Quick Start: Lobby Overrides (5 minutes)¶

Quick Start: Run your first match.

One lobby per game mode: each step below pins different settings and mods to its lobby, plus a fancy switcher name.

You need the ADVANCED lobby world preset (or your own multi-lobby setup), with three lobbies that each have a teleport set. Uses the bundled modifiers and presets only.
Matches read their lobby's overrides first and fall back to the shared config, so lobbies you never touch keep behaving exactly as before.
Fancy names live in the lang file, one lobby.lobbies entry per lobby id (formatting codes allowed; missing ids show Lobby N), the same way playlist names do. Edit your server language file (plugins/JManhunt/lang/en-us.yml by default). Everything else runs through /manhunt override <lobby> ..., or the lobby overrides screen in the admin GUI.

0. Classic Manhunt (lobby 0)¶

The baseline: no overrides at all, just a name.

lobby:
  lobbies:
    "0":
      name: "<#ff5555><bold>Classic Manhunt"

Check it with /manhunt prefs switch 0: the switcher should spell the name right.

1. Vanilla+ (lobby 1)¶

Close to vanilla, plus the gentle buffs from the Vanilla+ preset (everyone-gets-beef, regen-on-kill, fireres-on-nether-enter) and a longer autostart countdown. Presets switch on globally, so turn on the preset's mods for this lobby only:

/manhunt override 1 modifiers set everyone-gets-beef true
/manhunt override 1 modifiers set regen-on-kill true
/manhunt override 1 modifiers set fireres-on-nether-enter true
/manhunt override 1 settings set settings.match.start.autostart.timing.countdown-seconds 60

lobby:
  lobbies:
    "1":
      name: "<#55ff55><bold>Vanilla+"

(/manhunt modifiers lists every mod name. Tune one mod value to taste with /manhunt override 1 values <mod> <path> <value>.)

2. Infection Mode (lobby 2)¶

The Chaos preset (infection, random-item-giver, gear-dice), fragile runners, and patient hunters:

/manhunt override 2 modifiers set infection true
/manhunt override 2 modifiers set random-item-giver true
/manhunt override 2 modifiers set gear-dice true
/manhunt override 2 settings set settings.match.start.start-on-speedrunner-damage.delay-seconds 60
/manhunt override 2 settings set settings.players.respawn.speedrunner.lives 1

lobby:
  lobbies:
    "2":
      name: "<#31b3eb>🎅 <bold>Winter <#d8e5eb>Manhunt"

(Call it <#aaffaa><bold>Infection once winter passes; the point is that emoji, hex colors, and gradients all work.)

Santa kill lines: while the snow lasts, give lobby 2 its own self-kill lines in the message overrides block of your server language file (plugins/JManhunt/lang/en-us.yml by default):

overrides:
  "2":
    game:
      kill:
        self-lines:
        - "<#d42426>ho ho ho'd</#d42426> off the rooftop"
        - "got tangled in the <#2a7f3f>christmas lights</#2a7f3f>"

Run /manhunt reload: matches from lobby 2 roll the santa lines, every other lobby keeps the base pool. Delete the "2" block (or the whole file section) in January to go back to normal.

Check your work¶

/manhunt override <lobby> settings get (and modifiers get, values get) prints one lobby's overrides.
/manhunt override <lobby> clear wipes a lobby back to the shared config; ... settings clear <key> removes one value.
Start a match per lobby and confirm each plays by its own rules; the switcher (the empty map in the toolbar) shows all three names in order.

To rotate several override sets through one queue instead, see Rotating Lobbies in 8 Minutes.