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Ordinal

The lightweight seniority and join order tracking solution for Paper servers


Ordinal is a lightweight utility plugin designed to assign persistent, sequential join IDs (Ordinal Ranks) to every player on your server.

This plugin is ideal for servers wanting to implement a seniority system to recognize long-time members, display distinct ranks in chat, or simply maintain an organized player database.

Ordinal handles seniority tracking with a focus on these core functions:

  • It assigns unique sequential IDs (e.g., #1, #67) based on strict join order.
  • It includes a smart migration system that automatically calculates and backfills seniority for existing players based on historical join dates.
  • It features native PlaceholderAPI support to display seniority ranks using %ordinal_rank%.
  • It supports fully configurable messages using MiniMessage formatting.

To use this plugin, your server must be running Paper, Purpur, or Folia on 1.21 or higher. It requires Java 21.

For a complete guide on features, commands, and configuration, please visit our Wiki. If you have questions or need to report a bug, join our Discord server or open an issue on GitHub.

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