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GlymeraBeacons - Colored Beacon Blocks with Light Beams

Place a beacon block and a towering light beam shoots into the sky. 8 colors, crafting recipes, ownership protection and a configurable placement limit per player.

What is GlymeraBeacons?

GlymeraBeacons adds colored beacon blocks to Hytale. When placed, each block projects a vertical light beam from the block up to the world height limit (320 blocks). The beam is visible from the full server view distance. Beacons are protected: only the player who placed a beacon (or an OP) can break it.

Features

8 colored beacon blocks: Red, Blue, Green, Cyan, Purple, Pink, Yellow, White
Permanent light beam attached to each block, visible across the full view distance
Colored block glow: each beacon emits light in its color (radius 10 blocks, fullbright)
Animated orb particles inside the block, matching the beam color
Transparent block with circular hole - beam shines through
Ownership protection: only the owner or OPs can break a beacon
Mining protection: non-owners can't even start mining a beacon
Placement limit: configurable max beacons per player (default: 3, OPs bypass)
Crafting recipes at the Arcane Bench
Persistent data: ownership survives server restarts

Crafting

All beacons are crafted at the Arcane Bench (Arcane_Misc category):

Beacon	Ingredients
Red Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Red Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
Blue Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Blue Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
Green Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Green Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
Cyan Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Cyan Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
Purple Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Purple Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
Pink Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Pink Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
Yellow Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x Yellow Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence
White Beacon	1x Gold Bar + 1x White Crystal + 1x Concentrated Life Essence

Admins can also use /give Beacon_Red (etc.) to get beacons directly.

Configuration

Config file: mods/de.glymera_GlymeraBeacons/config.json (auto-generated on first start)

{
  "maxBeaconsPerPlayer": 3
}

maxBeaconsPerPlayer: Maximum number of beacons a non-OP player can place (default: 3)

Installation

Drop the single JAR into your server's mods/ folder:

mods/GlymeraBeacons-1.0.0.jar

That's it. The JAR contains everything: plugin code, particle effects, block definitions, textures, icons and language files. Config and beacon data are auto-generated on first start.

Technical Details

All-in-one JAR with IncludesAssetPack: true - no separate pack folders needed
Beams use custom particle systems with TotalParticles: -1 (infinite) and no LifeSpan (permanent)
Beam height: Scale.Y=320 (full world height), width: Scale.X=1.6-1.7
Block transparency via RequiresAlphaBlending: true with cutout-alpha textures (only alpha 0 or 255)
Block textures are modified versions of Hytale's Wood_Village_Wall_N_* series with circular holes
Connected block system (VillageConnectedBlockTemplate) for proper multi-block wall appearance
Each block emits colored light (radius 10) with Fullbright shading
Particle system IDs are filenames only (no path prefix)
Ownership stored as "world:x:y:z" -> "uuid" map in JSON

Version History

v1.0.0 - Initial release: 8 beacon colors, beams, orb particles, colored light, crafting, ownership protection, placement limit, single-JAR deployment

Changelog

GlymeraBeacons - Changelog

v5.0.0 (2026-08-28) — Hytale 0.6.0 (Update 6)

Rebuilt for Hytale 0.6.0 (Update 6). Requires server 0.6.0 or newer; this version does not run on 0.5.x, and older versions of this plugin do not run on 0.6.0.
Block textures padded to the 32 px grid required by the 0.6.0 client. A single non-conforming texture breaks the whole block-texture atlas for every player on the server.
Migrated to the 0.6.0 APIs (network protocol hytale/3, new command-permission API, block/chunk/entity API changes). Everything that was open to players before is open to players again.
Upgrade: delete the old jar from mods/, drop in the new one and keep the plugin's data folder — configs and saved data carry over unchanged. Restart the server.

v2.0.0 (2026-04-30)

Visual Overhaul

Block render switched from DrawType: Cube to DrawType: CubeWithModel: every beacon now consists of a transparent colored glass shell (the native Cube part, sitting pixel-perfect in the block slot) with a glowing custom-geometry core inside (8×8×8 voxel cube, fullbright shading, centered).
Glass shells use textures from the GlymeraGlass plugin: Glass_<Color>.png for each of the 8 beacons (White, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Cyan, Pink, Purple). The chosen glass color matches the beacon's light color, giving a coherent look.
Beacon core texture is generated by tinting Beacon.png with the beacon's light color via per-pixel multiply, producing concentric rings of color at the heart of each block.

Particle Improvements

Color-cycle in all Orb_* particle spawners: the inner glow particles now shimmer through a knallig white → red/pink → blue → green → yellow → white cycle over their lifetime. Applied uniformly to all 9 spawners (Blue, Cyan, Gold, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, White) for visual consistency across all beacon colors.
Orb particle volume increased: emit-offset bumped from ±0.2 to ±0.45 per axis (≈ 2.25× linear, ≈ 11× volume), particle scale increased ≈1.5×. The inner glow now fills the beacon core much more visibly.
Beam color preserved per beacon: each beacon retains its colored vertical beam (Beam_Red, Beam_Blue, …; Beam_Tall for white, Beam_Gold for yellow).

Inventory Icons

All 8 icons replaced with in-game screenshots of the placed block (32×32 PNG, center-cropped from the source photos). Native Hytale convention (32×32) — using larger PNGs caused the engine to scale-stripe them into unreadability.
IconProperties field removed from all 8 JSONs to prevent the engine from auto-rendering an icon from the model and ignoring the supplied PNG.

Plugin Logic

Java logic completely unchanged vs v1.0.0. BeaconBreakSystem, BeaconDamageSystem, BeaconPlaceSystem, the main GlymeraBeacons class — all untouched. Recipes (1× Gold Bar + 1× matching-color Crystal + 1× Concentrated Life Essence at the Arcane Bench) preserved unchanged.

Notes

The old ConnectedBlockRuleSet and State.Definitions (Bottom/Middle/Top stacking states with different per-state textures) were dropped: with the new transparent glass shell, all stacking states would render identically, so the complexity is no longer warranted.
No client-side cache flush needed; version bump (1.0.0 → 2.0.0) invalidates existing asset caches automatically.

v1.0.0 (2026-04-13)

Initial release.
8 colored beacon blocks (White, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Cyan, Pink, Purple).
DrawType: Cube with bespoke wood-style textures and pre-generated stack-state textures (Bottom/Middle/Top) tied via ConnectedBlockRuleSet.
Custom particle systems per color (Beam_<Color>): tall ray + center beam + orb particles, anchored 160 units above block top.
Per-color light source (Light.Color + Radius: 10).
ECS systems for placement / break / damage handling.
Crafting recipe at the Arcane Bench: 1× Gold Bar + 1× matching Crystal + 1× Concentrated Life Essence.

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