What is AeroWars?

AeroWars is a competitive SkyWars-style minigame plugin for Hytale servers. It drops each player — or team — onto a floating island. You loot the chests on your island and in the center, gear up, and fight to be the last one standing.

Every match runs in its own isolated, disposable world cloned from a template, so any number of games can run at the same time without ever touching your main world.

Server version

This documentation covers AeroWars 1.2.0 for Hytale 0.6 (the jar declares >=0.6.0 <0.7.0). For another Hytale line, pick its documentation from the version menu.

Highlights

• Solo (FFA) and co-op Teams arenas, with a configurable team size.
• Maps are first-class — build a map's layout once and reuse it across many arenas, optionally with a random map pool per arena.
• Prefab spawn cages hold players on their island during the countdown, then drop away on start — design any shape with Hytale's prefab tool.
• Weighted chest loot with island / middle tiers, plus a schedulable in-match events system (refills and gradual loot upgrades).
• Selectable kits — free, permission-locked, or purchasable — chosen from an in-game picker or built visually in the admin panel.
• Spectator mode on death, on Hytale's native spectator: fly through blocks invulnerable and invisible to the living, teleport to living players, or return to lobby.
• Parties & matchmaking queues for Solo and Teams, with keep-together or auto-split behavior.
• Cosmetics: cage themes, kill effects, victory shows, and movement trails.
• Stats & leaderboards with optional SQL persistence, plus economy rewards, a PlaceholderAPI expansion, and a TaleGuard protection hook.
• A fully custom scoreboard/HUD, an in-game admin panel and setup wizard, an update checker, and English + Portuguese localization.

How a match works

1. Players join an arena (directly, through a queue, or as a party).
2. During the countdown everyone waits in a spawn cage; kits can be picked from the cage hotbar.
3. On start the cages drop away and combat opens. Grab loot, cross to the middle, and fight.
4. Falling into the void eliminates you — on death you become a spectator.
5. When one team (or player) remains, or time runs out, the match resolves with a victory podium and firework show, then the world is cleaned up.

Ready to set it up? Head to Getting Started.