Broadcast++

Broadcast++ is the broadcasting plugin you actually want to live in your plugins/ folder long-term. Chat, titles, action bars, boss bars, and multi-channel scenes — all driven by a single readable config that’s identical whether you’re on Paper, Spigot, or Velocity. Move between platforms without rewriting a line.

Multi-platform, one config#

The config.yml schema is identical across all three. Spin up a Velocity proxy with the same broadcasts you’ve been running on Paper for a year — no migration, no rewriting.

The mental model#

Everything automated is a scene. A scene has a trigger (when), one or more steps (what to send), and optional filters (who sees it). That’s it.

welcome-sequence:
  description: "Multi-channel welcome"
  on-join: true
  steps:
    - { at: 0s, chat: welcome }
    - { at: 1s, actionbar: tip-spawn }
    - { at: 3s, title: welcome-back }

Triggers cover the obvious cases:

• on-join: true — once per player, on first connect
• every: 5m — every 5 minutes server-wide
• daily-at: "09:00" — once a day at 09:00 UTC (so schedules survive a host migration)
• daily-at: "09:00 local" or "09:00 America/Los_Angeles" — when you actually want a wall-clock time
• (none) — manual only, fires via /bc scene <name>

What you can broadcast#

• Chat with auto-prefixed gradient branding (or your own chat.prefix:)
• Titles with timing controls
• Action bars for unobtrusive nudges
• Animated boss bars — static text or with progress: { from: 1.0, to: 0.0 } for a draining countdown
• Rotation mode (cycle: true + every:) — round-robin tip lines
• Scene filters — gate by minimum/maximum players, world, permission. Tighter range wins when both scene and preset filter.

Placeholders that just work#

<player>   recipient's in-game name
<online>   current online player count
<server>   server-name from config.yml
<time>     server-side local time (HH:mm)
<date>     server-side date (yyyy-MM-dd)

Combine with full MiniMessage:

welcome:
  lines:
    - "<gradient:#00C8FF:#5C78FF><bold>Welcome, <player></bold></gradient>"
    - "<gray>You're player number <online> on <server>.</gray>"

Studio GUI#

/bc studio opens an in-game inventory UI for browsing presets and previewing scenes — Paper and Spigot only (Velocity has no inventory concept). Run a preview to your own session before broadcasting to the whole server.

Migration safety#

Upgrading from v1.x? Broadcast++ detects the old shape on first boot, backs the file up as config.yml.v1.bak, and writes a fresh default. The old top-level rotation: and join: sections still parse (synthesized into in-memory scenes with a deprecation log) so existing configs keep working while you port them.

What’s next#

Folia region scheduling is on deck. File requests on the marketplace listing.