SkipNight
2.0SkipNight is a simple and configurable plugin that empowers your community to vote to skip the night, either manually or automatically when the sun goes down.
SkipNight - Vote to Skip the Night! 
Let your players democratically vote to skip the night with a modern, feature-rich plugin!
🔹 Description
SkipNight is a lightweight and highly configurable plugin that allows players to initiate a vote to fast-forward through the night. It's a simple, fair, and modern solution for any survival server, giving your community control over the day/night cycle with an amazing user experience, including multi-world support, clickable messages, a real-time vote GUI, boss bar timers, sound effects, and a powerful reward system!
✨ Key Features
YES/NO Voting System – Players can vote YES or NO, not just abstain! Full democratic control.
Interactive Voting – Vote with
/skipnight yes/no, sleeping in a bed, or clicking chat buttons!
Boss Bar Timer – Visual countdown at the top of the screen showing votes and time remaining.
Action Bar Updates – Real-time vote progress displayed without chat spam.
Real-Time Vote GUI – Use
/skipnight gui to see who voted YES (green), NO (red), or abstained (gray).
Sound Effects – Configurable sounds for vote start, voting, success, and failure.
Voter Rewards – Reward players with XP, custom items, or money for participating!
Flexible Thresholds – Choose percentage mode (50% of players) or absolute mode (X number of votes).
Instant Skip – When 100% vote yes, skip immediately without waiting.
Admin Controls – Cancel ongoing votes with
/skipnight cancel.
Advanced Multi-World Support – Easily blacklist worlds where you don't want night-skipping enabled.
Automatic Nightly Votes – Can start a vote the moment it gets dark.
Broad Version Support – Works on Minecraft 1.16.5 through 1.21+.
Fully Customizable – Change all messages, colors, sounds, rewards, and vote requirements.
Optimized Performance – Minimal server impact, runs smoothly.
📥 Installation
- Download
SkipNight.jarand place it in yourplugins/folder. - Restart your server to generate the default config.yml.
- Configure settings in
plugins/SkipNight/config.yml. - Reload with
/skipnight reloador restart to apply changes.
⚙️ Configuration (config.yml)
Customize every aspect of the plugin to fit your server perfectly.
vote-settings:
# Automatically start a vote when night begins?
auto-start-vote-at-night: true
# Threshold mode: "percentage" or "absolute"
threshold-mode: "percentage"
required-percentage: 50
required-absolute-count: 3
# Allow players to vote NO (against skipping)?
allow-vote-against: true
# Skip instantly when 100% vote yes?
instant-skip-at-100-percent: true
# Disable night-skipping in these worlds.
blacklisted-worlds:
- "world_the_end"
- "world_nether"
display:
# Show updates in action bar (less spam)?
use-action-bar: true
# Show timer as boss bar at top?
use-boss-bar: true
use-chat: true
sounds:
vote-started: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_PLING"
player-voted-yes: "ENTITY_EXPERIENCE_ORB_PICKUP"
player-voted-no: "BLOCK_NOTE_BLOCK_BASS"
vote-success: "ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP"
vote-failed: "ENTITY_VILLAGER_NO"
rewards:
enabled: true
only-on-success: false
xp-levels: 1 # Set to 0 to disable
items:
- material: "DIAMOND"
amount: 1
name: "&b&lVoting Reward"
⌨️ Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /skipnight | Starts a vote or votes YES if one is active. |
| /skipnight yes | Vote YES to skip the night. |
| /skipnight no | Vote NO against skipping the night. |
| /skipnight gui | Opens the live vote status GUI. |
| /skipnight cancel | Cancel the ongoing vote (admin only). |
| /skipnight stats | Shows global voting statistics. |
| /skipnight reload | Reloads the configuration file. |
| /skipnight help | Shows all available commands. |
🔑 Permissions
| Permission | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| skipnight.vote | Allows starting a vote | |
| skipnight.vote.yes | Allows voting YES | |
| skipnight.vote.no | Allows voting NO | |
| skipnight.gui | Allows opening the vote status GUI | |
| skipnight.stats | Allows viewing vote statistics | |
| skipnight.cancel | Allows cancelling ongoing votes | |
| skipnight.reload | Allows reloading the plugin's config |
🌟 Why Choose SkipNight?
Modern User Experience – Boss bars, action bars, clickable buttons, and real-time GUI make voting engaging and intuitive.
Full Democracy – YES/NO voting gives players real control, not just a "yes or abstain" system.
Reward Your Community – Incentivize participation with XP, items, or economy rewards.
Flexible Configuration – Percentage or absolute thresholds, instant skip, rewards on/off, display toggles.
Sound & Visual Effects – Immersive feedback with configurable sounds and boss bar timers.
Empower Your Community – Let players decide when to skip the night democratically.
Plug & Play – Works right out of the box with zero setup needed.
Modern & Maintained – Built for modern Minecraft versions (1.16.5+).
🎯 Perfect For:
- Survival & SMP Servers – Enhance the vanilla experience with modern features.
- Community-Focused Servers – Promote player interaction and democracy.
- Reward-Based Servers – Incentivize participation with customizable rewards.
- Any server that wants a simple, powerful way to manage the day/night cycle.
Lightweight ✔ Interactive ✔ Customizable ✔ Democratic ✔ Rewarding ✔
📥 Download now and empower your community to control the night! ☀️🌙
🆕 What's New in v2.0?
YES/NO Voting – Players can vote against skipping, not just abstain
Boss Bar Timer – Visual countdown with live vote counts
Action Bar Updates – Less chat spam, cleaner interface
Sound Effects – Customizable audio feedback for all vote events
Reward System – Give XP, items, or money to voters
Instant Skip – 100% yes votes skip immediately
Threshold Modes – Choose percentage or absolute vote counts
Vote Cancellation – Admins can cancel problematic votes
Enhanced GUI – Color-coded player heads (green/red/gray)
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