Horse Racing Plus
Horse Racing Plus
This plugin let's you create an arena with several spawns and a finish line and let your players race against each other! You will be able to specify rewards in form of money or items and have multiple arenas in multiple worlds!
This project is now open source: Github.
Features
v1.0: (14.08.13)
- simple setup
- rewards in form of money or items
- multiworld support
- multiarena support
- every command available trough signs
- customize all strings to your language and change all colors
- custom names for horses
- Linux support
- Include not only gambling, but also normal money reward
- Movement lock
- Players can't exit horses in any way (commands, shift)
- Autoupdater
v1.1: (16.08.13)
- /hr cancel [name] for cancelling a race
- clear arenas on server reload/shutdown
- /hr join command
- Java 1.6 support
- multiple rounds
- fix countdown bugs <-
- optionally announce winners
- Race statistics
v1.2: (20.08.13)
- remove log spam in the console
- Big code cleanup
- Errors etc. get logged to plugin_log.txt in the HorseRacingPlus directory
- shop
- Leaderboards
- Stats fixed
- minor bugfixes
- /hr removespawn command
- arena cycling
v1.2.1: (22.08.13)
- players can bet
- Bugfix: Horses not spawning if arena too far away
- Horse protection: if horse dies in a game, players gets new one
v1.2.2: (29.09.13)
- spectating
- a few minor bugfixes regarding player leaving
- inventory saving
- if all players leave and no winning possible anymore -> "last man standing" wins prize
- play sound when game starts
- add /hr reset command
- fix sign on rightclick, if it's screwed
- reloading now properly tps people away and fixes signs
- add wrong setup prevention
- fix bug preventing horses from despawning
- Bugfixes
v1.3:
- MySQL support
v1.3.1:
- multiple item prizes (only multiple ids, not amounts yet)
- maybe Bungee support
Green bullets are done, orange ones buggy or in work and red ones not done yet
Setup
It's fairly simple, you need a lobby, some spawns and the finish line.
- /hr createrace [name]
- /hr setlobby [name]
- /hr setspawn [count] [name] You can set unlimited spawns. The number of spawns is equal to the maximum of players that can join a race
- /hr setfinish [name] After you typed in /hr setfinish [name], you'll get a wooden shovel to select two points, as described on the picture beneath.
- create a join sign at the lobby:
- [horserace]
- racename
To set a finish line, select the first point by leftclicking the block with the wooden shovel and the second point by rightclicking the other block:

Arenacycling Setup (v1.2)
If you have two (or more) arenas and want your users to cycle through all this arenas in one run, use this feature.
Please delete any join signs before using arenacycling, otherwise it won't work. Right now you can either use multiple arenas with multiple join signs or arena cycling. Also, every arena needs to have the same amount of spawns.
- Be sure to have at least two arenas already set up.
- turn on arena_cycling in the config.
- Create the following join sign:
- [horserace]
- [cycle]
To remove the cycling feature again, turn arena_cycling off in the config. You can optionally remove the cycle join sign, but it won't work anyway with arena_cycling disabled.
MySQL (v1.3)
Enable MySQL in the config file by setting mysql.enabled to true, also adjust the host, database, user and password settings to your needs. Create a table in the following format and you're good to go!
| id (int) | player (string) | win (int) | lose (int) |
The id column must be the primary key and have the autoincrement attribute set to true. Table name: horseracing_stats.
