EventEngine

EventEngine is a Spigot plugin that provides a powerful way to manage events on a Minecraft server. The core abstractions are phases (timed segments of an event with names and durations) and teams (player groups with display names, prefixes, colours, spawns, kits, and persistent effects).

It integrates with PlaceholderAPI to expose live event data to other plugins, scoreboards, chat formatters, holograms, and anywhere else PAPI is supported can pull team counts, current phase names, and countdown timers, and with Essentials for kit definitions.

• Phases & persistent timer. A queue of named, timed phases with start/stop/skip/reset controls. The current phase index and time remaining are flushed to config every 30 seconds, so a server crash mid-event resumes from roughly where it left off rather than restarting the timeline.
• Teams with scoreboard plumbing. Each team registers a vanilla scoreboard team, so prefixes, colours, name-tag visibility, friendly-fire, collision and "see friendly invisibles" all flow through the engine the player already understands.
• Game rules, server-wide and per-team. Lava placement, chat mode, friendly fire, collision, name-tag visibility, death-message visibility, see-friendly-invisibles, and PvP can each be set globally or overridden on a per-team basis. Lava placement supports nuanced modes, "non-team" disallows pours within 10 blocks of a teammate, "non-combat" disallows them within 10 blocks of any player.
• Chat modes. Switch chat between global, teams (messages only reach your own team plus staff), and disabled. Team prefixes and colours are auto-applied to the chat format.
• Staff team. A separate, always-present team for organisers. Staff are excluded from event-participant counts, can read all team-only chat, and receive enriched player-death notifications with a click-to-teleport element pointing at the death location.
• Permanent potion effects. Effects added to a team auto-reapply on join, on respawn, and after a player drinks milk, useful for "always-night-vision" or "always-glowing" team identities that survive normal interruptions.
• Kits & loadouts. Hand the in-hand item or a named item to every team member at once, or distribute a named Essentials kit to the whole team in a single command.
• Random spawn pool. Drop a set of "lobby" spawn points anywhere in the world, then teleport every participant to a random one, handy for scattering players at the start of a round. Spawns can be rendered in-world as coloured particle markers while you're laying them out.
• Auto-balancing team fill. fillTeams distributes any unassigned participants across the listed teams, always feeding the team with the fewest currently-online members.

All commands are also available under the alias /ee. Permission required: eventengine.admin.