MoJoins

Mo’Joins

🎉 Mo’Joins greets players in their own language. It replaces the vanilla join and quit lines with your own text, welcomes newcomers with a personal message, and plays a sound and a ring of particles when someone joins.

What you get

• 🌍 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. Everyone in the chat sees the same join line, each in their own language.
• 📨 Messages for every moment: a join line, a personal welcome on the first join, a “say hi” line to everyone else, and a quit line. Write them in MiniMessage: colors, gradients, clickable links.
• 🔊 Sounds for a join and for a first join.
• ✨ A ring of particles around the player who joined, and an optional firework whose blast hurts nobody.
• 🛡️ Potion effects on join, off by default: a few seconds of resistance, say.
• 📜 The server log keeps the vanilla “joined the game” lines, so tools that read the log still work.
• 🤫 Silent joins for admins: /mojoins silent hides your joins and quits from everyone else.
• 🧩 PlaceholderAPI, if you have it: <papi:player_health> in a message shows %player_health%.
• ⚙️ /mojoins reload applies changes without a restart.

Install

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

Mo’Joins needs Paper 26.3 or a fork of it, like Purpur, on Java 25.

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 /mojoins reload.

Placeholders

<player> is the player’s name, <display_name> their display name, <online> the number of players online. With PlaceholderAPI installed, <papi:name> shows %name% for that player, like <papi:luckperms_prefix><player>. Mo’Joins doesn’t look for %…% in your text, so a percent sign stays a percent sign. An empty message turns it off for that language.

Commands and permissions

The first two need mojoins.admin, the last mojoins.silent; operators have both by default. Silent mode stays on across restarts. It hides the chat lines, sounds, and particles; you still show up in the player list.

Links

• Source code, issues, and the full config: GitHub
• From the same author: Mo’Bosses, an RPG plugin that turns ordinary mobs into epic bosses

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