Elevate

🛗 Elevate

Elevators for your server. Stand on an elevator and jump to go up a floor, or sneak to go down. That's it.

No ladders, no water columns, no slow scaffolding climbs. Craft an elevator from wool, put one on every floor of your base, and move between them in a blink, with a floor number on screen as you arrive.
Server-side only. No resource pack, no mods, no dependencies. Bukkit, Spigot, Paper, Purpur and Folia, 1.20 → 26.x.

✨ Features

⬆️ Jump up, sneak down

• Jump on an elevator and you're on the next elevator above. Sneak and you're on the one below.
• Works over any distance: 3 blocks or 300, through floors, ceilings and solid rock.
• You keep your exact spot on the block and the way you're facing, so arriving feels seamless.
• Floors that are blocked (no two free blocks to stand in) are skipped and you go on to the next one.
• A short cooldown stops one jump from flying you up several floors.

🏢 Floors with numbers and names

• Arrive to a title: ▲ Floor 3/5, with the floor's name underneath.
• Name a floor by renaming the elevator in an anvil before you place it: Kitchen, Storage, Nether portal. No commands needed.
• Step onto an elevator and the action bar shows where you are and which way you can go: jump ▲ · Floor 2/4 · Storage · ▼ sneak.
• /elevate info lists every floor in the shaft, with heights and names.

🎨 Sixteen colors, many shafts

• Craft an elevator from 8 wool of one color around an ender pearl. All 16 wool colors work.
• Colors only connect to the same color, so several shafts can run side by side or through each other: the red one goes to the vault, the blue one to the farms.
• The elevator item glints and keeps its name, so it's easy to spot in a chest.
• Break one and you get the elevator back, name included. Wool in your builds never becomes an elevator by accident.

🧱 Or turn any block into an elevator

• Prefer the classic "iron block elevator"? Switch mode to blocks and every block on your list is an elevator, no crafting needed.
• both mode mixes crafted and block elevators.

🛡️ Safe and sturdy

• Elevators can't be burned, pushed by pistons or taken by endermen.
• Explosions pop them out as elevator items instead of plain wool.
• Elevator items can't be crafted into beds or carpets by mistake.
• Players never land in lava, fire or a wall.
• Elevator data lives inside the chunk itself: no database, no files to back up, nothing to clean up. Moving, copying or trimming the world just works.

✨ Feels good to use

• Portal particles where you leave, a sparkle where you land, and a soft bell on arrival, pitched up going up and down going down.
• Every sound, particle and message can be changed or turned off.

🤝 Plays nicely with other plugins

• Uses normal plugin teleports, so anti-cheat and logging plugins see a regular teleport.
• Folia native: the elevator and the player are always in the same region, so there's no cross-thread work at all.
• Disable it per world.

🛠️ Crafting

W W W
W P W W = wool of one color
W W W P = ender pearl

You get one elevator of that wool's color. The middle item and the amount are configurable, and the recipe can be turned off so elevators only come from /elevate give.

⌨️ Commands

Command · Description · Permission
/elevate · Help · —
/elevate info · Floors of the elevator you stand on · elevate.info
/elevate name · Name or rename the floor you stand on · elevate.name
/elevate give [color] [amount] · Give elevator items · elevate.admin
/elevate reload · Reload config and messages · elevate.admin

Aliases: /elevator, /lift.

Permission · Default
elevate.use · everyone · Ride elevators
elevate.place · everyone · Place crafted elevators
elevate.craft · everyone · Craft elevators
elevate.info · everyone · /elevate info
elevate.name · op · /elevate name (anvil naming works for everyone)
elevate.admin · op · Give and reload
elevate.notify · op · Update notices

⚙️ Configuration

mode: crafted # crafted, blocks or both
blocks: # used by 'blocks' and 'both'

• IRON_BLOCK
• DAYLIGHT_DETECTOR

same-color-only: true # elevators only connect to the same block
max-distance: 0 # 0 = the whole height of the world
require-space: true # skip floors without room to stand

controls:
jump-up: true
sneak-down: true
cooldown-ticks: 6

display:
arrival: title # title, actionbar or none
hint: true # action bar when stepping onto an elevator

effects:
particles: true
sounds-up:

• 'minecraft:entity.enderman.teleport:0.25:1.9'
• 'minecraft:block.note_block.bell:0.55:1.5'

recipe:
enabled: true
center: ENDER_PEARL
amount: 1
discover: true # unlock the recipe in everyone's recipe book

disabled-worlds: []

Every message supports color codes and hex colors (&#7fd7ff). English and Polish are included, and you can add your own lang/.yml. /elevate reload applies everything live.

🧑‍💻 For developers

ElevatorUseEvent (cancellable) fires before every ride, with the start and target block, the direction and the floor number. Cancel it, or point the player somewhere else.

@EventHandler
public void onRide(ElevatorUseEvent event) {
if (event.isUp() && !event.getPlayer().hasPermission("vip.penthouse")
&& event.getFloor() == event.getFloors()) {
event.setCancelled(true);
}
}

📦 Compatibility

Servers · Bukkit, Spigot, Paper, Purpur, Folia and their forks
Versions · 1.20 → 26.x
Java · 17+ (21+ for 1.20.5 and newer, as Minecraft itself requires)
Dependencies · None
Clients · Vanilla. Nothing to install

🐞 Found a bug or have an idea?

Report it on our Discord. That is the only place bug reports are handled, so please don't use other channels.

Made by Invv · Discord