CaptureSpawn

A Paper plugin that lets you “capture mobs into a Pokéball” and release them via right-click or a physics-based throw. It preserves entity NBT as much as possible and simulates more realistic projectile behavior (gravity / bounces / rolling / lifetime).

• Runtime: Paper 26.1
• Required dependencies: PacketEvents, NBTAPI (Item-NBT-API plugin)
• License: MIT (LICENSE)

Features

• Capture & release with compressed NBT storage (GZIP + Base64) and necessary sanitization to reduce size risks
• THROW mode: behaves like a real projectile; only captures on collision; can bounce/roll on ground; auto-recovers on timeout
• Pokéball item supports custom player-head texture and configurable name/lore/glow/custom-model-data
• Lore enrichment for common mobs (villager profession/level, sheep color, cat variant, wolf collar/tamed, etc.)
• Protection-friendly: optional “build permission” checks for capture/release to prevent abuse in protected areas
• Persistent local logs with time-range queries (CO-like time filtering)

Quick Start

1. Install dependencies: PacketEvents, NBTAPI (Item-NBT-API plugin)
2. Put CaptureSpawn into plugins/ and start the server once to generate config
3. Edit plugins/CaptureSpawn/config.yml

Default interaction mode is THROW (can be switched back to DIRECT in config).

Commands

• /capturespawn reload reload config and listeners
• /capturespawn log <player|me> <from> [to] [release|capture|all] [limit]
  • Time examples: 10m 1h 2d 1w 1h30m
  • Examples:
    • /capturespawn log me 10m all 50
    • /capturespawn log steve 3d 1d release 100

Permissions

• capturespawn.capture capture permission
• capturespawn.release release permission
• capturespawn.bypass.blacklist bypass capture blacklist
• capturespawn.craft craft permission (optional)
• capturespawn.reload reload permission (default: OP)
• capturespawn.log log query permission (default: OP)

Config Notes

plugins/CaptureSpawn/config.yml (high-level)

• interaction-mode: THROW | DIRECT
• throw.physics.*: air drag / bounce restitution / friction / max bounces / min-speed threshold
• storage.nbt-format: GZIP_BASE64 + storage.max-bytes: control payload size
• protection.capture-requires-build / protection.release-requires-build: build-based checks
• logging.*: local log enablement, filename pattern, flush interval, queue limit

Local Logs

Logs are written daily by default:

• plugins/CaptureSpawn/logs/ball-YYYY-MM-DD.log

The log format is TSV (one record per line) and includes timestamp, player, action, entity type, world/coords, result, etc.

Compatibility

• Dependencies:
  • PacketEvents (used for THROW mode packet-based triggering)
  • NBTAPI (Item-NBT-API plugin for reading/writing entity NBT)