Aurelium

Experimental Web Features The web dashboard is in active development. Expect potential bugs or instability if you enable web.enabled. The core in-game economy, GUI markets, and auction house are stable.

A standalone economy plugin for Minecraft Paper.

Compatibility: Paper, Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaves

Features

Economy

• Multi-Currency - Define multiple currencies (e.g., Aurels, Dollars, Euros) with unique symbols and starting balances
• Per-Item Currency - Assign specific currencies to individual market items
• Vault Support - Fully compatible with Vault-dependent plugins (ShopGUI+, Essentials, etc.)
• Database - SQLite or MySQL storage with automatic migration
• Offline Earnings - Get paid for auction sales even when offline

Server Market

A server-owned shop with dynamic pricing and three interface modes:

• Classic - Traditional chest-based inventory GUI
• Modern - Styled chest GUI with MiniMessage gradient titles, glass-pane borders, formatted lore
• Web - Browser dashboard (see the Web Dashboard section below)

Pricing Mechanics:

• Prices automatically rise on buys (Demand) and fall on sells (Supply)
• Anti-Exploit: Sell price can never exceed Buy price
• Price Floor: Can't drop below 20% of base (configurable)
• Price Ceiling: Can't rise above 500% of base (configurable)
• Natural Recovery: Prices passively drift toward base value every 10 minutes

Quality of Life:

• Live UI updates every 1 second while a menu is open
• Page indicator books showing current page (e.g., "Page 1 of 5")
• Compass search button to find any item
• Market Crash Alerts for bargain-priced high-value items
• Smart inventory: purchases fill partial stacks first

Performance:

• Viewer-Only Refresh: logic dormant unless a player has a menu open
• Batched Disk I/O: transaction data saved in background batches
• O(1) Data Access: local caching for near-zero CPU impact
• Massive Catalog: all building blocks + 60+ mob spawners

Auction House

A fully self-contained player-driven exchange:

• 100% GUI Driven: sell items, place bids, make private offers via in-menu buttons
• Safety Confirmations: dedicated confirmation screen before deducting funds
• Manage Offers: /ah offers to Accept or Decline incoming deals
• Live Updates: GUI refreshes instantly for all players on buys, bids, cancels; timers update every second
• Auto-Refunds: outbid? Money instantly returned

Buy Orders

A global request system for offline purchasing:

• Request any item (including 120+ enchanted books and ingots) at your price
• Other players browse and fulfill orders from their inventory
• Escrow System: money held safely, refunded on cancel
• Offline Collections: fulfilled items go to /ah collect bin; notified on login
• Buyer Notifications: real-time when filled, or on next login

Custom Item Detection

Automatically discovers custom items from popular third-party plugins:

• Auto-Scan on Startup - runs once, detects all custom items
• Supported Plugins (zero hard dependencies, all via reflection):
  • ItemsAdder, Oraxen, MMOItems, MythicMobs, ExecutableItems, Nexo, SX-Item
• Discovered items written to config.yml under discovered-items:
• Persisted in custom_items database table (schema v2, auto-migrates)
• No supported plugins installed? Scanner silently skips with zero overhead

Web Dashboard

• Server Market - purchase items from the web, delivered instantly in-game

• Auction House - place bids and buyout items (BIN) from the browser

• Buy Orders - fulfill player buy orders from your online inventory

• Price Tracker - interactive chart with 7-day history, bezier curves, gradient fills, hover tooltips

Web Features:

• Live Sync: in-game changes reflect instantly on the web and vice-versa
• Prices recorded every 10 minutes, stored for 7 days
• Cloud Mode: optional cloud hosted dashboard, works on every host with no port forwarding
• Multi-Currency UI: custom currency symbols synced from config.yml
• Icon Fallbacks: falls back to older item textures on older MC versions
• Secure Sessions: /web in-game generates a time-limited link (rolling 1-hour timeout)
• Tab Sleep Mode: no network/CPU when tab is inactive; instant wake on return
• RAM Optimized: per-server memory under 1MB via raw JSON string caching
• Activation Queue: fair waitlist when cloud server hits its 500MB limit

Commands

Player Commands

Admin Commands

Permissions

Setup

1. Download the jar that matches your server's Minecraft version from Modrinth
   • Files ending in 1.21.x are for Minecraft 1.21 through 1.21.11, and need Java 21
   • Files ending in 26.1.x are for Minecraft 26.1, 26.1.1 and 26.1.2, and need Java 25
   • Files ending in 26.2.x are for Minecraft 26.2, and need Java 25
2. Place it in your server's plugins/ folder
3. Restart the server
   • If Vault is not detected, Aurelium automatically extracts and installs it on first run

Configuration

Database

database:
  type: sqlite          # sqlite or mysql
  file: "database.db"   # SQLite only, relative to the plugin folder
  mysql:                # MySQL only
    host: "localhost"
    port: 3306
    database: "aurelium"
    username: "root"
    password: "password"
    ssl-mode: "PREFERRED"  # DISABLED | PREFERRED | REQUIRED | VERIFY_CA | VERIFY_IDENTITY

ssl-mode defaults to PREFERRED: the connection is encrypted whenever the server offers TLS, without needing a truststore. Use VERIFY_CA or VERIFY_IDENTITY if the database is reached over an untrusted network, since those also validate the server certificate.

