Minecraft plugins Paper

LuckPerms — a permissions management Minecraft plugin for Paper/Spigot servers, with a web editor and scalable storage options for modern Minecraft servers.

WorldGuard — Minecraft plugin for protecting regions, managing flags and access on Paper/Spigot servers. Requires WorldEdit. Essential for admins.

PlaceholderAPI — Minecraft plugin that exposes a unified placeholders API and an expansions cloud for integrating data from plugins (LuckPerms, Vault, Essentials) into chat, scoreboards and more.

EssentialsSpawn — Minecraft plugin (EssentialsX module) to control where players spawn; supports group spawns and config via plugins/Essentials/config.yml.

ViaVersion — Minecraft plugin that lets newer clients connect to older Paper/Spigot/Velocity servers by translating protocol versions for multi-version compatibility.

EssentialsChat — EssentialsX chat module for Minecraft servers. Adds local/shout chat, formatting controls and chat permissions for Paper/Spigot servers.

ViaBackwards — Minecraft plugin that lets older Java clients join newer servers. Requires ViaVersion; compatible with Spigot/Paper and many protocol versions.

Citizens — Minecraft plugin to create and manage NPCs (shopkeepers, guards, statues) on Paper/Spigot servers with an API for addons.

PacketEvents — a Packet/Netty networking library & plugin for Minecraft servers. Provides a high-performance packet API for Spigot/Paper/Velocity plugin development.

Geyser-Spigot — Minecraft plugin that lets Bedrock clients join Java (Spigot/Paper) servers; pairs well with Floodgate for Bedrock auth and cross‑play.

voicechat — Minecraft plugin providing proximity voice chat (push-to-talk, voice activation, groups, 3D audio). Works with Paper/Spigot/Fabric; requires UDP port on server.

Floodgate — Minecraft plugin that lets Bedrock players join Java servers via Geyser. Works with Paper/Spigot/Bungee/Velocity; handles auth and cross-play.

ajLeaderboards — Minecraft plugin to create customizable leaderboards from PlaceholderAPI values. Works with holograms, signs, heads and Citizens NPCs.

Multiverse-Portals — a Multiverse add-on Minecraft plugin to create custom portals (worlds/anchors/coords). Works with Multiverse-Core; for Spigot/Paper servers.

dynmap — Minecraft plugin that provides a real‑time web-based map for Spigot/Paper servers: player markers, marker API, rendering controls and web UI.

mcMMO — Minecraft plugin that adds RPG skills, abilities and progression to your Spigot/Paper Minecraft server. Extensively configurable via official wiki.

NBTAPI — a lightweight Minecraft library/plugin (Spigot/Paper) to read, write and persist NBT on items, entities and block‑entities.

PlugManX — a plugin manager for Minecraft servers (Bukkit/Paper/Spigot) to enable, disable, load, unload and inspect plugins without restarting the server.

ChestShop — Minecraft plugin to create physical sign-and-chest shops using Vault/Reserve-compatible economy plugins.

EconomyShopGUI — Minecraft plugin that adds a configurable in‑game GUI shop for Spigot/Paper servers, supporting multiple economy providers and in‑game shop editing.

ExcellentCrates — Minecraft plugin for configurable crates with GUI editor, custom items, holograms and economy features for Paper/Spigot servers.

InvSeePlusPlus — Minecraft plugin to view and interact with player inventories and ender chests. Paper/Spigot admin tool with API and offline-support options.

MiniMOTD — Minecraft plugin to set server list MOTD with MiniMessage, RGB gradients and cross-platform support (Paper/Spigot/proxy).

OpenInv — Minecraft plugin to view and edit players' inventories and ender chests (online or offline). Lightweight admin utility for Spigot/Paper servers.

SkBee — Minecraft Skript addon that extends Skript with NBT, scoreboards, recipes, particles and structure tools for Paper servers.

VoidGen — Minecraft plugin to generate custom void worlds. Lightweight Spigot/Paper generator used with Multiverse to create empty worlds via generator parameters.

LPC — Minecraft chat formatting plugin integrating with LuckPerms for Spigot/Paper servers. Simple chat formatting using LuckPerms metadata.

Quests — open-source Minecraft plugin for creating and running quests on Spigot/Paper servers. Flexible quest editor, rewards, journal and compass tracking.

GrimAC — open-source Minecraft anticheat for Paper/Spigot (1.8–1.21). Java 17 required; provides predictive movement checks, admin commands and a public API.

FancyNpcs — Minecraft plugin for Paper servers to create lightweight, packet-based NPCs with custom skins, interactions and API support.