BetterBounty ⚔️💰
⚡ Simple, fast, and Folia-supported bounty plugin for Minecraft servers.
🎮 Players can place bounties via a clean GUI, search names, sort by amount, bounty or name, and claim rewards
automatically on kill.
🍩 Exact replica of the DonutSMP's bounty system, now available for your server, for free!
🛠️ Fully configurable with MiniMessage formatting, Vault economy support, and SQLite database.
Key Features ✨
- 🍩 GUI-first: Paginated GUI with player heads, refresh, search, and sort controls.
- 🔎 Search: In-game sign input to filter by player name
- 🔀 Sorting: Toggle between Amount → Recently Set → Name
- ✅ Confirm flow: Add bounty through a confirmation GUI
- 🏦 Vault economy: Money withdrawn on set; deposited to killer on kill
- 💾 Auto-save: Persists bounties to SQLite and saves every 15 minutes + on shutdown for more reliability
- 🍃 Folia supported: Uses FoliaLib schedulers;
folia-supported: true
- ⚙️ Config-driven: All messages and GUI texts can be customized easily
- 🛡️ Admin commands: Remove bounties, without hassle of editing databases manually
Requirements 📦
- ☕ Java: 21
- 🖥️ Server: Paper/Folia (
1.19 - 1.21.11)
- 🔌 Dependencies:
Vault and a Vault-compatible economy provider
Installation 🚀
- 🔌 Install
Vault and your economy plugin
- ⬇️ Download the latest
BetterBounty jar
- 📁 Drop the downloaded jar into
plugins/
- ▶️ Start the server and generate the config
- ⚙️ Edit
plugins/BetterBounty/config.yml as desired, then run /bounty reload
Commands ⌨️
- 🪙
/bounty or /bounties — Open the bounties GUI (players only)
- ➕
/bounty add <player> <amount> — Start the confirm flow to add to a bounty (players only)
- ➖
/bounty remove <player> — Remove a player's bounty
- 🔄
/bounty reload — Reload the plugin config
Permissions 🔐
- 🔑
bounty.remove — Allow /bounty remove
- 🔑
bounty.reload — Allow /bounty reload
- 🔑
betterbounty.updatecheck — Receive update notifications on join
Notes 📝
- 👤 Adding bounties is player-only (not console)
- 🧭 Targets must have joined the server at least once to be referenced
- 🚫 Self-kills do not award bounty
- 🎨 Player skins and names are updated on join for more accurate visuals and sorting
Configuration (MiniMessage) 🎨
All messages and GUI text use MiniMessage. Hex colors like <#03fcb1> are supported.
📖 Check MiniMessage docs for more details.
Data storage 🗄️
- 🗃️ SQLite database at:
plugins/BetterBounty/database.db
- 💾 Auto-saves every 15 minutes and on plugin disable for reliability
How it works (briefly) 🧠
- 💸 Placing a bounty deducts funds immediately using Vault
- 📋 Bounties are displayed in a paginated GUI with skull textures
- ⚔️💀 On death by another player, the killer is paid and the bounty is removed
- 🔄 Player name and skin texture are refreshed on join for accurate sorting and visuals
Metrics 📈
📊 This plugin uses bStats for anonymous usage statistics.
You can disable it in plugins/bStats/config.yml.
