SleepPlugin

Enhanced sleep mechanics for Minecraft 1.21.x and 26.x. Instead of everyone having to sleep, only a configurable percentage of online players is needed to skip the night. Works on Paper, Purpur, Spigot and compatible servers.

Features

• Configurable sleep percentage — default 50% of online players, configurable per world
• Weighted sleep votes with LuckyPerms (optional, auto-detected)
• Bossbar showing live sleep progress
• Phantom prevention (spawn_phantoms game rule)
• Storm and night skipping
• Smooth time transition from night to morning
• Multiple message modes (normal, minimal, silent)
• Ignore players in Nether and End dimensions
• Smart counting for odd player counts
• Multi-world support with per-world overrides
• Multi-language support (English, Russian, and custom languages)
• Configuration update system that preserves your settings across updates
• Admin command /sleep reload|status

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.x or 26.x
• Server: Paper, Purpur, Spigot (or compatible)
• Java: 21+ (1.21.x) / 25+ (26.x)

Installation

1. Download SleepPlugin-1.0.4.jar
2. Place it in your server's plugins/ folder
3. Restart the server

Examples

With default sleep-percentage: 50:

• 2 players online: 1 player needs to sleep
• 3 players online: 1 player needs to sleep ((3-1)/2 = 1)
• 4 players online: 2 players need to sleep
• 5 players online: 2 players need to sleep ((5-1)/2 = 2)
• 6 players online: 3 players need to sleep

With sleep-percentage: 25:

• 4 players online: 1 player needs to sleep
• 8 players online: 2 players need to sleep
• 20 players online: 5 players need to sleep

Configuration

The config file is created at plugins/SleepPlugin/config.yml on first start:

# SleepPlugin Configuration
# Do not change this version number manually
version: "1.0.4"

language: en_EN  
skip-delay: 3   
morning-time: 1000  
message-mode: normal 
min-players-required: 2 
ignore-nether-end-players: true 
sleep-percentage: 50 
prevent-phantoms: true 
bossbar:
  enabled: true
  color: YELLOW
  style: SOLID
  title: "Sleeping %s/%s"
smooth-time-transition:
  enabled: true 
  duration-ticks: 60 
  steps: 60 
storm-settings:
  skip-storms: true 
# world-settings:
#   world:
#     sleep-percentage: 50
#     min-players-required: 2

Settings

• language: Plugin message language (en_EN or ru_RU, or any custom code)
• skip-delay: Seconds before the night is skipped
• morning-time: Time value set when skipping to morning
• message-mode: Message verbosity (normal, minimal, silent)
• min-players-required: Minimum players needed to activate sleep mechanics
• ignore-nether-end-players: Exclude Nether/End players from calculations
• sleep-percentage: Percentage of online players that must sleep (1-100, default 50). At least 1 player is always required
• prevent-phantoms: Disables phantom spawning while the plugin is active
• bossbar:
  • enabled: Show the sleep progress bossbar
  • color: PINK, BLUE, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, PURPLE, WHITE
  • style: SOLID, SEGMENTED_6, SEGMENTED_10, SEGMENTED_12, SEGMENTED_20
  • title: Bossbar title (%s = sleeping count / required count)
  • smooth-time-transition: Smooth time change settings (enabled, duration-ticks, steps)
  • storm-settings: Storm skipping (skip-storms)
  • world-settings: Per-world overrides. Add a section named after a world to override sleep-percentage and min-players-required for that world only

Command

• /sleep status — show percentage and per-world settings (permission: sleepplugin.admin)
• /sleep reload — reload config and language files (permission: sleepplugin.admin)

LuckyPerms Integration

SleepPlugin optionally integrates with LuckyPerms as a soft-dependency. Without it, the plugin behaves exactly as before (every player counts as 1). Install LuckyPerms and it is detected automatically.

Weighted sleep votes — set the sleepplugin.weight meta so a player's sleep counts as multiple votes:

/lp group vip meta set sleepplugin.weight 2

A VIP with weight 2 counts as 2 sleeping players, so fewer donors are needed to skip the night. Weight is clamped to 1-100 and supports LuckyPerms contexts (e.g. per world/server):

/lp group vip meta set sleepplugin.weight 2 server=survival

Permissions:

• sleepplugin.exempt — player is not counted for sleep calculations (e.g. admins in creative/spectator). Default: false.
• sleepplugin.bypass.min-players — sleeping player skips the night even below min-players-required or when alone. Default: false.
• sleepplugin.admin — access to /sleep command. Default: op.

Note: sleepplugin.exempt and sleepplugin.bypass.min-players are plain Bukkit permissions — they work with any permissions plugin.

Custom Language Files

You can create your own translations:

1. Navigate to plugins/SleepPlugin/lang/
2. Copy template.yml (created on first start) or en_EN.yml/ru_RU.yml
3. Rename it to your language code (e.g., de_DE.yml, fr_FR.yml, es_ES.yml)
4. Translate all message strings
5. Set language: de_DE in config.yml
6. Restart the server

The plugin automatically detects all custom language files! Use template.yml — it has helpful comments for translators.