Vexal Ping Compass
A lightweight Spigot/Paper plugin that gives players special compasses which point to the online player with the highest or the lowest ping. Useful for staff, events, or debugging network issues on your server.
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Vexal Ping Compass
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🧭 PingCompass
A lightweight Minecraft plugin that displays player ping using a compass-like indicator, helping players and server admins quickly visualize network performance. Perfect for competitive servers, mini-games, or survival communities that value smooth gameplay.
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✨ Features
* 🎯 Fully Configurable Messages — See your ping visually represented through compass directions or colors. * 📊 Fully Configurable Messages — Updates automatically as ping changes. * ⚙️ Fully Configurable Messages — Choose between chat, action bar, boss bar, or scoreboard display. * 🧩 Fully Configurable Messages — Designed to be lightweight and efficient on Paper, Spigot, and Purpur servers. * 🔒 Fully Configurable Messages — Control who can view or use the ping compass. * 💬 Fully Configurable Messages — Edit every message and color via `messages.yml`.
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🧱 Requirements
* Java: 1.16+ * Java: Paper, Purpur, or Spigot * Java: 17 or newer
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⚙️ Commands
| Command | Description | Permission | | --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | | `/pingcompass` | Toggles the ping compass on or off for the player. | `pingcompass.use` | | `/pingcompass reload` | Reloads the configuration and messages. | `pingcompass.admin` |
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🔒 Permissions
| Permission Node | Description | | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | `pingcompass.use` | Allows players to toggle or view their ping compass. | | `pingcompass.admin` | Allows reloading the plugin configuration. |
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🧾 Configuration
```yaml
PingCompass Configuration
settings: update-interval: 2 # seconds between ping updates display-mode: actionbar # options: actionbar, chat, bossbar, scoreboard messages: prefix: "&6PingCompass &7» " ping-display: "&eYour ping: &a%ping%ms" ```
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🪄 Usage
* Use `/pingcompass` to toggle your compass display. * The compass or overlay updates automatically to reflect real-time ping changes. * Admins can customize update intervals and display methods.
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🧩 Compatibility
* Works seamlessly with Purpur, Purpur, and Purpur. * No dependencies required — simple drop-in installation.
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💬 Support
Need help or found a bug? Join our Discord community for support and updates.
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🏷️ Tags
`ping` · `utility` · `performance` · `hud` · `minecraft-plugin`
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