AuroraWorldManager

Saves player positions in tracked worlds and world groups - ideal for a single server with a lobby, where players returning to an SMP world come back where they left off, not at 0, 0.

Running one server with a lobby world? Then you know the problem: players step out of the lobby into your survival world and end up at world spawn - 0, 0 - every single time, even though they have a house, a farm, a whole base out there somewhere.

AuroraWorldManager remembers exactly where every player left each world and brings them right back. No coordinates spam, no teleport plugins to wrangle - one plugin, one command, done.

✨ Features

🚀 Getting started

1. Drop the jar into your plugins folder and restart.
2. Decide which worlds players should "return into". Edit config.yml or do it in-game:

/auroraworld addworld world
/auroraworld addgroup survival world world_nether world_the_end
/auroraworld reload

3. Players are remembered automatically from their very next world change on. That's it.

Example config.yml

language: en

tracked-worlds:
  - world_example

world-groups:
  survival:
    worlds:
      - world
      - world_nether
      - world_the_end

Tip: The first world listed in a group is its base world - the safe-spot fallback target for players who have never been in that group before. Group worlds are tracked automatically; you don't need to duplicate them into tracked-worlds.

📖 Commands

Changes made with /addworld, /addgroup etc. are written back to config.yml automatically.

🔑 Permissions

🧠 How it works

Every time a player leaves a tracked world - through a portal, a teleport, when quitting or getting kicked - their exact coordinates (+ timestamp) are stored for that world. Nothing to run, no buttons to press; it just happens.

When they then use /auroraworld world to come back, they land exactly where they left off.

World groups go one step further: all worlds in a group pool their positions together. Coming back with /auroraworld group survival drops you into whichever world of survival you were in most recently - overworld tonight, nether tomorrow, wherever you actually are in your adventure.

Never been in any world of the group? You get placed on a safe surface location near the base world's spawn - not on a lava lake, not inside the void, not at raw 0, 0.

🌍 Languages

• language: en (default) or language: de - set in config.yml
• The matching file (lang/en.yml / lang/de.yml) is copied into the plugin's data folder on first start, where you can edit every single message to your heart's content
• Missing keys automatically fall back to the bundled defaults, so an outdated file will never break anything

📦 Requirements

• Java 21
• Paper 1.21+ (or any compatible fork)

Data is stored locally in plain YAML (positions/<uuid>.yml per player) - no database, no external service.

Developed by ItzPhenix · de.itzphenix