🏛️ PillarFight | The ultimate pillar survival minigame
PillarFight is an action-packed, fully configurable minigame for your Spigot/Paper server. The gameplay is simple yet absolutely addictive: each player starts on their own narrow pillar above the abyss. Every 5 seconds, everyone receives a random item or block. The last player left standing—having sent everyone else plunging into the depths—wins!
🎮 The game mechanics
- The start: The players are teleported to their assigned pillars.
- The chaos: Every 5 seconds, a random item (building blocks, TNT for blowing things up, snowballs for knockback) drops directly into the inventory.
- The fight: Players are not allowed to mine the arena map—but any blocks they place themselves can be both placed and destroyed.
- The goal: Knock your opponents off their pillars! Anyone who falls off dies and becomes a spectator. The last survivor claims victory.
✨ Features
- 🛠️ 100% Configurable: Every single message, menu label, countdown time, and reward can be customized in the config files.
- 📦 Automatic map reset: After every match, the arena is completely restored to its original state. No broken maps!
- 👥 Dynamic GUI system: An intelligent "Quick Join" button automatically places players into the fullest waiting lobby. A second GUI displays all arenas along with their live status (waiting, in-game, spectating).
- 📊 Integrated statistics: Continuously tracks games played, wins, kills, and losses for each player.
- 💬 Isolated Arena Chat & Tab List: Players (and spectators) in an arena share a dedicated chat and see only each other in the tab list. No spam for the rest of the server!
- 🧩 PlaceholderAPI Full support for player prefixes/suffixes from your rank system (LuckPerms, etc.) as well as custom placeholders for scoreboards.
- 💰 Console Rewards: Automatically execute console commands at the end of a game (e.g., to award coins/money to the winner and for each kill).
- 💎 VIP Features: Server VIPs have the option to force-start games and showcase their status in-game with cool particle effects.
⚙️ Commands & Permissions
All commands are intuitively structured as sub-commands:
| Command | Description | Permission |
|---|---|---|
/pf join | Opens the interactive arena selection GUI. | pillarfall.player |
/pf leave | Leaves the current arena/spectator mode | pillarfall.player |
/pf stats | Shows your personal statistics | pillarfall.player |
/pf start | Shortens the lobby countdown to 5 seconds. | pillarfall.start |
/pf forcestart | Start the game in the arena immediately. | pillarfall.forcestart |
/pf setlobby | Sets the main lobby. | pillarfall.admin |
/pf createarena <name> | Creates a new arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf deletearena <name> | Delets an arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf setpillar <arena> | Adds a pillar in the arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf removepillar <arena> <index> | Removes a pillar | pillarfall.admin |
/pf setwaitingspawn <arena> | Sets the waitingspawn for arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf setspectatorspawn <arena> | Sets spectatorspawn for arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf setminplayers <arena> <minplayers> | Sets minimum players of arena to start | pillarfall.admin |
/pf setmaxtime <arena> <time> | Sets maximum playtime | pillarfall.admin |
/pf enable/disable <arena> | Enables/Disables an arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf info <arena> | Gets infos about arena | pillarfall.admin |
/pf list | Lists all arenas | pillarfall.admin |
/pf reload | Reloads the plugin | pillarfall.admin |
- | Permission for particle effect ingame | pillarfall.particle |
🧩 Placeholders (PlaceholderAPI)
Use these placeholders in your scoreboards or other plugins:
%pillarfight_stats_games%– total games played%pillarfight_stats_wins%– total wins%pillarfight_stats_kills%– total kills%pillarfight_stats_losses%– total losses%pillarfight_stats_kdr%– kill/death ratio%pillarfight_arena_name%– current arena name (or "none")%pillarfight_arena_status%– current arena status%pillarfight_arena_players%– players in current arena%pillarfight_arena_maxplayers%– max players in current arena%pillarfight_arena_timeleft%– time left in current game%pillarfight_arena_kills%– kills in current game%pillarfight_arena_<name>_status%– status of a specific arena%pillarfight_arena_<name>_players%– player count of a specific arena
