Vystorm Snapshot | In-Game Camera, Photos & Map Pictures

Latest feature update - 1.12.0
Named photo collections with captions, pagination and explicit per-player sharing

Create named collections with `/snapshot albums create NAME`, add one of your own held photographs with `/snapshot albums add NAME`, and browse them through `/snapshot albums` or the Core menu. A multi-map photograph occupies one album entry; printing returns the whole photograph using the existing film/paper rules. The original `/snapshot album` library remains available.

Available in all seven bundled languages. Targeted feature and restart checks passed on official Spigot 26.3 and CraftBukkit 26.3. See the latest update notes for installation instructions and validation details.

✅ Ready out of the box – everything is preconfigured. Sensible defaults for every setting: drop the jar (plus Vystorm Core) into plugins/, restart, play. Changing anything is optional – in-game config editor or config.yml.

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Server support: Spigot/CraftBukkit 26.3 and the existing Paper/Purpur integration. See the compatibility section above for exact validation and platform details.

Requires Vystorm Core (free) – the shared base of all Vystorm plugins (seven language bundles, in-game config editor, update check). Just drop one extra jar into plugins/, no setup.


A camera for your players. Aim, click, and the photo arrives as a map. Craft a camera, aim and click: a moment later the photo is in your inventory as a map you can hang in an item frame, trade or collect. Day and night, torch light, distance haze, water, mobs and players are all in the picture.


Taking photos

• Craftable camera. Iron ingots around a glass pane, redstone below. By default it is a spyglass: right-click zooms like a viewfinder, left-click takes the photo.
• Real photos. Every pixel is a ray into the world: shaded block faces, sky and block light, day and night sky, haze in the distance, see-through glass, mobs and players.
• Film. Each photo uses one paper by default (configurable item, or free; creative is always free).
• Photos remember where they were taken: coordinates and compass direction in the lore.

Big photos and the album

• Big photos. /snapshot format 2x1 (also 2x2, 3x2 …) turns one shot into several maps that form one picture on a wall.
• Photo album. /snapshot album shows all your photos as a menu with pages. Click one to reprint it; shift-click any part of a big photo to reprint the whole picture.
• Kept forever. Every photo is saved as a PNG in plugins/VystormSnapshot/photos/ and restored after restarts.

Telephoto, selfie, flash

• Look through the spyglass for a zoomed shot, sneak for a selfie, and in the dark the flash lights up the scene.
• No lag. Photos render a few rows per tick and the number of photos developing at once is limited.
• Admin shots. /snapshot capture <world> <x> <y> <z> <yaw> <pitch> [format] takes photos from any position, also from the console (spawn boards, news, events).

Commands & permissions

• /snapshot album – Your photos, reprint by click
• /snapshot format <W>x<H> – Choose the photo format
• /snapshot give [player] – Give a camera (admin)
• /snapshot capture … – Take a photo from any position (admin, also console)
• /snapshot reload – Reload the config (admin)

• vystormsnapshot.use – everyone – Taking photos, album, format
• vystormsnapshot.admin – OP – give, capture, reload

Film item, cooldown, view distance and field of view are configurable.

Requirements

• Paper or Purpur 1.21.8 to 26.2, Java 25
• Vystorm Core (free)

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Free and open source (MIT). Vystorm Snapshot is a new implementation inspired by the discontinued Cameras plugin; no code of the original was used.