WhileYouWereAway: Your Server Keeps Living While You're Offline [1.20.6-1.21.x]

Log in and you get THE GAZETTE - a written newspaper of everything you missed, with headlines instead of a wall of chat spam. Who came prowling near your base. Who logged on. How many days passed. What arrived in the post.





THE WATCHER is a guardian you summon to your base. It actually hunts intruders while you're offline, and grows stronger the more loyally you return.

• The Gazette - your recap as a readable newspaper
• The Watcher - a guardian that defends your base while you're away
• Loyalty - your login streak becomes a shrine floating above your base
• Guestbook & gifts - visitors sign your book and leave items to find on return
• Letters through time - send a letter that arrives in three days, or a note to your future self
• Reminders - set an in-game reminder, delivered when it's due
• Daily rewards, streaks & milestones
• Comeback bonus that scales with how long you were gone
• Idle rewards that accrue offline (capped)
• Journal - your first diamond, boss kills and deaths, written automatically
• Discord alerts - a real-world ping when someone turns up at your base while you're offline
• Return Tour - a cinematic sweep of your home when you come back
• Home GUI tying all of it together

Rewards are items, XP or console commands, so you can hand out money, ranks or crate keys through whatever economy or permissions plugin you already run. No hard dependencies.



...and setbase, base, daily, streak, guestbook, gift, sign, mail, futureself, tour, discord.
Permissions: wywa.use (default: all), wywa.admin (default: op)



Spigot & Paper 1.20.6 - 1.21.x · Java 21+ · No dependencies.
Verified in-game on 1.20.6, 1.21.1, 1.21.4 and 1.21.11.

Install: drop the jar in /plugins and restart. A config.yml generates on first run.