Veterans say hi

PRO buddy pings: regulars get a clickable “say hi” line when a new player joins, and the first to greet them gets paid.

Veterans say hi is a PRO feature. On Lite, /firsthour greet replies that it’s a PRO feature.

Nothing kills a server faster than an empty chat on day one. When a brand-new player joins, your regulars get one clickable line:

Pixel_Pioneer is new here. [Say hi]

The first veteran to greet them gets a small reward, and the new player sees someone welcome them by name.

Who gets pinged

A player gets “say hi” lines when both are true:

• They have firsthour.veteran (everyone, by default).
• They aren’t a new player still on their own path. Players who finished or skipped their path, and veterans from before FirstHour was added, qualify.

Each veteran gets at most one ping every ping-cooldown-seconds (120), however many new players join. The ping plays the buddy-ping sound.

Three ways to greet

1. Click [Say hi] in chat.
2. Run /firsthour greet <player>.
3. Type the new player’s name in chat, like hi Pixel_Pioneer!. The name has to stand on its own as a word. Turn this off with greet-by-chat: false.

Only the first veteran to greet within greet-window-seconds (300) gets the reward. The greeter sees:

You welcomed Pixel_Pioneer! You got $50, 2 Emerald.

The new player sees <greeter> says hi! Welcome to the server. and hears the greeted sound.

Limits

Limit	Default	What it stops
greet-window-seconds	300	Greeting rewards long after the join. Minimum 10
ping-cooldown-seconds	120	Ping spam when lots of players join
max-rewards-per-hour	3	One veteran farming greet rewards. Counted over a rolling hour

A veteran past their hourly limit who clicks or uses the command gets a thank-you line instead of a reward. A chat greeting past the limit stays silent. Either way, the new player stays open for someone else to greet.

A new player who is still on their own path can’t greet yet. They’re told to finish their own goals first.

Configuration

plugins/FirstHour/config.yml

buddy:
  enabled: true
  reward:
    money: 50
    items: ["EMERALD:2"]
  greet-window-seconds: 300
  ping-cooldown-seconds: 120
  max-rewards-per-hour: 3
  greet-by-chat: true

The reward uses the same keys as every other reward: commands, money, items and label. See Reward format.

Set buddy.enabled: false to turn buddy pings and greeting rewards off. To keep some players out of it, remove firsthour.veteran from them.