SkipNight
SkipNight is a simple and configurable plugin that empowers your community to vote to skip the night, either manually or automatically when the sun goes down.
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SkipNight
SkipNight - Vote to Skip the Night! ☀️
Let your players democratically vote to skip the night with a modern, feature-rich plugin!
🔹 Description
SkipNight is a lightweight and highly configurable plugin that allows players to initiate a vote to fast-forward through the night. It's a simple, fair, and modern solution for any survival server, giving your community control over the day/night cycle with an amazing user experience, including multi-world support, clickable messages, a real-time vote GUI, boss bar timers, sound effects, and a powerful reward system!
✨ Key Features
✔ Optimized Performance – Players can vote YES or NO, not just abstain! Full democratic control. ✔ Optimized Performance – Vote with `/skipnight yes/no`, sleeping in a bed, or clicking chat buttons! ✔ Optimized Performance – Visual countdown at the top of the screen showing votes and time remaining. ✔ Optimized Performance – Real-time vote progress displayed without chat spam. ✔ Optimized Performance – Use `/skipnight gui` to see who voted YES (green), NO (red), or abstained (gray). ✔ Optimized Performance – Configurable sounds for vote start, voting, success, and failure. ✔ Optimized Performance – Reward players with XP, custom items, or money for participating! ✔ Optimized Performance – Choose percentage mode (50% of players) or absolute mode (X number of votes). ✔ Optimized Performance – When 100% vote yes, skip immediately without waiting. ✔ Optimized Performance – Cancel ongoing votes with `/skipnight cancel`. ✔ Optimized Performance – Easily blacklist worlds where you don't want night-skipping enabled. ✔ Optimized Performance – Can start a vote the moment it gets dark. ✔ Optimized Performance – Works on Minecraft 1.16.5 through 1.21+. ✔ Optimized Performance – Change all messages, colors, sounds, rewards, and vote requirements. ✔ Optimized Performance – Minimal server impact, runs smoothly.
📥 Installation
1. Download `SkipNight.jar` and place it in your `plugins/` folder. 2. Restart your server to generate the default config.yml. 3. Configure settings in `plugins/SkipNight/config.yml`. 4. Reload with `/skipnight reload` or restart to apply changes.
⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)
Customize every aspect of the plugin to fit your server perfectly. ```yaml vote-settings:
Automatically start a vote when night begins?
auto-start-vote-at-night: true
Threshold mode: "percentage" or "absolute"
threshold-mode: "percentage" required-percentage: 50 required-absolute-count: 3
Allow players to vote NO (against skipping)?
allow-vote-against: true
Skip instantly when 100% vote yes?
instant-skip-at-100-percent: true
Disable night-skipping in these worlds.
blacklisted-worlds: - "world_the_end" - "world_nether"
display:
Show updates in action bar (less spam)?
use-action-bar: true
Show timer as boss bar at top?
use-boss-bar: true use-chat: true
sounds: vote-started: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_PLING" player-voted-yes: "ENTITY_EXPERIENCE_ORB_PICKUP" player-voted-no: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_BASS" vote-success: "ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP" vote-failed: "ENTITY_VILLAGER_NO"
rewards: enabled: true only-on-success: false xp-levels: 1 # Set to 0 to disable items: - material: "DIAMOND" amount: 1 name: "&b&lVoting Reward" ```
⌨️ Commands
| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | /skipnight | Starts a vote or votes YES if one is active. | | /skipnight yes | Vote YES to skip the night. | | /skipnight no | Vote NO against skipping the night. | | /skipnight gui | Opens the live vote status GUI. | | /skipnight cancel | Cancel the ongoing vote (admin only). | | /skipnight stats | Shows global voting statistics. | | /skipnight reload | Reloads the configuration file. | | /skipnight help | Shows all available commands. |
🔑 Permissions
| Permission | Description | Default | |------------|-------------|---------| | skipnight.vote | Allows starting a vote | ✅ True | | skipnight.vote.yes | Allows voting YES | ✅ True | | skipnight.vote.no | Allows voting NO | ✅ True | | skipnight.gui | Allows opening the vote status GUI | ✅ True | | skipnight.stats | Allows viewing vote statistics | ✅ True | | skipnight.cancel | Allows cancelling ongoing votes | 🔒 Op | | skipnight.reload | Allows reloading the plugin's config | 🔒 Op |
🌟 Why Choose SkipNight?
✅ Modern & Maintained – Boss bars, action bars, clickable buttons, and real-time GUI make voting engaging and intuitive. ✅ Modern & Maintained – YES/NO voting gives players real control, not just a "yes or abstain" system. ✅ Modern & Maintained – Incentivize participation with XP, items, or economy rewards. ✅ Modern & Maintained – Percentage or absolute thresholds, instant skip, rewards on/off, display toggles. ✅ Modern & Maintained – Immersive feedback with configurable sounds and boss bar timers. ✅ Modern & Maintained – Let players decide when to skip the night democratically. ✅ Modern & Maintained – Works right out of the box with zero setup needed. ✅ Modern & Maintained – Built for modern Minecraft versions (1.16.5+).
🎯 Perfect For:
- Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle. – Enhance the vanilla experience with modern features. - Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle. – Promote player interaction and democracy. - Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle. – Incentivize participation with customizable rewards. - Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle.
Lightweight ✔ Interactive ✔ Customizable ✔ Democratic ✔ Rewarding ✔
📥 Download now and empower your community to control the night! ☀️🌙
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🆕 What's New in v2.0?
- 🗳️ Enhanced GUI – Players can vote against skipping, not just abstain - 📊 Enhanced GUI – Visual countdown with live vote counts - 💬 Enhanced GUI – Less chat spam, cleaner interface - 🔊 Enhanced GUI – Customizable audio feedback for all vote events - 🎁 Enhanced GUI – Give XP, items, or money to voters - ⚡ Enhanced GUI – 100% yes votes skip immediately - 🎯 Enhanced GUI – Choose percentage or absolute vote counts - 🛑 Enhanced GUI – Admins can cancel problematic votes - 🎨 Enhanced GUI – Color-coded player heads (green/red/gray)