Ultimate Daycount

A lightweight Paper plugin that tracks the number of in-game days on your Minecraft server.

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What does it do?

Ever wanted to know how many days your server has survived? Just type /daycount and you'll see it instantly. The plugin is smart enough to pause time when nobody's online, so the counter stays meaningful and accurate.

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Features

• Day tracking — Counts total days based on in-game world time
• Smart pause — Freezes the daylight cycle when no players are online
• Multilingual — Full support for English and French
• Auto-updating config — New config keys are added automatically on update, without losing your settings
• Hot reload — Reload the config in-game with /daycount reload

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Commands

Command	Description	Permission
/daycount	Displays the total number of days passed	Everyone
/dc	Alias for /daycount	Everyone
/daycount reload	Reloads the configuration	OP only

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Configuration

A config.yml is generated in plugins/UltimateDaycount/ on first launch. Here's what you can customize:

Option	Default	Description
language	en	Plugin language (en or fr)
debug	false	Enable debug logging
pause-time-when-empty	true	Pause daylight cycle when no players are online
messages.en.format	...	Customizable message format for English
messages.fr.format	...	Customizable message format for French

You can use {days} as a placeholder and & for color codes.

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Quick Start

1. Download the JAR and drop it in your plugins/ folder
2. Start your server
3. Type /daycount in chat — done!

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Requirements

• Paper 1.21+
• Java 21+

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Planned Features

• Per-world day tracking
• Scoreboard integration
• PlaceholderAPI support
• Custom date format (e.g. "Year 2, Day 45")
• Join message showing current day