Overview

TDX Welcome Raffle turns "welcome!" in chat into a small event. When a player joins your server for the first time, a raffle opens for them. Everyone who welcomes them in chat before the timer runs out is entered, and when it ends one of them wins a random prize.

Why it exists

A new player's first minute decides a lot. Being greeted by several people makes a server feel alive, and most players are happy to type "welcome" when there is a little something in it for them. The raffle gives them that reason, without spamming chat with rewards for everyone.

How a raffle runs

1. A player joins for the first time. After a short delay, everyone online is told to say the keyword, and the newcomer is told people are about to welcome them.
2. Any chat message that contains a keyword enters the sender, with a message and a sound. "Welcome!!!!! Thanks for joining Player123" counts.
3. When the timer ends, one entrant who is still online is drawn and gets a random prize from rewards.yml.
4. The other entrants are told who won. You can also tell the newcomer, or everyone.

Highlights

• Keyword entry, a keyword anywhere in the message counts, or only as a whole word if you prefer. Any number of keywords, in any language.
• Weighted prizes, each prize has a chance, written as 10 or 10%. The chances are compared with each other, so there is always a prize. Each prize runs console commands and sends its own message.
• Fair play, players on the newcomer's IP are not entered, a minimum playtime keeps brand-new accounts out, and a cap on open raffles stops a wave of join bots.
• Several newcomers at once, each gets their own raffle, and one welcome enters you into all of them.
• Every colour format, &e, &#rrggbb and MiniMessage tags all work in every message.
• PlaceholderAPI expansion, open raffles, time left, entries and whether the viewer is entered.
• Public API, TDXWelcomeRaffleAPI plus three cancellable events.
• Folia safe, and it runs on Paper 1.20 and newer.

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