Minecraft plugin ClearLag

🔌 About ClearLagg

ClearLagg is a Minecraft plugin for Bukkit/Spigot servers that helps reduce server-side lag by removing or limiting entities and providing administrative tools to identify and control sources of high entity counts. It focuses on periodic clearing of dropped items and provides configurable protections and warnings so servers can remove excess entities while preserving important or named items.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin's core purpose is server performance maintenance: automatically or manually clearing dropped items and controlling entity-related features (spawners, mobs, chunk activity) to lower CPU and memory pressure caused by excessive entities.

⚙️ Features

• Automatic clearing of dropped items on a configurable interval with warning countdowns.
• Manual clear and timer commands for on-demand cleanup.
• Entity counting and tools to locate overloaded or abused chunks.
• Options to limit mob spawners and to kill mobs in controlled ways.
• Commands to unload chunks and attempt garbage-collection actions.
• Configurable ignored items (named items, lore, specific item types) to protect valuable drops.
• Reloadable configuration and runtime module controls.
• Auto-update capability (configurable/disableable in plugin config).

🧩 Who It Is For

ClearLagg is intended for server administrators and operators running Bukkit/Spigot servers (survival, SMP, factions, or medium/large servers) who need a straightforward tool to control entity counts and perform ad-hoc or scheduled cleanups.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Scheduled automatic removal of ground items every X minutes to keep memory usage stable on a busy survival server.
• An admin locates a chunk with an abnormal entity count and unloads it or clears entities in a radius to stop lag spikes.
• Temporarily halting mob spawning during maintenance or large events.

⌨️ Commands

🔐 Permissions

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin JAR and place it in your server's plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server so the plugin can create its default configuration files.
• Verify the plugin loaded correctly via the server console/logs.
• Edit the generated configuration to adjust clear intervals, ignored items, and warnings; use the reload command to apply changes.

🧠 Technical Notes

• ClearLagg is distributed for Bukkit/Spigot servers and historically has wide compatibility with Bukkit/Spigot-based server versions.
• The plugin creates a configuration directory (e.g., /plugins/Clearlag/config.yml) on first run and includes an option to disable the built-in auto-update behavior.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need a simple, configurable tool to periodically remove excess dropped items and investigate or control high-entity areas on a Bukkit/Spigot server, ClearLagg provides admin commands and configuration to reduce entity-related lag with minimal setup.