HoeWars | Territory Control Minigame 1.0.0

📋 Overview

HoeWars is a competitive territory-control minigame. Players race to paint the arena floor in their color using a hoe, claiming ground and stealing it back from opponents. When the timer runs out, whoever owns the highest percentage of the floor wins. It runs on a self-contained engine with ranked matchmaking, rank progression, full stats, and auto-resetting arenas.

The HoeWars main menu

🎮 How It Works

1. Queue up for a mode and wait for the lobby to fill.
2. When the match starts, you're dropped into the arena with your tool.
3. Claim floor blocks to paint them in your color, and overwrite enemy blocks to steal their ground.
4. Keep an eye on the timer and your live occupation percentage.
5. When time's up, the highest percentage owned wins.
   
   Claimed territory mid-match, paint the floor in your color

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   🕹 Game Modes
   • Ranked: competitive matches that affect your ELO and rank
   • Unranked: casual play with no impact on your rank
   • Deathmatch: a different-paced variant for a change of style

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   🏅 Ranks & Matchmaking
   • Rank Tiers: climb from Coal all the way to Netherite, earned through wins
   • ELO System: ranked matches use an ELO rating to keep games fair
   • Persistent Progress: your rank and rating stick with you across sessions

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   📊 Stats & Leaderboards
   • Tracks wins, losses, ELO, occupation, and more per player
   • Browse the leaderboard in a clean in-game menu
   • Quick top-rankings commands for chat
   • Full PlaceholderAPI support for scoreboards, tab, and chat
   
   The leaderboard menu
   
   
   Top 10 wins, straight in chat

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   🖥 Scoreboard & Tab
   
   A live scoreboard tracks the match in real time, time remaining, your placement, your occupation percentage, and the current leader. The tab list updates alongside it, with both queue and in-game states.
   
   
   
   The in-game scoreboard
   
   
   The tab list during a match

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   🧰 Arenas
   • Multiple Arenas: run as many as you like, each with its own spawns and settings
   • Template & Clone: every match plays on a fresh copy of the arena, so the floor resets perfectly between games
   • Per-Arena Claim Block: choose what block the floor is painted with (wool, terracotta, and more)
   • GUI Setup: configure spawns, bounds, and mode through an arena settings menu

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   ✨ More Features
   • Spectator Mode: watch live matches
   • Queue System: automatic countdown and match launching, plus admin force-start
   • Custom Events: match start/end, block claim, rank up, and queue join for developers
   • Fully Configurable: messages, scoreboard, and colors, all editable with legacy color code support

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   ⌨️ Commands
   
   Main command /hoe. Open the menu with /hoe or /hoe menu, spectate with /hoe spectate <player>, and set arenas up with the /hoe arena tools. The full list is in the help menu.
   
   
   
   The full commands list

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   🧩 Dependencies
   
   Required: None
   HoeWars works out of the box, with SQLite storage built in (MySQL optional for networks).
   
   Optional
   • PlaceholderAPI for placeholders in scoreboards, tab, and chat
   • WorldEdit / FastAsyncWorldEdit to speed up arena pasting
   • Vault and LuckPerms supported when present

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   🧪 Requirements
   • Minecraft: 1.16.5 to 1.21.11 (Spigot, also runs on Paper and Purpur)
   • Java: 11 or higher on the server
   • Storage: SQLite out of the box, MySQL optional

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   💬 Support
   
   Need help, found a bug, or want to suggest a feature? Join the Discord.
   
   
   Click here to join the Discord
   
   Claim the floor. Win the war.