About SkyWars
From SpigotMCSkyWars - Exciting, usable, customizable, original.
Maintenance
It's my regret to say that I am no longer maintaining SkyWars. This was one of the first publicly published SkyWars plugins, and it was great while it lasted. But today, it's not likely to function on the latest servers, and it will not be receiving updates.
Thank you.
Features
- Integrates seamlessly into any server, survival, creative or otherwise.
- Join the SkyWars queue from any world, and you'll be transported back exactly where you came from once the game ends!
- SkyWars saves gamemode, health, hunger, potion status, and pretty much anything else you'd need to keep track of.
- Use an unlimited number of arenas at the same time! The only limit is your server player capacity.
- Use SkyWars's kit system to let players pay money each game for a kit, and give access to extra kits to donors through permissions support!
- Craft your server's unique SkyWars experience!
- Create custom kits just by filling your inventory with the items you want!
- Create arenas without any entering items into config files! Just build the arena, set the spawns with /sws and save it!
- Change any and all messages sent by SkyWars to players in messages.yml!
- Support for randomly filled chests!
- Support for portals to step into and join the queue.
- Custom economy rewards for winning games or killing in games.
Installing SkyWars
- Server must be running at least Java 7.
- Server must be at least Minecraft version 1.7.8.
- Download SkyWars from this page.
- Put SkyWars.jar into your plugins directory, and restart the server.
- SkyWars is now functional with the two default arenas!
Documentation
- SkyWars Functions Guide (Start Here)
- Commands and Permissions
- Configuring SkyWars
- SkyWars Score System
- FAQ / Troubleshooting
- Join Signs & Portals
Customization
Video Tutorial (credit to Koz4Christ!)
<iframe width="500" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c6EqmpGnF40?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Other links
- GitHub/SkyWars
- MCStats Statistics
- Full Changelog
- Full kits.yml Reference of valid values
- Testing SkyWars (for developers)
Translations / Localization
Pleyer messages have been fully translated to other languages by efforts from the community.
As of 2.2.2, all messages have been translated to English (en), Persian (fa), Traditional Chinese (hk), Hungarian (hu) and Dutch (nl).
Most messages, but not all, have been translated to Simplified Chinese (cn), Czech (cz), German (de), Danish (dk), Spanish (es), French (fr), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru).
These incomplete translations were all at one point complete, though most lack 2-3 messages added in the most recent update.
Change the locale by setting locale in main-config.yml.
You can help SkyWars by creating translations for your language, or updating existing translations. See SkyWars-Translations/Translating.
Translations can also be locally updated and tested by editing messages.yml.
MCStats / Plugin metrics
SkyWars uses two services to report statistics. The first service, MCStats / Plugin Metrics, reports data to
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 5 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.12.
Loaders
Runs on Spigot and Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
SkyWars on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers, for Paper servers. We download it from SpigotMC, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Spigot, Paper
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- v2.2.2, released 2018-02-10
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1.7 to 1.12 (5 versions) | 1.12 |
| Spigot | 1.7 to 1.12 (5 versions) | 1.12 |
From 10 recorded builds of SkyWars.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| v2.2.2 | 2018-02-10 | 1.7 to 1.12 (5 versions) | Spigot, Paper |
| v2.2.1 | 2016-08-01 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.2.0 | 2016-07-24 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.1.7 | 2016-07-16 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.1.6 | 2016-07-12 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.1.5 | 2016-06-19 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
Run SkyWars on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportSpigotMC lists SkyWars as required on the server. Check its SpigotMC page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- SpigotPaper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.12 and 4 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓SpigotMCOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authordaboross, as published on SpigotMC
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree








