diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a95d007..5c4caf8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ jobs:
           - cockpit
           - grounds-service
           - agones-fleet
+          - grounds-velocity
+          - plugin-velocity-jar
+          - grounds-gamemode
     steps:
       - name: 📥 Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 9624e58..da36f66 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ jobs:
           - cockpit
           - grounds-service
           - agones-fleet
+          - grounds-velocity
+          - plugin-velocity-jar
+          - grounds-gamemode
     env:
       MATCHES_REF: ${{ startsWith(github.ref, format('refs/tags/{0}-v', matrix.chart)) }}
     steps:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 03a15b1..1b9732f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -56,3 +56,6 @@ build/
 *.tar
 *.tar.gz
 
+# AI
+.codex
+.cursor
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 7d252a8..91d617c 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -3,5 +3,8 @@
   "charts/grounds-api": "0.2.0",
   "charts/cockpit": "0.1.1",
   "charts/grounds-service": "0.1.0",
-  "charts/agones-fleet": "0.2.0"
+  "charts/agones-fleet": "0.2.0",
+  "charts/grounds-velocity": "0.0.1",
+  "charts/plugin-velocity-jar": "0.0.1",
+  "charts/grounds-gamemode": "0.0.1"
 }
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/Chart.lock b/charts/grounds-gamemode/Chart.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..428ee53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/Chart.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+dependencies:
+- name: common
+  repository: oci://ghcr.io/groundsgg/charts
+  version: 0.2.0
+digest: sha256:cc3072b8b38019dbcb82c3adde2774f0ade4c29ea47b961c49936a99d44556d2
+generated: "2026-05-03T20:27:15.738113+02:00"
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/Chart.yaml b/charts/grounds-gamemode/Chart.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4c86e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/Chart.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v2
+name: grounds-gamemode
+description: Minecraft game-server (Paper / Minestom) — Deployment by default, Agones Fleet when scaling
+type: application
+version: 0.1.0
+
+dependencies:
+  - name: common
+    version: "0.2.0"
+    repository: "oci://ghcr.io/groundsgg/charts"
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/_helpers.tpl b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/_helpers.tpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb8b57a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{{/*
+Returns the env block for the game-server container, picking the right
+velocity-secret env-var name based on `.Values.kind`.
+*/}}
+{{- define "grounds-gamemode.env" -}}
+{{- $secretEnvName := "" -}}
+{{- if eq .Values.kind "lobby" -}}
+{{- $secretEnvName = "GROUNDS_LOBBY_VELOCITY_SECRET" -}}
+{{- else -}}
+{{- $secretEnvName = "PAPER_VELOCITY_SECRET" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+- name: {{ $secretEnvName }}
+  valueFrom:
+    secretKeyRef:
+      name: {{ .Values.forwardingSecret.name }}
+      key: {{ .Values.forwardingSecret.key }}
+{{- with .Values.extraEnv }}
+{{ toYaml . }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Resolves the fully-qualified image reference.
+*/}}
+{{- define "grounds-gamemode.image" -}}
+{{- $repo := .Values.image.repository -}}
+{{- if .Values.image.registry -}}
+{{- $repo = printf "%s/%s" .Values.image.registry .Values.image.repository -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{ printf "%s:%s" $repo .Values.image.tag }}
+{{- end -}}
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..505fe13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{{- if not .Values.agones.enabled }}
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    grounds/component: gamemode
+    grounds/server-type: {{ .Values.kind }}
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  replicas: {{ .Values.replicas }}
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      {{- include "common.selectorLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        {{- include "common.podLabels" . | nindent 8 }}
+        grounds/component: gamemode
+        grounds/server-type: {{ .Values.kind }}
+        {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+      annotations:
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+      {{- end }}
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+          image: {{ include "grounds-gamemode.image" . | quote }}
+          imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy }}
+          {{- with .Values.command }}
+          command:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+          {{- end }}
+          ports:
+            - name: minecraft
+              containerPort: {{ .Values.containerPort }}
+              protocol: TCP
+          env:
+            {{- include "grounds-gamemode.env" . | nindent 12 }}
