A plugin inspired by Itachi's crow morphing abilities

• Transform players into crows with scaling (0.6x)
• Two models: crow_fly while flying in the air, crow_stand otherwise (swapped automatically)
• Automatic transformation on teleportation and spectator mode
• Spawn crows at location
• BetterModel integration for animated crow models, with ModelEngine kept as a fallback
• Resource pack management
• Cross-plugin compatibility (Essentials, Citizens, Nexo)

Karasu draws crows through one plugin at a time, picked by karasu.visual.model-engine:

Model support differs by Minecraft version. BetterModel targets 26.3; ModelEngine has not been updated for it yet. On 26.3 auto picks BetterModel, and on 26.2 it falls back to ModelEngine. Pinning modelengine on 26.3 gives you no models and a warning at startup — use auto unless you have a reason not to.

Model names are configured per engine, since the two live in different namespaces:

karasu:
  visual:
    model-engine: auto
    models:            # ModelEngine blueprint names
      flying: crow_fly
      perched: crow_stand
    bettermodel:       # BetterModel model names
      models:
        flying: crow_fly
        perched: crow_stand

/karasu debug reports the active engine, what was requested, whether each engine plugin is installed and usable, and whether both model ids are actually loaded.

• /karasu morph - Toggle crow transformation
• /karasu info - Show crow transformation status
• /karasu debug - Show model engine integration status
• /karasu spawn [count] - Spawn crows at location
• /karasu reload - Reload the config and re-pick the model engine

Aliased as /kcrows and /crow, so /crow spawn 3 still works.

Configuration is managed through src/main/resources/karasu.yml

To build the plugin:

mvn clean package -DskipTests

The JAR file will be located at target/Karasu.jar

Karasu compiles against paper-api and bettermodel-bukkit-api, both provided. BetterModel binds through softdepend, and ModelEngine is bound reflectively, so neither model engine is required to build — in particular ModelEngine's premium jar is no longer needed. libs/ is only needed for the UnlimitedNametags API jars.