Minecraft plugin EssentialsProtect

🔌 About EssentialsX Protect

EssentialsX Protect is a module for the EssentialsX plugin that provides simple, configuration-driven world protection. It does not claim or protect regions; instead it applies global or per-world rules (via the Essentials config) to reduce environmental damage, control unwanted events, and restrict certain mob spawns.

🎯 Purpose

The module exists to give server administrators fine-grained, server-wide controls for destructive gameplay elements and mob spawning without adding a region-based protection system. It is useful where you want global prevention of common griefing vectors or to limit specific mob types.

⚙️ Features

• Disable or enable creeper explosions and creeper block/player damage.
• Toggle TNT explosions and player damage from TNT.
• Control fire spread, lava flow and related fire/lava damage behavior.
• Enable/disable specific mob spawn types per world.
• Options configured through the protect: section of the Essentials configuration file.
• Lightweight module that requires the matching main EssentialsX module.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server owners who need server-wide protection settings without region claims.
• Survival and SMP servers that want to limit environmental damage or adjust mob spawns.
• Admins who already use EssentialsX and prefer a config-driven protection layer.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Turn off creeper block damage while keeping normal mob spawning.
• Disable global fire spread and lava flow to prevent accidental base loss.
• Prevent certain hostile mobs from spawning in dedicated worlds.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the matching EssentialsX Protect jar for your EssentialsX version and place it in your server plugins/ directory.
• Install the main EssentialsX module (the Protect module requires the matching main module).
• Restart the server and check the server console/logs to confirm the module loaded.

📦 Dependencies

• EssentialsX (required)

🧾 Configuration

• Settings live under the protect: section in your plugins/Essentials/config.yml file.
• The config exposes toggles for explosions, fire and lava behavior, specific mob spawn booleans, and related protections.

🧠 Technical Notes

• This is a module for the EssentialsX suite; you must run a matching version of EssentialsX for the Protect module to function correctly.
• EssentialsX Protect is not a region-claiming or region-management plugin; for per-region protection install a dedicated region plugin such as WorldGuard alongside EssentialsX.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need centralized, config-based controls to reduce environmental damage or to disable specific mob types across worlds while already using EssentialsX, EssentialsX Protect provides those controls without adding region-based protection complexity.