Hydro Reservoirs - Storage 1.0

What is this?
This plugin transforms cauldrons into beautiful glass liquid tanks with animated fill levels, floating holograms, owner-only pickup, and full permission control. Perfect for survival SMPs, RPG servers, and builders who love immersive storage systems that want to free up as much storage as possible while not breaking the game balance.

Custom Reservoir : A Unique Block that fills as you add water to it using a Cauldron, Glass block and other features for a custom look. Crafted at the Crafting Table with a Cauldron and Glass Blocks.

Supported Liquid(s): Water, Lava, Milk, Honey, Dragons Breath, Experience, Soups and Stews!

Permissions: Each player is assigned permissions automatically. Only Admins can force remove the Reservoirs with special perms. (Permissions will be in documentation below)

Retrieval System: Using the command /hydro pickup you can pickup your full containers and easily relocate them with no hassles. Your data is stored, and saved every few minutes to keep it safe. You can not break these. I did this to prevent any exploitation. Just pick them up.

Easy Configurations: Want to adjust the Storage Capacities? You can easily do so in the [config.yml] file. You can change each and every ones capacity to ensure solid balance for your server.

Performance Safe: This plugin uses 1 Armor Stand, and the rest is done with Block and Item Displays. This ensures a very lightweight impact on your Java Servers! You can also adjust the max number of Reservoirs per chunk (Defaulted at 5).

Bedrock or Java?
Currently this is Java Based. Bedrock can use it, but will not get the full effect. It will show floating text with the number stored in a caulderon, but not the glass or fill effect. In the future, I plan on implementing more options for Bedrock.


Player Commands:
/hydro info
View details about the reservoir you are currently looking at (type of liquid, amount stored, and owner).
/hydro pickup
Pick up a reservoir you own. Only allows for your OWN not others.
The stored liquid and amount are saved inside the item so you can place it back later if picked up this way.
/hydro holograms
Toggle hologram visibility for yourself.
Useful if you want a cleaner build view or to reduce visual clutter.
Once ran, move and it will initiate the changes.

Admin Commands:
/hydro reload
Reload the plugin’s configuration file realtime (config.yml).
Updates hologram distances, capacity settings, and other configurable options without restarting the server.

/hydro give <player> [amount]
Give a player one or more Hydro Reservoirs. This is not required, as they can craft them as well BUT this is handy to replace lost ones.
Example: /hydro give Steve 3 → gives Steve three reservoirs.




Permissions are cleanly split and Simple:

hydroreservoirs.use → required for all player commands. (Given Automatically)

hydroreservoirs.admin → required for admin commands.

hydroreservoirs.limit.bypass → lets admins bypass the per-chunk placement limit.(Would also be a good VIP perk for additional placements)




Below is some overview images, gifs and video to show you the plugin function.




Picture of All Reservoirs Full!


Commands Menu with /hydro ran in game


Config.yml Presets (You can change these to your liking)