Ultra Crates

Most crate plugins give you a chest menu and a row of sliding items.
Ultra Crates stands a real 3D crate in your world, and every opening is a show played by that crate, in front of everyone.

There is no resource pack and no mod. Everything is built from the game's own blocks and items, so it works for every player the moment they join.

100% free | Spigot and Paper 26.3 | Set up entirely in game

14 models, 5 themes each.
A pirate chest, a safe with a turning wheel, a dragon asleep on its hoard, a neon capsule, a pharaoh's sarcophagus.
Every crate scales to any size, breathes with the particles you pick, and carries a hologram with a line only the player reading it sees: "You have 3 keys".

23 animations, played in your world.
The crate turns to face the player who clicked it, plays, and turns back the way it stands.
A rarer prize gets a bigger show: more rays, more fireworks, thunder.

These GIFs are real recordings from a Spigot server.

Make an opening public, and the whole server watches while the crate is busy, or personal, so only the opener sees theirs and many can open at once.
In a hurry? Sneaking skips straight to the prize.

Some openings need the player.
In the Shell Game three crates shuffle, faster and faster, and the player clicks the one they believe in.
In the Slot Machine they pull the lever. The Pinata takes three whacks.
Nobody clicks? The show carries on by itself.

A wheel of fortune about four blocks across.
Six to sixteen segments in the colours you choose, gold pegs that flick a red pointer, 24 chasing bulbs and a sign with your own words.
It spins with real deceleration, a click for every peg, and lands on the prize the server drew.

A free spin every so many hours, spin tokens (virtual or as items), or money and levels.
Six themes, any bulb colour or a rainbow, and it also spins in a menu with /wheel.

Crates are made in the game, not in a text file.
/ucrates opens the editor. A new crate is seven steps along the top of the window: name, model, theme, animation, key, prizes, done.
Click any step to go back, or skip one: the crate works with what it has at every step.
Prizes? Click the items in your own inventory. They are kept exactly as they are, with their name, lore and enchantments.

Works with your custom items

Items from ItemsAdder, Oraxen and Nexo work everywhere an item does: prizes, keys, crate and wheel icons, spin tokens.
Pick them from a list in the editor, or type their id. They are saved by id, so a new texture or model from your item plugin reaches every crate by itself.

Built for a real server

• 01
  Keys- physical items of your choice, virtual keys on the player's account, or both. No anvil can forge one, and they cannot be placed, crafted with or burnt.
• 02
  Opening rules- a key, a money or level cost, both, or free. A cooldown, a permission, opening from a menu, opening every key at once.
• 03
  Pity- a prize of a chosen rarity is certain within so many openings, and the preview shows the counter.
• 04
  Fair chances- the preview shows each player's real odds. /ucrates simulate can roll a crate a million times to prove it.
• 05
  Prize limits- wins per player, a stock for the whole server, a permission to win it, or one that rules it out.
• 06
  Safe prizes- the prize is written down before the animation starts. A crash in the middle hands it over at the next join.
• 07
  More than items- console and player commands, money, experience, keys of other crates, wheel spins, messages, broadcasts, a weighted surprise.
• 08
  Your style- every text is MiniMessage: gradients, hex colours, clicks and hovers, on Spigot too.
• 09
  Your limits- how close a player must be for a crate to be drawn, how many animations may play at once, and how many details a model carries.

Getting started

1. Put the jar in plugins/ and start the server. Eight example crates and a daily wheel are written for you.
2. Run /ucrates showcase to set them all down in front of you, or /ucrates showcase models to try every model.
3. Run /ucrates give <you> legendary 5 and right-click the chest.
4. Run /ucrates, click + New crate, and make your own.

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Ultra Crates is free.

If your players love it, leave a review. Found a bug or have an idea? Tell us in the discussion tab.

Every picture and GIF on this page was captured in the game on a Spigot server, most of them with a shader pack for the light. The plugin needs no shaders.