EssentialsX is a continuation of the origin Essentials plugin. Essentials was discontinued around 2014, and EssentialsX contains notable improvements over the original Essentials.

Highlights

• Actively maintained and updated for 1.8.8 all the way up to the latest Spigot and Minecraft versions.
• Supports new Minecraft content including new items, enchantments, mobs and trees.
• Supports Essentials signs on all Minecraft versions.
• Supports Banner Metadata and Command Cooldowns.
• Configuration option to hide the no new mail message on join.
• Allows commands in kits with a {player} placeholder for the player's name.
• Supports mob spawners on recent versions.
  • On 1.8-1.12, you can use spawner signs and commands such as /i mob_spawner:51, and the spawners won't be pigs when placed.
  • On 1.13+, you can use /i blazespawner to spawn in spawners.
• Includes a new, more flexible item database for 1.13 and above.
• Supports giving spawner eggs with entity ID values and potions with damage values in 1.9-1.12.
• Fixes sending and receiving money with the Essentials economy.
• Uses UUID-backed Vault for permissions group and prefix/suffix lookups.
  • Spigot-Essentials implements UUID lookups for zPermissions, but not other permissions plugins.
  • EssentialsX prioritizes Vault, so all queries using the Vault handler should be much faster as they don't need a name-to-UUID lookup.
• /tppos can now optionally accept a world name.
• Adds a /msgtoggle command to allow people to ignore all private messages.
• Separate permissions for bulk sell and hand sell: essentials.sell.hand and essentials.sell.bulk respectively
• Adds a permission for exemption from SocialSpy: essentials.chat.spy.exempt
• Adds configuration option for the milk bucket "easter egg", which (really shouldn't, but does) allow players to mess with other people's horses: milk-bucket-easter-egg
• Adds configuration option for the "Set fly mode enabled..." message on join: send-fly-enable-on-join

New features

Per-gamemode permissions

Permissions have been added for each gamemode with the EssentialsX /gamemode command, meaning that if desired, players may run /gma and /gms, but not /gmc or /gmsp. You need to give the player essentials.gamemode to use the /gm command, then whichever gamemodes you want them to be able to change to:

• essentials.gamemode.creative
• essentials.gamemode.survival
• essentials.gamemode.adventure
• essentials.gamemode.spectator
• essentials.gamemode.all

Note: essentials.gamemode is still required to execute the /gamemode (and its aliases) command.

Kits changes

Kits have been moved from the main config to kits.yml. This means that kits can be created from in-game and automatically added to your server without needing to manually edit the config, while also retaining all the comments in config.yml.

In addition, commands are now supported in kits - simply add a line to your kit as follows:

kits:
  mykit:
    delay: 1000
    items:
      - stone 1
      - /give {player} apple 1

You can also include {player}, which will be substituted for the player's name.

/showkit

Command: /showkit <kitname> Permission: essentials.showkit Shows a list of kit contents straight from config file.

/createkit

Command: /createkit <kitname> <delay> Permission: essentials.createkit If pastebin-createkit is set to false, creates a kit from your inventory and puts it in the kits.yml file. If pastebin-createkit is set to true, creates a kit based on your inventory and returns a link to the file to add to your kits.yml.

Forcefully disable teleportation safety

Upstream Essentials only has two values for the teleport-safety option:

• Convert locations to safe teleports (results in plenty of exploits); or
• Deny the teleport entirely.

EssentialsX adds a force-disable-teleport-safety option (defaulting to false), that when combined with teleport-safety: true, disables conversion to safe locations and teleports the user to their exact location.

Note: To disable cross-world teleportation safety, switch to Paper and set disable-teleportation-suffocation-check to true in paper.yml.

Spawner placement fix

If your placed spawners are still pig spawners, assign essentials.spawnerconvert.* to your default group.

Controlled Private Messaging

The new config option last-message-reply-recipient lets you change how /reply works. If set to true, your reply recipient will be whoever you messaged last and not whoever messaged you last. If you don't have a reply recipient, whoever messaged you last will be your reply recipient.

