Configuring Nova

All config files are located in under plugins/Nova/configs/. Every addon has its own subdirectory with its own config files.

Most of the options in the configs are self-explanatory or explained using comments. The following section explains the more complex configuration options.

You might want to customize the Nova items menu. In order to do that, just edit plugins/Nova/configs/item_categories.yml. You can add or remove categories and change icon, name and items.

Warning

After modifying item_categories.json, the file will not be automatically updated anymore. This will prevent items from newly added addons from appearing, so you will have to add those yourself.

Tile-Entity limits

With tile-entity limits, you can create restrictions on which tile-entities players are allowed to place.
Tile-Entity limits are configured in the performance > tile_entity_limits section.
Players with the permission nova.misc.bypassTileEntityLimits will be able to bypass these restrictions.

There are 6 different limiters. You can choose one or combine multiple:

Name	Description
type	Prevent placing a specific tile-entity.
world	Prevent placing tile entities in specific worlds.
type_world	Prevent placing specific tile-entities in specific worlds.
amount	Set a maximum amount of tile-entities of a type for each player.
amount_per_world	Set a maximum amount of tile-entities of a type for each player for each world.
amount_per_chunk	Set a maximum amount of tile-entities of a type for each player for each chunk.

Example configs:

typeworldtype_worldamountamount_per_worldamount_per_chunk

# This example config prevents players from placing the quarry.
performance:
  tile_entity_limits:
    type:
      - machines:quarry

# This example config prevents players from placing tile-entities in the nether and end dimension.
performance:
  tile_entity_limits:
    world:
      - world_nether
      - world_the_end

# This example config prevents players from placing quarries in the overworld and pulverizers in the nether.
performance:
  tile_entity_limits:
    type_world:
      world:
        - machines:quarry
      world_nether:
        - machines:pulverizer

# This example config sets a maximum amount of one quarry and 50 cables of each type for every player.
performance:
  tile_entity_limits:
    amount:
      '*': 100 # Not mandatory, but this option would limit the total amount of tile-entities to 100 per player.
      machines:quarry: 1
      logistics:basic_cable: 50
      logistics:advanced_cable: 50
      logistics:elite_cable: 50
      logistics:ultimate_cable: 50

# This example config sets a maximum of one quarry per player per world.
performance:
  tile_entity_limits:
    amount_per_world:
      '*': 100 # Not mandatory, but this option would limit the total amount of tile-entities to 100 per player per world.
      machines:quarry: 1

# This example config sets a maximum of one quarry per player per world.
performance:
  tile_entity_limits:
    amount_per_chunk:
      '*': 5 # Not mandatory, but this option would limit the total amount of tile-entities to 5 per player per chunk.
      machines:quarry: 1

Upgrade values

Every addon can register its own upgrade types. As a server administrator, you can configure these values in the plugin/Nova/configs/<addon name>/upgrade_values.yml file.

The config of the simple_upgrades addon looks like this:

speed: [ 1.0, 1.91, 2.82, 3.73, 4.64, 5.55, 6.46, 7.37, 8.28, 9.19, 10.0 ]
efficiency: [ 1.0, 1.25, 1.75, 2.75, 3.75, 4.75, 5.75, 6.75, 7.75, 8.75, 9.75 ]
energy: [ 1.0, 1.9, 2.8, 3.7, 4.6, 5.5, 6.4, 7.3, 8.2, 9.1, 10.0 ]
fluid: [ 1.0, 1.9, 2.8, 3.7, 4.6, 5.5, 6.4, 7.3, 8.2, 9.1, 10.0 ]
range: [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

The amount of values in the arrays specifies the amount of upgrades that can be added, the numbers themselves are the modifiers. Depending on the type of upgrade, these values might be a multipliers or in the case of the range upgrade, are just added on top of the default max range.

The upgrade values can also be changed for specific tile-entities by adding a upgrade_values section to the config of that tile-entity. For example, the default limit of range upgrades for the Pump from the Machines addon is changed to 30 this way:

upgrade_values:
  range: [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 ]

Attribute Modifiers

Every item configuration file can have an attribute_modifiers section.

Structure of the attribute_modifiers section

attribute_modifiers:
  <equipment_slot>: # (1)!
  - attribute: <attribute> # (2)!
    operation: <operation> # (3)!
    value: <value> # (4)!
    hidden: <hidden> # (5)!

