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✨ What is PXEffect?

Imagine every player on your server is constantly one tick away from receiving a Speed boost — or a Wither curse. PXEffect makes chaos part of your server's DNA.

Every 2 minutes (fully configurable), each online player is handed a randomly selected potion effect. Higher XP levels? Stronger effects. The countdown ticks live in the action bar. The tension is real.

Whether you run a survival, minigame, RPG, or event server — PXEffect adds a layer of unpredictable energy that keeps players on their toes.

🚀 Core Features

🎲 Random Effect Engine

Randomly selects from all vanilla positive and negative potion effects every interval

• ✅ Full pool of positive effects — Speed, Strength, Regeneration, Night Vision, Absorption, Luck, and more
• ✅ Full pool of negative effects — Slowness, Weakness, Poison, Wither, Blindness, Levitation, and more
• ✅ Toggle positive and negative categories independently
• ✅ Customise which specific effects are in the pool via config.yml
• ✅ Configurable effect duration in ticks

⚡ XP Level Scaling

Effect strength automatically scales with the player's XP level

Fully customisable tiers in config.yml — set your own ranges and amplifiers.

⏱️ Live Action Bar Countdown

Players always know exactly when their next effect is coming

Next Effect: 01:59
Next Effect: 00:45
Next Effect: 00:03

• 🔄 Updates every second in real time
• 🎨 Fully customisable format with MiniMessage support
• 🌈 Hex colours, gradients, and legacy & codes all supported
• 🔘 Can be toggled off per-player or globally

📣 Effect Notifications

When an effect lands, players are informed clearly and stylishly:

• 💬 Chat message — shows effect name, level, and whether it's positive or negative
• 📋 Title + Subtitle — dramatic on-screen announcement (configurable fade times)
• 🔊 Custom sounds — different sounds for positive vs negative effects
• ✨ Particle burst — visual particle effect at the player's location
• 🎨 All messages fully customisable with MiniMessage

📊 Boss Bar Display (Optional)

An optional countdown boss bar at the top of the screen

• Choose from all Bukkit boss bar colours and styles
• Automatically fills and depletes as the timer counts down
• Fully MiniMessage-formatted title
• Enable/disable per-server in config

📈 Statistics System

Track everything that happens on your server

• Persisted to stats.yml across server restarts
• Viewable via /pxeffect info
• Exposed via PlaceholderAPI

🛡️ World & Region Control

worlds:
  blacklist:
    - lobby
    - creative_world
  per-world:
    survival: true
    minigames: false

worldguard:
  region-blacklist:
    - spawn
    - safe_zone
    - shop_area

• 🌍 World blacklist — exclude specific worlds entirely
• 🗺️ Per-world toggle — enable or disable on a world-by-world basis
• 🔒 WorldGuard regions — players inside blacklisted regions are skipped

🔌 Integrations

Integration	Status	What it does
PlaceholderAPI	✅ Supported	7 custom %pxeffect_...% placeholders
🛡️ WorldGuard	✅ Supported	Region blacklist
💰 Vault	✅ Supported	Permission API bridge
🍀 LuckPerms	✅ Supported	Native Bukkit delegation
📊 bStats	✅ Built-in	Anonymous usage metrics

📋 PlaceholderAPI Placeholders

💻 Commands

Alias: /pxe

🔑 Permissions

⚙️ Configuration Highlights

general:
  interval: 120             # Seconds between effects
  positive-effects-enabled: true
  negative-effects-enabled: true
  debug: false

action-bar:
  enabled: true
  format: "<gray>Next Effect: <gold>{time}"

xp-scaling:
  enabled: true
  tiers:
    - { min: 0,  max: 9,  amplifier: 0 }
    - { min: 10, max: 19, amplifier: 1 }
    - { min: 20, max: 29, amplifier: 2 }
    - { min: 30, max: 39, amplifier: 3 }
    - { min: 40, max: 999999, amplifier: 4 }

sounds:
  positive:
    sound: ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP
    volume: 1.0
    pitch: 1.2
  negative:
    sound: ENTITY_WITHER_HURT
    volume: 0.8
    pitch: 0.8

📄 Full config with every option documented ships inside the plugin on first run.

⚡ Performance

PXEffect is engineered for 500+ concurrent players:

• 🏎️ Single repeating task — one 1-second scheduler handles everything (cooldowns, action bar, boss bar, effect firing). Zero per-player tasks.
• 🧵 Thread-safe statistics — AtomicLong counters, no locks needed
• 💾 Memory-efficient — ConcurrentHashMap for cooldown/bossbar state
• ♻️ Hot-reload safe — scheduler shuts down cleanly before config reload, then restarts
• 📦 Shaded bStats only — no unnecessary bundled libraries

📦 Installation

1. Download PXEffect-1.0.0.jar
2. Drop it into your /plugins/ folder
3. Start or restart your server
4. Edit plugins/PXEffect/config.yml
5. Run /pxeffect reload

✅ Compatible with Spigot 1.20.4+, Paper, and Purpur ✅ Java 17 required ✅ No required dependencies — all integrations are optional

🗂️ Changelog

v1.0.0 — Initial Release

• 🎉 Full random effect engine with positive/negative pools
• ⚡ XP level scaling (5 configurable tiers)
• ⏱️ Live action bar countdown
• 📊 Boss bar display
• 📣 Title, subtitle, sound, and particle notifications
• 🌍 World blacklist and per-world toggle
• 🛡️ WorldGuard region blacklist
• 📋 PlaceholderAPI (7 placeholders)
• 💰 Vault integration
• 📈 Statistics system with persistence
• 💾 Cooldown persistence across restarts
• 🔄 Full hot-reload via /pxeffect reload
• 🐛 Debug mode
• 📡 bStats metrics
• 🔔 Update checker

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