Spigot-API 1.17.1-R0.1-SNAPSHOT API

Bukkit, the plugin development framework.

The documentation is for developing plugins and is split into the respective packages for each subject matter. This documentation does not cover running a server, contributing code back to the project, or setting up a workspace. Working knowledge of the Java language is a prerequisite for developing plugins.

For basic plugin development, see the plugin package. It covers the basic requirements of a plugin jar.

For handling events and triggered code, see the event package.

Note: While the Bukkit API makes every effort to ensure stability, this is not guaranteed, especially across major versions. In particular the following is a (incomplete) list of things that are not API.

• Implementing interfaces. The Bukkit API is designed to only be implemented by server software. Unless a class/interface is obviously designed for extension (eg BukkitRunnable), or explicitly marked as such, it should not be implemented by plugins. Although this can sometimes work, it is not guaranteed to do so and resulting bugs will be disregarded.
• Constructing inbuilt events. Although backwards compatibility is attempted where possible, it is sometimes not possible to add new fields to events without breaking existing constructors. To ensure that the API continues to evolve, event constructors are therefore not plugin API.
• Implementation classes. Concrete implementation classes packaged with Bukkit (eg those beginning with Simple) are not API. You should access them via their interfaces instead.

Packages

Package	Description
org.bukkit	The root package of the Bukkit API, contains generalized API classes.
org.bukkit.advancement	Classes relevant to advancements.
org.bukkit.attribute	Classes relevant to attributes.
org.bukkit.block	Classes used to manipulate the voxels in a world, including special states.
org.bukkit.block.banner	Classes relevant to banner blocks.
org.bukkit.block.data	Generalized BlockData classes.
org.bukkit.block.data.type	Specific BlockData classes relevant to only a given block or set of blocks.
org.bukkit.block.structure	Classes relevant to structure blocks.
org.bukkit.boss	Classes concerning the creation of boss bars that appear at the top of the player's screen.
org.bukkit.command	Classes relating to handling specialized non-chat player input.
org.bukkit.command.defaults	Commands for emulating the Minecraft commands and other necessary ones for use by a Bukkit implementation.
org.bukkit.configuration	Classes dedicated to handling a plugin's runtime configuration.
org.bukkit.configuration.file	Classes dedicated to facilitating configurations to be read and stored on the filesystem.
org.bukkit.configuration.serialization	Classes dedicated to being able to perform serialization specialized for the Bukkit configuration implementation.
org.bukkit.conversations	Classes dedicated to facilitate direct player-to-plugin communication.
org.bukkit.enchantments	Classes relating to the specialized enhancements to item stacks, as part of the meta data.
org.bukkit.entity	Interfaces for non-voxel objects that can exist in a world, including all players, monsters, projectiles, etc.
org.bukkit.entity.memory	Classes concerning an entity's persistent memory.
org.bukkit.entity.minecart	Interfaces for various Minecart types.
org.bukkit.event	Classes dedicated to handling triggered code executions.
org.bukkit.event.block	Events relating to when a block is changed or interacts with the world.
org.bukkit.event.enchantment	Events triggered from an enchantment table.
org.bukkit.event.entity	Events relating to entities, excluding some directly referencing some more specific entity types.
org.bukkit.event.hanging	Events relating to entities that hang.
org.bukkit.event.inventory	Events relating to inventory manipulation.
org.bukkit.event.player	Events relating to players.
org.bukkit.event.raid	Events related to raids.
org.bukkit.event.server	Events relating to programmatic state changes on the server.
org.bukkit.event.vehicle	Events relating to vehicular entities.
org.bukkit.event.weather	Events relating to weather.
org.bukkit.event.world	Events triggered by various world states or changes.
org.bukkit.generator	Classes to facilitate world generation implementation.
org.bukkit.help	Classes used to manipulate the default command and topic assistance system.
org.bukkit.inventory	Classes involved in manipulating player inventories and item interactions.
org.bukkit.inventory.meta	The interfaces used when manipulating extra data can can be stored inside item stacks.
org.bukkit.inventory.meta.tags	Classes that allow attaching custom data to items.
org.bukkit.loot	Classes relevant to loot table manipulation and generation.
org.bukkit.map	Classes to facilitate plugin handling of map displays.
org.bukkit.material	Classes that represents various voxel types and states.
org.bukkit.material.types	Classes relevant to specific material types.
org.bukkit.metadata	Classes dedicated to providing a layer of plugin specified data on various Minecraft concepts.
org.bukkit.permissions	Classes dedicated to providing binary state properties to players.
org.bukkit.persistence	Classes that allow attaching persistent data to various objects.
org.bukkit.plugin	Classes specifically relating to loading software modules at runtime.
org.bukkit.plugin.java	Classes for handling plugins written in java.
org.bukkit.plugin.messaging	Classes dedicated to specialized plugin to client protocols.
org.bukkit.potion	Classes to represent various potion properties and manipulation.
org.bukkit.projectiles	Classes to represent the source of a projectile
org.bukkit.scheduler	Classes dedicated to letting plugins run code at specific time intervals, including thread safety.
org.bukkit.scoreboard	Interfaces used to manage the client side score display system.
org.bukkit.structure	Classes related to creating or using structures without creating Structure blocks in the world.
org.bukkit.util	Multi and single purpose classes to facilitate various programmatic concepts.
org.bukkit.util.io	Classes used to facilitate stream processing for specific Bukkit concepts.
org.bukkit.util.noise	Classes dedicated to facilitating deterministic noise.
org.bukkit.util.permissions	Static methods for miscellaneous permission functionality.
org.spigotmc	Spigot-specific classes.
org.spigotmc.event.entity	Spigot-specific entity events.
org.spigotmc.event.player	Spigot-specific player events.