Near World Spawn

On a server where the spawn point has already been established, a player arriving for the first time may be sent to a spawn chosen at random within a zone centered on whoever is currently connected. A box shape, centered on the player and optionally weighted toward the other players, defines that area. Each player's influence can be set to none or to the box, and the mod favors the side where more players are, so the spawn lands closer to the group rather than far off. The area can be shifted with an offset, shrunk so its center matches the computed one, or expanded by a set number of blocks in each direction, which keeps the area from growing too large and sending players on long runs.

The mod runs on the server only, so players connecting with a vanilla client need nothing extra. Changes to the configuration can be made in-game through new commands. It requires Fabric API and Cloth Config API, and is published for Fabric for 1.20 – 1.21.3 under the MIT License, so the code is open source.