stella
by 33drygo
Stella is a team plugin for Spigot, Paper and Purpur servers, and its Fabric build lets players be grouped into teams with priorities and colors.
What it does
A player can belong to several teams at once, and the team with the highest priority becomes the main team. Each team has a hex color, RRGGBB, which drives vanilla nametag and tab colors. Teams can also be mirrored onto the vanilla scoreboard, where nametags pick up the team color without extra setup.
The mod targets players in bulk as well as one at a time, so an entire team can be moved with a single action. LuckPerms integration mirrors team membership into permission groups automatically. New players can be dropped into a default team on join, and a bypass permission exempts chosen players from that rule. Messages sent by the plugin can be restyled through messages.yml.
Everything lives under the stella namespace. Developers can drive the plugin through StellaAPI static methods and listen for cancellable PlayerJoinTeamEvent and PlayerLeaveTeamEvent, plus TeamCreateEvent and TeamDeleteEvent. The library is available through JitPack. Text Placeholder API is an optional dependency that provides placeholders for chat, scoreboards and tab lists. The mod is published for Fabric across 23 release versions and is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Team priorities
Players can belong to several teams, and the highest-priority team is treated as the main team.
Per-team hex colors
Each team has an RRGGBB color that applies to nametags and tab list entries.
Bulk member targeting
Players can be added or removed one at a time or in bulk, and a whole team can be moved in one action.
Default team on join
New players are placed in a default team automatically, and players holding a bypass permission are exempt.
Placeholder support
Twenty-one placeholders are provided for chat, scoreboards and tab lists through Text Placeholder API.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 1
How it compares
Force Nametag Hidden is a Fabric mod for 1.21.4, server-side only, under the MIT License, and it is not open source. Rank Tag is also server-side only and under the MIT License, covering 1.21.4 – 1.21.11, but it is not open source. CustomNameTags is server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.20 – 26.3, a wider range than Stella's own.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stella | Fabric | 1.20 – 26.2 | Not published | 2026-06-23 |
| Force Nametag Hidden | Fabric | 1.21.4 | Server-side only | 2026-01-26 |
| Rank Tag | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-02-09 |
| CustomNameTags | Fabric | 1.20 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-15 |
Questions
Does Stella need Text Placeholder API?
Which game versions does Stella cover?
Can developers hook into Stella?
In the catalog
stella is one of 3,514 Library mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,348 Library mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Stella is a star-powered player-teams plugin for Spigot & Paper servers — lightweight, fully configurable, and built to organize your players with priorities, colors, and powerful targeting. Drive Stella from your own plugin via StellaAPI (static methods) and listen to cancellable PlayerJoinTeamEvent /…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/stella-was-taken
- Owner
- 33drygo
- Published
- 2026-06-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15