User Guide

Prerequisites

• A Spigot or Paper Minecraft server, 1.19.4 or later (see Supported Minecraft Versions for the versions each release is tested on)
• The Dans-Spawn-System plugin installed in your plugins/ folder

First Steps

After installing the plugin and restarting your server, players can have their respawn location customised by interacting with spawn-selection signs placed by administrators.

Common Scenarios

Setting Up a Spawn Selection Sign (Admin)

1. Place a sign in the world.
2. On the first line of the sign, type [Spawn].
3. On the second line, enter the X coordinate of the target spawn location.
4. On the third line, enter the Y coordinate.
5. On the fourth line, enter the Z coordinate.
6. Confirm placement — you will see a green confirmation message if you have the required permission.

Example sign contents:

[Spawn]
100
64
-200

Players who right-click this sign will have their respawn point set to coordinates (100, 64, -200) in their current world.

The coordinates have to be whole numbers (100, not 100.5) with nothing else on the line. If a line can't be read as a whole number, a player who right-clicks the sign is told that its coordinates couldn't be read, no spawn is set, and a warning naming the sign's location is written to the server console.

Selecting a Spawn (Player)

Simply right-click any [Spawn] sign to set your personal respawn location to the coordinates written on that sign. You are teleported to those coordinates straight away.

A spawn can only be selected once. Right-clicking another [Spawn] sign afterwards tells you that you have already set your spawn; it has to be reset with /resetspawn (by you, if you have spawnsystem.reset.self, or by an admin) before you can choose again.

Resetting a Player's Spawn (Admin)

Use the /resetspawn command to clear a player's custom spawn:

• Reset your own spawn: /resetspawn
• Reset another player's spawn: /resetspawn <player>

Once reset, the player respawns as they would without the plugin, and can select a spawn again by right-clicking a [Spawn] sign.

See COMMANDS.md for full command details.

How Respawning Works

• Custom spawn: a player with a custom spawn is teleported to it just after respawning, with the message "Teleporting to custom spawn!".
• Beds take precedence: a player who has a bed spawn respawns at the bed as normal; their custom spawn is kept but not used while the bed spawn exists.
• Protected signs: breaking a [Spawn] sign, or any block directly touching one (above, below, or on any side), requires spawnsystem.breakSpawnSign.
• Experience on death: while the plugin is installed, every player on the server keeps their experience level when they die and drops no experience orbs, whether or not they have a custom spawn.

Permissions