Name: HoeWars | Territory Control Minigame
Brand: zArrowTan Resources
SKU: 85
Price: 4.49 USD
Availability: InStock

⚔️ HoeWars
Paint the arena floor with your hoe, claim the most territory, and win.
By zArrowTan, part of Arrow Plugins.

📋 Overview

HoeWars is a competitive territory-control minigame. Players race to paint the arena floor in their color using a hoe, claiming ground and stealing it back from opponents. When the timer runs out, whoever owns the highest percentage of the floor wins. It runs on a self-contained engine with ranked matchmaking, rank progression, full stats, and auto-resetting arenas.

The HoeWars main menu

🎮 How It Works

Queue up for a mode and wait for the lobby to fill.
When the match starts, you're dropped into the arena with your tool.
Claim floor blocks to paint them in your color, and overwrite enemy blocks to steal their ground.
Keep an eye on the timer and your live occupation percentage.
When time's up, the highest percentage owned wins.

Claimed territory mid-match, paint the floor in your color

🕹 Game Modes

Ranked: competitive matches that affect your ELO and rank
Unranked: casual play with no impact on your rank
Deathmatch: a different-paced variant for a change of style

🏅 Ranks & Matchmaking

Rank Tiers: climb from Coal all the way to Netherite, earned through wins
ELO System: ranked matches use an ELO rating to keep games fair
Persistent Progress: your rank and rating stick with you across sessions

📊 Stats & Leaderboards

Tracks wins, losses, ELO, occupation, and more per player
Browse the leaderboard in a clean in-game menu
Quick top-rankings commands for chat
Full PlaceholderAPI support for scoreboards, tab, and chat

The leaderboard menu

Top 10 wins, straight in chat

🖥 Scoreboard & Tab

A live scoreboard tracks the match in real time, time remaining, your placement, your occupation percentage, and the current leader. The tab list updates alongside it, with both queue and in-game states.

The in-game scoreboard

The tab list during a match

🧰 Arenas

Multiple Arenas: run as many as you like, each with its own spawns and settings
Template & Clone: every match plays on a fresh copy of the arena, so the floor resets perfectly between games
Per-Arena Claim Block: choose what block the floor is painted with (wool, terracotta, and more)
GUI Setup: configure spawns, bounds, and mode through an arena settings menu

✨ More Features

Spectator Mode: watch live matches
Queue System: automatic countdown and match launching, plus admin force-start
Custom Events: match start/end, block claim, rank up, and queue join for developers
Fully Configurable: messages, scoreboard, and colors, all editable with legacy color code support

⌨️ Commands

Main command /hoe. Open the menu with /hoe or /hoe menu, spectate with /hoe spectate <player>, and set arenas up with the /hoe arena tools. The full list is in the help menu.

The full commands list

🧩 Dependencies

Required: None
HoeWars works out of the box, with SQLite storage built in (MySQL optional for networks).

Optional

PlaceholderAPI for placeholders in scoreboards, tab, and chat
WorldEdit / FastAsyncWorldEdit to speed up arena pasting
Vault and LuckPerms supported when present

🧪 Requirements

Minecraft: 1.16.5 to 1.21.11 (Spigot, also runs on Paper and Purpur)
Java: 11 or higher on the server
Storage: SQLite out of the box, MySQL optional

💬 Support

Need help, found a bug, or want to suggest a feature? Join the Discord.

Click here to join the Discord

Claim the floor. Win the war.

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