LaunchMe

Launch Me

Launch Me is a Minecraft plugin that allows players (or mobs) to ride on top of any projectile they shoot or throw.

Features:

• Ride any projectile you shoot or throw!
• Survival-friendly, with configurable costs like hunger, health, or items
• Support for mobs to ride their projectiles
• Highly configurable
• Editable messages
• Permission support
• Open-source :)

Download

• Modrinth (recommended)
• CurseForge
• Hangar (directs to Modrinth)
• Spigot (directs to Modrinth)
• GitLab releases

Server Admins

Installation

1. Download the latest version of the plugin (launch-me-x.x.x.jar)
2. Locate your server's plugins folder
3. Place launch-me-x.x.x.jar into your plugins folder
4. Restart or reload your server

Optionally, edit the configuration files located in plugins/LaunchMe/

Usage

1. Give yourself op or the launchme.toggle permission
2. Use /launchme toggle in-game to toggle projectile launching for yourself
3. By default, you need fireworks in your offhand for launching to work
4. Shoot an arrow, throw a snowball, etc. to launch!

Configuration

Edit the configuration in config.yml that was generated in the LaunchMe folder.

The default config.yml can be found here. You may also delete your configuration and a new one will be generated on the next server restart or reload.

Descriptions of each configuration value is included in the file.

Permissions

Commands

Arguments surrounded in [] are optional, arguments surrounded in <> are required.

Privacy

This plugin uses bStats to gather anonymous usage statistics. You can see all gathered data here (all are standard fields for most plugins, with the exceptions of "Projectiles Launched"). You may opt out of all data collection for all plugins by editing the /plugins/bStats/config.yml file.

Developers

Please disable bStats on test servers!

Building

Launch Me requires Gradle and uses JDK 25 at the time of writing

1. Download or clone the project.
2. Run ./gradlew build
3. A new launchme-x.x.x.jar will be built under build/libs/

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Make changes in your fork
3. Submit a merge request

Issues & Feature Requests

The best way to report an issue would be to open a new issue here. Please try to be as descriptive as possible when reporting any issues :).

You may also open an issue for new features you'd like to be added.

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License

Launch Me
Copyright (C) 2026  ASTRELION

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.