Minecraft

Guide: How to Automatically Shut Down Your Minecraft Server When No Players Are Online🔴

Minecraft·March 22, 2026·15 min read

Hello! 🛠️ Today we bring you a super useful tutorial for all those who want to optimize their Minecraft servers. We are going to set up an automatic server shutdown when no players are connected. We are going to use the incredible plugin Idle Shutdown to achieve it! 🚀

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  • Go to the server panel
  • Place the file .jar in the plugins folder of your server.

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  • Restart the server so the plugin installs.
  • We go to the server and use the command /plugins to verify that the plugin has been installed correctly.

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Now, let's configure it..

Once installed, you will need to configure the plugin according to your needs:

  • We navigate to the "plugins" folder and then open the "IdleShutdown"

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  • We open the file config.yml.

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  • Once inside, we look for the line "idle_wait_time" and change the time we want to wait before the server shuts down after the last player disconnects.
    (Remember to set the wait time in Seconds)

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  • We save the file and restart the server for the changes to take effect.

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  • The console will show us that message when the last player disconnects, and then the server will proceed to shut down according to the wait time we set in the "config.yml"

  • Solution: Verify that the plugin is correctly installed and that there are no conflicts with other plugins. Also make sure that the inactivity time is configured correctly.

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