HudForge - Scoreboard, TAB, Nametags & Boss Bar

HudForge writes the sidebar, the TAB list, the name above a player's head, the boss bar and the action bar from a single file. It is free, runs on Paper and Spigot from 1.20.4 to 26.x, and comes configured: drop it in and the scoreboard is already there.

Animated gradients from one tag, frame animations, colours that change when a number crosses a line, and a scoreboard that doesn't flicker because it is never rebuilt.


How it works in play

• No flicker, at any refresh rate: the scoreboard is built once and only the line text is rewritten after that. The default is four ticks, five repaints a second.
• A moving gradient is one tag: <shine:#C879FF:#FFFFFF:1600>TEXT</shine> and the light travels across the text. The last number is the cycle in milliseconds.
• Everyone sees the same frame: animation frames come from the clock, not from a counter per player, so two players standing together see the same thing.
• One file for five displays: sidebar, TAB header and footer, name tags, boss bars and the action bar are written in the same place, in the same syntax.
• Profiles instead of a tree: the first profile that matches wins. Match by world, by permission, by a condition, or by nothing at all.

What you get

• Sidebar: a title and lines of any length. A line past the scoreboard's limit is split where it doesn't break a colour tag.
• TAB list: header and footer, plus the order players are listed in, set per profile by a weight.
• Name tags: a prefix and suffix above the head, per profile.
• Boss bars: as many as you like per profile, each with its own colour, style and fill. Bars from a profile a player has left are taken down.
• Action bar: the short line above the hotbar.
• Frame animations: <anim:name>, with the frames written in the config. Two are included: a dot of light running along a separator, and a breathing diamond.
• Conditions: %if:%hud_ping%>150?<red>high:<green>good%. Numbers compare as numbers, so 9 is not greater than 100.
• Built-in values: %hud_player% %hud_ping% %hud_tps% %hud_online% %hud_max% %hud_world% %hud_x% %hud_y% %hud_z% %hud_health%.
• PlaceholderAPI: when it's installed, anything another plugin publishes can go on the board.
• Colours: <gradient:#A:#B> and &b&l both work, so an old config can be pasted in as it is.

Writing a profile
This is a complete profile. Anything you leave out isn't checked.

profiles:
vip:
worlds: [survival] # only in this world
permission: hudforge.vip # only for this permission
weight: 100 # higher up the TAB list

sidebar:
title: "<shine:#C879FF:#FFFFFF:1600><bold>MY SERVER</bold></shine>"
lines:
- "<anim:separator>"
- "<white>%hud_player%"
- "<gray>ping %if:%hud_ping%>150?<red>%hud_ping%ms:<green>%hud_ping%ms%"

tablist:
header: ["", "<white>MY SERVER", ""]
footer: ["<gray>tps %hud_tps%"]

nametag:
prefix: "<gold>VIP "

bossbars:
event:
text: "<white>Double XP weekend"
color: PURPLE
style: PROGRESS
progress: "1.0"
Configuration

• config.yml holds the refresh rate, the frame animations and every profile, with a comment next to each key.
• Profiles are read in the order you write them and the first match wins, so put the specific ones first.
• metrics-id turns anonymous usage statistics off when it's set to 0.

Commands and permissions

• /hud reload re-reads the config without a restart (hudforge.admin, operators by default).
• /hud hide hides the sidebar for the player who runs it. Everyone can use it; deny hudforge.hide to keep the sidebar forced on.
• /hud itself needs hudforge.use, which everyone has. Every node is declared in plugin.yml.

Requirements

• Paper or Spigot from 1.20.4 to 26.x. Forks like Purpur work too. Java 17 is enough on older servers.
• Folia isn't supported yet.
• Optional: PlaceholderAPI, LuckPerms and Vault.

The plugin never refuses to start because an optional plugin is missing. On Spigot the red numbers on the sidebar stay, because hiding them needs Paper, and %hud_tps% reads 20.

FAQ
Why from 1.20.4?
The sidebar lines use the long team prefixes that came with that version.

Can I paste a config from another scoreboard plugin?
Colour codes with & work as they are. You'll need to move the lines into a profile.

Does it need PlaceholderAPI?
No. The ten built-in values work without it.




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