore, add the dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.spygamingog</groupId>
    <artifactId>spycore</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.1</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Make sure to add depend: [SpyCore] (or softdepend: [SpyCore]) in your plugin.yml.

Example Usage

import com.spygamingog.spycore.api.SpyAPI;
import org.bukkit.World;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;

// Fetch or wake a world by alias
World world = SpyAPI.getWorld("Arena1", true);

// Create a new void world inside a container
World arena = SpyAPI.createWorld("Bedwars", "Arena_02", World.Environment.NORMAL, "voidgen");

// Safely teleport a player
SpyAPI.teleportToSafeLocation(player, world);

// Attach custom metadata tags to a world
SpyAPI.setWorldTag(arena, "game_state", "WAITING");
String state = SpyAPI.getWorldTag(arena, "game_state");

Related Plugins

• SpyInventories: Multi-world inventory and player state separation (inventories, ender chests, health, gamemodes).
• SpyNetherPortals: Custom Nether & End portal routing for container worlds and custom dimensions.

License

This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).