About BoardGames
From HangarPlay Chess and other classic board games, all packed into a single block
BoardGames
BoardGames is a Minecraft plugin that brings classic board games into a compact interactive board. Play Chess and Tic Tac Toe directly in-game, and discover the other games available in the premium version.
No external mods, no resource pack — pure vanilla Minecraft!
🌟 Main Features
- Classic Board Games — Play on a compact board
- Interactive Menus — Easy in-game configuration and game selection
- Basic AI — You can play against an AI or let 2 AIs play each other
(Note: this is a very simple AI implementation, so don't expect too much from it)
- Multilingual Support — Available in multiple languages
- Crafting Integration — Craft the board in-game
- No Extra Setup — Just drop the jar into your plugins folder and you're ready to play
- Board Menu Access — Sneak-right-click the board to open the menu
🎮 Included in Free
- Chess
- Tic Tac Toe 3x3
🎮 Play Modes
- 2 Players — Play against a friend on the same board
- 1 Player / 1 AI — Challenge the built-in AI
- 2 AIs — Watch two AIs play against each other
🔒 Premium Content
- Draughts (10x10 and 8x8)
- Tic Tac Toe up to 6x6
- Reversi / Othello
- Ludo
- Yacht / Yahtzee
- Peg Solitaire
- Auto restart options — If 2 AIs play each other
Premium Version: Click here
⚙️ Admin Menu
- Language — Change the plugin language
- Command Access — Control player access to commands
- Crafting — Enable or disable board crafting
- Game Switching — Allow or block changing the current game
- Board Removal — Allow or block board removal
🔨 Commands
/bg help— Show the main help menu/bg give <game>— Get a board or the board game box/bg delete— Delete all loaded BoardGames boards/bg delnear— Delete nearby BoardGames boards within 2 blocks of the player/bg settings— Open admin settings
✨ Why BoardGames?
- Compact design — A full board game experience in a small space
- Easy to place — Fits naturally into any build
- Great for servers — Perfect for quick games with friends
- Friendly to players — Simple to understand and quick to start
✅ Compatibility
Compatible with Minecraft versions: 1.21+
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 15 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogBuilding & decoration
Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.
Runs on your server
From source side supportHangar lists BoardGames as required on the server. Check its Hangar page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Paper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 14 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓HangarOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBralekor, as published on Hangar
- ✓LicenseUnspecifiedFree
