# AuroraLib<\/p>\n
This is the base plugin for every Aurora plugin.
\nIt requires **PaperMC** as the server software and **Java 21** or higher.
\nFolia is also supported.<\/p>\n
You can view the full documentation here.<\/p>\n
It provides the following utilities:
\n– chat\/actionbar messaging, text building using every possible color formats and styles.
\n– custom logger
\n– automatic yaml to class mapping and config versioning
\n– plugin dependency management
\n– inventory menu\/gui builder with premade configs
\n– user data management via file or mysql (mysql can sync between servers as well)
\n– builtin user metadata store with placeholder support
\n– economy expansion with builtin providers (CMI, EssentialsX, Vault)
\n– placeholder expansion to interact with PAPI
\n– configurable number formatting (regular and short formats as well)
\n– player placed block tracker (supporting flatfile or sqlite as storage)
\nwhich integrates with Multiverse-Core and WildRegeneration for cleanup. It can even handle manual chunk deletions.
\n– WorldGuard expansion to provide events like `PlayerRegionEnterEvent` and `PlayerRegionLeaveEvent`
\n– `CommandDispatcher` to easily dispatch commands from config files
\n– Common leveler \/ level matcher \/ level reward utilities.
\n– Item resolver\/builder interface which supports items from other plugins.
\n– Leaderboard APIs<\/p>\n
## Include it in your project<\/p>\n
### Maven<\/p>\n
“`xml “`xml **Groovy DSL:** dependencies { **Kotlin DSL:** dependencies { Base plugin for every Aurora project. Provides common utilities and functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22680,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"auroralib","_minecraft_project_id":"EzEMkR1u","_minecraft_author":"erik_sz","_minecraft_license":"LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved","_minecraft_downloads":3920,"_minecraft_follows":17,"_minecraft_client_side":"unsupported","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"auroralib.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":24627769,"_minecraft_version_count":39,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T04:27:32.372071Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2024-07-09T01:39:25.366766Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2026-04-10T21:47:04.227420Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/auroralib","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":22680,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-05-31T22:04:16+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"e1a3e85761299669914f98e2a87093e5","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[125,873,127,128,91,123,92],"mod_loader":[131,132,133],"minecraft_version":[59,36,60,93,94,101,102,62,37,40,41,73,74,38,78,79,80,81,82,83,167,163],"class_list":["post-22677","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-folia","mod_category-library","mod_category-paper","mod_category-purpur","mod_category-storage","mod_category-technology","mod_category-utility","mod_loader-folia","mod_loader-paper","mod_loader-purpur","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1","minecraft_version-1-20-2","minecraft_version-1-20-3","minecraft_version-1-20-4","minecraft_version-1-20-5","minecraft_version-1-20-6","minecraft_version-1-21","minecraft_version-1-21-1","minecraft_version-1-21-10","minecraft_version-1-21-11","minecraft_version-1-21-2","minecraft_version-1-21-3","minecraft_version-1-21-4","minecraft_version-1-21-5","minecraft_version-1-21-6","minecraft_version-1-21-7","minecraft_version-1-21-8","minecraft_version-1-21-9","minecraft_version-26-1","minecraft_version-26-1-1","minecraft_version-26-1-2"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\n### Gradle<\/p>\n
\n“`gradle
\nrepositories {
\n maven {
\n url “https:\/\/repo.auroramc.gg\/releases\/”
\n }
\n}<\/p>\n
\n compileOnly ‘gg.auroramc:Aurora:{VERSION}’
\n}
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\n“`Gradle Kotlin DSL
\nrepositories {
\n maven(“https:\/\/repo.auroramc.gg\/releases\/”)
\n}<\/p>\n
\n compileOnly(“gg.auroramc:Aurora:{VERSION}”)
\n}
\n“`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"