Dynamic Kit Cooldown Menu

Today I'll show you how to make a kit menu that shows users when a kit is on cooldown (Using essentials).

Before we start, remember that placeholderAPI uses "yes/no" by default instead of "true/false" unless you've changed it in the configuration. If you don't know what I'm talking about...you probably should not worry about it.

I will only be doing one item, and it will use the essentials kit "starter". The kit has a 24 hour cooldown. Let's start with the menu name and commands.

Let's go ahead create the items. Now, there are two items in this configuration. I will go through each part of the item individually, but here is the finished configuration:

We have two items...starton and starteroff. I won't be going over simple things like materials and enchantments, but the important things to look at are the priority and the view_requirement tag. Starteroff is our cooldown item. It has the priority of 2 and is in the same slot as Starteron.

Starteron has priority 1 so it will show OVER the starteroff item. However, It has a view requirement. If the requirement is not met...it will not show and instead the Starteroff item will show. The starteroff item has this placeholder in the lore "%essentials_kit_time_until_available_starter%" which shows the time until that kit is available.

Let's look at the view_requirment on the starteron item:

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This requirement checks to ensure that the kit is available using the placeholder "%essentials_kit_is_available_starter%". If it is available it returns "yes"...so we check to see if it is returning yes. If it is, we show the starteron item which executes the command as a player.

Now we have a dynamic menu that only shows kits available, and shows a barrier for when it is not available. A great way to visually tell players what is and is not available to them.