Installation

Installation

1 · Install PacketEvents (required)

Sentinel-TextDisplays is built on PacketEvents and won't start without it. Download it and drop the jar into your plugins/ folder. It's free, licensed separately (GPL-3.0) and installed as its own plugin — exactly like ProtocolLib.

2 · Install Sentinel-TextDisplays

1. Drop the Sentinel-TextDisplays.jar from your purchase into plugins/.
2. Start the server. It generates plugins/Sentinel-TextDisplays/config.yml and a displays/ folder containing a fully commented example.yml template.
3. Run /td create welcome &bHello! for your first display, or /td gui for the editor.

Licensing is automatic. The jar you download from your purchase is licensed to your account — there is nothing to configure. Redistribution isn't permitted, and leaked copies are traceable to the original buyer.

Supported platforms

Platform	Versions	Notes
Spigot	1.19.4 – 1.21.x	Text Displays exist from 1.19.4
Paper (and forks)	1.19.4 – 1.21.x	Recommended

Java 17 – 21 is supported.

Optional integrations (auto-detected)

Plugin	Adds
PlaceholderAPI	%placeholders% in lines and action text — resolved per viewer
ItemsAdder	:emoji: font-images rendered inside display text
Nexo	glyphs via %nexo_<glyph>% (through PlaceholderAPI) or direct parsing

Nothing else is needed — the plugin bundles no libraries and hooks everything at startup.