theflooddragon / nova

Nova is a server-side modding framework for Paper servers that aims to streamline adding custom content like items, blocks, guis, and more, without client-side modifications, using resource pack tricks.

Nova

Nova is a framework for developers to easily create custom items, blocks, GUIs, gameplay mechanics and more, without any client-side modifications.
With Nova, developers don't have to deal with resource pack tricks, data serialization or world formats and can instead just focus in adding content to the game.
As a server administrator, you can choose from a set of Nova addons, which will add content to the game.

Features

• Custom items
  • Custom wearables
    • Custom armor, armor toughness, knockback resistance
    • Custom armor textures
  • Custom food
  • Custom tools
    • Custom tool levels and categories
    • Custom break speed, attack speed, attack damage etc.
• Custom GUIs
• Custom blocks
  • Customizable break time, particles and sounds
  • Block break effect even on barrier blocks
  • Solid blocks via note- and mushroom blocks
• World Generation
• TileEntity system
• Attachment system
• Ability system
• Recipe system
  • Custom recipe types possible
• Cable network system
  • Custom cables and network types possible
• Built-in items GUI
  • Recipe Explorer
• Built-in WAILA (What Am I Looking At)
• Built-in compatibility with the most popular custom item and protection plugins

Translating

If you would like to help translate Nova, you can do so here.

Building

To build Nova, run the loaderJarSpigot task for a spigot-mapped jar or loaderJarMojang for a mojang-mapped jar.
You can specify an output directory using the outDir property: -PoutDir="<path>".

Plugin- and Addon API

If you're planning to make your own plugin compatible with Nova, you might be interested in our Plugin API documentation.
If you're interested in creating a Nova addon, check out our Addon API documentation and the Nova-Addon-Template.