compileOnly files("path/to/papi.jar")

Just to be clear: https://repo.extendedclip.com/content/repositories/placeholderapi/ is outdated.

Your friend probably uses the old wiki as reference, even tho it clearly mentions to be outdated.
The URL the new wiki shows is https://repo.extendedclip.com/releases/ source

Just to be clear: https://repo.extendedclip.com/content/repositories/placeholderapi/ is outdated.

Your friend probably uses the old wiki as reference, even tho it clearly mentions to be outdated. The URL the new wiki shows is https://repo.extendedclip.com/releases/ source

yeah I've just updated the old wiki page to use the new links, also added a bunch of line breaks to try better direct people to the new wiki

It may be better to just disable the wiki in general to avoid this, even if it may lead to dead links in some random sites.

eh just keep it up for now, should be fine with those couple changes