MuteEssentials

MuteEssentials

One plugin instead of a dozen. Moderation, teleportation, economy, teams and claims, block logging and more, all in a single cohesive plugin.

I originally built MuteEssentials for my own SMP around two years ago. It has grown a lot since then, so I am now making it public and continuing to develop it in the open.

What you get

The short version. Full breakdown further down.

• Moderation with reusable templates for bans, mutes, kicks and warns, plus a player report system
• Teleportation: /home, /warp, /spawn, /tpa, /rtp and /back, with warmups that cancel on movement or damage
• Economy: built-in money, /pay, /baltop and a player auction house, optionally shared through Vault
• Teams and claims: create teams, claim land, manage trust and protection flags
• BlockLog: inspect, roll back and restore block changes, a lightweight take on CoreProtect
• Kits: named kits with per-kit permissions and cooldowns
• Container protection: lock chests and containers and share access with trusted players
• Login protection: VPN and proxy detection plus client-mod fingerprinting at join
• Admin GUI to manage most settings in-game without editing config files
• Fully localized: English and German included, every message customizable

Screenshots

Screenshots of the admin GUI, scoreboard, auction house and claim borders are on the Gallery tab above.

Features

The full breakdown of every module.

Moderation

• Ban, kick and mute players with fully customizable templates
• Warn system with automatic ban after configurable threshold
• Player report system with live staff notifications
• Rank protection prevents staff from targeting equal or higher roles
• Central admin GUI for punishments, ranks, invsee and settings
• Custom kick messages for wrong version, server full and whitelist (requires ProtocolLib)

Essentials

• Homes with teleport delay, cooldown, limits and pagination
• Warps for global server locations
• Spawn system with first join teleport
• TPA requests with clickable accept, /tpaccept and /tpadeny, both sides get feedback on accept
• /rtp: random teleport with async chunk loading, safe-location checks, configurable radius, cooldown, excludes claimed land
• Private messages with reply, social spy and offline delivery
• Gamemode, time and weather commands (/day, /night, /sun, /rain, /thunder, /weatherclear)
• /heal, /feed, /repair, /fly, /speed, /back, /nick, /clearchat, /seen, /playtime
• Starter kit for new players (configurable items)
• First join welcome message

Economy

• /money to check your balance
• /pay to send money to other players (atomic transfer)
• /baltop for the top 10 richest players (ties no longer lost)
• /eco set/give/take for admin management
• Configurable start balance and currency symbol
• Integrated in scoreboard and PlaceholderAPI
• Optional Vault provider so shops, jobs and other plugins share the same balances
• Full auction house module: list items from your hand with /ah sell <price>, browse with /ah, auto-mail for expired listings

Teams and Land Claims

A complete land protection system inspired by Lands.

• Create teams, invite players, assign roles (Leader, Officer, Member)
• Claim land with a selection wand and particle borders
• Multi-claim support (configurable limit per team)
• Paid claim expansion: configurable cost per block, optional free-block allowance, money is deducted from the player creating the claim
• Team colors: leader sets the team's tab color with /team color <color> (color name or 0-9, a-f)
• 8 toggleable flags per claim: PvP, mob spawning, explosions, fire spread, leaf decay, animal protection, ender pearls, pistons
• Full protection against block breaking, placing, interactions, liquids, buckets and pistons from outside
• Trust system for non-members
• Ban players from your claim
• Enter and leave title messages
• Team rename, promote, demote, kick
• Confirmation dialogs for critical actions

Container Protection

Built-in ChestLock module, no external plugin needed.

• Auto-lock on place: chests, barrels, furnaces, hoppers, brewing stands, shulkers and every other container are locked to the placer automatically
• Double-chest aware: both halves are treated as one, a single /lock, /trust or break covers the whole thing
• Team access: members of the same clan can access each other's containers automatically
• Trust by click: /trust <player> sets a pending action (30s), then right-click the container to confirm. Same for /untrust
• /lock public: mark a container as public so anyone can put items in and take them out. /lock private reverts
• /lockinfo: shows owner, trusted players, location and visibility
• Hopper-steal protection: foreign hoppers cannot pull from locked containers
• Explosion protection: locked containers survive TNT and creepers
• Action bar shows the owner when you open someone else's container (configurable)

Staff Tools

Everything your team needs to manage the server efficiently.

• Vanish with staff visibility and fake join/leave messages
• Staff chat with toggle mode
• Maintenance mode with custom kick screen and bypass
• Login protection: VPN and proxy detection with configurable thresholds and actions, denies or flags known bad actors before they reach spawn
• Client and mod detection with configurable actions
• InvSee and EnderChest editing in real time
• /check command with full player overview
• Stats GUI with kills, deaths, blocks, playtime and K/D ratio

BlockLog

A lightweight CoreProtect alternative using SQLite. Included as a built-in module.

• Inspect block history by clicking
• Lookup actions by player, time and radius with rich filters (+action:, +block:, +time:, +radius:, +user:)
• Rollback and restore with full block data (orientation, inventory contents, sign text, beds, doors, crops)
• Death drops recovery: /bl death <player> and /bl deathrestore <player> [index]
• Purge old data

Chat and Prefix System

• Unified prefix across chat, tablist and nametag above the head
• Rank based formatting with configurable colors
• Join and leave messages in the player's rank color
• Optional color permissions for players
• Team suffix support (color chosen by team leader via /team color)

Scoreboard and TabList

Fully configurable sidebar and tablist with live placeholders.

• Scoreboard with Minecraft-native unicode symbols
• TabList header and footer with player info
• All text configurable in config.yml
• Supports PlaceholderAPI placeholders

Admin GUI

Central management panel for server administration.

• Player management with ban, kick, mute, vanish, invsee
• Rank overview and assignment
• System toggles for all features
• Ban and mute lists with one-click unban/unmute

Customization

• Zero hardcoded messages. Every player-facing text is in YAML files
• Multi-language with automatic detection (German and English included, per-player locale)
• Every command can be enabled or disabled in config
• Custom aliases for all commands
• All systems toggleable in Modules.<Name>.Enabled
• Auto config-migrator: when new config keys are added in updates, they are merged into your existing file without overwriting your values
• Optional MySQL backend for shared data across servers, with automatic migration and a local fallback
• /mues reload for live config changes without restart

Integrations

• PlaceholderAPI: 10+ own placeholders (%muteessentials_rank%, %muteessentials_balance%, %muteessentials_team% and more)
• Vault: registers as the economy provider so other plugins share balances
• ProtocolLib: custom disconnect messages for incompatible versions and connection throttling

Getting started

Drop the jar into your plugins folder and restart. Everything works out of the box, and every part can be configured or turned off. New config keys from updates are merged into your files automatically.

Compatibility

Built for Paper 1.21+ (Java 21+). Tested with 26.2.