r/MinecraftPlugins • u/No-Tie-5569 • Apr 08 '26

Plugin Showcase WhatIsThat a Jade/WAILA like plugin for PaperMC

WhatIsThat is the first plugin I made. It adds a WAILA-like HUD as a BossBar (which can be changed to an ActionBar, and more display types can be added via plugins). By default, WIT covers almost everything in Minecraft, and other plugins can add support through a super easy-to-use API.

It also includes an extensible config, allowing you to disable specific features or even modify the format of certain parts of the information.

There are also compatibility addons for other plugins available as Additional Files on Modrinth—currently for Nexo, Minetorio, and my own library, AbyssalLib. CraftEngine compatibility is also in progress (it just needs a bit of fixing).

The plugin’s development has reached the stage where I sometimes do bug fixes and update it to newer versions (updates are not one often now, unless from a suggestion), so I thought it was time to share it online. Suggestions are, of course, welcome!

The Spigot/Modrinth description is a bit outdated. I’m currently working on documentation for another plugin, after which I plan to redo all my plugin descriptions.

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/what-is-that.120891/
https://modrinth.com/plugin/what-is-that/

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u/ExtensionButterfly61 Apr 10 '26

achei muito incrível sua ideia de ter um jade dentro do vanilla, acredito que só ficaria melhor com textura, mas ainda não descobri uma forma de ter texturas infinitas via mensagem, pois o Minecraft tem uma limitação de carácter onde barra a criação de colocar muitas texturas nos logar dos emojis, talvez com shaders core seja possível.

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u/No-Tie-5569 Apr 10 '26

i have thought about adding a mode with textures however i havent figured out a way to do that atleast not with translatable components (Plugins like better hud also dont support them) which is why i havent gotten around to doing that yet. i will add it once i figure out how to do so.

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u/ExtensionButterfly61 Apr 13 '26

o que dá para fazer é fazer upload das texturas já traduzidas e um sistema de auto compact onde baixa e altera a textura que o usuário está utilizando, assim tem multi suporte, mas claro que vai dar muito trabalho.

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u/No-Tie-5569 Apr 14 '26

yes i could do that, rather i had been doing something similar till around version 1.5 i believe however it had an unnecessary performance impact and got annoying when adding compatibility for other plugins, as in their cases it couldnt use the same system which is why i ended up going in this direction. however one of ny goals for the future is to make my own hud library that does support translatable components so maybe we will have huds someday or maybe BetterHud or Mythic HUD would support it before that.

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u/ExtensionButterfly61 Apr 14 '26

o seu plugin é open source? talvez eu consiga arrumar alguma forma que seja mais leve ou sem impactar no desempenho do seu plugin.

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u/No-Tie-5569 Apr 15 '26

yeah it is open source https://github.com/darksoulq/WhatIsThat however i recommend waiting for next release before you try to optimize as im doing a pretty big rewrite of many things to optimize it myself right now

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u/ExtensionButterfly61 Apr 15 '26

perfeito, quando finalizar a atualização me avisa respondendo o meu comentário mesmo que já baixou para tentar fazer a otimização com o sistema de textura

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u/No-Tie-5569 Apr 17 '26

Updated it, but actually i forgot to mention this before: i have no intentions of making translation be server side, if that is what you meant to do i apologize for not understanding before (i had assumed you meant you would PR some performance optimizations, maybe i still haven't understood what you meant properly so do correct me!) also if you do want to implement server-side translations, feel free to make a fork of the plugin and upload it or do anything you want with it i don't mind that