BlockGens

Turn any block into an endless resource. Craft a generator, place it, and it keeps a block of your choice above itself - break it, collect the loot, and it grows back. Perfect for skyblock, gens servers and survival worlds that need a renewable source of anything.

✨ Why BlockGens?

Most generator plugins give you a cobblestone generator and call it a day. BlockGens lets you decide everything:

• 🧱 Any blocks - the generator and the block it creates can be any blocks you like: sponge making stone, dirt making obsidian, glass making diamond ore.
• 🎁 Weighted drop tables - every break rolls a drop from your own list, with weights and amounts. Rare loot is one line of config away.
• 🛠️ Craft them or sell them - give each generator its own crafting recipe, or skip the recipe and sell generators in your shop instead.
• 🎨 Names and lore that look the part - full MiniMessage support: gradients, colors, formatting.
• ⏱️ Your pace - set how fast each generator regrows, from instant to minutes.

🛡️ Built to survive real servers

• Survives restarts - placed generators are stored in the world itself.
• No duping, no griefing - pistons cannot push generators around, endermen and withers leave them alone, and nothing can be squeezed into the spot of a regrowing block.
• Plays nice with protection plugins - if a region does not allow building or breaking, BlockGens does not either.
• Explosions your way - per generator, TNT and creepers can leave it untouched, drop it like a normal block, or destroy it for good.
• Never eats your blocks - place a generator under a chest and the chest stays; the generator simply starts once the space above is free.

🛒 Made for shops

/bg give works from the console, so any shop plugin can sell generators:

/bg give {player} sponge 5

Full inventory? The rest lands at the player's feet - nothing a player paid for ever disappears.

⚙️ Simple configuration

One file, three sections. A complete generator looks like this:

generators:
  sponge:
    delay: 20                  # regrows after 1 second
    blocks:
      generator: sponge
      generated: stone
    drops:
      diamond: { weight: 1, count: 1 }
      bread:   { weight: 9, count: 2 }
    crafting:
      shape: [ 'SSS', 'SPS', 'S S' ]
      mapping: { 'S': STONE, 'P': PISTON }
    explosion:
      generator: drop
      generated: remove

blocks:
  sponge:
    material: SPONGE
    name: '<gradient:gold:yellow>Food Generator</gradient>'
    lore: [ 'Place me and break the stone above!' ]
  stone:
    material: STONE

items:
  diamond: { material: DIAMOND }
  bread:   { material: BREAD, name: '<green>Fresh bread' }

Change something, run /bg reload - no restart needed. Made a typo? The plugin tells you exactly what is wrong and where, and keeps the old config running.

📜 Commands and permissions

/bg is short for /blockgens. All permissions go to operators by default and are part of blockgens.*.

📦 Requirements

• Paper 26.2 or newer, or a fork such as Purpur - Folia is not supported
• Java 25

💬 Support

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on GitHub - the plugin is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

BlockGens collects anonymous usage statistics with bStats. You can turn them off in plugins/bStats/config.yml.