BlockjagdBingo

Blockjagd Bingo

Minecraft Java 26.3 · Paper · Java 25 · No client mods required

Race your friends through a shared 5×5 item bingo board, or tackle a constantly changing set of five collection goals. Play solo for personal bests or compete in colored teams. The in-game interface supports English and German, selectable independently by every player.

Two ways to play

• Classic 5×5 Bingo: complete any row, column or diagonal of five items. Everyone gets the same board. Team members share progress.
• Collection Hunt: five active item goals. Finding an item automatically scores it and replaces that slot. Race to a configurable item count, or collect as much as possible before time runs out.

In-game screenshots / Spielansichten

Original screenshots from Minecraft Java 26.3, captured on 5 November 2026. These screenshots show the German interface; English is available through the in-game language selector.

Classic 5×5 Bingo / Klassisches Bingo

The 25 team goals form five rows. Complete a row, column or diagonal to win.

Collection Hunt / Sammeljagd

Five active goals in a single row. Completed goals are replaced in their slots; the sidebar shows 0/50 in this example.

Lobby and game start / Lobby und Spielstart

The compass opens the lobby menu with teams, goals, settings and the game-start button.

Record book / Rekordbuch

Home screen for classic records, collection milestones and timed scores, with difficulty and team-size filters. This image shows the category menu, not a populated leaderboard.

Crafting recipes / Rezeptansicht

Blast furnace (Schmelzofen) recipe with ingredients on the left and the result on the right. Ingredients can open further recipes.

Language / Sprache

Click Deutsch / English at the bottom of any menu, or use /bingo language. Choose English, Deutsch or Automatic. Direct commands: /bingo language en, /bingo language de, /bingo language auto. No operator permission needed. Your choice is saved across restarts and does not change anyone else’s language or any game rules. Automatic mode follows your Minecraft language (German for German clients, English otherwise).

Menus, item names, recipes, records, chat messages and the live sidebar are localized. German and English item names are both accepted when searching for goals to ban. No external translation service required.

Features

• Compass menus for goals, teams, recipes, settings and records. No command memorization for normal play.
• Click a goal to inspect its crafting recipe; follow ingredients into nested recipes.
• Four curated survival difficulties: easy, normal, hard and very hard. Advanced targets include brewing, Nether materials and Mending books; no Elytra or dragon requirement.
• Persistent record book: fastest classic bingo lines, collection checkpoints at 5/10/15/20 items, and higher checkpoints only after they have been achieved. Timed rounds also have item-count rankings.
• Player names, team, difficulty, duration, date and time for each result. Solo runs, team sizes and different rule profiles have separate rankings.
• Live progress leaderboard, winner highlights, Minecraft challenge sound and spectator player selection.
• Operator menus for monster difficulty, night vision, lava/fall/general damage, hunger, PvP, speed, haste and inventory retention.
• Optional /top and safe vertical /down teleport.
• Ban troublesome goals using /banitem hand, a hotbar slot or a German item name.
• Solo-start confirmation, team assignment choices, optional autostart and confirmed round restart.
• Game state and records survive normal server restarts. No external service, account or database required.

Installation

Use a dedicated Bingo server. Joining the lobby and starting a round clear player inventories and change game modes. Do not install this on an existing survival server without a backup.

1. Install Paper 26.3 and Java 25.
2. Place blockjagd-bingo-0.8.0.jar in the server’s plugins directory.
3. Restart the server. Join with a Minecraft Java 26.3 client.
4. Give your game organizer operator access through the server console (op YourName).
5. Open the compass menu, choose teams and let an operator start the game.

Tested with Paper 26.3 build 241. Other Minecraft versions, Spigot, Folia and Bedrock clients are not supported/tested. No additional plugins are required.

Useful commands

A round restart moves the next start area within the same world seed; it is not a full server restart or world reset. Existing record files remain in plugins/BlockjagdBingo/records.yml. Record timing begins with newly started rounds; old rounds are not retroactively ranked.

Transparenz / Transparency

Developed with substantial generative-AI assistance for code, tests, documentation and the project icon, guided and playtested by the project owner. Screenshots, when provided, show the actual game. The plugin itself does not call an AI service.

Independent project. Not the official BastiGHG mod. Not an official Minecraft product; not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Deutsch

Blockjagd Bingo ist ein kostenloses Bingo-Plugin für Minecraft Java 26.3 und Paper. Spiele klassisches 5×5-Team-Bingo oder eine Sammeljagd mit fünf wechselnden Items – nach Zielanzahl oder auf Zeit. Mit Kompass-Menüs, Rezeptnavigation, vier Schwierigkeitsgraden, Live-Rangliste und dauerhaftem Rekordbuch. Deutsch und Englisch im Spiel umschaltbar, keine Client-Mods nötig.

Usage permission

Copyright (c) 2026 Karl. All rights reserved. You may download the compiled plugin free of charge and install and run it on Minecraft servers. No other rights are granted by this notice. Minecraft and third-party components remain subject to their respective terms.