Minecraft bedwars plugin generator: your map, your rules

A round follows a fixed cycle: players wait in a lobby, a countdown starts once enough have joined, teams spawn on their islands, and the game ends when one team is left. A custom bedwars plugin is essentially a state machine around that cycle, deciding what each player may do in each state.

The bed is the rule everything hangs on. While it stands, a dead player respawns after a short delay; once it is broken, the next death is a final kill and the player becomes a spectator. The plugin tracks one bed per team, announces its destruction and stops players from breaking their own.

Most admins build the map by hand, then register it with commands: /bw create, /bw setlobby, /bw setspawn red, /bw setbed red while looking at the bed, /bw addgen diamond and /bw setshop, all saved to an arena file. A new map takes minutes and nobody types coordinates.

Paper is a sensible default: it runs Bukkit and Spigot plugins and adds its own API. Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaf, Spigot and Bukkit are supported too. Pick the exact Minecraft version your server runs so the code only uses calls that exist there.

Keep team count, team size, countdown length and minimum players in config.yml, so solo, doubles and fours can share one plugin.

Generators set the pace. Base generators drop iron often and gold less often, diamond generators sit between islands and emerald generators in the middle, usually upgraded to faster tiers at fixed times. Put every delay in config.yml, in seconds, so you can rebalance without regenerating.

The item shop is a villager opening a chest menu by category (blocks, melee, armor, tools, bows, potions, utility), paid in iron, gold or emeralds. A second villager sells team upgrades for diamonds: sharper swords, better armor protection, a faster forge, haste and a healing zone at base. Traps complete it, triggered when an enemy enters your base.

Placed blocks, broken beds and dropped items must vanish before the next round. Two approaches are common, and you can name yours in the prompt:

A world copy also clears entities and dropped items, while a paste suits an arena sitting inside a larger world. Either way, tracking player-placed blocks during the match is what keeps the map itself intact.

Players like numbers: kills, final kills, beds broken, wins. Ask for per-player stats with PlaceholderAPI placeholders so your lobby scoreboard can show them, plus a /bw stats command.

From the editor, you can start the plugin on a real Minecraft test server in the version you choose and join it to check the flow of a round. A generator too fast or a price too low is one request away: describe the change and the plugin is recompiled. Before release, play a full round with a few players on your own server.