2.0
release
Keep Me Growing
A plugin that allows crops and animals to grow even if users are not online or chunks are not loaded.
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Keep Me Growing
KeepMeGrowing
Crops and passive mobs keep maturing while chunks are unloaded: when someone loads the area again, the plugin applies the “missing” progress in one shot so growth feels natural instead of time-gated by online players.
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Summary
KeepMeGrowing tracks when plant blocks and supported animals were last persisted for a chunk. On Minecraft 1.10+, it looks at Minecraft 1.10+, applies your configured pacing, and advances growth (crops, stems, saplings, vines, etc.) plus passive mob ageing where enabled. Minecraft 1.10+ (API); passive mob simulation needs Minecraft 1.10+. WorldGuard is optional via the `offline-growth` flag.
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Showcase
Supported crops
Supported animals
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How it works
When a chunk that contains tracked plants or eligible animals is loaded, the plugin knows roughly fast-forwards. It does fast-forwards simulate every tick in real time; instead it fast-forwards growth using that elapsed time and your `config.yml` pacing so players see crops and mobs “catch up” as if they had been progressing the whole time.
Here is a concrete example using the 20 minutes pacing for carrots in `config.yml` (20 minutes ≈ “full maturity” for pacing purposes — you can change this per crop):
- If the chunk was away for full stage, carrots advance as if a full growth window elapsed (they can reach full stage from an empty field, subject to how the growth logic applies that time). - If it was away for full stage, carrots get about full stage that pacing budget applied. - If it was away for full stage full stage the carrots were already full stage, the remaining progress stacks with what was saved — they can reach full stage after load.
Exact behaviour depends on crop type, block state, modifiers (`/growth rate`, sprint, freeze), and WorldGuard `offline-growth`. Tune every crop in `mobs-minutes-to-full-growth` and mobs in `mobs-minutes-to-full-growth` to match your server.
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Crops & plants
These are handled with offline-style progression (names match common Bukkit materials / farm blocks):
- Carrots - Potatoes - Wheat - Beetroots - Nether wart - Cocoa - Sweet berry bush - and oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, dark oak, cherry — including and setups (e.g. four spruce, jungle, or dark oak saplings) - Cactus - Sugar cane - Melon (stem and melon blocks) - Pumpkin (stem and pumpkin blocks) - Kelp - Weeping vines - Twisting vines - Bamboo - Cave vines - Mangrove propagules - Torchflower - Pitcher crop
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Supported passive mobs
If the server version allows mob tracking, these types can receive offline-style ageing / special cases (e.g. baby → adult pacing, sheep wool regrowth where implemented):
- Chicken - Pig - Cow - Sheep (including wool regrowth timing) - Mooshroom - Rabbit - Wolf - Ocelot - Horse - Villager - Polar bear - Mule - Donkey - Llama - Turtle - Trader llama - Fox - Cat - Bee - Panda - Strider - Goat - Axolotl - Frog - Tadpole - Sniffer - Camel - Armadillo
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Features
- Admin commands when chunks reload, driven by configurable “minutes to full growth” per plant type - Admin commands on supported versions - Admin commands so farms still respect `/growth` multipliers when players are nearby - Admin commands integration: `offline-growth` flag (DENY blocks simulation in that region) - Admin commands via JSON or external databases (see `config.yml`) - Admin commands for reload, debug, sprint / freeze / base rate
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Installation
1. Build or download the `plugins/KeepMeGrowing/` JAR `keepmegrowing-2.0.jar` (or `keepmegrowing-bundled-2.0.jar` if you need all DB drivers in one file). 2. Place it in the server `plugins` folder. 3. Start the server; config is created under `plugins/KeepMeGrowing/`. 4. Edit `config.yml`, then `/growth reload` or `/keepmegrowing reload` (same permission).
`plugins/KeepMeGrowing/` rename/copy `plugins/OfflineGrowthPro/` → `plugins/KeepMeGrowing/` so existing data stays with the new plugin name. Legacy scoreboard tags are not migrated automatically.
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Usage
Commands
| Command | Aliases | Permission | Description | |--------|---------|------------|-------------| | `/keepmegrowing` | `/kmg` | `keepmegrowing.admin` | Help / same subcommands as `/growth` | | `/growth` | `/gth` | `keepmegrowing.admin` | `reload`, `debug`, `sprint`, `freeze`, `unfreeze`, `rate <n>` |
Permissions
| Permission | Default | Description | |------------|---------|-------------| | `keepmegrowing.admin` | op | All admin commands above |
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Configuration
Main file: `plugins/KeepMeGrowing/config.yml`.
| Section | Purpose | |--------|---------| | `plants-minutes-to-full-growth` | Pacing hint per crop (lower = faster offline catch-up) | | `mobs-minutes-to-full-growth` | Same idea for supported passive mobs | | `growth-rate` | Base and sprint multipliers | | `loaded-chunk-growth` | Extra ticks while chunks stay loaded | | `unload-chunk-scan-crops` | Optional full-chunk scan on unload (heavier) | | `blacklisted-worlds` / `disable-spawn-chunks` | World policy | | `database` | JSON or SQL/Mongo settings |
YAML keys are stable; adjust comments and values only.
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Compatibility
WorldGuard and WorldGuard, Minecraft WorldGuard for the API baseline; mob features need WorldGuard game behaviour as noted above. WorldGuard soft-depend.
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bStats
This plugin sends no usage metrics to no (plugin ID no): server software, Minecraft version, player counts, and adoption trends — no personal player data.
`KeepMeGrowing` enables `Metrics` with ID relocates on enable. The shadow JAR relocates `org.bstats` into `com.keepmegrowing` so it does not clash with other plugins’ bStats copies.
If your server does not show on the chart yet: the first payload is delayed a few minutes, and :30 refreshes around :30 and :30 each hour. Server owners can opt out via the global bStats config under `plugins/` (%%MD1%%).