SEssential

An all-in-one server toolkit for Paper 26.2 / 26.3 — chat, TAB, moderation, economy, clans, an admin panel and much more in a single plugin. Every module can be turned on or off, and every message supports MiniMessage and & color codes.

Beta: 1.3.0-beta.1 is a beta release. Please back up your server and report bugs before using it in production.

Features

Chat & display

• Chat format per LuckPerms group
• TAB list (header/footer, names) and sorted nametags
• Configurable join and leave messages
• Clickable, configurable /help pages and a rules system

Players

• /fly, /heal, /feed, /god, /enderchest
• /msg and /r private messages
• /tpa teleport requests, /spawn and /setspawn, /nether and /end — with optional costs (money or items) and teleport delays
• Per-player time and weather: /ptime, /pweather
• Separate inventories for Creative and Survival: /gminv

Economy

• Digital bank: deposit items, pay with your account, /pay — optionally provided as a Vault economy
• Chest shops: buy and sell items from chests
• Bounties: put money on a player; whoever kills the target gets the bounty and the inventory
• Item upgrader
• Wheel of fortune (in-game currency)

Clans

• Create clans with a color, invitations, clan home by vote, shared chest and clan bank

Moderation

• Vanish with protection rules, fake join/leave messages and an adjusted server list
• Punishments: bans, mutes, IP bans — free-form or from templates, temporary or permanent
• Report system (/report) with an admin overview
• Fairplay: score leaderboard, combat-log, spawn-kill and kill-farming detection, strikes with automatic punishment
• ItemGuard: removes forbidden items and spawn eggs and reports them
• CreativeLog: logs actions in Creative mode
• Item tracker: tracks valuable items in inventories and ender chests, with history
• Client detector: recognizes vanilla, modded and known hacked clients on join

Administration

• /admin panel as a central menu for all modules
• Web panel with statistics in the browser (login via one-time link from /webpanel)
• News system with scheduling and duration
• Soft restart with countdown, boss bar and title
• Fake players (/fakeplayer): players without a client that load chunks, can wander, fight or mine

Requirements

• Paper 26.2 or 26.3, Java 25
• Optional: LuckPerms (prefixes, suffixes, groups), PlaceholderAPI, Vault

Installation

1. Put SEssentials-<version>.jar into your plugins/ folder and start the server.
2. Configure it in plugins/SEssentials/: config.yml (language, prefix, modules on/off), config/<module>.yml and lang/<language>.yml.
3. Languages: English (en_US) and German (de_DE) are included — set language: en_US and run /sess reload. Admin menu labels are currently German only.

New options from updates are added to your files automatically; existing values are kept.

Good to know

• Web panel: disabled by default and bound to 127.0.0.1. It speaks plain HTTP — put a reverse proxy with HTTPS (e.g. Caddy, nginx) in front of it before exposing it to the internet. It loads player avatars from mc-heads.net.
• Auto-update: disabled by default. If you enable it (/autoupdate), the plugin checks the project's GitHub releases once a day, verifies the jar (SHA-256) and installs it on the next restart. Beta releases are never installed automatically.
• Fake players appear in TAB and /list like real players. While an admin controls one, it temporarily gets that admin's permissions (including OP).
• Wheel of fortune is meant for in-game currency only. Selling in-game currency for real money to use on it may violate the Minecraft Usage Guidelines.
• No telemetry, no metrics, no license checks.

Support

Report bugs and suggestions on GitHub Issues.

License

MIT