Circle or square, open or boxed
Round or square walls. Boxed borders add a floor and a ceiling that players can't get through — no pearling or chorus-fruiting out.
New
NovaBorder — storm walls for Paper 1.21.11
Storm walls your players
Storm walls your players
can't miss.
NovaBorder swaps the vanilla world border for a glowing, animated wall drawn by a resource‑pack shader. Circle or square, open or boxed in, shrinking and moving smoothly. No client mods.
Rendered by NovaBorder's own wall shader
Built for
- Paper 1.21.11
- Java 21+
- 1.21.11 players
- Barrier-compatible API
- Self-service keys
Why NovaBorder
A world border that
looks the part.
Made for battle royales, minigames and events: a wall your players can see coming.
Smooth shrinking
Shrink, grow and move the centre over any time — 30, 10m, 1h30m — together or separately. The wall glides, it doesn't jump.
Damage your way
Set the damage, how often it hits and a grace time before the first hit, plus knockback, totem and absorption rules.
A menu for looks
/worldborder styles shows every look with a preview picture, plus buttons for shape, size, damage and colours.
Seen from far away
By default the wall is visible from far away. Or set a view distance and it fades in as players get close, so it doesn't fill the sky.
No client mods
Players just accept the resource pack. Games that can't run pack shaders (VulkanMod, Iris with a shader pack) get a particle wall with /borderparticles.
Barrier-compatible API
Game plugins written for Barrier's storm API keep working, unchanged.
One border per world
Every world keeps its own border through restarts.
Signal colours
Green while growing, red while shrinking — or your own colours.
Pack hosting, your choice
From our website, from your server, or inside your own pack plugin.
Hide looks
Leave looks you don't want out of the menu, commands and pack.
Familiar commands
/worldborder(also/storm) replaces the vanilla command.Events for developers
Enter, leave and storm-damage events for your own plugins.
5 servers per key
Get your key with
/get-licensein our Discord.
Four shapes.
Circle and square walls, or boxed borders with a floor and a ceiling that you can raise and lower.
The zone closes in. Smoothly.
Give the wall a new size and a time, and it glides there while your players run. It turns red while it shrinks and green while it grows.
Shrinking from 60 to 12 blocks
0160 blocks
0244 blocks
0330 blocks
0420 blocks
0512 blocks
Default colours. Change them in config.yml, or turn them off.
Looks
Five looks included.
995 more to add.
Every licence comes with five looks. Add seasonal packs or single looks to the same key whenever you like.
Included with every licence
Force Field is the default look.
Included
Force Field
A glowing blue hexagon shield.
Included
Stripes
The classic border stripes, animated.
Included
Storm
Rolling purple storm clouds.
Included
Fire
A wall of flickering flames.
Included
Matrix
Falling green code.
Add-ons
Unlocked on the key you already have.
$6
Royale Storm
A hexagon shield up close that becomes a swirling battle-royale storm from far away.
$3
Halloween pack
Jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts and bats.
$3
Christmas pack
Fairy lights, presents and trees under the stars.
Every other look: $1 each
992 more — a few of them below.
Plus aurora, nebula, ice, plasma, hologram, camo, marble and many more, in lots of colours. Every look is listed in the in-game menu, locked ones with their price.
All look pictures on this page are rendered by NovaBorder's own wall shader in a simple test world. In game the looks are animated.
Pricing
Buy once. Add looks when you want.
Base licence
Paper 1.21.11
Java 21+
NovaBorder
$16 one-time
- The plugin with every feature on this page
- 5 looks: Force Field, Stripes, Storm, Fire and Matrix
- One licence key, for up to 5 servers
- Add-on looks unlock on the same key
After buying, join our Discord and run /get-license to get your key.
Add-ons
| NovaBorder base licence5 looks, up to 5 servers | $16 |
|---|---|
| Royale Storm lookHex shield up close, a storm from far away | $6 |
| Halloween packThe Halloween look | $3 |
| Christmas packThe Christmas look | $3 |
| Any other single look992 to choose from | $1 each |
- Royale Storm, Halloween and Christmas are add-ons on BuiltByBit. Buy one, link your BuiltByBit account in our Discord, and it's added to your key.
- For a $1 look, open a ticket in our Discord and tell us which one. The menu shows every look's name.
- Type
worldborder license checkin your server console (or wait up to 6 hours) and the look unlocks.
Good to know
Requirements & questions.
How does the licence work?
Each purchase comes with one licence key. Join our Discord and run /get-license. Put the key in plugins/NovaBorder/config.yml and restart, or type worldborder license <key> in the server console.
- One key works on up to 5 servers.
/serversin our Discord shows and frees your seats. - NovaBorder checks the key when it starts and every 6 hours. If our licence server can't be reached, it keeps running on the last good check for up to 3 days.
- Lost your key, or think it leaked? Run
/get-licenseagain: you get a new key and the old one stops working.
What are add-ons?
Extra looks, unlocked on the key you already have. Royale Storm ($6), the Halloween pack ($3) and the Christmas pack ($3) are separate add-ons on BuiltByBit and are added to your key once you link your BuiltByBit account in our Discord. Any other look is $1: open a ticket in our Discord and say which one.
/addons in our Discord shows which add-ons your key has.
Can I see every look before I buy an add-on?
Yes. The /worldborder styles menu lists every look with a preview picture. Locked looks show their price, so you can browse all of them first.
Do my players need a mod?
No. The wall is drawn by the resource pack, which NovaBorder offers to players when they join, next to any other server pack.
Games that can't run resource-pack shaders, like VulkanMod or Iris with a shader pack on, don't show the shader wall (it still hurts). Those players can turn on a particle wall with /borderparticles, or you can show it to everyone in the config.
Will my game plugin work with it?
NovaBorder has its own /worldborder command and a storm API for game plugins, with enter, leave and damage events. It also answers Barrier's storm API, so plugins written for Barrier keep working, and on its first start it takes over Barrier's config and storms.
Where is the resource pack hosted?
By default your players download it from our website, so you don't need to open a port. If you change the pack (hidden looks or your own zip), NovaBorder serves it from your server on one port. You can also let your own pack plugin carry it.
What about refunds?
Payments go through BuiltByBit. For questions about a purchase, open a ticket in our Discord.
What am I allowed to do with it?
Run it on your servers. The licence inside the plugin (LICENSE.txt) doesn't allow decompiling, changing, sharing or reselling it without written permission.
Ready to close the zone?
Get NovaBorder on BuiltByBit, grab your key in Discord, and pick your look.
Also from us: NovaUI, custom HUDs and menus built in an in-game editor.