SkipNight

SkipNight

SkipNight is a simple and configurable plugin that empowers your community to vote to skip the night, either manually or automatically when the sun goes down.

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SkipNight - Vote to Skip the Night! ☀️

Let your players democratically vote to skip the night with a modern, feature-rich plugin!

🔹 Description

SkipNight is a lightweight and highly configurable plugin that allows players to initiate a vote to fast-forward through the night. It's a simple, fair, and modern solution for any survival server, giving your community control over the day/night cycle with an amazing user experience, including multi-world support, clickable messages, a real-time vote GUI, boss bar timers, sound effects, and a powerful reward system!

✨ Key Features

✔ YES/NO Voting System – Players can vote YES or NO, not just abstain! Full democratic control.
✔ Interactive Voting – Vote with /skipnight yes/no, sleeping in a bed, or clicking chat buttons!
✔ Boss Bar Timer – Visual countdown at the top of the screen showing votes and time remaining.
✔ Action Bar Updates – Real-time vote progress displayed without chat spam.
✔ Real-Time Vote GUI – Use /skipnight gui to see who voted YES (green), NO (red), or abstained (gray).
✔ Sound Effects – Configurable sounds for vote start, voting, success, and failure.
✔ Voter Rewards – Reward players with XP, custom items, or money for participating!
✔ Flexible Thresholds – Choose percentage mode (50% of players) or absolute mode (X number of votes).
✔ Instant Skip – When 100% vote yes, skip immediately without waiting.
✔ Admin Controls – Cancel ongoing votes with /skipnight cancel.
✔ Advanced Multi-World Support – Easily blacklist worlds where you don't want night-skipping enabled.
✔ Automatic Nightly Votes – Can start a vote the moment it gets dark.
✔ Broad Version Support – Works on Minecraft 1.16.5 through 1.21+.
✔ Fully Customizable – Change all messages, colors, sounds, rewards, and vote requirements.
✔ Optimized Performance – Minimal server impact, runs smoothly.

📥 Installation

  1. Download SkipNight.jar and place it in your plugins/ folder.
  2. Restart your server to generate the default config.yml.
  3. Configure settings in plugins/SkipNight/config.yml.
  4. Reload with /skipnight reload or restart to apply changes.

⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)

Customize every aspect of the plugin to fit your server perfectly.

vote-settings:
  # Automatically start a vote when night begins?
  auto-start-vote-at-night: true
  # Threshold mode: "percentage" or "absolute"
  threshold-mode: "percentage"
  required-percentage: 50
  required-absolute-count: 3
  # Allow players to vote NO (against skipping)?
  allow-vote-against: true
  # Skip instantly when 100% vote yes?
  instant-skip-at-100-percent: true
  # Disable night-skipping in these worlds.
  blacklisted-worlds:
    - "world_the_end"
    - "world_nether"

display:
  # Show updates in action bar (less spam)?
  use-action-bar: true
  # Show timer as boss bar at top?
  use-boss-bar: true
  use-chat: true

sounds:
  vote-started: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_PLING"
  player-voted-yes: "ENTITY_EXPERIENCE_ORB_PICKUP"
  player-voted-no: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_BASS"
  vote-success: "ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP"
  vote-failed: "ENTITY_VILLAGER_NO"

rewards:
  enabled: true
  only-on-success: false
  xp-levels: 1  # Set to 0 to disable
  items:
    - material: "DIAMOND"
      amount: 1
      name: "&b&lVoting Reward"

⌨️ Commands

Command Description
/skipnight Starts a vote or votes YES if one is active.
/skipnight yes Vote YES to skip the night.
/skipnight no Vote NO against skipping the night.
/skipnight gui Opens the live vote status GUI.
/skipnight cancel Cancel the ongoing vote (admin only).
/skipnight stats Shows global voting statistics.
/skipnight reload Reloads the configuration file.
/skipnight help Shows all available commands.

🔑 Permissions

Permission Description Default
skipnight.vote Allows starting a vote ✅ True
skipnight.vote.yes Allows voting YES ✅ True
skipnight.vote.no Allows voting NO ✅ True
skipnight.gui Allows opening the vote status GUI ✅ True
skipnight.stats Allows viewing vote statistics ✅ True
skipnight.cancel Allows cancelling ongoing votes 🔒 Op
skipnight.reload Allows reloading the plugin's config 🔒 Op

🌟 Why Choose SkipNight?

✅ Modern User Experience – Boss bars, action bars, clickable buttons, and real-time GUI make voting engaging and intuitive.
✅ Full Democracy – YES/NO voting gives players real control, not just a "yes or abstain" system.
✅ Reward Your Community – Incentivize participation with XP, items, or economy rewards.
✅ Flexible Configuration – Percentage or absolute thresholds, instant skip, rewards on/off, display toggles.
✅ Sound & Visual Effects – Immersive feedback with configurable sounds and boss bar timers.
✅ Empower Your Community – Let players decide when to skip the night democratically.
✅ Plug & Play – Works right out of the box with zero setup needed.
✅ Modern & Maintained – Built for modern Minecraft versions (1.16.5+).

🎯 Perfect For:

  • Survival & SMP Servers – Enhance the vanilla experience with modern features.
  • Community-Focused Servers – Promote player interaction and democracy.
  • Reward-Based Servers – Incentivize participation with customizable rewards.
  • Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle.

Lightweight ✔ Interactive ✔ Customizable ✔ Democratic ✔ Rewarding ✔

📥 Download now and empower your community to control the night! ☀️🌙


🆕 What's New in v2.0?

  • 🗳️ YES/NO Voting – Players can vote against skipping, not just abstain
  • 📊 Boss Bar Timer – Visual countdown with live vote counts
  • 💬 Action Bar Updates – Less chat spam, cleaner interface
  • 🔊 Sound Effects – Customizable audio feedback for all vote events
  • 🎁 Reward System – Give XP, items, or money to voters
  • ⚡ Instant Skip – 100% yes votes skip immediately
  • 🎯 Threshold Modes – Choose percentage or absolute vote counts
  • 🛑 Vote Cancellation – Admins can cancel problematic votes
  • 🎨 Enhanced GUI – Color-coded player heads (green/red/gray)
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SkipNight 2.0

2.0

1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
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SkipNight v1.1

1.1

1.16, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8
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SkipNight v1.0

1.0

1.16.5, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.6
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