Spectate

What is spectate?
Spectate allows you to watch players from their point of view, simply by typing in /spectate (player). You will see exactly what they see, and they'll never know you were watching them.
You can also watch them from different angles. There's Third Person, Third Person Front (looking at their face), and Freeroam (you can walk freely around and watch them from any angle).
There's also "Scroll" mode and "Scan" mode. Scroll mode allows you to right and left click to change between players, and Scan mode will change the player you're spectating every few seconds (you can set how long until it switches to the next person).
There's also an API, which allows developers to take control of the entire plugin.
To see a full list of everything you can do with Spectate, head over to the Commands page.
Spectate has undergone a complete rewrite.
Please make sure your permissions are up to date, and please report any bugs on the tickets page.
Spectate 2.0 is here!
2.0 includes:
- A complete rewrite of the entire plugin from the ground up.
- Lots of bugs fixes!
- Spectate is now compatible with Multiverse Inventories.
- A fresh new API that lets developers control the ENTIRE plugin!
And some new features:
- A new spectate angle, Third Person Front mode! Now you can watch the player you're spectating while looking at their face. What more could you ask for?
- Another new spectate angle, Free Roam mode! Now you can walk around like a ghost while still viewing their inventory. Spooky!
- You can now see the gamemode and XP of the player you're spectating!
- If you were invisible before spectating, you will still be invisible when you stop spectating.
And many more features I forgot to write down!
So what are you waiting for? Download the plugin for the complete Spectating experience today!




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Posted Dec 8, 2012@confuser
There should be in the config...
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Posted Dec 7, 2012Are the command works at console? like I wanna make other player spectate player
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Posted Dec 2, 2012@NotYourMother
Some members have FPS lag when being spectated. You can try to get a plugin that makes you invisible (I use SimplyVanish but VanishNoPacket works as well) and then spectate the person. I haven't tried it yet but it might be a temporary solution. Please let mit know if it worked or not.
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Posted Dec 1, 2012Hello. I have been using spectate on our server, but there is one little problem. Sometimes people know they're being spectated. Are they using hacked clients or something like that? I don't spectate everyone, but there has been at least one occasion where I knew positively that the spectated was aware of this because he made signs telling me to stop invading his privacy! He was cheating and ended up being banned, but what I need to know is, how do they know they're being spectated?
(There were two other cases when I have been suspicious that the person knew because they logged off rather quickly. )
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Posted Nov 26, 2012Does Spectate play friendly with MultiInv or World changes (Multiverse)?
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Posted Nov 21, 2012@Chipmunk9998
When do you think the next update is released? Would love to see the MultiInv issue fixed :) Also, thanks for an awesome plugin that just gets better and better!
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Posted Nov 20, 2012@lANTHONYl
Ah, good request. I'll add this for the next update, and I'll change the config option to cantspectate.
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Posted Nov 19, 2012Also, i just noticed that in the config.yml file you have:
Should we change that to cantspectate?
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Posted Nov 19, 2012Maybe a spectate.cantspectate.override so that admins cant spectate each other, but the owner still can spectate the admins.
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Posted Nov 7, 2012@Chipmunk9998
Thanks, that would be really awesome if you could.
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Posted Nov 7, 2012@drhydralisk
Huh, I never thought about doing that... Actually, yeah, that will probably fix the inventory bug with multiverse inventories.
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Posted Nov 7, 2012Can you add a an option so that spectating is forcibly ends when the person they are spectating changes worlds?
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Posted Nov 4, 2012@briankdk
Use the bukkit config: Make a alias for spectate and name it spe or spec etc.
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Posted Nov 3, 2012log file problem solved with the new update - thanks :-)
any chance that you could shorten the command /spectate to /spe and /spectate off to /Spe off ?
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Posted Oct 29, 2012@pad0n
i have the same problem..... both with version 1.3 and now with 1.4 aswell - log file grows enormous.... with the same error as pad0n describes - but only when i (or another admin) are using spectate. If no one is spectating, the error dosent show. Hoping for at fix soon... because i love your plugin :-)
I dont have this error : "when you start to spectate your BODY is moving with body of your target and everybody see that.."
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Posted Oct 27, 2012@pad0n
What version of bukkit are you using?
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Posted Oct 27, 2012Ok, let's START:
In new version when you start to spectate your BODY is moving with body of your target and everybody see that.. that's some Freeky... In 1.8 there wasn't that lag.
In ALL 1.8-1.9.1 when somebody starts to spectate so in LOG file and console is outputing thousand errors for second
and the same in 1.9.1
WTF ????????
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Posted Oct 24, 2012Would it be possible to add so you can only spectate players in a certain world? Like you are in WorldA and you want to so it would start in scroll mode and spectate players in WorldB? Would be really nice to use for survival games (the built in spectate is buggy).
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Posted Oct 23, 2012@feell70
Is it really spamming that bad? I'll upload a fix tomorrow if I have the time.
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Posted Oct 22, 2012"do we need an update or what is this ?" Yes, yes and yes! One log is 1.5 Gb thanks to this( Sait's DateBase was shoked, when tryed to get information from it(((
P.s. thanks for good plugin! :-)