+          {{- with .Values.resources }}
+          resources:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+          {{- end }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/fleet.yaml b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/fleet.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1363d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/fleet.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{{- if .Values.agones.enabled }}
+apiVersion: agones.dev/v1
+kind: Fleet
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    grounds/component: gamemode
+    grounds/server-type: {{ .Values.kind }}
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  replicas: {{ .Values.agones.fleet.minReplicas }}
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        grounds/component: gamemode
+        grounds/server-type: {{ .Values.kind }}
+    spec:
+      ports:
+        - name: minecraft
+          portPolicy: Dynamic
+          containerPort: {{ .Values.containerPort }}
+          protocol: TCP
+      container: {{ .Release.Name }}
+      sdkServer:
+        logLevel: Info
+        httpPort: 9358
+      health:
+        disabled: true
+      template:
+        metadata:
+          labels:
+            {{- include "common.podLabels" . | nindent 12 }}
+            grounds/component: gamemode
+            grounds/server-type: {{ .Values.kind }}
+        spec:
+          containers:
+            - name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+              image: {{ include "grounds-gamemode.image" . | quote }}
+              imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy }}
+              {{- with .Values.command }}
+              command:
+                {{- toYaml . | nindent 16 }}
+              {{- end }}
+              ports:
+                - name: minecraft
+                  containerPort: {{ .Values.containerPort }}
+                  protocol: TCP
+              env:
+                {{- include "grounds-gamemode.env" . | nindent 16 }}
+              {{- with .Values.resources }}
+              resources:
+                {{- toYaml . | nindent 16 }}
+              {{- end }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/service.yaml b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..248771c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/templates/service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{{- if not .Values.agones.enabled }}
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    grounds/server-type: {{ .Values.kind }}
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  type: {{ .Values.service.type }}
+  ports:
+    - port: {{ .Values.containerPort }}
+      targetPort: minecraft
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: minecraft
+  selector:
+    {{- include "common.selectorLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/grounds-gamemode/values.yaml b/charts/grounds-gamemode/values.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..587faee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-gamemode/values.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Default values for grounds-gamemode.
+#
+# A grounds-gamemode release is one Minecraft game-server kind. The
+# chart picks between two backings:
+#   - `agones.enabled: true`  → Agones Fleet (autoscaled, dynamic ports)
+#   - `agones.enabled: false` → Deployment + Service (fixed port 25565)
+#
+# Used in the platform-test environment for both:
+#   - minestom-lobby      (kind: lobby,    Deployment, single replica)
+#   - paper-game          (kind: paper,    Agones Fleet, scales 0..N)
+#
+# kind drives which Velocity-secret env-var the container expects:
+#   - "lobby"   → GROUNDS_LOBBY_VELOCITY_SECRET
+#   - "paper"   → PAPER_VELOCITY_SECRET
+#   - "match"   → PAPER_VELOCITY_SECRET
+#   - "game"    → PAPER_VELOCITY_SECRET
+
+global:
+  commonLabels: {}
+  commonAnnotations: {}
+
+# Logical kind of the game-server. See note above.
+kind: "paper"
+
+image:
+  registry: "ghcr.io"
+  repository: "groundsgg/paper-game"
+  tag: "latest"
+  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+
+# Agones Fleet mode — set agones.enabled=true to switch from Deployment
+# to a Fleet. Bundle.yaml's `helm.agones.fleet` map maps directly here.
+# This chart currently uses only `minReplicas` as the Fleet `.spec.replicas`
+# value; it does not define a FleetAutoscaler.
+agones:
+  enabled: false
+  fleet:
+    minReplicas: 0
+    maxReplicas: 2
+
+# Deployment-mode config (ignored when agones.enabled).
+replicas: 1
+
+# velocity-forwarding-secret is provisioned out-of-band; the chart
+# only references it. Same convention as grounds-velocity.
+forwardingSecret:
+  name: "velocity-forwarding-secret"
+  key: "secret"
+
+# Container port. Minecraft default 25565.
+containerPort: 25565
+
+# Optional command override.
+command: []
+
+# extraEnv merges into env after the kind-specific velocity-secret.