The equipment slot that this item needs to be in for the attribute modifier to apply.
Possible values: mainhand, offhand, feet, legs, chest, head
The attribute to modify.
Available attributes: generic.maxHealth, generic.followRange, generic.knockbackResistance, generic.movementSpeed, generic.flying_speed, generic.attackDamage, generic.attack_knockback, generic.attackSpeed, generic.armor, generic.armorToughness, generic.luck
The operation to perform.
Possible operations: addition, multiply_base, multiply_total
The value to modify the attribute with.
Whether the attribute should be hidden from the item's lore.
Default: false

Example configuration

# The following configuration increases the player's attack damage by 5 if the item is held in the main hand
# and increases the movement speed by 10% for both the main hand and off hand.

attribute_modifiers:
  mainhand:
  - attribute: generic.attack_damage
    operation: addition
    value: 5.0
  offhand:
  - attribute: generic.movement_speed
    operation: multiply_base
    value: 0.1
  - attribute: generic.movement_speed
    operation: multiply_base
    value: 0.1

Resource Filters

Resource filters allow you to exclude certain files from the resource pack.
They are configured in the main config under resource_pack > generation > resource_filters.

resource_pack:
  generation:
    resource_filters:
    - stage: "" # (1)!
      type: "" # (2)!
      pattern_type: "" # (3)!
      filter: "" # (4)!
      directory: "" # (5)!

The stage at which the filter should be applied. Can be asset_pack or resource_pack.
The type of the filter. Can be whitelist or blacklist.
The pattern type of the filter field. Can be regex or wildcard. You can test your regex pattern on RegExr or similar sites.
The filter pattern to match against. The pattern_type field determines how the pattern is interpreted.
(Optional) The directory to apply the filter to. Relative to the assets directory.

Examples

Excluding all langauge files except en_us.json and de_de.json:

config.yml: resource_pack > generation > resource_filters

- stage: resource_pack
  type: whitelist
  pattern_type: regex
  filter: minecraft\/lang\/(en_us|de_de).json
  directory: minecraft/lang/

Excluding an entire directory:

config.yml: resource_pack > generation > resource_filters

- stage: resource_pack
  type: blacklist
  pattern_type: regex
  filter: .*
  directory: path/to/directory/

Excluding all png files:

config.yml: resource_pack > generation > resource_filters

- stage: resource_pack
  type: blacklist
  pattern_type: regex
  filter: *.png

WAILA Positioning

If you want to change the vertical position of the WAILA overlay, you can do so by defining which boss bars should be above or below it. This is done by defining matchers in waila > positioning > above (defines the boss bars that should be below WAILA) and waila > positioning > below (defines the boss bars that should be above WAILA).

There are five different types of matchers available:

Type	Description
`origin`	Matches against the origin of the boss bar. (Either `minecraft` or a plugin name.)
`text`	Matches against the text of the boss bar using either a regex or wildcard.
`overlay`	Matches against the overlay id of a boss bar overlay from a different Nova addon.
`uuid`	Matches against the UUID of the boss bar.
`index`	Matches against the index of the boss bar (before Nova rearranges them), with the uppermost boss bar starting at index 0.

OriginTextOverlayUUIDIndex

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: origin
      origin: <origin> # (1)!

The origin to match against. Can be minecraft or a plugin name.

WildcardRegex

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: text
      wildcard: <pattern> # (1)!

The wildcard pattern to match against.
Use * to match any number of characters and ? to match a single character.

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: text
      regex: <pattern> # (1)!

The regex pattern to match against.
You can try out your regex pattern on RegExr.

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: overlay
      overlay: <overlay id> # (1)!

The overlay id of a boss bar overlay from a different Nova addon.
For example, WAILA's overlay id is nova:waila.

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: uuid
      uuid: <uuid> # (1)!

The UUID to match against.

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: index
      index: <index> # (1)!

The index of the boss bar. Starts at 0, from the top down.

Example configuration

This example configuration places WAILA above all vanilla boss bars, but below all boss bars registered by PluginA and PluginB.

waila:
  positioning:
    above:
    - type: origin
      origin: minecraft
    below:
    - type: origin
      origin: PluginA
    - type: origin
      origin: PluginB

Configuring Nova

Items Menu

Tile-Entity limits

Upgrade values

Attribute Modifiers

Resource Filters

WAILA Positioning