Foundation enables people develop Minecraft plugins faster, saving boilerplate code and so that you can focus on what matters the most, putting your ideas into reality.

Some features include:

• GUI menu APIs
• Compatibility wrappers: Example: Send title/animations/packets on multiple MC versions with a single call
• Advanced command system without the need of editing plugin.yml
• Localization support
• Third party hooks: Packets, Discord, Citizens, Towny, etc.
• Auto-updating configuration with comments support
• Time-saving wrappers: Databases (flatfile SQL, HikariCP, MySQL), holograms API, custom items and skulls API, and so much more!

Thousands of servers are running on Foundation since 2013. It has been battle tested and proven in plugins ChatControl, Boss, CoreArena, Confiscate, AutoPlay, Puncher, Winter, AnimeX and others.

Tutorial

A tutorial on how to use this library is a part of our Project Orion training available here

Sample usage

Please see this link for a sample plugin demostrating different Foundation abilities.

Compatibility

We aim to provide broad compatibility layer enabling the below Minecraft versions to work:

• 1.2.5 (from 2012) - See mineacademy.org/oldmcsupport for setup instructions.
• 1.3.2, 1.4.7, 1.5.2, 1.6.4 - Many APIs are missing due to lack of features/access.
• 1.7.10
• 1.8.8
• 1.9.x, 1.10.x, 1.11.x, 1.12.x
• 1.13.x, 1.14.x, 1.15.x, 1.16.x, 1.17.x, 1.18.x, 1.19.x
• We continously update for newer versions but sometimes forget to update it here, but it does not mean that the library is incompatible!

Compiling and using

We use JitPack to automatically compile and host the latest release of Foundation for you.

a) Alternative A: If you don't have Foundation on your computer:

To install Foundation with Maven, open your pom.xml, locate the <repositories> section and place this repository within it:

<repository>
    <id>jitpack.io</id>
    <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>

Then locate the <dependencies> section of your pom.xml and place the following inside of it. Replace the "REPLACE_WITH_LATEST_VERSION" string with the latest version from: https://github.com/kangarko/Foundation/releases

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.kangarko</groupId>
    <artifactId>Foundation</artifactId>
    <version>REPLACE_WITH_LATEST_VERSION</version>
</dependency>

For more information, including how to use Foundation with other tools than Maven, please visit: https://jitpack.io/#kangarko/Foundation/

b) Alternative B: If you have Foundation on your computer:

If you downloaded Foundation to your disk, do not place any repository to your pom.xml file, instead, only place the following dependency. Notice the groupId is different. You can use the LATEST keyword to automatically synchronize changes you make to your local copy of Foundation with your plugin source code (now that's fast!).

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mineacademy</groupId>
    <artifactId>Foundation</artifactId>
    <version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>

Important Licencing Information

© MineAcademy.org

1. If you are a paying student of MineAcademy.org then you are granted full unlimited licence to use, modify and reproduce Foundation both commercially and non-commercially for yourself, your team or network without stating that you are using this library.

2. If you are not a paying student of MineAcademy.org then you may use this library as stated above however you must clearly attribute that you are using Foundation in your software by linking to this GitHub page.

In both of the above cases, do not sell or claim any part of this library as your own.

No guarantee - this software is provided AS IS, without any guarantee on its functionality. We made our best efforts to make Foundation an enterprise-level solution for anyone looking to accelerate his coding however we are not taking any responsibility for the success or failure you achieve using it.