Economy

economy:
  default-currency: "Aurels"
  currencies:
    Aurels:
      symbol: "₳"
      starting-balance: 100.0
  max-balance: -1       # -1 = unlimited
  min-pay-amount: 0.01

Market Items

Control every price directly:

market-items:
  DIAMOND:
    buy: 5000.0    # Cost to buy from server
    sell: 0.0      # 0.0 = selling disabled
  DIRT:
    buy: 1.0
    sell: 0.5      # Players can sell for 0.5
  BEDROCK:
    buy: -1.0      # -1.0 = buying disabled

Market Settings

market:
  enabled: true
  gui-mode: modern              # "classic" or "modern"
  dynamic-pricing: true
  price-increase-per-buy: 0.001 # +0.1% per buy
  price-decrease-per-sell: 0.001 # -0.1% per sell
  default-sell-ratio: 0.5
  price-floor: 0.2              # Can't drop below 20% of base
  price-ceiling: 5.0            # Can't rise above 500% of base
  price-recovery:
    enabled: true
    rate: 0.01                  # 1% of gap per cycle
    interval-minutes: 10

Auction House

auction-house:
  enabled: true
  default-duration: 86400       # 24 hours (seconds)
  max-duration: 604800          # 7 days max
  listing-fee-percent: 2.0
  sales-tax-percent: 5.0
  max-listings-per-player: -1   # -1 = unlimited
  min-listing-price: 1.0

Buy Orders

buy-orders:
  enabled: true
  max-active-orders-per-player: 10
  min-price-per-piece: 0.1
  max-order-value: -1           # -1 = unlimited
  creation-fee-percent: 2.0
  sales-tax-percent: 5.0

Web Dashboard

web:
  enabled: true
  mode: cloud            # "local" = webserver inside the plugin (needs an open port)
                         # "cloud" = syncs to an external server (works on all hosts)
  local:                 # only used when mode is "local"
    host: "localhost"    # keeps the dashboard on this machine. "0.0.0.0" exposes it,
                         # and the session link in its URL, on every network interface
    port: 8585
    server-id: "local"   # how this server is addressed in dashboard URLs
    session-timeout-minutes: 60
    snapshot-interval-seconds: 30
    price-history-interval-minutes: 10
  cloud:                 # only used when mode is "cloud"
    url: "https://aurelium.alwaysdata.net"
    sync-interval: 30

Your server's server-id and api-key under web.cloud are generated automatically on first run and saved to config. Don't share them: the key is what authorizes your server to the dashboard.

In local mode the dashboard runs inside the plugin, so there is nothing else to host. In cloud mode everything syncs to the hosted dashboard, so it works even on hosts where you cannot open a port. Players open the dashboard with /web, which generates a time-limited link; a session can also be revoked at any time.

Web purchases are queued before they are charged, and whether that queue survives a restart is configurable:

web-queue:
  type: memory           # memory (lost on restart) or sqlite (kept on disk)
  file: "web-queue.db"

Network Syncing (MySQL Required)

Aurelium supports cross-server synchronization for BungeeCord and Velocity networks.

MySQL is required for synchronization. SQLite does not support cross-server data sharing. Point all backend servers to the same MySQL database:

• Global Balances - player balances refreshed on join across the network
• Global Auction House - active auctions and collection bin shared across all linked servers
• Per-Server Markets - dynamic prices stored in each server's local config.yml, allowing different economies per server while players keep the same wallet

Language

A messages.yml file is generated on startup.

• Translate: Change any message to your language
• Color Codes: Use MiniMessage formatting (e.g., <green>) or legacy & codes

FAQ

"Unknown Command" - If /market or /eco says "Unknown command", the plugin failed to load.

• Check server console/logs for errors
• Ensure you have Aurelium.jar in plugins/
• Ensure you are running Paper (or compatible forks: Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaves)

"No Permission" - You need OP (/op <player>) or the aureleconomy.admin permission node. Standard player commands are enabled for everyone by default.

Still not working? - Open an issue on GitHub with your server version, error logs, and steps to reproduce.