Prerequisites

Prerequisites

Compatible versions

• Server: Paper/Purpur compatible with the engine's baseline.
  • The engine compiles against Paper API 1.20.4 (modern baseline).
• Java: Java 21.
• MultiBlockEngine: the version of the plugin installed on your server.
• Engine API: the addon must compile against the engine's API version.
  • Current: API_VERSION = 1 in MultiBlockEngine.java

Development tools

• IDE: IntelliJ IDEA recommended.
• Build system: Gradle recommended.
• Access to the MultiBlockEngine JAR to compile with compileOnly.

Required technical knowledge

• Java (recommended: Java 21), interfaces, lambdas.
• Bukkit/Paper basics: listeners, scheduler, logging.
• Engine concepts:
  • ECA (Event-Condition-Action)
  • Multiblock definitions (YAML) and/or code-defined multiblocks
  • Capabilities (composition by contract)