Minecraft plugin EssentialsAntiBuild

🔌 About AntiBuild

AntiBuild (distributed as the Essentials/EssentialsX AntiBuild module) is a Minecraft plugin module that extracts and expands the "antibuild" functionality from the Essentials suite. It provides server administrators with fine-grained, permission-driven control over which blocks and items players may place, break, use, craft, pick up or drop.

🎯 Purpose

AntiBuild solves the problem of unwanted block/item interactions and targeted griefing by letting operators restrict actions per-item and per-block. It is useful where you need centralized, permission-based rules for build and interaction behaviour instead of region-based protection alone.

⚙️ Features

• Server-wide blacklists for placing, breaking, using and piston-moving specific blocks.
• Item-use blacklist to block specific item interactions.
• Permission-based allow/deny rules for place/break/interact/craft/pickup/drop on a per-item ID/name basis.
• Legacy support for older blacklist syntax (IDs) and transition to item names on modern Minecraft versions.
• Build alert system to notify staff when certain items are placed, used, or broken.
• Global opt-out permission to exempt trusted users from checks to reduce runtime overhead.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Small to large Survival/SMP and public servers that need per-item/build restrictions.
• Servers that already use Essentials/EssentialsX and want the modular antibuild features.
• Administrators who prefer permission-based control over region-based protection for specific items.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Prevent players from placing TNT, pistons, or other server-impacting blocks while allowing normal building.
• Block use of specific items (for example, flint and steel) while allowing others to build.
• Alert staff when a player places or interacts with a monitored item.

🔐 Permissions

Notes: the plugin supports wildcard and per-datavalue permission variants (for example essentials.build.* or essentials.build.place.54:*) as documented by the module.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Obtain the AntiBuild module matching your Essentials/EssentialsX main module version (the module is published as an Essentials/EssentialsX addon).
• Place the module .jar into your server plugins/ directory alongside the main Essentials/EssentialsX plugin.
• Restart the server and check the server console to confirm the module loaded.

📦 Dependencies

• EssentialsX (matching version of the main module) — required as the module depends on the main suite.
• Vault — recommended/used by EssentialsX for economy/permissions interactions.
• Permissions plugin (example: LuckPerms) — required to manage the item/block permission nodes effectively.

🧾 Configuration

• AntiBuild uses blacklist and alert configuration sections where you list blocked/alerted items by ID (legacy) or by item name on modern Minecraft versions.
• Standard config keys include blacklist.placement, blacklist.usage, blacklist.break, blacklist.piston and alert.on-placement, alert.on-use, alert.on-break.
• The module exposes the essentials.build.* permission patterns for granular control.

🧠 Technical Notes

• The module keeps legacy support for numerical IDs but uses item names on Minecraft 1.13+.
• Confirm platform and version compatibility with the module build you download; modern EssentialsX builds list specific supported Minecraft versions.
• AntiBuild is provided as a module in the Essentials/EssentialsX ecosystem rather than a standalone monolithic plugin.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need precise, permission-driven control over which items and blocks players may interact with (for example to prevent griefing or to restrict server-impacting blocks), AntiBuild lets you enforce those rules centrally through permissions and blacklists while integrating with the existing Essentials/EssentialsX setup.