SorekillTeams

SorekillTeams is a lightweight teams plugin for Paper and Spigot that provides clean team management, private team chat, team homes, and configurable friendly-fire protection.

Designed for modern servers and future proxy networks, SorekillTeams focuses on core team mechanics without bloated clan systems, claims, or RPG features.

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Latest Release — 1.1.9

1.1.9 is a stability and networking-readiness release.

• Fully stabilized team homes system
  • Warmups, cooldowns, and permission bypasses
  • Reliable persistence across reloads and restarts
• Network-aware home metadata
  • Homes store the originating server name
  • Foundation for cross-server home routing
• Redis-based event architecture (optional)
  • Cross-server team events (join, leave, kick, rename, ownership changes)
  • Cross-server invite delivery
  • Cross-server online/offline presence awareness
• Menu system polish
  • Live menu refresh when team state changes
  • Correct offline player skin handling
  • Proper menu closing on kick and disband
• SQL and YAML parity improvements
• Improved admin safety toggles
• Internal cleanup and architecture hardening
• Extensive config documentation and defaults cleanup

Cross-server features are optional and require SQL and Redis.
Single-server setups work out of the box.

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Overview

SorekillTeams allows players to form persistent teams that feel natural and intuitive.

Players can:

• Create and manage teams
• Invite and accept members
• Chat privately with teammates
• Set and teleport to team homes
• Prevent accidental PvP with friendly-fire protection

Server owners retain full control through permissions and a detailed configuration system, with safety-focused defaults and future-proofed architecture.

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Features

• Team creation and management
  • Create, rename, transfer ownership, kick members, leave, or disband teams
• Advanced invite system
  • Expiring invites, cooldowns, invite caps, and re-invite refresh support
• Team chat
  • /tc command or toggle mode
  • Admin spy support with separate formatting
• Friendly-fire control
  • Block or scale teammate damage
  • Supports melee, projectiles, potions, explosions, and tridents
  • Per-team toggle and admin bypass
• Team homes
  • Set and teleport to team homes
  • Warmups, cooldowns, and max-home limits
  • Network-aware metadata for proxy environments
• GUI menu system
  • Team management menus
  • Team browsing and member viewing
  • Invite management
  • Offline player heads with proper skin support
• Update checker
  • Spigot history-based update detection
  • Optional in-game OP notifications
• Safe storage system
  • YAML or SQL storage
  • Autosave, atomic writes, and rolling backups
• Optional placeholder support
  • PlaceholderAPI and MiniPlaceholders
• Lightweight and focused
  • No economy, claims, or RPG systems

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Requirements

• Java 21
• Paper or Spigot 1.21.x
• (Optional) PlaceholderAPI 2.11.0+
• (Optional) MiniPlaceholders 3.0+

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Installation

Single-Server Setup (Most Servers)

• Download SorekillTeams-1.1.9.jar
• Place it in your server’s plugins folder
• Start or restart the server
• Configure permissions (LuckPerms recommended)
• Adjust config.yml, messages.yml, and menus.yml as needed

Notes:

• Uses YAML storage by default
• Redis and proxy features are not required
• Team homes function normally on this server only

Multi-Server / Proxy Setup (Advanced)

• Requires a shared SQL database
• Requires Redis for real-time sync
• Designed for Velocity or BungeeCord environments
• Each backend server must have a unique redis.server_id
• homes.server_name must exactly match the proxy server name
• Enable homes.proxy_mode for cross-server home teleports

What you get:

• Network-wide team membership
• Cross-server invites and team chat
• Instantly synced team events
• Network-aware team homes (routing-ready)

SQL is the source of truth.
Redis is the real-time notification layer.

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Reload configs anytime with:
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Planned Features

• Team roles and permissions
• Scoreboard and nametag modules
  
• Suggestions appreciated!

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License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Credits

Developed by Sorekill
Built for the Chumbucket Network
https://www.chumbucket.net