Christmas Season

Christmas Season is a lightweight Christmas event plugin for Paper/Spigot 1.21 (Java 21).
It brings snow, gifts, elves, decoration drops and snowmen to your server – all controlled through the /xmas command.

⚠️ Requirements

Minecraft: 1.21.x

Server: Paper or Spigot (most Bukkit forks will work)

Java: 21

Features

❄ Snow biomes & snow cover
- Configurable snow world (snowWorld in config.yml)
- Biome-based snow cover: turn whole biomes like SNOWY_PLAINS into snowy landscapes
- Performance-friendly processing using tick batches (intervalTicks, maxChunksPerRun, playerBubble, etc.)
- Optional restore feature to revert modified chunks/blocks as far as possible
🌨️ Snowstorms
- Global snowstorm effect by controlling your server weather
- Configurable modes (auto, forced on/off)
- Automatic on/off cycles based on configurable intervals
🎄 Christmas decoration
- Periodic decoration drops with the custom item name §aWeihnachts-Deko
- Fully configurable drop items (decoration.drops)
- Optional glowing items (decoration.glow)
- Despawn time and spawn interval are configurable
🎁 Gifts
- Global gift spawns in intervals
- Multiple loot tables: common, extra, rare (e.g. cookies, sweet berries, ice, diamonds, netherite scrap, etc.)
- Configurable lifetime and spawn chance per interval
- Optional broadcast on spawn (gifts.broadcastOnSpawn)
- Manual spawn command /xmasgift
🧝 Elves & helpers
- Configurable elves and helpers (Wichtel) via wichtel.* and elves.*
- Automatically spawn in the configured world(s)
- Max count per world and spawn intervals are configurable
- Add extra Christmas atmosphere to your server
☃️ Snowmen
- Automatic snowman spawns
- Configurable: maximum number, spawn interval, attack range and attack chance
- Can interact with mobs in a classic snow golem–style defense
🛡️ Protection & listeners
- Listeners for snow, gifts, decoration, snowmen and elves
- Focus on server performance and predictable effects
- Everything can be disabled centrally if you want to pause the event

Commands

```text /xmas /xmas on /xmas off /xmas status /xmas reload /xmas biome <subcommand> /xmas storm <subcommand> /xmasgift