📢 Announcement

A simple and flexible Minecraft Spigot/Paper plugin that lets you send colorful announcements to all players on the server.
Perfect for staff notifications, server messages, or global event announcements.

⚙️ Features

📣 Send custom messages to all online players
🎨 Choose from a wide range of text colors
💬 Automatically prefixes messages with a styled “Announcement” tag
⚡ Lightweight, fast, and easy to use
🧑‍💻 Works from both console and in-game

📁 Installation

Download the plugin .jar file
Place it inside your server’s plugins/ folder
Start or reload your server — ready to use immediately!

💡 Usage

Command

/announce

Example

/announce Server restart in 5 minutes! red

Result (visible to all players)

[Announcement] Server restart in 5 minutes!

(Displayed in red color)

If no color is provided, the message defaults to yellow.

🎨 Available Colors

You can use any of the following color names:

Color Name	Example
black	`black`
dark_blue	`dark_blue`
dark_green	`dark_green`
dark_aqua	`dark_aqua`
dark_red	`dark_red`
dark_purple	`dark_purple`
gold	`gold`
gray	`gray`
dark_gray	`dark_gray`
blue	`blue`
green	`green`
aqua	`aqua`
red	`red`
light_purple	`light_purple`
yellow	`yellow`
white	`white`

🧩 Developer Information

Main classes:

de.scholle.announcement.Announcement – main plugin class
de.scholle.announcement.AnnounceCommand – handles /announce
de.scholle.announcement.MessageUtils – formats and sends messages

🧰 Compatibility

✅ Works with Spigot, Paper, and Purpur
🧱 Tested for Minecraft 1.18+
⚙️ Requires Java 17+

🧑‍💻 Author

Developed by: Scholle
Package: de.scholle.announcement

📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
You may use, modify, and distribute it in compliance with the terms of that license.
For more information, see: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Announcement Plugin