JobBoard | ✅ Player job board with escrow - deliveries, hunts & server contracts

Delivery jobs
Ask for any item: "256 oak logs for $300". Anyone can deliver part or all of it and is paid instantly for exactly what they handed in, so big orders get done by many players together. Delivered items wait in the poster's mailbox until they collect them.

• Only plain items count: renamed, enchanted or damaged items are rejected, so nobody can sneak in junk.
• An item blacklist (with wildcards) keeps bedrock, spawners, command blocks and spawn eggs off the board.
• If the economy ever refuses a payment, the worker gets every item back.

⚔ Hunt jobs
Ask for mob kills: "30 skeletons for $60". Players accept the hunt and every kill pays its share right away, shown above the hotbar.

• Only players who accepted the hunt are paid, and each kill counts for one job only.
• Mobs from spawners, spawn eggs and trial spawners don't count by default, so farms can't drain a job.
• Choose which mobs can be hunted (40 included, from zombies to the Ender Dragon). Mobs that don't exist on your version are skipped automatically.
• A per-player limit on accepted hunts keeps jobs available for everyone.

Real escrow
When a job is posted, the reward (plus a small configurable fee) is taken from the poster's balance and held by the plugin.

• Workers are paid from that escrow as they work. Money is tracked in whole cents, so payouts always add up exactly to the reward: it never leaks and never duplicates.
• If the job expires or the poster cancels it, whatever is left is refunded automatically. The fee is not refunded, which discourages spam.
• If a refund can't be made (economy offline), the job stays open until it can. Money is never lost.
• Limit how many jobs each player can have open with jobboard.limit.<n>, and set minimum/maximum rewards and amounts.

Server contracts
A rotating set of jobs posted by the server itself, configured in server-jobs.yml. They keep the board alive on quiet days, give new players a way to earn their first money, and work as an item sink for your economy (delivered items leave the game). When one is completed or expires, a different one takes its place.

Physical boards
Stand at your spawn and type /jb board create: a floating board appears, showing the best-paying open jobs and updating by itself. Right-click it to open the menu.

• No resource pack, no hologram plugin needed.
• The board is never saved into your world: it can't duplicate, and removing the plugin leaves nothing behind.

Commands
Players don't need any of them: everything is in the menus. They're there as shortcuts.

Command	Permission	Description
/jobboard (/jb)	jobboard.use	Open the board
/jb create	jobboard.create	Post a job
/jb my	jobboard.use	Your jobs and accepted hunts
/jb mailbox	jobboard.use	Collect delivered items
/jb view <id>	jobboard.use	Open a specific job
/jb top	jobboard.use	Top earners
/jb reload	jobboard.admin	Reload config and messages
/jb cancel <id>	jobboard.admin	Cancel any job (refunds the poster)
/jb board create|remove|list	jobboard.admin	Manage physical boards
/jb serverjobs reroll	jobboard.admin	Replace the current server jobs
/jb info	jobboard.admin	Plugin status
/jb report <text>	everyone	Report a bug straight to the developer
/jb suggest <text>	everyone	Suggest an idea to the developer

Permissions

• jobboard.use: use the board, deliver, hunt, mailbox (default: everyone)
• jobboard.create: post jobs (default: everyone)
• jobboard.limit.<n>: max open jobs per player, e.g. jobboard.limit.10 (default from config: 3)
• jobboard.bypass.limit / jobboard.bypass.fee: ignore the limit / the fee (default: op)
• jobboard.admin: all admin commands and update notices (default: op)

PlaceholderAPI
%jobboard_open_jobs%, %jobboard_active_posted%, %jobboard_accepted%, %jobboard_mailbox%, %jobboard_earned%, %jobboard_earned_raw%, %jobboard_contributions%, %jobboard_units%, %jobboard_posted%

Configuration
Every option in config.yml is commented, and new options are added automatically when you update, without touching your values. Messages live in lang/messages_en.yml and lang/messages_es.yml (MiniMessage format); copy one to add your own language. Item and mob names are shown in each player's own game language.

Anonymous usage statistics
JobBoard uses PluginAnalytics so I can see which features are used and fix errors quickly, often before anyone reports them. It sends server software and versions, player counts, how JobBoard's features are used, its config choices and its own errors and log lines.

• Never sent: player names, UUIDs, IP addresses, chat, inventories or world data. Players are an anonymous hash that is different on every server.
• Turn it off with enabled: false in plugins/PluginAnalytics/config.yml and restart.
• Exactly what is sent: pluginanalytics.dev/privacy

Requirements

• Paper (or a fork like Purpur) 1.21.4 or newer, including 26.x. Spigot/CraftBukkit is not supported.
• Vault and any economy plugin (EssentialsX, CMI, …)
• Java 21+ (Java 25 for Minecraft 26.x, as required by Paper)
• Optional: PlaceholderAPI

FAQ
Can players scam each other? No. The reward is in escrow before anyone works, and payment is automatic.
What happens if the server crashes? Jobs, escrow, mailboxes and stats are stored in SQLite and saved continuously.
Does it support MySQL or multiple servers? Not yet. Planned if there's demand.
Is it tested? Every release runs 59 automated tests covering posting, deliveries, hunts, refunds, expiry and the menus, and is started on real Paper 1.21.4, 1.21.11 and 26.3 servers.