UDFFA — Duels & FFA Practice Plugin
UDFFA is a lightweight, customizable Minecraft practice plugin created by UDStudios for competitive Duels and Free-for-All gameplay.
It supports Paper servers running Minecraft 1.21 and newer, Java 21, and is designed with simple setup and configuration in mind.
Main Features
- Custom Duels system
- Custom FFA system
- Kit-based matchmaking
- Random arena selection
- Kit-specific arena assignment
- Multiple arenas per kit
- Arena regeneration after matches
- Large arena support
- Automatic dropped-item cleanup
- Arena boundary protection
- Five-second match-found preview
- Opponent name shown before teleporting
- Five-second pre-match countdown
- Countdown movement lock
- Match-start
BEGINtitle - Configurable duel sounds
- Winner and loser result screens
- Spectator mode during result screens
- Automatic return to lobby
- Safe cleanup when players disconnect
/leave dueland/leave ffa
Kit System
- Create kits from your inventory
- Edit existing kits
- Delete kits
- Exact inventory copying
- Separate FFA and Duel kits
- FFA kit creation and editing
- Copy Duel kits into FFA kits
- Assign kits to specific FFA modes
- Assign kits to specific Duel arenas
- Assign one kit to multiple arenas
- Personal player kit editor
- Personal slot layouts
- Custom kit icons
- Custom kit names
- GUI confirmation buttons
Duel Features
- Player-to-player duel requests
/duel <player> <kit>- Accept and deny duel requests
- Queue-based matchmaking
- Queue leave button
- Red dye queue exit item
- Queue status action bar
- Queue timer
- Match-found title
- Opponent display
- Kit-specific arena restrictions
- Full arena detection
- Automatic arena restoration
- Players cannot escape configured arena regions
FFA Features
- Dedicated FFA modes
- Dedicated FFA arenas
- Instant joining
- FFA kit menus
- Automatic kit restocking after kills
- Respawn handling
- Inventory clearing after leaving
- Automatic cleanup after death
- Dedicated FFA spawn locations
Combat
- Vanilla Minecraft melee damage
- Vanilla crystal damage
- Vanilla respawn-anchor damage
- Vanilla explosion behavior
- No global custom damage overrides
- Crystal and anchor combat supported
- Normal knockback behavior
Scoreboard and UI
- Separate
scoreboard.ymlconfiguration - Fully customizable duel scoreboard
- RGB color support using
&#RRGGBB - Hidden scoreboard score numbers
- Custom titles and lines
- Player and opponent information
- Ping display
- Match timer
- Kit and arena display
- Win statistics display
ELO and Tier System
- Persistent ELO system
- New players start at 0 Elo
- New players begin as
Unranked - First completed match promotes players to LT5
- Configurable Elo thresholds
- Configurable tier names
- Configurable tier multipliers
- HT1, LT1, HT2, LT2, HT3, LT3, HT4, LT4, HT5, and LT5 defaults
- Internal tier management
- LuckPerms is not required for tier progression
- Persistent wins, kills, deaths, and matches
- ELO administration command
- Configurable quick-win and standard-win rewards
Killstreaks
- Killstreaks begin at five kills
- Milestones continue every five kills
- Supports streaks up to 1000
- Killstreak broadcast messages
- Killstreak loss messages
- Highest killstreak tracking
PlaceholderAPI Support
Includes placeholders for:
- Current killstreak
- Highest killstreak
- ELO
- Tier
- Position
- Leaderboard position
- Kills
- Deaths
- Wins
- Total wins
- Player name
- Opponent name
- Duel kit
- Duel arena
- Queueing players
- Fighting players
- Top 10 Elo leaderboard entries
Example leaderboard placeholders:
%udffa_topelo_1%
%udffa_topelo_2%
%udffa_topelo_3%
Configuration
UDFFA includes separate configuration files for:
- General plugin settings
- Duel and FFA menus
- Sounds
- Scoreboard
- ELO and tiers
- Player ELO data
- Kits
- Debug testing
Debug Testing
- Configurable debug mode
/spawntestnpc <name> <kit>- Damageable stationary test dummy
- Knockback configuration
- Attack damage configuration
- Max health configuration
- Kit equipment support
- Automatic removal after death
Dependencies
- Paper 1.21+
- Java 21
- PlaceholderAPI is optional
- WorldGuard and WorldEdit are not required
- FAWE is not required for arena regeneration
Author
UDStudios