+extraEnv: []
+
+resources:
+  requests:
+    cpu: "500m"
+    memory: "2Gi"
+  limits:
+    cpu: "2"
+    memory: "4Gi"
+
+service:
+  type: ClusterIP
diff --git a/charts/grounds-velocity/Chart.lock b/charts/grounds-velocity/Chart.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ba69c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-velocity/Chart.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+dependencies:
+- name: common
+  repository: oci://ghcr.io/groundsgg/charts
+  version: 0.2.0
+digest: sha256:cc3072b8b38019dbcb82c3adde2774f0ade4c29ea47b961c49936a99d44556d2
+generated: "2026-05-03T20:26:58.10509+02:00"
diff --git a/charts/grounds-velocity/Chart.yaml b/charts/grounds-velocity/Chart.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58a59d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-velocity/Chart.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v2
+name: grounds-velocity
+description: Velocity Minecraft proxy with per-plugin JAR fetching for the platform-test environment
+type: application
+version: 0.1.0
+
+dependencies:
+  - name: common
+    version: "0.2.0"
+    repository: "oci://ghcr.io/groundsgg/charts"
diff --git a/charts/grounds-velocity/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/grounds-velocity/templates/deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c9427f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-velocity/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    grounds/component: velocity
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  replicas: {{ .Values.replicas }}
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      {{- include "common.selectorLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        {{- include "common.podLabels" . | nindent 8 }}
+        grounds/component: velocity
+        {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+      annotations:
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+      {{- end }}
+    spec:
+      {{- $imageRepo := .Values.image.repository }}
+      {{- if .Values.image.registry }}
+      {{- $imageRepo = printf "%s/%s" .Values.image.registry .Values.image.repository }}
+      {{- end }}
+      {{- with .Values.plugins }}
+      initContainers:
+        {{- range $plugin := . }}
+        - name: fetch-{{ $plugin }}
+          image: {{ $.Values.fetcher.image | quote }}
+          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - >-
+              curl --fail --silent --show-error
+              --max-time {{ $.Values.fetcher.timeoutSeconds }}
+              --retry 5 --retry-delay 2 --retry-connrefused
+              -o /plugins/{{ $plugin }}.jar
+              http://{{ $plugin }}:8080/plugin.jar
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: plugins
+              mountPath: /plugins
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- end }}
+      containers:
+        - name: velocity
+          image: "{{ $imageRepo }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"
+          imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy }}
+          ports:
+            - name: minecraft
+              containerPort: {{ .Values.ports.minecraft }}
+              protocol: TCP
+          env:
+            - name: VELOCITY_FORWARDING_SECRET
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef:
+                  name: {{ .Values.forwardingSecret.name }}
+                  key: {{ .Values.forwardingSecret.key }}
+            {{- with .Values.env }}
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+            {{- end }}
+          {{- with .Values.resources }}
+          resources:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+          {{- end }}
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: plugins
+              mountPath: /app/plugins
+      volumes:
+        - name: plugins
+          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/charts/grounds-velocity/templates/service.yaml b/charts/grounds-velocity/templates/service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b633a53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-velocity/templates/service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  type: {{ .Values.service.type }}
+  {{- with .Values.service.externalTrafficPolicy }}
+  externalTrafficPolicy: {{ . }}
+  {{- end }}
+  ports:
+    - port: {{ .Values.ports.minecraft }}
+      targetPort: minecraft
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: minecraft
+  selector:
+    {{- include "common.selectorLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
diff --git a/charts/grounds-velocity/values.yaml b/charts/grounds-velocity/values.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a8efd96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/grounds-velocity/values.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Default values for grounds-velocity.
+#
+# Per-engineer Velocity proxy. Each plugin in `.plugins[]` corresponds
+# to a sibling `plugin-velocity-jar` Helm release in the same namespace
+# whose Service serves the JAR over HTTP at /plugin.jar. At pod start
+# Velocity runs one init-container per entry to fetch each JAR into the
+# emptyDir mounted at /app/plugins.
+
+global:
+  commonLabels: {}
+  commonAnnotations: {}
+
+replicas: 1
+
+image:
+  registry: "ghcr.io"
+  repository: "groundsgg/velocity"
+  tag: "latest"
+  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+
+# Each entry is the Helm release name of a sibling plugin-velocity-jar
+# release. Velocity fetches `http://<name>:8080/plugin.jar` and writes
+# it to `/app/plugins/<name>.jar`. Order is preserved.
+plugins: []
+# Example:
+#   plugins:
+#     - plugin-social
+#     - plugin-chat
+
+# Image used for the per-plugin fetch init-containers.
+fetcher:
+  image: "curlimages/curl:8.18.0"
+  timeoutSeconds: 60
+
+resources:
+  requests:
+    cpu: "500m"
+    memory: "1Gi"
+  limits:
+    cpu: "2"
+    memory: "2Gi"
+
+# Velocity exposes the player port (modern Minecraft proxy).
+ports:
+  minecraft: 25577
+
+service:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  externalTrafficPolicy: ""
+
+# velocity-forwarding-secret is provisioned out-of-band (Pulumi/sealed
+# secret) so all proxies + game-servers in the namespace share one
+# secret. The chart only references it.
