BlockGens

 **Turn any block into an endless resource.** Craft a generator, place it, and it keeps a block of your choice above itself - break it, collect the loot, and it grows back. Perfect for skyblock, gens servers and survival worlds that need a renewable source of anything. --- ## ✨ Why BlockGens? Most generator plugins give you a cobblestone generator and call it a day. BlockGens lets **you** decide everything: - 🧱 **Any blocks** - the generator and the block it creates can be any blocks you like: sponge making stone, dirt making obsidian, glass making diamond ore. - 🎁 **Weighted drop tables** - every break rolls a drop from your own list, with weights and amounts. Rare loot is one line of config away. - 🛠️ **Craft them or sell them** - give each generator its own crafting recipe, or skip the recipe and sell generators in your shop instead. - 🎨 **Names and lore that look the part** - full [MiniMessage](https://docs.papermc.io/adventure/minimessage/format/) support: gradients, colors, formatting. - ⏱️ **Your pace** - set how fast each generator regrows, from instant to minutes. ## 🛡️ Built to survive real servers - **Survives restarts** - placed generators are stored in the world itself. - **No duping, no griefing** - pistons cannot push generators around, endermen and withers leave them alone, and nothing can be squeezed into the spot of a regrowing block. - **Plays nice with protection plugins** - if a region does not allow building or breaking, BlockGens does not either. - **Explosions your way** - per generator, TNT and creepers can leave it untouched, drop it like a normal block, or destroy it for good. - **Never eats your blocks** - place a generator under a chest and the chest stays; the generator simply starts once the space above is free. ## 🛒 Made for shops `/bg give` works from the console, so any shop plugin can sell generators: ``` /bg give {player} sponge 5 ``` Full inventory? The rest lands at the player's feet - nothing a player paid for ever disappears. ## ⚙️ Simple configuration One file, three sections. A complete generator looks like this: ```yaml generators: sponge: delay: 20 # regrows after 1 second blocks: generator: sponge generated: stone drops: diamond: { weight: 1, count: 1 } bread: { weight: 9, count: 2 } crafting: shape: [ 'SSS', 'SPS', 'S S' ] mapping: { 'S': STONE, 'P': PISTON } explosion: generator: drop generated: remove blocks: sponge: material: SPONGE name: 'Food Generator' lore: [ 'Place me and break the stone above!' ] stone: material: STONE items: diamond: { material: DIAMOND } bread: { material: BREAD, name: 'Fresh bread' } ``` Change something, run `/bg reload` - no restart needed. Made a typo? The plugin tells you exactly what is wrong and where, and keeps the old config running. ## 📜 Commands and permissions | Command | Permission | What it does | |---|---|---| | `/bg generator ` | `blockgens.get` | Gives you a generator | | `/bg generated ` | `blockgens.get` | Gives you a generated block | | `/bg item ` | `blockgens.get` | Gives you a drop item | | `/bg give [amount]` | `blockgens.give` | Gives generators to a player, also from the console | | `/bg reload` | `blockgens.reload` | Reloads the config | `/bg` is short for `/blockgens`. All permissions go to operators by default and are part of `blockgens.*`. ## 📦 Requirements - **Paper** 26.2 or newer, or a fork such as **Purpur** - Folia is not supported - **Java 25** ## 💬 Support Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/andret2344/block-gens/issues) - the plugin is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. BlockGens collects anonymous usage statistics with [bStats](https://bstats.org/plugin/bukkit/BlockGens/34535). You can turn them off in `plugins/bStats/config.yml`.