TAB aims to be a superior all-in-one minecraft plugin for displaying information that outperforms all
similar plugins in terms of features, performance, compatibility and support.
More information can be found at Why TAB? wiki page.
As of TAB 3.0.0, released with MC 1.18 (November 30th, 2021), there is no free / premium version anymore. Only one version of the plugin exists now, which contains all implemented features and is available to everyone for free. However, customer support is only provided to customers who have purchased the plugin (see Customer support).
Compilation requires JDK 8 and up.
To compile the plugin, run ./gradlew build from the terminal.
Once the plugin compiles, grab the jar from /jar/build/libs/ folder.
The universal jar contains all modules for all supported platforms.
Unlike with other projects where requirements and level of support provided are unclear, we provide a clear answer to what kind of service you will or will not receive. Some don't even clearly state if they are free or paid. While they are listed as paid on spigot, they have a free download link in description, which can be confusing.
Free plugins typically do have a support discord, however you will rarely receive official support from the developers, especially for large projects with tons of users, where helping everyone in the world (theoretically) would consume too much time, leaving authors no time left to actually work on the project. In the end, they are free, made by people in their free time, and they are allowed to choose what they do or don't want to do in their free time. They often leave support to other people, possibly staff members, who are, however, in the end just more volunteers who may not even know the answer.
With paid plugins you are more likely to receive support, but unless explicitly said, nothing is guaranteed. There are lots of paid plugins where authors don't provide any support or redirect it to helpers, where again they are unpaid volunteers who might not even know the answer.
In TAB, everything is clearly defined. The plugin is free to download for everyone. Customer support, however, is only provided to customers who have formally purchased a copy of the plugin on any of the websites the plugin is being sold on:
- BuiltByBit (accepts any payment method)
- Polymart (only PayPal)
After purchasing, you can request assistance via either private messages on the website where you have purchased it, or using TAB's Discord server (which is highly preferred, since the communication will be much faster thanks to notifications and more).
- We use a ticket system, which allows us to effectively track any amount of unresolved problems. No more questions getting lost in the sea of messages from other people asking. Tickets are only closed after user confirmed all of their questions were answered and then receive a transcript of the ticket from the bot after ticket is closed into private messages (unless user is blocking them).
- We do not rely on the community helping, which often makes things even worse. We know people have better things to do than helping random people with a random plugin, especially when most people only have a very basic knowledge of the plugin, not being able to answer more complicated problems.
- We have notifications enabled and reply as soon as possible. We do not have the server muted unlike most mods on most servers who only check it when they are really bored, give a wiki link and disappear again.
- As the developer, I do not rely on helpers providing support instead of me. They are handy as I am obviously not available 24/7, but I do not intentionally leave anything to them. I reply whenever I am available without any intentional delays.
The wiki contains everything about the plugin in one way or another, so support should not
even be needed. It also contains a few examples, but obviously cannot contain a pre-made config
for every possible idea anyone can come up with.
Support is provided to people who decided paying for support is more time efficient than reading the wiki,
especially for serious servers, where price of the plugin is nothing compared to other server costs.
Download the plugin for free:
Wiki
Donate if you are feeling extra generous
The Issues section is only available for cases included in templates. In other words, they are not available for:
- Support - support is provided on discord for buyers, where roles are given to verified users allowing us to know who bought it and who didn't. It also serves as a much faster way of communication.
- Feature requests - closed indefinitely.
If you're a customer, please use discord for reporting bugs, especially if you aren't good at making bug reports. You will be provided with a much faster and higher quality service.
See CONTRIBUTING.md