After several years of the plugin's life, nothing has been done at all to improve its performance. All the problems described earlier remained unresolved. All the developer does is adapt the plugin to the new version of the API. Not a single user comment about errors or additional plugin settings has been fixed. It is impossible to use the plugin on a production server where there are even small online users.

And, yes, the latest version of the server is 1.21.1. The plugin does not work on it. Plugin rating - 1

Sorry, but that's a terrible plugin.
Totally doesn't work on the latest version.
The sounds don't work, when a new mob dies it leaves an invisible armorstand and you can't put blocks there, just horrible.

What is that for a scam wtf?
My console:
[03:00:43 ERROR]: Could not pass event CreatureSpawnEvent to HalloweenEffects v1.41.0
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant org.bukkit.entity.EntityType.PIG_ZOMBIE
at java.lang.Enum.valueOf(Enum.java:293) ~[?:?]
at org.bukkit.entity.EntityType.valueOf(EntityType.java:27) ~[paper-api-1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
at net.craftersland.halloween.functions.EntityEffects.dressAsDeath(EntityEffects.java:83) ~[HalloweenEffects-1.41.0.jar:?]
at net.craftersland.halloween.functions.EntityEffects.onEntitySpawn(EntityEffects.java:61) ~[HalloweenEffects-1.41.0.jar:?]
at net.craftersland.halloween.events.EntitySpawn.onEntitySpawn(EntitySpawn.java:35) ~[HalloweenEffects-1.41.0.jar:?]
at com.destroystokyo.paper.event.executor.asm.generated.GeneratedEventExecutor658.execute(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at org.bukkit.plugin.EventExecutor$2.execute(EventExecutor.java:77) ~[paper-api-1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
at co.aikar.timings.TimedEventExecutor.execute(TimedEventExecutor.java:81) ~[paper-api-1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:git-Paper-430]
at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:70) ~[paper-api-1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
at io.papermc.paper.plugin.manager.PaperEventManager.callEvent(PaperEventManager.java:54) ~[paper-1.20.4.jar:git-Paper-430]
at io.papermc.paper.plugin.manager.PaperPluginManagerImpl.callEvent(PaperPluginManagerImpl.java:126) ~[paper-1.20.4.jar:git-Paper-430]
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:615) ~[paper-api-1.20.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_20_R3.event.CraftEventFactory.callCreatureSpawnEvent(CraftEventFactory.java:788) ~[paper-1.20.4.jar:git-Paper-430]
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_20_R3.event.CraftEventFactory.doEntityAddEventCalling(CraftEventFactory.java:692) ~[paper-1.20.4.jar:git-Paper-430]
at net.minecraft.server.level.ServerLevel.addEntity(ServerLevel.java:1699) ~[?:?]
at net.minecraft.server.level.ServerLevel.addFreshEntity(ServerLevel.java:1621) ~[?:?]

one of the clumsiest plugins. It is impossible to configure the plugin correctly. Just wasted money.

I was just thinking of you. :-) Thanks for updatin one of my favorite plugins around this time of the year.

I purchased this plugin 2 years ago and at that time it was a good drag and drop entertainment plugin and I was young and dumb and had 0 experience running a server, so I did not see and could not see how bad it was. Now my standards are much higher and I decided to use it again this Halloween. I got terribly disappointed.

First, this plugin has a memory leak and with enough number of players the server will run out of memory. I have a server with a 99.9% of uptime, but this plugin managed to cause my first crash in like 2 months due to OOM error.

Second, this plugin has a terrible entities control. It clears entities it should not clear (e.g it cleared my own custom mobs from my plugin). It also spawns a ton of entities, but that is manageable on a good machine.

Lastly, config reload is unreliable (or the whole config is working in a wrong way). For example, I did not want fancy mobs in my server, but they still were spawning in. Also, when I started to disable some more stuff (because it worked poorly), config changes were ignored by the plugin.

This would be a not great not terrible plugin if it was free and open source, but being a paid one it is terrible

You didn't keep your promise and didn't make a separate plug-in for flying heads, but I'm still grateful to you. Thanks for the update /"^_^/"

It generates a lot of entities, It stop my server with 32gb of ram, there are a lot of things to fix.

Aprendi a configurarlo solo, es un buen plugin. No estaria mal que hicieran un video tutorial de como configuarlo para que no salgan tantos mobs...

3 estrellas el plugins esta bien pero hace que el server valla muy lagueado por que salen muchas entidades, estaria genial que fuera menos y asi no causara lag.. y si ahy manera de solucionar eso me gustaria saberlo..

It doesn't work. There are a lot of errors, unregulated spawn of mobs, huge lags. It is impossible to use this plugin on a server, even a small one. Unfortunately, the author does not respond to error messages in any way and does not correct these errors.

The plugin works halfway, it breaks, there is no support, the updates are only for compatibility, the errors are constant and the dev ignores them. DO NOT BUY IT IS A SCAM !!

This plugin works really well but the only things im disappointed about was for $5 USD btw and im from aus. Mobs will spawn inside already lit places. So I'll have my players complain to me that they have loud sound and mobs spawning in their own homes that are full lit and they don't need that. Theres no option to disable them from spawning in lit places except for disabling the plugin in general

For a Premium plugin of $5 I expected that this "Light, will use little resources and big tasks run async to not impact the server performance or TPS." was right, but in fact it isn't.

In two hours time the total entities we're: 135.483.

So my TPS wen't down to 12.0, fix your shit.

love it - players are having such fun with it, easy to install and configure!! Well Done.

This was PERFECT for our Halloween theme this month! Works perfectly, no performance issues, players think it's hilarious.

Pretty cool and very customizable, but occasionally causes NullPointerExceptions client side when getting killed by a certain mob. This is on a 2 year old 1.14.4 server with no other plugins. You get exceptions before seeing death message until the mob despawned after 10 minutes, only then you see death screen and are able to respawn. This happened a few times with different users and certain mobs, not sure how to reproduce it reliably.

Lag free plugin with a lot of Halloween themed effects. I used it to spice up the gameplay around Halloween and my playerbase loved it. There are quite a large amount of mobs that spawn due to this plugin so I'd definitely recommend dropping the difficulty a notch to compensate for that. Anyway, the developer fixed all my prevision complaints, albeit in it a non-timely manner, but I'm happy with the plugin. Thanks.

Spams my console with a bunch of junk pertaining to "Plugin HalloweenEffects v1.29.2 generated an exception while executing task 8
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: y out of range (expected 0-255, got -5)"

Developer is unresponsive. Unacceptable for a paid plugin.

Great plugin and no issues with performance.. currently only using with halloween so not a big deal.

Plugins is great for Halloween, but it does affect the server performance sadly.

Awesome plugin! Just got it. Can't wait to try it out! Thanks for this awesome resource!

hi =) thanks for the update :)

I just install it on my server and works =)

halloween lets go !

If I've seen any nice plugins as a last minute option to engage players for Halloween this is it, good job! Please keep it updated so it doesent die out in like a month!

Love the plugin and the idea. BUTTTTTT I would prefer a protected spawn not get overrun by mobs even with flags set. Luckily players cant get hurt because of flag but they still spawn on it. Maybe a flag on your end to fix?
Outside of that its HORRRRRRIFYINNNNNGGGLLLYYY good :)

excellent !!

nice developper !

plugin very nice and working ! perfect !

you can test it on my web server !

IP : serveur.maxi-games.fr

I just purchased this plugin and already within 5 minutes everyone is loving it! hope to see some more effects soon, overall great plugin!