Why is this better?

The short answer: Datapacks that use functions can run 1000s of commands/second which is very costly performance-wise

The long answer: That really depends on what kind of datapack you are talking about. Some datapacks (the much simpler ones) only modify loot tables, or add simple advancements, or add recipes and those datapacks are totally fine for use on servers where performance is a concern. In fact, I'd argue that datapacks do those simple things better than a plugin could. BUT, some datapacks make use of functions which basically just run a group of commands, and they do that every tick, for as long as they are loaded. This can result in thousands of commands be run every second changing or reading the state of the world, and that can have a serious effect on performance. This plugin uses the Bukkit API's event system to dramatically reduce the cost on server performance.

Something isn't working quite right. What do I do?

If you think you have an issue/bug, please open an issue ticket here. Or you can join the discord and ask for support in one of the support channels.

A list of all currently supported VanillaTweaks datapacks

Mobs

• Anti Creeper Grief

• Anti Enderman Grief

• Anti Ghast Grief

• Double Shulker Shells

• Dragon Drops

• Larger Phantoms

• More Mob Heads

• Silence Mobs

• Count Mob Deaths

Item Tools

• Redstone Rotation Wrench

• Terracotta Rotation Wrench

• Durability Ping

• Kill Empty Boats

Utilities

• AFK Display

• Sethome

• Multiplayer Sleep

• Player Graves

• Tag

• Thunder Shrine

• Track Raw Statistics

• Nether Portal Coords

• Coordinates HUD

• Spawning Spheres

• Player Head Drops

• Spectator Night Vision

• Spectator Conduit Power

Villagers

• Villager Death Messages

• Villager Workstation Highlights

• Wandering Trades

• Pillager Tools

Experimental

• Confetti Creepers

• XP Management

Other

• Persistent Heads

Grays out a player's name that is not moving for 5 minutes.

No additional configuration

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Prevents Enderman from picking up blocks.

No additional configuration

A configurable amount of creepers explode into fireworks and don't destroy blocks.

# Chance between 0.0 and 1.0 (1.0 being 100%) of a creeper being a confetti creeper
chance: 1.0;

Prevents Creepers from blowing up blocks and players do not take damage.

No additional configuration

Adds information to your actionbar, XYZ Coordinates, direction your character is facing, and a 24hr clock.

Commands

/togglehud|thud - Toggles the HUD

Configuration

# Ticks between updating the HUD
hud-update-time-in-ticks: 2

Prevents Ghasts from blowing up blocks.

No additional configuration

Permission Nodes

Parent Nodes

Makes all shulkers drop 2 shells.

No additional configuration

Makes all dragons drop an elytra and dragon egg upon death.

No additional configuration

Adds the ability to view all mob deaths during the time the system is started. Can be stopped when you want.

Commands

/mdc help - Shows a help menu with clickable commands /mdc start - Starts the mob count /mdc stop - Stops the mob count /mdc reset - Resets the mob count /mdc toggle - Toggles the scoreboard's visibility to the player

Kills all boats that do not have entities in them.

Commands

/killboats - Removes all empty boats from all loaded areas in all worlds

Alerts the player when their tool's durability is under a configurable percentage.

Configuration

# Sets the cooldown in seconds between pings when a player's tool is below the threshold.
notification-cooldown-seconds: 10

# Sets the percentage threshold.
notification-threshold-percent: 0.02

# Enables the durability ping for new players by default (false to disable by default)
enabled-by-default: true

Makes naturally spawning phantoms larger the longer you don't sleep.

No additional configuration

Adds a chance to receive a mob head upon killing it.

Configuration

# setting this to true will only allow mob heads to drop when a player kills the mob, not any other cause
require-player-kill: false

Adds the ability for a configurable percentage of players to sleep and skip the night in a multiplayer world.

Configuration

# Worlds for this module to scan. Defaults to the default overworld.
included-worlds:
- world

# Percentage of players that need to be sleeping in order to skip the night.
sleep-percentage: 0.6

Allows you to disable bad omen, patrols, or patrol leaders separately.

Commands

/ptools toggle - Toggles the state of that feature (vanillatweaks.pillagertools.toggle) /ptools stats - Shows the state of features being enabled/disabled

Configuration

# False means the feature is disabled, true means enabled
bad-omen: false
patrol-leaders: true
patrols: true

Adds a command to calculate where a nether portal must be placed in the other dimension. Useful for syncing up nether portals.

Commands

/pcoords - Shows the coordinates of the other world that a portal should be placed to link up with that location

Configuration

# List of worlds to count as the "Nether". Defaults to the default nether world
nether-type-worlds:
- world_nether

# List of worlds to count as the "Overworld". Defaults to the default overworld.
overworld-type-worlds:
- world

Allows you to set a home, and relocate back to it. There is a configurable limit to how many uses each player gets of the sethome command as well as a cooldown on using the /home command. There is an admin only command that can reset a player's limit.

Commands

/sethome - Sets the users home at that location /home - Teleports the user to their saved home location /sha reset - Resets the player's sethome limit (vanillatweaks.sethome.admin)

Configuration

Adds a custom wrench in-game that allows you to rotate redstone components when right-clicking.

Crafting Recipe

Note

This module requires the use of a custom resource pack to add the wrench icon. If this module is enabled, player's will be prompted to download the pack when they join the server.

Adds the ability to silence mobs using a name tag. silence me, or silence_me (case insensitive) are all acceptable names.

No additional configuration

When a player dies, a grave is made at their location containing all their items/armor. When the player who died sneaks over the grave, all his items are put back into the original slots.

Configuration

Allows you to view the spawnable area around a center point through the use of glowing spheres. Useful for proofing farms.

Commands

/spawnsphere|ss add - Adds the specified color sphere. Can only have 1 sphere of a color at a time /spawnsphere|ss remove - Removes the specified color sphere.

Adds the Hermitcraft tag game directly into your world!

Commands

/tag givetag [Player] - Sets you as "it" or if specified, the player /tag reset Resets the "it" status for the specified player

Configuration

Easily toggle conduit power when in spectator

Commands

/tcp - Toggles Conduit Power in spectator mode

Easily toggle night vision when in spectator mode.

Commands

/tnv - Toggles night vision

A shrine that allows you to create a thunderstorm when offering a Nether Star.

Commands

/ts create - Creates a thundershrine out of a nearby armor stand. Must be an armor stand within 3 blocks /ts remove - Removes a nearby thundershrine

Notifies the server in chat when a villager is killed or converted. Displays the coordinates and dimension that it died in.

Configuration

Adds 150+ scoreboards that track many different statistics. Especially useful for multiplayer.

Commands

/trs clear [TABLIST|SIDEBAR] - Clears specified scoreboard /trs show [TABLIST|SIDEBAR] - There are too many to list, but the command completions should be self explanatory

Adds a custom wrench in-game that allows you to rotate glazed terracotta when right-clicking.

Crafting Recipe

Note

This module requires the use of a custom resource pack to add the wrench icon. If this module is enabled, player's will be prompted to download the pack when they join the server.

A player will drop their head when killed by another player. The item displays who the killer is.

Configuration

Fill a empty glass bottle with experience by right clicking an enchanting table with the empty bottle in your main hand. You can extract the full amount of experience from the bottle by smelting it in a furnace.

Adds Hermit heads and mini blocks to the Wandering Trader's trades.

Configuration

Allows you to find the workstation of any villager.

Commands

/findworkstation - Displays hearts just above the current workstation of the villager

Player heads retain their names and lore when placing/breaking them.