How to make minecraft plugins for spigot

Hi! Chances are high that, when you are reading this, you never created a plugin for the Bukkit/Spigot-API yet, or that you did so without having used Maven. So, let’s go right ahead

What is the Spigot-API?

The Spigot API is the interface between your plugin and the Minecraft server.

It provides many useful features for you to interact with the game.

What is Maven?

Maven is the most widely used build and dependency management tool for Java.

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We will use it to include the required dependencies (Spigot-API) and handle building your .jar file.

Requirements

You will need the following things to be able to create your first plugin:

• At least basic knowledge in Java
• Having Java and Minecraft installed
• A decent IDE that can interact with Maven.

  I highly recommend IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

I will be using IntelliJ IDEA as IDE in this tutorial, because it’s free, easier to use than for example Eclipse, and it offers the best Maven support. I highly suggest that you do the same!

Let’s get started!

Creating your first project

First of all, we create a ne

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