+forwardingSecret:
+  name: "velocity-forwarding-secret"
+  key: "secret"
+
+env: []
diff --git a/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/Chart.lock b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/Chart.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..173d78f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/Chart.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+dependencies:
+- name: common
+  repository: oci://ghcr.io/groundsgg/charts
+  version: 0.2.0
+digest: sha256:cc3072b8b38019dbcb82c3adde2774f0ade4c29ea47b961c49936a99d44556d2
+generated: "2026-05-03T20:26:40.440813+02:00"
diff --git a/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/Chart.yaml b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/Chart.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5f3ebf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/Chart.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v2
+name: plugin-velocity-jar
+description: Hosts a Velocity-plugin JAR so the grounds-velocity proxy can fetch it at startup
+type: application
+version: 0.1.0
+
+dependencies:
+  - name: common
+    version: "0.2.0"
+    repository: "oci://ghcr.io/groundsgg/charts"
diff --git a/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/templates/deployment.yaml b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/templates/deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6493091
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    grounds/component: plugin-velocity-jar
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      {{- include "common.selectorLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        {{- include "common.podLabels" . | nindent 8 }}
+        grounds/component: plugin-velocity-jar
+        {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
+      {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+      annotations:
+        {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
+      {{- end }}
+    spec:
+      {{- $imageRepo := .Values.image.repository }}
+      {{- if .Values.image.registry }}
+      {{- $imageRepo = printf "%s/%s" .Values.image.registry .Values.image.repository }}
+      {{- end }}
+      initContainers:
+        - name: copy-jar
+          image: "{{ $imageRepo }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"
+          imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.image.pullPolicy }}
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - 'cp "{{ .Values.jarPath }}" /shared/plugin.jar && ls -la /shared/plugin.jar'
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: shared
+              mountPath: /shared
+      containers:
+        - name: httpd
+          image: {{ .Values.httpd.image | quote }}
+          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+          command: ["httpd", "-f", "-p", "{{ .Values.httpd.port }}", "-h", "/shared"]
+          ports:
+            - name: http
+              containerPort: {{ .Values.httpd.port }}
+              protocol: TCP
+          readinessProbe:
+            httpGet:
+              path: /plugin.jar
+              port: http
+            initialDelaySeconds: 1
+            periodSeconds: 5
+          {{- with .Values.resources }}
+          resources:
+            {{- toYaml . | nindent 12 }}
+          {{- end }}
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: shared
+              mountPath: /shared
+      volumes:
+        - name: shared
+          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/templates/service.yaml b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/templates/service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..08a5ead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/templates/service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Release.Name }}
+  labels:
+    {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- with .Values.global.commonLabels }}
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+    {{- end }}
+  {{- with .Values.global.commonAnnotations }}
+  annotations:
+    {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  type: {{ .Values.service.type }}
+  ports:
+    - port: {{ .Values.service.port }}
+      targetPort: http
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: http
+  selector:
+    {{- include "common.selectorLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
diff --git a/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/values.yaml b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/values.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d309b51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/plugin-velocity-jar/values.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Default values for plugin-velocity-jar.
+#
+# A plugin-velocity-jar release runs a tiny pod that exposes a single
+# Velocity-plugin JAR over HTTP at `/plugin.jar`. The grounds-velocity
+# proxy fetches it via init-containers at startup.
+#
+# Pod layout:
+#   initContainer "copy-jar"
+#     image: <plugin-image>            # carries the JAR at jarPath
+#     command: cp <jarPath> /shared/plugin.jar
+#   container "httpd"
+#     image: busybox httpd -f -h /shared -p 8080
+#     mounts /shared (emptyDir, RW so DevSpace can sync new JARs)
+#
+# This indirection means the plugin image only needs to ship the JAR
+# at a known path — no httpd or entrypoint requirements. The DevSpace
+# `jar-sync-pod-restart` workflow targets this pod's /shared/plugin.jar
+# directly: sync a freshly-built JAR there, then `kubectl rollout
+# restart deployment/<velocity>` so the velocity pod's init-containers
+# re-fetch the updated JARs.
+
+global:
+  commonLabels: {}
+  commonAnnotations: {}
+
+# The plugin-image: must contain the JAR at `jarPath`. Entrypoint is
+# irrelevant — we override it to `cp` in the init-container.
+image:
+  registry: ""
+  repository: "plugin-velocity-jar"
+  tag: "latest"
+  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+
+# Where the JAR lives inside the plugin-image.
+jarPath: "/jar/plugin.jar"
+
+# httpd image used to serve the JAR. Override only if you need a
+# pinned mirror.
+httpd:
+  image: "busybox:1.37"
+  port: 8080
+
+resources:
+  requests:
+    cpu: "10m"
+    memory: "16Mi"
+  limits:
+    cpu: "50m"
+    memory: "32Mi"
+
+service:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  port: 8080
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 9473f5f..eedf2e6 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
     },
     "charts/agones-fleet": {
       "release-type": "helm"
+    },
+    "charts/grounds-velocity": {
+      "release-type": "helm"
+    },
+    "charts/plugin-velocity-jar": {
+      "release-type": "helm"
+    },
+    "charts/grounds-gamemode": {
+      "release-type": "helm"
     }
   }
 }