BetterGoPaint

BetterGoPaint paints terrain for Paper servers. A builder holds a feather, picks a brush and a palette of up to five blocks, and right-clicks the ground. Every stroke is a FastAsyncWorldEdit edit and can be undone with //undo.

BetterGoPaint is a maintained fork of goPaint by Arcaniax.

Features

• Painting with a held item. The feather is the default brush item. Left-click opens the brush menu, right-click paints.
• Eleven brushes for spheres, discs, cliffs, cracks, curved strokes and more. See the table below.
• Block palettes of up to five blocks. Each block placed by a stroke is picked from the palette.
• Masks. A stroke can replace only a chosen mask block. The global mask of the builder's WorldEdit session (//gmask) is respected.
• Surface modes DIRECT, RELATIVE and DISABLED decide which blocks count as surface when a stroke is applied. DISABLED skips the check.
• Undo and redo. Each stroke is one FastAsyncWorldEdit edit, so //undo and //redo work stroke by stroke.
• Per-player brushes. Every builder has their own brush, size, palette and settings, changed in the brush menu.
• Exported brushes. A brush can be baked into any non-block item, for example a stick, and handed to another builder. The settings are stored in the item's data, so renaming the item does not change the brush.
• World control. Painting can be disabled in chosen worlds with generic.disabled-worlds. Builders with bettergopaint.world.bypass are not affected.
• Permissions. Painting needs bettergopaint.use, which operators have by default. Each command has its own permission node.
• Translations. English is built in. Further languages go into the lang/ folder, and community translations are collected on Crowdin.
• Update notification. The plugin checks Hangar every three hours for a newer release. The check can be turned off with generic.check-for-updates.
• Faster painting, lower memory (2.0.0). The per-block work in the paint path is reduced. Brush menus are built when first opened, and rendered menu items are cached.

Brushes

Full settings and defaults are in the brushes reference.

Requirements

A Minecraft version is added once the current FastAsyncWorldEdit release supports it. Servers on Minecraft 1.21 keep using BetterGoPaint 1.1.x. Folia is not supported yet. Spigot, CraftBukkit and other non-Paper servers cannot load the plugin.

Full list: supported versions.

Getting started

1. Install FastAsyncWorldEdit 2.16 or newer and the BetterGoPaint jar into plugins/, then restart the server.
2. Give a builder a feather with /give <player> feather. Operators have the bettergopaint.use permission by default.
3. Left-click the feather to open the brush menu. Choose a brush, set the size and fill the palette with blocks from your inventory.
4. Right-click the ground to paint.
5. Run //undo to take back the last stroke.

The step-by-step guides are paint your first terrain for builders and set up BetterGoPaint for your build team for server owners.

Commands and permissions

/gopaint has the aliases /gp and /bgp.

Full details: commands, permissions, configuration.

Support

• Questions and help: Discord
• Bug reports and feature requests: GitHub issues
• Source, changelog and documentation: GitHub

Credits

BetterGoPaint is a fork of goPaint by Arcaniax. It is maintained by OneLiteFeather and contributors and released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.