Chronicle
Solo quests. Community goals. Shared glory.
Chronicle is a feature-rich quest plugin for Paper servers that brings players together through solo quests, collective community goals, and distributed weekly challenges — all with persistent progress, reward systems, and live leaderboards.
✦ Features
Solo Quests
- Kill mobs, mine blocks, craft items, fish, smelt, trade, breed, and more
- Quest chains — complete quest A before unlocking B
- Daily & weekly resets with configurable rewards
- Streak system — play every day for bonus rewards at day 3, 7, 30+
Community Quests — Collective Goal
- Server-wide target (e.g. kill 1,000,000 zombies together)
- Global progress bar visible to all players
- Contributor leaderboard — who helped the most?
- Milestone broadcasts at 50%, 75%, and 90%
- Rewards go to everyone who contributed (configurable minimum %)
Community Quests — Distributed
- Total goal divided by active weekly players
- Each player gets a small personal share
- Quest completes when enough players (configurable threshold) finish their part
- Auto-starts every Monday based on last week's active player count
Quality of Life
- Full inventory GUI — Quest Journal with Daily / Weekly / Story tabs
- Community Board GUI with live progress bars
- In-game Quest Editor — create quests without editing YML
- Pending rewards — offline players receive rewards on next login
- PlaceholderAPI support for scoreboards
- Discord webhook integration for quest events
- MySQL & SQLite support
⌨ Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/chronicle quests |
Open Quest Journal (GUI) |
/chronicle community |
Open Community Board (GUI) |
/chronicle stats [player] |
View stats & streak |
/chronicle top |
Global leaderboard |
/chronicle leaderboard |
Quest contributor ranking |
/chronicle admin startcommunity |
Start a community quest |
/chronicle admin stopcommunity |
Stop a community quest |
/chronicle admin createquest |
In-game quest editor |
/chronicle admin reset [id] |
Reset player progress |
/chronicle admin reload |
Reload configs |
🔑 Permissions
| Permission | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
chronicle.use |
Everyone | Use all player commands |
chronicle.admin |
OP | Access admin commands |
📦 Dependencies
Required: Paper 1.21.11+ Optional: Vault (money rewards), PlaceholderAPI (scoreboards)
⚙ Configuration
All quest types, targets, amounts, rewards, and reset intervals are fully configurable in quests.yml and community_quests.yml. All messages are editable in messages.yml. Database (SQLite or MySQL), Discord webhook, streak rewards, and reminder intervals are set in config.yml.
