Ember Plugins

Ember Menus

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1.16.5 - latestFolia8 menus includedIn-game builder7 languages

Get Ember MenusCommands & permissions

Build custom menus in game. No YAML, no restart, no config file.

Type /emenus, click a slot, and you are building. There is no YAML step, no restart, and nothing to learn before you can make something useful.

• Built by clicking

  The canvas is the menu, at its real size, drawn exactly as players will see it. Click a slot to fill it. Press Q for the tools.

• Built not to break

  Nothing version-specific is called directly. The API change that killed other menu plugins on 1.21 went unnoticed here. See compatibility.

• Glowing borders in two clicks

  A sixteen-colour palette, borders, backgrounds, and a glow toggle. No hunting for the right stained glass ID.

• Eight menus already made

  Hub, random teleport, kits, ranks, server selector, profile, vote and rules, installed and working on first start.

• Any placeholder, anywhere

  Every field takes PlaceholderAPI, including material names and conditions, not just display names.

• Menus from other servers

  Browse what other owners have shared and install one with a click. Every command it can run is shown to you first.

The home screen

/emenus opens everything the builder can do.

Create a menu	Names a new menu and drops you straight onto an empty canvas
Ready-made menus	The ten menus that ship inside the jar. Install one and it is yours to edit
Edit a menu	Every menu on this server, listed. Pick one to open the editor
Community menus	Menus other server owners have shared. Every command one can run is shown before anything installs
Import menus	Brings menus in from another plugin's folder. Your originals are not touched
Reload	Rereads every menu from disk

Thirty seconds to a working menu

/emenus create shop

The editor opens on an empty grid.

1. Left-click a slot. Holding an item uses that item straight away.
2. Give it a display name and a line or two of description.
3. Open What clicking does and add an action, for example [message] &aHello or [open] warps.
4. Press Q, then Borders and background, and click a colour.
5. Press Q, then Open command, and type shop.
6. Save.

Players now open it with /shop. Nothing was edited by hand and the server was never restarted.

Closing the editor saves

Press Escape and your work is written to disk. Discard changes in the tools screen is the deliberate way to throw it away, and it puts the file back exactly as it was when you opened the editor.

It is still just a file

Every menu is one file in plugins/EmberMenus/menus/, named after the menu. The builder writes the same file a person would write by hand, sorted top-left to bottom-right so it reads in the order the menu appears.

menu:
  title: "&8&l| &#ff8f00&lSHOP &8&l|"
  rows: 5
  open_command:
    - shop
  items:
    border:
      material: ORANGE_STAINED_GLASS_PANE
      display_name: " "
      glow: true
      priority: -100
      slots: "0-8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27, 35, 36-44"
    tools:
      material: IRON_PICKAXE
      slot: 13
      display_name: "&#ff8f00Tools"
      lore:
        - "&7Everything for mining."
      left_click_commands:
        - "[open] shop_tools"
        - "[sound] UI_BUTTON_CLICK"

Edit it by hand whenever you prefer, then run /emenus reload. The promise is that you never have to open a config file, not that you are stopped from doing so.

Coming from another menu plugin

/emenus import DeluxeMenus/gui_menus

Reads the folder, converts what it finds, and writes the results into our own folder. Your original files are not touched. Anything that could not be converted is named in the output rather than dropped quietly.

What you need

Server	Paper, Purpur or Folia, current release
Java	21 or newer
PlaceholderAPI	Not required to run, but you want it

Install PlaceholderAPI, really

Ember Menus runs perfectly well without it, and most of what makes a menu worth opening does not. A balance, a rank, a kit cooldown, a player count: all of those are placeholders.

Eight of the ten bundled menus use them, and without PlaceholderAPI those lines render as raw %placeholder% text. The templates fetch the expansions they need automatically once it is installed.

The kits menu also expects EssentialsX, and the ranks menu expects a permissions plugin such as LuckPerms. Both are optional; the menus install either way and simply leave those parts blank.

Where to go next

The builder	Every screen and what it does
Items and icons	Heads, custom items, model data
Actions	Everything a click can do
Requirements	Showing different things to different players
Ready-made menus	The eight that ship, and what each needs
Community menus	Sharing yours, and installing theirs
Languages	The seven that ship
Compatibility	What has actually been tested
Commands and permissions	The reference tables

License

All Rights Reserved / No License

Ember Menus is proprietary software, © 2023-2026 TheMeanOneDevelopments. No license is granted.

Obtaining a copy lets you run it on servers you operate. It may not be redistributed, resold, shared, published, decompiled, reverse engineered or modified without written permission.

The configuration and menu files you create are yours. Nothing here claims any ownership over them.

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A single tall image with everything on this page, for store listings: ember-menus-listing.jpg. It is regenerated whenever features changes, so the link stays the same.