Plugins
All articles about Plugins: guides, explainers and honest comparisons.
WorldEdit and WorldGuard: Build and Protect on Your Server
WorldEdit edits thousands of blocks at once, WorldGuard enforces rules inside a region: how to use them together to protect a spawn without stalling your server.
4 Aug 2026
ViaVersion: Let Players Join on Different Minecraft Versions
ViaVersion lets newer clients onto an older server, ViaBackwards does the reverse. How protocol translation works, and where it runs out of road.
4 Aug 2026
spark: find out where the lag on your Minecraft server comes from
spark measures which plugin, mod or chunk is eating your tick time, so you never have to guess where the lag on your Minecraft server comes from.
4 Aug 2026
LuckPerms: Setting Up Ranks and Permissions Properly
Groups, permission nodes, inheritance, tracks and contexts explained, with a complete five-rank example setup and how to debug permissions.
4 Aug 2026
GriefPrevention: Let Players Claim Their Own Land
How players protect their builds with a golden shovel, what claim blocks cost and which settings are worth changing on a survival server.
4 Aug 2026
EssentialsX Explained: the Backbone of Every Minecraft Server
EssentialsX gives your server commands like /home, /tpa and /warp: which modules you need, how to set cooldowns and homes per rank, and which plugins clash with it.
4 Aug 2026
Dynmap vs BlueMap: A Live Web Map of Your World
Dynmap or BlueMap: how a live web map works, what the first render costs your server, and how to avoid handing out the location of every player base.
4 Aug 2026
DiscordSRV: Link Your Minecraft Server to Discord
Bridge chat, console and ranks between your Minecraft server and Discord with DiscordSRV, including the two mistakes that go wrong most often.
4 Aug 2026
CoreProtect: Roll Back Griefing and See Who Did What
With /co i you see who touched a block and with /co rollback you undo griefing: how inspect, rollback, restore and purge work, and why this is no backup.
4 Aug 2026