sTrails - 22+ Custom Trail Effects

Tired of the same old particle trail plugins with boring, repetitive effects? Elevate your server's cosmetic offerings with sTrails, a premium-quality, feature-packed trails plugin designed for performance, customizability, and player engagement.

sTrails goes beyond simple particles. It provides a stunning collection of 22 hand-crafted, unique visual effects, ranging from classic particle trails to complex animated auras and interactive conditional effects. It's the perfect, EULA-compliant way to reward your players, enhance your ranks, or add incredible items to your server's store.

✔️ Core Features

• 22+ Unique Trail Presets: A massive collection of high-quality, pre-configured trails. No setup needed!
  
  
• Stunning Animations: Includes advanced effects like spiraling helixes, orbiting rings, pulsing shields, and smooth rainbow cycles that will "wow" your players.
  
  
• Intuitive GUI: A clean and easy-to-use graphical menu (/trails) for players to browse, select, and manage their trails.
  
  
• Performance First: Built from the ground up to be lag-free. Trails are handled asynchronously to ensure zero impact on your server's performance (TPS).
  
  
• Extremely Configurable: Customize every message, change the GUI layout, and disable any trail you don't want on your server, all from the simple config.yml.
  
  
• Conditional Trails: Unique trails that only appear under certain conditions, such as while flying with an Elytra, being in combat, sprinting, or even standing in the dark!
  
  
• PlaceholderAPI & Vault Support: Includes a %strails_active_trail% placeholder and hooks into Vault for economy-based conditions.

✨ The Trails Collection ✨

sTrails offers a diverse library of effects to suit every style and server theme.

Category 1: The Classics

• Flame: A classic trail of fire.
  
  
• Water Drip: Leaves a trail of water and occasional splashes.
  
  
• Heartbroken: A trail of broken hearts.
  
  
• Love Struck: Spreads the love with pink and red hearts.
  
  
• Enchanted: The mystical purple particles of an enchanting table.
  
  
• Music Notes: Colorful music notes pop up around your feet.

Category 2: Elemental & Thematic

• Storm Lord: A swirl of clouds with flashes of lightning.
  
  
• Enderborn: A mysterious trail of portal and dragon's breath particles.
  
  
• Frost Walker: Leaves a temporary trail of snow and ice on the ground.
  
  
• Nature's Blessing: A vibrant green trail of leaves and happy villager particles.
  
  
• Blood Helix: A sophisticated double-helix of red particles that spirals behind you.
  
  
• Soul Fire: An eerie trail of blue nether flames and rising souls.

Category 3: Animated & "Wow" Factor (Perfect for Donors!)

• Galaxy Spiral: A stunning spiral of cosmic dust and end rods that orbits your entire body.
  
  
• Rings of Saturn: A horizontal ring of particles that encircles you and pulses outwards.
  
  
• Guardian's Shield: A protective sphere of energy that briefly flashes around you.
  
  
• Rainbow Road: A beautiful trail of particles that smoothly cycles through every color of the rainbow.
  
  
• Footprints: Leave glowing particle footprints on the ground where you walk.

Category 4: Interactive & Conditional

• Fury: A trail of lava and smoke that only activates while you're in combat.
  
  
• Speedster: A trail of white ash that gets denser and faster as you sprint.
  
  
• Shadow Step: A dark, inky trail that is only visible in low light levels.
  
  
• Elytra Wings: Spawns two massive, majestic particle wings behind you, but only while gliding.
  
  
• Wealthy: Show off your riches with a trail of falling gold particles (requires Vault and a minimum balance).

⚙️ Commands & Permissions

Player Commands:

• /trails - Opens the main trail selection GUI. (strails.gui)
  
  
• /trails off - Disables your active trail. (strails.off)
  
  
• /trails select <trail> - Selects a trail directly via command. (strails.select)

Admin Commands:

• /strails reload - Reloads the configuration file. (strails.admin.reload)
  
  
• /strails give <player> <trail> - (Coming Soon) Gives a player permanent access to a trail.
  
  
• /strails take <player> <trail> - (Coming Soon) Removes a player's access to a trail.

Permissions:

• Each trail has its own permission node: strails.trail.<trailname> (e.g., strails.trail.galaxyspiral).
  
  
• Give players strails.trail.* to grant access to all trails.
  
  
• All permissions are listed in the plugin.yml and are fully customizable.

Configuration

Take full control of sTrails with an easy-to-understand config.yml. Change all messages to match your server's language and style, adjust the GUI, and enable or disable any trail with a simple true/false switch.

Dependencies

• Required: None! sTrails works perfectly right out of the box.
  
  
• Optional (but Recommended):
  • PlaceholderAPI: To use the %strails_active_trail% placeholder.
    
    
  • Vault: To enable the functionality of the "Wealthy" conditional trail.