ModsJava
GrowingBorders
GrowingBorders – Dynamic WorldBorder Growth & Shrink System GrowingBorders brings a fully dynamic, customizable WorldBorder system to your Minecraft…
⬇ Download on SpigotGrowingBorders – Dynamic WorldBorder Growth & Shrink System
GrowingBorders brings a fully dynamic, customizable WorldBorder system to your Minecraft server.
Perfect for SMPs, progression-based servers, survival realms, and event servers where the world expands over time or contracts from player mistakes.
✨ Features
Dynamic WorldBorder Growth
- Border grows automatically every X minutes of active player time
- Time only progresses when players are online
- Fully configurable interval (in minutes)
- Smooth animated border expansion over configurable seconds
- Punish carelessness by shrinking the border when a player dies
- Fully toggleable
- Custom shrink amount per death
- Smooth animated shrink (optional)
Use one simple command to toggle:
- BossBar
- ActionBar notifications
- Shrink on death
- Growth timer freeze
- Player movement freeze
Beautiful BossBar Timer
- Shows time remaining until next border expansion
- Displays minutes normally
- Automatically switches to seconds in the final minute
- Fully MiniMessage-powered, supports gradients
- Every message is inside messages.yml
- Full support for:
- Gradients
- Hex colors
- Bold/italic
- Placeholders
- Per-message customization
- Gradients
- Quickly freeze all players on the server except those with bypass permission
- Prevent movement server-side (cannot bypass)
- BossBars are properly removed when the plugin unloads
- No ghost bossbars after /reload
- Clean lifecycle handling
- Automatically adds new fields to config.yml
- Keeps all your old values
- New keys appear at the bottom of the file in order
- Fully future-proof
Code (Text):
/growingborders freeze - Freeze the growth timer
/growingborders unfreeze - Unfreeze the growth timer
/growingborders progress - Show remaining time
/growingborders grownow - Instantly trigger expansion
/growingborders toggle bossbar - Enable/disable BossBar
/growingborders toggle actionbar - Enable/disable ActionBar
/growingborders toggle shrink - Enable/disable shrink on death
/growingborders set amount <num> - Blocks added per expansion
/growingborders set interval <minutes> - Time needed for expansion
/growingborders set transition <secs> - Border animation speed
/growingborders set shrink <num> - Shrink amount per death
/growingborders playersfreeze - Freeze all players
/growingborders playersunfreeze - Unfreeze players
/growingborders unfreeze - Unfreeze the growth timer
/growingborders progress - Show remaining time
/growingborders grownow - Instantly trigger expansion
/growingborders toggle bossbar - Enable/disable BossBar
/growingborders toggle actionbar - Enable/disable ActionBar
/growingborders toggle shrink - Enable/disable shrink on death
/growingborders set amount <num> - Blocks added per expansion
/growingborders set interval <minutes> - Time needed for expansion
/growingborders set transition <secs> - Border animation speed
/growingborders set shrink <num> - Shrink amount per death
/growingborders playersfreeze - Freeze all players
/growingborders playersunfreeze - Unfreeze players
Permissions
growingborders.freeze.bypass Players with this bypass global freeze
growingborders.admin Access to all commands (if you want to centralize permissions)
Ideal For
- SMP servers
- Story/progression worlds
- Hardcore survival
- Event servers
- Twitch interactive servers
- Community survival challenges
- Expanding-world adventure maps
This plugin makes your world feel alive.
Players earn growth, risk punishment, and feel progression.
Border expansion becomes a shared server event instead of a boring static wall.
Perfect for making survival meaningful again.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21
- 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.
GrowingBorders is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21. Downloaded 37 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.