Better End Cities

Every player gets the elytra, and the item frame stays an item frame.

The first player to reach an End Ship takes the elytra. Everyone after them finds an empty frame and gutted chests.

Other elytra plugins swap the ship's item frame for a vault block, then make you install a datapack and hand out a key item. This one leaves the frame alone. Players punch it exactly like they always have, and every player gets their own.

What it does

• Renewable elytras - punch the ship's frame for your own elytra; the frame keeps its elytra for the next player. Once per ship, once per player, or again after every loot refresh
• Optional price - any item (picked from your inventory in game) and XP levels, which can double with each elytra bought
• Per-player chest loot - each player gets their own copy of a city's chests, refreshed on a timer each city runs on its own. Player-placed chests are left alone
• Protection - towers, bridges and the ship survive creepers, TNT, pistons and griefers, or protect only the ship. The space between towers stays buildable
• Putting cities back - a copy is saved when a city is found. /betterend reset restores the blocks and gives everyone fresh loot, or let it happen on every refresh
• Automatic - cities register themselves as players travel near them. No per-city setup
• Every setting in game - /betterend opens a menu, /betterend setup walks you through it
• Better Anti-Dupe support - with Better Anti-Dupe installed, claimed elytras are marked as the claimer's own

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.1+ on Paper, Folia, or Purpur
• Java 25+
• No datapack, resource pack or other plugin

Minecraft 26 only. There is no 1.21 version, and this one won't start on 1.21.

Quick start

1. Put the jar in plugins/: -mc26 for Minecraft 26.1 or 26.2, -mc263 for 26.3 or newer.
2. Restart. Everything is on by default.
3. Optional: run /betterend setup for the guided tour, or /betterend for the menu.

Commands

Command	What it does
/betterend	Settings menu
/betterend setup	Walks you through the settings
/betterend list	Every city found so far
/betterend info <id>	Details about one city
/betterend tp <id>	Teleport there
/betterend snapshot <id>	Save a copy so the city can be put back
/betterend reset <id>	Restore the blocks, fresh loot for everyone
/betterend resetloot <id> <player>	Let one player loot it again
/betterend clearclaims <id>	Let everyone claim the elytra again
/betterend delete <id>	Stop managing this city
/betterend reload	Re-read config.yml and messages.yml

Permissions

Permission	Default	What it grants
betterend.admin	op	Everything, including the settings menu
betterend.bypass.protection	op	Build inside protected cities
betterend.discovery.notify	op	Notice when a city is found

Links

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Source-available, non-commercial, see LICENSE. Contributions welcome, see CONTRIBUTING.md.