A lightweight SpigotMC plugin that allows you to define specific areas within your server. When a player enters a designated area, its name is automatically displayed on their action bar.
Area Creation & Management
All commands require the onarea.admin permission.
Area Creation & Management
- Defining Areas: Create areas by selecting two points (pos0 and pos1) to form a rectangular boundary.
- IDs & Display Names: Each area uses an internal ID for management and a customizable display name for players.
- Data Persistence: All area data is saved in areas.yml, ensuring settings are preserved even after a server restart.
- Real-time Detection: The plugin checks whether a player is within a registered area whenever they move between blocks.
- Action Bar Notifications: The area's display name appears at the bottom-center of the screen (Action Bar) upon entry.
- Configurable Behavior: Several action bar behaviors can be customized via the action-bar section in config.yml.
- Persistent Display: When keep-alive is set to true (default), the action bar message is refreshed continuously while the player remains inside the area.
- Single Display: When keep-alive is set to false, the message is shown only once on entry and fades out naturally after approximately 3 seconds.
- Automatic Clearing: When a player exits an area, the action bar stops being sent and fades out on the client side.
- Instant Clearing: Setting force-clear-on-exit to true clears the action bar immediately upon exit instead of waiting for the natural fade.
- Priority System: If multiple areas overlap, the first area detected will take priority for the display.
- Supports 9 languages: Japanese, English, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, and French.
- The system automatically detects the player's Minecraft client language and displays messages in the corresponding language.
- For unsupported languages, the server's default language will be used. You can configure this in config.yml under the language setting (setting it to auto will automatically detect the language based on the server's OS).
- Players can also manually set their language using the /onarea lang command. These individual settings will persist even after a server restart.
All commands require the onarea.admin permission.
- /onarea pos0 [x y z] – Sets the starting point. Uses your current location if coordinates are omitted.
- /onarea pos1 [x y z] – Sets the end point. Uses your current location if coordinates are omitted.
- /onarea create <ID> <DisplayName> – Registers a new area between the two specified points.
- /onarea edit <ID> <DisplayName> – Updates the display name of an existing area.
- /onarea delete <ID> – Deletes the specified area.
- /onarea list – Displays a list of all registered areas.
- /onarea lang – Displays the current language setting and its source (manual/automatic).
- /onarea lang <code\> – Changes the language (ja, en, zh, ko, es, pt, ru, de, fr）
- /onarea lang reset – Clears the manual language setting and reverts to automatic detection.
- /onarea debug – Displays registered areas with borders. Running it again will hide them.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.12, 1.13, 1.14
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Spigot — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
OnArea is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15 and newer. Downloaded 33 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.