CoreProtect: Plugin Guide for Minecraft Servers CoreProtect is a powerful inspection plugin designed to help you track and analyze player actions on your Minecraft server. While it’s primarily used to detect and investigate potential griefing, its functionality goes far beyond that. With CoreProtect, you can view detailed logs of player activity, whether manually or through specific commands. It records everything down to the exact second an action was performed. Key commands

✨ One of the best parts of running a Minecraft server  is having full control over the gameplay — including PvP combat. By default, Minecraft servers allow player vs. player combat, which is widely used in many types of servers. However, there’s a recurring issue: players can log out mid-fight , unfairly escaping death and depriving their opponent of well-earned loot. 💥 This is where CombatLogX  comes in — a powerful Bukkit plugin designed to prevent combat logging  and ensu

🎨 Chat Formatting in Minecraft — Make Your Server Stand Out!  💬 Chat formatting lets you control how messages appear when players talk in the game. It’s commonly used to set up group names or highlight players to make chat more dynamic and organized. On Paper servers , chat formatting has two parts — the player’s nickname/display name  and the chat message . Using EssentialsX  together with EssentialsX Chat  and a permissions manager like LuckPerms , you can customize both

One of the best things about a Minecraft server is the ability to customize it far beyond Vanilla Minecraft. Adding plugins is the way to do it, and a fantastic way to bring your server to life is with Citizens , a Minecraft plugin that allows you to create NPCs (Non-Player Characters) on your server. Some use it for creative design, bringing NPCs into the game with your skin, your friends’ skins, or even iconic characters like Notch or Herobrine. Others use NPCs as shopkeepe

Gamerules: Customize Your Minecraft Server Gamerules  control many aspects of gameplay and provide server owners with extensive customization options, allowing them to tailor the experience to their preferences and play style. Gamerule Commands How to Set a Gamerule Value How to Get the Current Gamerule Value <rule_name> : The specific gamerule you want to view or modify. <value> : The value you want to assign. Most often, this is a boolean (true or false), though some gameru

The Story So Far… If you’ve been following along with Part 2  of this series, you’ve successfully installed, configured, and set up the LuckPerms permissions plugin  on your Minecraft server. You’ve also created a MySQL database  in your HolyHosting control panel to store the critical information that LuckPerms will need to verify permissions. Now comes the final step: entering that information into the database . This is likely the most time-consuming part, and unfortunately