Ready-made menus

Eight menus ship inside the jar and are installed the first time the plugin starts. Browse them again with /emenus templates.

They are not screenshots or examples on a wiki. They are working menus, on your server, that you can open and edit.

What ships

	Opens with	Needs
Server Hub	/hub	Server, Player expansions
Random Teleport	/rtp, /wild	Vault, Player expansions
Kits	/kits	EssentialsX, Essentials expansion
Ranks	/ranks, /store	LuckPerms, Vault expansion
Server Selector	/servers	Pinger expansion, a proxy
Player Profile	/profile, /stats	Statistic, Player expansions
Vote Links	/vote	none
Rules	/rules	none

Expansions are fetched for you

This is the part that usually is not done for you. A template declares what it needs, and installing it runs papi ecloud download for anything missing, then reloads PlaceholderAPI.

If something cannot be fetched you are told exactly which one and how to install it by hand, rather than being left with a menu full of raw %placeholders% and no explanation.

Missing plugins are different. The template still installs and works; the parts that use the missing plugin are simply blank, and you are told which plugin that was.

Command clashes

If another plugin already owns /kits, we do not take it. The console says so:

[EmberMenus] Menu 'kits' wants /kits but another plugin already owns it.
Use /emenus open kits, or rename the command.

Stealing /kits from your kits plugin because a menu happens to be called kits would look like data loss to you and a broken server to your players. Rename it in the builder under ++q++ then Open command, or use /emenus open kits.

They are yours now

An installed template is an ordinary menu file. Edit it, gut it, rename it, delete it. Nothing regenerates it, and deleting one does not bring it back on the next restart.

install-templates-on-first-run: false in the config stops them being installed at all, and they stay available in the gallery.

Starting an existing menu over

In the builder, ++q++ then Start from a template replaces what you are editing with a template's layout. Nothing is written until you save, so it is safe to try one and back out.