v2.0: v2.0 · The Big 26.2 Update: Strike Celebrations, Skin Shop & Party Mode
10 October 2026
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
- Bowling Party 2.36.2 → 2.48.0 (required, sold separately).
- CommandPanels 3.23 → 4.2.5, every menu converted.
- BowlingPlus 1.0.0, our own addon.
- CommandWhitelist to hide commands, ItemJoin for the hotbar and Placeholdy for one-file branding.
- 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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