mc-kotlin-plugin-template

Opinionated template/starter for creating Minecraft plugins in Kotlin using the Spigot API

Features

• Gradle axion-release-plugin for managing semver
  • automatic updating of CHANGELOG.md and main/resources/plugin.yml when a release is made
• Github Actions to build PRs and automatically create Github releases when a release tag is pushed
  • Manual Create Release pipeline to increment semver tag and trigger publishing a new version
    • Requires a secret named PAT with a GitHub PAT with code read/write permission to the repository
• ktlint Gradle plugin
• Gradle build generates a standard plugin jar which will download dependencies declared as libraries in plugin.yml and an "offline"/shadowed jar containing necessary dependencies

Usage

1. Use the template to create a new repository: Create a new repository
2. Change template repository references
   • settings.gradle.kts -> set rootProject.name
   • gradle.properties -> set repoRef
   • build.gradle.kts -> set group
   • CHANGELOG.md -> update links to SimpleMC/mc-kotlin-plugin-template to match repoRef
   • src/main/resources/plugin.yml -> set name, main, website, author
   • src/main/kotlin/org/simplemc/plugintemplate/KotlinPluginTemplate.kt -> Move packages/rename for your plugin
   • README.md -> Update
3. To use the Create Release automation, add PAT secret
   1. Create a Personal Access Token: https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new
      • Repository Access: "Only select repositories" and pick the plugin template fork
      • Repository Permissions: Contents Read & write
        • This is so the automation can create release commits
   2. Add the PAT as an Actions secret to your new repository: https://github.com/<repo slug>/settings/secrets/actions/new
      • Name: PAT
      • Secret Contents: Paste the Personal Access Token you created in the previous step

Examples

Several SimpleMC plugins are built off of this template or were the impetus for it:

• SimpleNPCs - Simple command-based NPC interactions
• SimpleHealthbars2 - Simple, easy-to-use healthbar plugin with optional player and mob healthbars
• SimpleAnnounce - SimpleAnnounce is a simple and easy to use, yet powerful automated announcement plugin for the Bukkit Minecraft API.