Configuration
Config:
- use_economy: true
- use_gambling: true
- entry_money: 10 if use_gambling is set to true, everyone pays a little bit, but the player wins everything
- normal_money_reward: 50 if gambling is not enabled, noone needs to pay to join the race and the winner gets e.g. 50$
- itemid: 364 If you don't want to use economy, your players can also get items (e.g. diamonds) as a reward
- itemamount: 10 amount of items to give
- horsename: Racehorse You can change the name of the race horses
- horsecolor: BLACK And even the color of the horses :)
- use_rounds_system: false
- rounds: 2
- min_players: 2
- starting_cooldown: 10
- cycle_through_arenas: false
- announce_winner: true
- arena_cycling: false see ArenaCycling Setup for more information
- enable_betting: false
- max_bet_amount: 500
- lastmanstanding: true if enabled, the last player in an arena gets the prize after everyone leaves
Shop:
- jumppotion_price: 50
- speedpotion_price: 150
- barding_price: 100
Commands
- /hr createrace [name]
- /hr setlobby [name]
- /hr setspawn [count] [name]
- /hr list: lists all arenas
- /hr reload: Reloads config
- /hr cancel [name]: cancels a race and clears the arena
- /hr join [name]: joins a race without rightclicking a sign
- /hr removerace [name]
- /hr removespawn [name] [count] e.g. '/hr removespawn arena1 3' removes the third spawn of arena1
- /hr stats [name] show win/lose ratio and later on personal horse stats
- /hr bet [amount] [name] if the provided player wins, you'll get the doubled amount back
- /hr leave
- /hr reset [name] resets the arena, if something went wrong
Permissions
- horseracing.createrace
- horseracing.setlobby
- horseracing.setspawn
- horseracing.removerace
- horseracing.setfinish
- horseracing.sign
Preview and Youtube

Also, thanks to 300richboy for doing that nice youtube video for me!
Additional Info
- I'm open for any suggestions, just comment below! Thank you and have fun :)
- You need Vault for the economy stuff to work
- This plugin uses MCStats to send statistics to mcstats.griefcraft.com/plugin/HorseRacingPlus which contain things like server software information etc.
- This plugin also uses an auto-updater which can be turned off in the config (I don't recommend that for future bugfix releases).
[Metrics stats again soon]
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Posted Nov 15, 2013Hi, i love your plugin but there is one problem. Whenever i win a race it does not give me the item i want it to give as a reward. is this an error or do i have to turn something off
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Posted Nov 7, 2013@Tallperson7
Are you using spigot 1.7.2? It's a bug there :)
@coltonpeck
Any errors in console?
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Posted Nov 5, 2013The commands are white and kind of funky. is there anyway to fix it?
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Posted Oct 31, 2013Every time I race on my track the winner ends up being the last person who crosses the finish line...
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Posted Oct 31, 2013@instancelabs
Thank you mate :D
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Posted Oct 31, 2013@Coookiii
It grants Admins to create HorseRacing signs.
@paulodu68
I uploaded a bugfix release for the item rewards. :)
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Posted Oct 29, 2013@Coookiii
I'm the op of the server, and the perms is good, so i don't understand why they are no rewards.
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Posted Oct 29, 2013No perms for default players? And does the horseracing.sign permission grants PLAYERS to USE signs, or admin to CREATE signs?
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Posted Oct 26, 2013@instancelabs
It's possible to put Emerald and not Diamonds? And when I turn use-economy off It doesn't work too. :/
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Posted Oct 26, 2013@paulodu68
Turn use_economy off in the config and it will use itemid and itemamount for giving out the specified items. In your case, itemid has to be 364 and itemamount any amount of diamonds.
@btsaeter
If you don't get horses to be spawned, check any plugins (e.g. for multiverse: /mvm set animals true) or region flags (set mob-spawning to allow) that could prevent mobspawning.
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Posted Oct 25, 2013@MrFrostmaul
It's ok, it run, but I want just diamond for reward, not money, how you do that?
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Posted Oct 24, 2013Hi i like this plugin but i have a big problem. when i click on the sign to race i spawn and i cant get to mount the horse. Anyone have the same problem? ps: i spawn on the ground and not ON the horse.
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Posted Oct 24, 2013@paulodu68
Have you got vault installed?
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Posted Oct 23, 2013Hi, the system of rewards don't run, why?
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Posted Oct 23, 2013@The_Minecraft_Noob
There is, its called "Rounds".
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Posted Oct 23, 2013please add a Laps count so we can set laps in the race before it registers the finish
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Posted Oct 20, 2013@MrFrostmaul
Thanks, I'm gonna look into that :)
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Posted Oct 19, 2013Just a suggestion, Bungee support would really set this plugin up fully (even more than it is now) and make it even more epic.
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Posted Oct 18, 2013nvm I got it working 10/10 plugin its got everything need
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Posted Oct 18, 2013@instancelabs
Like to hear that! Thanks.