JManhunt¶

JManhunt is a deeply configurable Paper plugin for 26.2+ Manhunts. It comes with a lean world reset engine, compass tracking, placeholders, statistics, and a variety of built-in actions and custom modifiers.

Key Features¶

Deep configurability — Toggle built-in mechanics on or off, or create entirely new gameplay through easy-to-use custom modifiers.
World reset engine — Grid-based single-world manhunt engine with persistent spiral cell assignment and automatic End resets.
Compass tracking — Hunter compass with configurable refresh and right-click behavior.
Placeholders & statistics — Career statistics with PlaceholderAPI support.
Built-in challenges — No-jump, one-heart, and lucky-blocks challenges.

Installation¶

Download the latest release from Modrinth and place the jar in your server's plugins/ folder. Restart the server to generate the default configuration files.

Documentation¶

Getting Started
Gallery
Commands
Permissions
Configuration — overview, settings, world engine, statistics, sounds, and lucky blocks.
Placeholders
API

Download / Build¶

Pre-built releases are published to Modrinth.

To build from source, Java 25 is required:

./gradlew build

On Windows:

.\gradlew.bat build

The plugin jar is written to build/libs/.

Contributing¶

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for contributor setup and the GitHub repository for issues and pull requests.