Placeholders

Placeholder Usage

• Messages in messages.yml file
• ShopItems
  • MenuItem / Price item / Reward item
    • Name
    • Lore
    • Skull owner
  • Commands if RewardType is command/playercommand/opcommand
  • Shop name / shop page if RewardType is shop / shoppage
  • Message
• Maybe in a few more places

Placeholders can NOT be used as item amount or item material type!

Calculation Placeholders

• Use curly brackets { } to perform calculations within text.
  • You can include placeholders, plain numbers, or PlaceholderAPI placeholders inside the brackets for calculation.
• Calculations for ‘Reward’ or ‘Price’ are not permitted.
• To adjust rewards or prices based on player actions, utilize multipliers in the Configuration settings located in /genesis/config.yml file.

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Calculation Examples

This simple calculation will instantly be transformed into 10:

{10/5+8} This will display the players balance times 4 and will be updated whenever the shop is refreshed. {%balance%*4}

Calculation Placeholders

• Only simple calculations are supported:
  • +
  • –
  • *
  • /
  • ^

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Player Related Placeholders

• %player%: Player’s username.
• %name%: Player’s username (same as %player%).
• %displayname%: Player’s display name.
• %balance%: Player’s amount of money.
• %balancepoints%: Player’s amount of points.
• %world%: Name of the world the player is in.
• %item_in_hand%: Item in the player’s main hand (plain material name).

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Shop Related Placeholders

• %shop%: Name of the related shop.
• %shopdisplayname%: Display name of the related shop.
• %page%: Current shop page the player is viewing.
• %maxpage%: Highest page of the current shop.
• %shopitemname%: Name of the related item in the shop.
• %price%: Price of the related shop item.
• %reward%: Reward of the related shop item.

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Item Related Placeholders

• %itemname%: Display name of the related item.
• %amount%: Amount of the MenuItem.
• %material%: Material name of the MenuItem (uses Vanilla names).

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Interaction Related Placeholders

• %left%: Remaining amount after a purchase.
• %input%: Latest input of the player.

Attention! If you put hashtags in the lore of items they by default result in a linebreak. If you want to display the hashtag or need it for a placeholder simply use “[hashtag]” to prevent it from causing a linebreak.

Placeholder Symbols

These symbols can be used anywhere.

Attention! You can use basically any UTF-8 character/symbol with Genesis configuration files and shops

Symbol Shortcuts

• [<3] -> ❤
• [*] -> ★
• [] -> ✹
• [o] -> ●
• [v] -> ✔
• [+] -> ♦
• -> -> ✦
• [%] -> ♠
• [%%] -> ♣
• [radioactive] -> ☢
• [peace] -> ☮
• [moon] -> ☾
• [crown] -> ♔
• [note] -> ♩
• [snowman] -> ☃
• [tools] -> ⚒
• [swords] -> ⚔
• [warn] -> ⚠
• [left] -> ←
• [right] -> →
• [up] -> ↑
• [down] -> ↓
• [block] -> █
• [and] -> &
• [colon] -> :
• [hashtag] -> #