Lightning

Supercharge every message on your server. MiniMessage, sparks, bolts and custom commands, in any plugin.

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Downloads: 3
Rating: ★ 5.0 (1)
First released: —
Last updated: 13 Oct 2026

Lightning ⚡

Make every message on your server look the way you want, even the ones from plugins you can't change.

Write MiniMessage straight into any plugin's config, keep your colors and pieces in one place, and build your own commands in a few lines of YAML. No prefixes, no hooks, no plugin needs to support anything. Lightning catches the text right before it reaches the player and charges it on the way out.

Cook with Lightning.

What's on the menu

Works with every plugin. Gradients, hex colors, hovers and clicks in any plugin's messages, even ones that only know &c.
Everywhere players read. Chat, action bars, titles, boss bars, tab list, scoreboards, menus, items, holograms, dialogs, the server list, and even ban and kick screens.
Smart detection. Only text with a real tag gets touched. /home <name> stays exactly as written.
Sparks. Your own tags, written once and used anywhere: colors, prefixes, formulas, rotating tips, numbers from placeholders, and lines in each player's own language.

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Tags that do something: send a message to the action bar, show a title, play a sound, or hide it.

Player faces. <face> puts the reader's own head right in the text.

Rewires. Restyle messages you can't edit anywhere else, like vanilla's ban screen or text baked into a plugin.

Custom commands. Real commands with tab completion, typed arguments, subcommands, cooldowns and limits.

Kitchen tools. Find out where any message comes from, catch broken tags across every plugin's config, and turn old `&` codes into MiniMessage in one click.

Safe and light. Whatever players type always stays plain text, and plain messages cost next to nothing.

Any plugin's config, with Lightning installed:

welcome: "<gradient:#FFE259:#FFA751>Welcome back, %player_name%!</gradient>"
home-set: "<actionbar><green>Home set.<sound:entity.player.levelup>"
balance: "<spark:prefix> You have <spark:balance>"

report:
  description: Report a player to staff
  sender: player
  cooldown: 1m
  arguments:
    - name: target
      type: player
    - name: reason
      type: text
  actions:
    - "<spark:prefix> Thanks, staff will look into it."
    - broadcast: "<red>Report</red> {player} reported {target}: {reason}"
      permission: server.staff

Paper or Folia, 1.21 or newer
Java 21
PlaceholderAPI (optional)

Drop it in, restart, and you're cooking.

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Lightning collects anonymous server statistics through Arrow Stats, an open source statistics service for Minecraft software. You can opt out in plugins/Arrow Stats/config.yml.

Before you buy

Category: Plugins
Minecraft: 1.21+
Runs on: Paper, Paper forks, Purpur, Folia
Version: v0.2.0
Last updated: 13 Oct 2026
Languages: English
Delivery: Instant download
Support: Discord

Dependencies

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