SnTempBlocks makes player-placed blocks expire inside WorldGuard zones. Bucket-placed water and
lava are tracked together with every block their flow reached, so a zone never keeps something
nobody remembers placing. Blocks outside a zone are never touched.
- Two engines, chosen per zone.
PER_BLOCK gives every block its own lifetime, set per
material with a default for everything else. INTERVAL runs one timer for the whole zone and
wipes everything tracked at once, with warnings before it fires.
- Liquids are handled properly. A bucket creates a body, the plugin follows it as it spreads,
and the whole body disappears in the same instant. Spread that could not be cleaned up later is
cancelled instead of allowed.
- Waterlogged blocks keep their block. When water only flags a stair or a fence, expiry
clears that flag. It never deletes the block a player placed.
- Restart-safe. Lifetimes run on real time, not ticks, and the index is mirrored to a
database. Blocks whose lifetime elapsed while the server was down are removed at startup, and
an interval cycle neither restarts nor skips.
- Built to stay cheap. The whole plugin owns two repeating tasks, every removal batch is
capped per tick, and a block placed in a world with no zone costs one hash lookup.
- Never force-loads a chunk. A removal waiting on an unloaded chunk is executed when the
server loads that chunk for its own reasons.
- PlaceholderAPI: unlocks the
sntempblocks expansion, so a scoreboard or hologram can show
the countdown and the tracked count of a zone. Without it the plugin runs normally and simply
registers nothing.
- Source and releases: part of the shared Sn-Releases repo
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