FarmContest
The ultimate Hypixel Jacob's Contest-style farming event & crop mutation plugin for your Minecraft server!
Features • Installation • Commands & Permissions • Placeholders • Compatibility
Key Features
1. Automated Farming Contest System (Farm Contest)
- Automatic Rotation: Automatically starts/ends contests and randomly selects crops (Sugar Cane, Cactus, Pumpkin, Melon, Wheat...) on a scheduled timer.
- Real-time Leaderboard: Calculates scores, updates rankings, and distributes rewards with absolute accuracy for every player.
- Intuitive BossBar Display: Displays a live countdown timer and current score progress directly on screen.
- Smart Anti-Cheat: Tracks and remembers player-placed blocks to prevent infinite point exploits from placing and breaking the same crop.
- Random Mutations: Harvesting crops gives a chance to yield mutated crops with ultra-rare attributes and massive score multipliers.
- Biome Dependence: Certain mutation types only appear in specific biomes, encouraging players to explore the world.
- Mutation Shop: Sleek GUI interface allowing players to buy, sell, trade, and upgrade mutated seeds/crops.
- Cross-Platform Database: Supports SQLite (default, zero extra setup required).
- Seamless Sync: Automatically loads/saves player data on Join and Quit without causing server lag.
- Vault Integration: Reward players with in-game money directly into their balance upon winning.
- PlaceholderAPI Integration: Effortlessly display scores and ranks on Scoreboards, Tablists, Holograms, or Chat formats.
- Download the latest FarmContest-<version>.jar file from the Releases section.
- Drop the .jar file into your server's /plugins/ directory.
- (Recommended) Install optional dependency plugins:
- Vault (For economy rewards).
- PlaceholderAPI (For displaying stats on Scoreboards/Tab).
- Restart your server to generate the default configuration files.
Main command: /farmcontest or alias /fc
Command Description Permission
/fc help View the list of available commands farmcontest.use
/fc status View active contest status & personal score farmcontest.use
/fc shop Open the Mutation Crops Shop farmcontest.use
/fc top View the current contest leaderboard farmcontest.use
/fc start <crop> (Admin) Forcefully start a farming contest farmcontest.admin
/fc stop (Admin) Instantly stop the current contest farmcontest.admin
/fc reload (Admin) Reload all plugin configuration files farmcontest.admin
PlaceholderAPI Integration
Use the following placeholders in your Scoreboards (FeatherBoard, TAB...), Chat, or Holograms:
- %farmcontest_status% — Contest status (Active / Finished).
- %farmcontest_time_remaining% — Remaining time of the active contest.
- %farmcontest_crop% — Crop type featured in the current round.
- %farmcontest_score% — Player's current contest score.
- %farmcontest_position% — Player's current position on the leaderboard.
- Supported Minecraft Versions: 1.20.4 - 1.21.x (and future updates).
- Software: Paper, Spigot, Purpur
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20, 1.20.6, 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.
FarmContest | Make Farming Fun Again | Mutation System is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.20, 1.20.6, 1.21. Downloaded 199 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.