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How to install and use UltraBar [Java]

In this guide, we will walk through the purpose, setup, configuration, commands, and permissions of the UltraBar plugin

What is UltraBar?

UltraBar is a key Minecraft Java plugin that allows you to:

Display boss bars, titles and action bars at all times
Display these when a player joins, enters a region (WorldGuard), dies, or executes a command

Bossbars made with UltraBar

How do you install it?

Download the plugin from Spigot
Upload it to your plugins folder
Restart your server

Having trouble? Check out our plugin setup article

How do you configure it?

In the config, you will have different sections for OnJoin, OnDeath, OnCommand, BossBarMessages, Title_Announcements, Action_Announcements, and WorldGuardRegion
Each section will vary slightly.

Here is an example of a few configured BossBar messages:
``BossBarMessages:
No_Progress: true
'1':
Message: Empire Network
Color: blue
Style: '6'
Time: 100
Enabled: true
World_Whitelist_Enabled: false
Random_Order: false
World_Whitelist:

world
Messages:
Message1:
Message: '&2Season 7'
Color: blue
Style: '6'
Time: 100
Message2:
Message: '&3Ancient Ages'
Color: red
Style: '6'
Time: 100
Message3:
Message: '&bEmpire &cNetwork!'
Color: green
Style: '6'
Time: 100``

The most important options are:
No_Progress determines whether or not the bossbar should be moving (like in the picture above)
Message is the text you want it to say (supports color codes)
Color can be blue, green, pink, purple, red, white, or yellow
Style can be 6, 10, 12, 20 or blank for solid (0 in command form)
Time is the duration during which the bar will be displayed in ticks (1/20s)
Supports Placeholder API

Here's an example of an action bar that displays on join

What are the commands?

Make sure you have the permissions for these, or make sure you are an operator!

/ultrabar - Main help page!
/ultrabar reload - Reload the plugin!
/ultrabar hooks - Views what plugins UltraBar is hooking into.
/ultrabar toggle - Toggles if you can see the bossbar announcement.
/ultrabar cancel - Removes all active bars.
/ultrabar clear [player] - Removes all active bars from a single player.
/bar - Help page for the Boss Bar Commands
/utitle - Help page for the Title Commands.
/actionbar - Help page for the Action bar commands

What are the permissions?

These are case-sensitive!

ultrabar.bar
Allows users to use the command /bar

ultrabar.bar.player.all
parameter: player:@a -or- player:* -or- player:all
Allows the user to send a bar to everyone on a server.

ultrabar.bar.player.list
parameter: player:example1,example2,example3
Allows the user to send a bar to a list of players.

ultrabar.bar.perm
parameter: perm:true
Allows the user to make permanent bars.

ultrabar.bar.clear
parameter: clear:death
Allows the user to add clear conditions to the bars. (Since 2.1)

ultrabar.actionbar
Send an actionbar to a player.

ultrabar.actionbar.sendall
Send an actionbar to all of the players online.

ultrabar.title
Send a title to a player.

ultrabar.title.sendall
Send a title to all player online.

ultrabar.help
Access the help command.

ultrabar.reload
Reload the plugin.

ultrabar.toggle
Hides or shows the announcement bars.

ultrabar.hooks
Show the active hooks for the plugin.

ultrabar.cancel
Removes all active bars.

ultrabar.clear
Removes all active bars for that player.

Check out our Luckperms article if you want to learn more about how to setup permissions for players on your server

Here's an example of an action bar with no progress

Great! UltraBar should now be all setup, have fun setting titles!

Need more help? Check out the UltraBar Wiki

Article made by Emperor#9999

Updated on: 14/06/2022

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