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v2.0: v2.0 · The Big 26.2 Update: Strike Celebrations, Skin Shop & Party Mode

10 October 2026

BOWLING PARTY SETUP
Update v2.0
1.21.10 ➜ 26.2 · Bowling Party 2.36 ➜ 2.48
Minecraft 26.2 · Paper 26.2 (or fork) · Java 25 · Bowling Party 2.48.0+

Highlights | Platform | BowlingPlus | VIP | New Look | Economy | Plugins | Fixes | Notes

✦ HIGHLIGHTS
  • Updated from 1.21.10 to Minecraft 26.2 on Paper 26.2 and Java 25.
  • New BowlingPlus addon, made for this setup: celebrations, a ball skin shop, daily challenges, party mode and a hall of fame.
  • 34 custom ball skins, every one a hand-made head with its own trail down the lane.
  • VIP rank made special: exclusive skins, gold celebrations and a bonus daily challenge.
  • A real economy with paid wins, daily goals and a long-term skin collection to save for.
  • Your branding in one file: server name, IP and links change everywhere from a single config.

✦ PLATFORM
  • Runs on Paper 26.2 (26.2 forks like Purpur work too) with Java 25.
  • Requires Bowling Party 2.48.0 or newer, the first version that runs on 26.2.
  • Lobby and arena worlds pre-converted to the 26.2 format, so there is no conversion wait on first start.
  • ViaVersion + ViaBackwards bundled, so older clients can join.
  • Lobby protection: no damage, drowning, fall damage or hunger, no block breaking, item drops or mob spawns.
  • Command hider: players only see the commands they can use, with no /plugin:command or plugin list leaks.
  • Fresh start: all leftover test player data removed.

✦ BOWLINGPLUS
Our own addon for Bowling Party, included with the setup. Open it with /bowling or the hotbar.
  • Celebrations: titles, sounds and fireworks for strikes, doubles, turkeys, streaks, spares, perfect games, personal bests and wins.
  • Ball Skin Shop: 34 skins with trails, from free to legendary. Skins only change the look, ball weight stays fair.
  • Daily Challenges: 3 new goals every day from a pool of 10, with money rewards and a bonus for finishing all three.
  • Party Mode: FireBowl rolls a twist on most turns: Shuffle, Mystery Ball, Moon Bowl, Golden Frame, Blackout and Dizzy.
  • Hall of Fame: the leaderboard wall now rotates between all-time and weekly top 10s for games, wins, strikes, turkeys, best score and perfect games.
  • Record broadcasts: the whole server hears it when someone takes a #1 spot.
  • Fully configurable: every menu, message, price, reward and twist lives in /plugins/BowlingPlus/.

✦ VIP
On top of the chat colours, glow and prefix VIPs already had.
  • 3 exclusive ball skins: Royal Velvet, Crown Jewel and Starlight. Other players see them as VIP only.
  • Gold celebrations: a [VIP] tag in celebration messages and gold star fireworks.
  • A 4th daily challenge: other players see a locked VIP slot in their challenges menu.
  • All of it comes from one permission, bowlingplus.vip, already on the vip group.

✦ NEW LOOK
  • Lobby hotbar: Socials, Bowling Menu and Player Stats items.
  • Ranks menu: restyled, with a new Your Rank item and the full VIP perk list.
  • Cosmetics and Stats menus: restyled, and Stats gains a second row for strikes, records, this week and your collection.
  • Scoreboard: now shows your balance.
  • New server icon to match the setup.
  • Placeholdy: edit /plugins/Placeholdy/config.yml once and the scoreboard, TAB and menus all follow.

✦ ECONOMY
  • One currency: EssentialsX money runs everything.
  • Earn it from: winning or finishing games, daily challenges and Golden Frame strikes.
  • Spend it in: the Ball Skin Shop. The first skin comes in your first session, the full collection takes months.
  • No more debt: balances can no longer go below zero.

✦ PLUGINS
Updated to the newest versions (all working on 26.2)
  • LuckPerms 5.5.85 · PlaceholderAPI 2.12.3 · EssentialsX 2.22.1
  • FastAsyncWorldEdit 2.16.1 · WorldGuard 7.0.19 · Multiverse-Core 5.8.1
  • FancyHolograms 2.12.0 · FancyNpcs 2.12.1 · DecentHolograms 2.10.1
  • TAB 6.2.0 · LPC 3.7.2 · ChatColor2 1.17 · ajLeaderboards 2.11.0
  • PlugManX 3.2.1 · VoidGen 2.3.8 · NBT-API 2.16.1
  • ViaVersion + ViaBackwards 5.12.1
Upgraded
  • Bowling Party 2.36.2 → 2.48.0 (required, sold separately).
  • CommandPanels 3.23 → 4.2.5, every menu converted.
Added
  • BowlingPlus 1.0.0, our own addon.
  • CommandWhitelist to hide commands, ItemJoin for the hotbar and Placeholdy for one-file branding.
Removed
  • JumpPads, it was never used in the lobby.

✦ FIXES
  • Winning now pays money instead of a stack of 64 gold ingots with no use.
  • Fall damage is off in the lobby.
  • The arena selector item and menu buttons open their menus again on the new CommandPanels.
  • The VIP Rank and Cosmetics back buttons work again.
  • The Stats NPC now shows each player their own skin.
  • The YouTube link in the socials menu was broken, now fixed.
  • Removed a broken nether world entry and a TAB example group that warned on every start.

✦ NOTES
  • Still required: Bowling Party 2.48.0 or newer, sold separately.
  • Optional: add your own free MineSkin API key in /plugins/FancyNpcs/config.yml for faster NPC skins.
  • Older versions (1.21.x and below) are not supported by this release.
  • Coming soon: a resource pack with voice lines and screen effects, and a practice lane in the lobby.

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