MoAfks

Mo’Afks

🛡️ Mo’Afks lets players step away without worry. Type /afk, or stand idle for a few minutes, and your character goes into a safe AFK mode: nothing hurts or pushes you, mobs leave you alone, and you don’t keep the night from passing. Move, and you’re back.

What you get

• 🛡️ Nothing hurts an AFK player: no damage of any kind, no burning, no drowning, no hunger. A fall into the void brings them back to where they went AFK.
• 🧲 Nothing moves them: no knockback from hits or explosions, mobs and players walk through them, projectiles and fishing hooks fly through, and boats and minecarts can’t scoop them up.
• 👻 Mobs leave them alone: no mob targets them, wardens don’t hear them, endermen don’t mind their stare, phantoms don’t come for them, and Bad Omen doesn’t start a raid.
• 🌙 AFK players don’t block the night. On a server where everyone has to sleep, one friend away from the keyboard no longer keeps the night going.
• ⚖️ The protection doesn’t pay off. Nobody goes AFK mid-fight, mid-fall, on fire, in water or lava, or with a mob on their heels. AFK players pick up no items or experience, and their health and hunger stay where they were.
• 🔙 Coming back is up to the player: walking, jumping, turning the camera, chatting, clicking, and more, each a switch. Water, pistons, and minecarts moving them don’t count, so AFK pools don’t fool it. If they come back somewhere dangerous, they land on a safe spot nearby.
• 🌍 Every player reads their own language. The plugin finds the player’s country by IP and picks a language for it: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German come bundled. Write messages in MiniMessage: colors, gradients, clickable links.
• ⏱️ A time limit, if you want one: a warning in the action bar, then a kick.
• ✨ A ring of particles around AFK players and an [AFK] mark in the player list.
• ⚙️ /moafks reload applies changes without a restart, and AFK players stay AFK.

AFK changes nothing the game saves. A player who quits while AFK comes back not AFK, with nothing left over.

Install

1. Put the jar in your server’s plugins/ folder and restart the server.
2. Edit plugins/MoAfks/config.yml and the messages in plugins/MoAfks/lang/.
3. Run /moafks reload.

Mo’Afks needs Paper 26.3 or a fork of it, like Purpur, on Java 25. A 1.x config.yml keeps working; move its messages to lang/.

How a player gets their language

1. By IP. The plugin looks up the player’s country and checks locales.countries: Russia gets Russian, Brazil gets Portuguese, Germany gets German, and so on. You can change the lists.
2. By game language. When the country isn’t listed, the plugin takes the language set in the player’s game, if a file in lang/ matches it.
3. Default. Everyone else gets locales.default, English out of the box.

The country lookup needs no account and sends no address anywhere. On the first start, the plugin downloads a free country database (4 MB) and refreshes it every month. Players who connect through a proxy show up with the proxy’s address, so they get the proxy’s country.

Add a language: copy lang/en.yml to, say, lang/it.yml, translate it, add it: [ IT, SM, VA ] to locales.countries, and run /moafks reload.

Commands and permissions

/afk needs moafks.afk, which everyone has. The rest need moafks.admin, which operators have.

PlaceholderAPI

With PlaceholderAPI installed, Mo’Afks adds %moafks_afk%, %moafks_afk_time% (seconds in this AFK spell), %moafks_afk_total% (seconds AFK across all sessions, to leave out of play time), %moafks_reason%, and %moafks_tag% (the [AFK] mark while AFK). If TAB formats your player list, turn off Mo’Afks’ own mark and put %moafks_tag% into TAB’s prefix.

In messages, <papi:name> shows %name% for the player it’s about. Mo’Afks doesn’t look for %…% in your text, so a percent sign stays a percent sign.

Links

• Source code, issues, the full config, and the list of every game event Mo’Afks handles: GitHub
• From the same author: Mo’Joins, join and quit lines in each player’s language, and Mo’Bosses, an RPG plugin that turns ordinary mobs into epic bosses

IP Geolocation by DB-IP, licensed under CC BY 4.0.