Minecraft Spigot Plugin

Learn plugin development for the spigot minecraft server.

Project Setup and Configuration

see Creating a blank Spigot plugin in IntelliJIDEA

Add spigot.jar

Artifacts

Remote Debug Configuration

Developing (hot swap/live coding)

1. launch minecraft server in debug mode

cd ./minecraft-spigot-server
./start.command
# java -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 -jar spigot-1.12.2.jar

2. Launch Debug confifguration in IntelliJ

3. Set breakpoints, etc. in code

4. Launch minecraft and play

5. Breakpoints will be hit.

   Use Evaluate Code Fragment to explore while debugger is paused

6. You can edit code, save, and build (cmd-F9). It’ll live apply/hot swap without stopping server.

Resources

• https://www.spigotmc.org/wiki/intellij-debug-your-plugin/