SplatBall
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Splatball arena shooter. Make a new world and you drop straight into a red vs blue match with bots, five paint markers, and an arena that gets painted as you play. No setup, no commands.
SPLATBALL
A paintball arena shooter inside Minecraft. Make a new world and you are dropped straight into a red vs blue match. No setup, no commands, nothing to craft first.
JOIN AND PLAY
• New world: the arena is built in the sky above your spawn, you get the full kit, and bots fill both teams.
• Everyone who logs in is dropped into the match, and when a match ends the next one starts by itself.
• Existing world: your builds are never touched. Place a Paintball Station and right-click it to build the arena and drop in.
• A station at the back of each base takes you out again, back to where you joined.
FIVE PAINT MARKERS
Hold right-click to fire and press R to reload. Every marker has its own 3D model, magazine and feel.
• Splat Pistol – accurate sidearm. 5 damage, 12 shots.
• Splatter SMG – fast spray. 3 damage, 30 shots.
• Scatter Blaster – 7-pellet shotgun. 3 damage per pellet, 5 shots.
• Long Shot – sniper, sneak to zoom. 16 damage, 4 shots.
• Paint Launcher – lobbed splash of paint. 10 damage plus splash, 3 shots.
Players have 20 health. Run out and you are splatted: the other team scores and you respawn at your base with a few seconds of protection. Nobody actually dies and your inventory is never cleared.
THE ARENA PAINTS ITSELF
• The 81 x 145 arena is white when the match starts.
• Every paintball recolours what it hits in the shooter's team colour, so the map fills with red and blue as you play.
• Towers, ramps, bunkers and a centre platform with a tunnel underneath.
• Mirrored, so both teams get the same map.
• Each new match washes it clean.
BOTS
• Bots fill each team up to four and step aside as real players join.
• Works solo, with a friend, or on a full server.
• They push toward the enemy base, shoot what they can see, and score and respawn like players.
FOR SERVER OWNERS
• First team to 25 splats wins, or the best score after 8 minutes.
• The config file (config/splatball-common.toml) controls auto-play, bot count, win target, match length, damage and whether paint works outside the arena.
• Commands for manual control: /paintball start, stop, join red, join blue, leave, arena build, arena reset.
• On a dedicated server set pvp=true in server.properties, or paintballs cannot hurt players.
REQUIREMENTS
• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47 or newer
• Needed on both the client and the server
SplatBall Team
