Block-built machines: sorter, vacuum, harvester, mob towers, monster traps, upgradable furnaces and anvils.
Requires Vystorm Core (free) – the shared base of all Vystorm plugins (English/German language files, in-game config editor, update check). Just drop one extra jar into plugins/, no setup.
Ordinary blocks, stacked the right way, become machines. A gold pressure plate on copper is an inventory sorter. A composter on a hay bale harvests your farm. A skeleton skull on a fletching table is an archer tower that guards your base and collects the loot. Everything is upgraded with XP through Minecraft's own dialog menus: no extra items, no resource pack.
Block combos
| Structure | How to build | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory Sorter | light (gold) pressure plate on a copper block | Jump on it: items from your main inventory go into chests within 10 blocks that already hold the same item. Hotbar and armour stay put. |
| Item Vacuum | heavy (iron) pressure plate on a copper block | Pulls dropped items within 20 blocks into matching chests, or into your inventory. |
| Harvester | composter on a hay bale | Every 10 seconds harvests and replants ripe crops, nether wart and cocoa pods, melons, pumpkins, sugar cane and bamboo within 4 blocks and fills a touching chest. Pauses while that chest is full. |
| Directional Launcher | slime block on a redstone block | Launches you about 15 blocks in the direction you look. A 3x3 slime field works too. |
| Sprint Booster | ice, packed ice or blue ice on a redstone block | Speed boost while sprinting. The ice doesn't melt. |
| Float Lift | white terracotta on copper on redstone | Jump against it and float straight up for 5 seconds. |
| Heal Block | honey block on a redstone block | Heals players within 3 blocks by half a heart every 3 seconds. At level 10: 3 hearts in a 13-block aura. |
- Sneak + right-click the top block to open its upgrade menu. Each path (range, power, cooldown and so on) goes up to level 10, and the menu shows the current radius as a particle ring only you can see.
- Incomplete structure? The same click tells you which block is missing and where.
- Lock inventory slots from the sorter (
/bi sortlock) and give sorter and vacuum a personal chest order with an overflow chest (/bi chestpriority).
Attack towers
A tower is three blocks high (head, work block, foundation) with four matching blocks in a cross around the foundation. Towers shoot the nearest hostile mob, never players, animals or villagers, and by default need line of sight and leave named mobs alone.
| Tower | Top → bottom | Ring | Attack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zombie Watchtower | zombie head, crafting table, cobblestone | oak planks | cheap starter |
| Recruit Tower | player head, barrel, stone | cobblestone | cheap starter |
| Archer Tower | skeleton skull, fletching table, copper block | stone bricks | fast single target |
| Cannon Tower | creeper head, dispenser, blast furnace | obsidian | slow area damage, no block damage |
| Flame Tower | wither skeleton skull, magma block, nether bricks | polished blackstone bricks | damage plus fire |
| Piglin Gold Tower | piglin head, smithing table, gold block | polished blackstone bricks | very fast precision |
| Dragon Tower | dragon head, respawn anchor, purpur block | end stone bricks | expensive long-range area damage |
- The five big towers upgrade damage, range and attack speed (up to 10) and looting (up to 3).
- Every tower has its own loot chest (up to 54 slots); kill XP is stored in the tower and withdrawn in its menu. Spawner mobs give none.
- Towers belong to their builder (8 per player by default). Share use, loot and upgrade rights with up to 32 players, pick a target profile (undead, arthropods, raid mobs) and switch towers with redstone.
- Tower blocks resist explosions, pistons and liquids. Each tower has its own muzzle flash and shot trail (can be turned off).
Monster traps
A 3x3 obsidian frame with a core block in the middle and a button on the front of the frame. Floor, wall and ceiling traps work.
- Throw trap (piston core) throws hostile mobs away, sling trap (slime block) flings them in an arc, spike trap (iron block) damages them, tar trap (honey block) slows them down.
- Fire by button or let the trap work automatically, with a 10 or 15 second cooldown. Only hostile mobs are hit; players, animals and pets are safe.
Upgradable furnaces and workstations
- Furnaces, blast furnaces and smokers belong to whoever places them. Upgrades: up to 2.2x smelting speed, 2x burn time, 25 % chance of an extra result, up to 11 items per cycle and 2x XP. XP from hopper-fed smelting is stored and paid out in the menu.
- Brewing stands. Brewing speed and fuel power, plus potion bonuses: a chance of an extra effect, a chance of a stronger potion and longer durations. Vanilla recipes stay in charge.
- Campfires. Faster cooking and a chance of an extra cooked item.
- Anvils. Right-click opens a small menu: use the anvil as usual or upgrade it. Upgrades lower the XP cost (up to 50 %), raise enchantment caps above vanilla and make the anvil stop wearing out.
- Take your upgrades with you. Break the main block (combo top, tower head, furnace, workstation, anvil) and it keeps its upgrade levels as an item.
More
- With Vystorm Skills: furnace owners also get smelting and cooking skill XP. With VystormCityClaim: sorter and vacuum respect its chest permissions.
- English and German, per player. Guide in game under
/vmenu tutorialsor/bi.
Commands & permissions
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/bi (/blockintegrations, /blockint) |
Overview menu for players, status for admins |
/bi combos, /bi towers, /bi furnaces, /bi workstations, /bi traps |
Building guides |
/bi towers list [player], /bi towers near |
Your towers, or towers within 48 blocks |
/bi sortlock, /bi chestpriority |
Sorter slot locks, personal chest order |
/bi towers remove, /bi status, /bi reload |
Admin tools |
blockintegrations.use, .combos, .towers, .furnaces, .workstations (each with an .upgrade node), .traps and .anvils are granted to everyone. blockintegrations.furnaces.manage-others, .workstations.manage-others, blockintegrations.admin and blockintegrations.* are for operators.
Configuration
Edit the whole config.yml in game with /vadmin config BlockIntegrations, or under Settings → Server. Changes apply immediately.
- Radii, cooldowns, launcher and lift strength, the heal block, harvester and upgrade costs
- Tower stats per type,
towers.max-per-player,towers.pause-when-loot-full,towers.visual-effects - Furnace bonuses, the
workstations,anvilsandtrapssections language: auto; add languages by copyinglang/en.yml
No database needed; data is stored as local JSON files plus block and item data.
Requirements
- Paper or Purpur 1.21.8 to 26.2 (plain Spigot is not supported), Java 25
- Vystorm Core (free)
- Optional: Vystorm Skills, VystormCityClaim
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Free and open source (MIT).
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- R1.21.8–26.2
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