Bounty Settings

bounty:
  min-amount: 100.0
  max-amount: 100000.0
  expiration-days: 7
  cooldown-minutes: 5
  claim-timeout-minutes: 10
  max-per-player: 10
  cancellation-fee-percentage: 10.0
  allow-offline-targets: true

Key	Default	Effect
min-amount	100	Lowest money bounty; also drives menu presets
max-amount	100000	Highest money bounty
expiration-days	7	Days before an active bounty expires (issuer refunded)
cooldown-minutes	5	Gap between a player’s bounty creations
claim-timeout-minutes	10	How long a pending kill stays reserved before reverting to active
max-per-player	10	Max active bounties one player can have placed
cancellation-fee-percentage	10.0	Fee withheld when cancelling
allow-offline-targets	true	Allow bounties on offline players

The bounty menus show the remaining time before each active bounty expires.

Tax

tax:
  enabled: true
  percentage: 5.0
  charge-on: CREATION   # CREATION, CLAIM, or BOTH

Key	Default	Effect
enabled	true	Master switch. Set to false for no tax at all
percentage	5.0	Percent of the money reward taken as tax
charge-on	CREATION	When tax is taken (see below)

charge-on modes:

• CREATION - the issuer pays the reward plus tax up front.
• CLAIM - the tax is deducted from the reward the killer receives.
• BOTH - tax is charged at creation and deducted on claim.

Upgrading from an older version? Your old bounty.tax-percentage is moved into this tax block automatically.

Enabling types

bounty-types:
  money:  { enabled: true }
  item:   { enabled: true }
  hybrid: { enabled: true }

Disable any type to hide it from the main GUI. If all are disabled, the menu shows a “No Bounty Types Enabled” notice.

Broadcasts

broadcast:
  bounties: true   # announce new bounties
  claims: true     # announce claimed bounties

Blacklisted items

blacklisted-items:
  - "BEDROCK"
  - "COMMAND_BLOCK"
  # ...

Bukkit material names that cannot be used in item/hybrid bounties. The default list covers command blocks, barriers, structure blocks, debug stick, and more.