MobKills

MobKills — every kill counts, and every milestone pays

Your players already hunt.
MobKills turns that hunting into progression: each mob type has its own kill counter and a reward threshold. Hit the threshold — say, 500 zombies — and the reward drops at the player's feet with a congratulations message and a level-up sound, and that mob's counter starts again. Lifetime totals keep running forever, and weekly leaderboards give your server a fresh race every Monday.

This system wasn't designed in a vacuum: it ran for months as a hand-written script on a live Java + Bedrock crossplay (Geyser) server before being rebuilt as a proper plugin. The defaults below are the exact numbers that server plays with.

Features

• 79 mobs tracked out of the box — every hostile (40) plus most normal passives (39), including the newest: breeze, bogged, creaking, armadillo
• Per-mob rewards — each mob has its own threshold, reward item and amount (defaults: 5 diamonds; wardens, withers and the ender dragon pay 20)
• Hostile and passive stay separate — separate progress screens, separate totals, separate boards
• Weekly + lifetime leaderboards — /topkiller and /toppkiller, with a weekly board that resets itself every week (lazy reset — no scheduler, zero idle cost)
• Fully config-driven — add, remove, disable or retune ANY mob in config.yml; new mob types on old server versions skip cleanly instead of breaking the plugin
• Spawner-farm control — one config switch decides whether spawner-born mobs count
• Two reward modes — drop at the player's feet (classic) or straight into the inventory
• Custom mob support — mobs from HatterMobs (the author's mob creator) can count as themselves via their hm_ tags
• Lightweight — plain data.yml storage, saved on payout, on shutdown and every 5 minutes; nothing runs when nobody is playing

Commands

• /mobkills — your hostile progress, counter/threshold per mob (alias /mkills)
• /pmobkills — your passive progress (alias /pmkills)
• /mkt — just your two lifetime totals
• /topkiller — lifetime hostile leaderboard · /topkiller weekly — this week's
• /toppkiller — lifetime passive leaderboard · /toppkiller weekly — this week's
• /mobkills reload — reload the config (admin, mobkills.admin)

All player commands need mobkills.use (default: true).

Make it yours (config.yml)

Every mob is one small block. Change the threshold, change the prize, or add a mob the defaults don't cover:

Code (Text):

    creeper:

      display: Creeper

      plural: Creepers

      threshold: 500

      reward-amount: 5

      reward-item: DIAMOND

Reward item is any Bukkit material; thresholds and amounts are per mob. Messages, sounds, leaderboard size, the week-start day and the spawner rule are all in config too — the shipped config is commented throughout.

Compatibility

One jar for Paper 1.20 through 26.3, boot-verified on 1.20.1, 1.21.4 and 26.3. No dependencies. (On 1.20.x the four mobs that didn't exist yet are skipped with a console note; the other 75 track normally.)

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https://discord.gg/3SeC3eRvNk

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