Here's a formatted scenario of the new last-message-reply-recipient feature:

SupaHam: /msg Kakifrucht Hi

SupaHam -> Kakifrucht: Hi

Kakifrucht: /r Hi

Kakifrucht -> SupaHam: Hi

EvilOlaf: /msg Kakifrucht Hi

EvilOlaf -> Kakifrucht: Hi

Kakifrucht: /r Hi back to you, SupaHam!

Kakifrucht -> SupaHam: Hi back to you, SupaHam!

If this feature is enabled, EssentialsX will also use the last-message-reply-recipient-timeout setting. This setting allows you to control how long in seconds before the player's reply recipient is reset. After this duration, when a player receives a message, their replies will start going to the last person who sent them a message.

/seen by UUID

Typing /seen SupaHam and /seen 5552e21d-de79-40bc-89da-62ee63244fb2 are now both valid methods of checking when a player was last seen.

Per-world /time setting permission

Prior to this build, players with the permissions essentials.time and essentials.time.set were able to set the time in any world, regardless of any world permissions set in permission plugins. If world-time-permissions is set to true in the config, users will need a specific permission to set the time in each world - see the table below. This feature is disabled by default.

Permissions

AFK Player List name

This build introduces the afk-list-name config property which is used to control how AFK players appear in the player list.

The property has two placeholders:

• {USERNAME}: The player's name
• {PLAYER}: The player's display name.

Here's an example of "[AFK] SupaHam":

afk-list-name: '&7[AFK] &o{USERNAME}'

Nickname color permissions

PR #198 introduced the ability to limit /nick to only allow color changes, ensuring players could still be identified by their original Minecraft name. The feature introduced a new permission node called essentials.nick.changecolors. When a player has the preceding permission, they are only allowed to add colours to their names. Where if the player was called SupaHam, he could only be able to use /nick &5SupaHam but not /nick &5TheSupaHam, where the latter is prefixing the name with 'The'.

However, this feature also introduced the essentials.nick.changecolors.bypass permission node. Where if a player has the preceeding permission they are allowed to bypass the check and thus be able to change the characters of their name. This was originally created to ensure convenience for Server Operators without breaking functionality when they updated EssentialsX.

Note: This permission requires the essentials.nick.color permission in order to use colors in the nickname to begin with.

Teleport to spawn when joining

This feature was added in build 361 (b673630).

Requested in #345. Administrators can now specify whether joining players are to be teleported to spawn using the spawn-on-join option found in the config.yml file.

spawn-on-join accepts several types of values:

1. true/"*" - all players will be teleported to spawn when joining.
2. false - no players will be teleported to spawn when joining
3. String - The value is treated as a group name. If a player is in the group, they will be teleported to spawn when joining.
4. List of Strings - The value is treated as a list of group names. If a player is in any of these groups, they will be teleported to spawn when joining.

When spawn-on-join is true, all players will be teleported to their group spawn point. If no group spawn point has been set, the default spawn point set with /setspawn will be used instead.

If admins wish to exempt certain players from this feature when spawn-on-join is true, they can give them the essentials.spawn-on-join.exempt permission and they will log in where they left off, assuming no other plugin is interfering.

AFK message

Requested in #590; PR in #664.

Players can set their AFK message when using the /afk command to notify others of their situation. When a player sends a message with /msg to an AFK player, they will see the AFK player's message.

By default, when a player sets their AFK status, the message will not be broadcast to the whole server. However, this can be changed in the locale file by adding {1} to the userIsAwayWithMessage message, where {1} will be replaced by the player's AFK message.

To set your AFK message, simply type /afk <message...>. For example: /afk I'm walking my dog.

In order to use this feature a player must have the essentials.afk.message permission. However, if a player is muted, they will not be able to supply a message as it can be used to exploit their punishment.

Pay toggle

Requested in #413; added in 2493c65.

Players have the ability to disable any and all payment via the /paytoggle command. This can be used to combat players using /pay as a means of spam towards other players, like celebrities on your server.

paytoggle also has the following aliases: epaytoggle, payoff, epayoff, payon, epayon

payoff will always disable payments to prevent errors. On the contrary, payon will always enable payments.

Command confirmations for /pay and /clearinventory

Requested in #1032; added in 5f83766.

You can now specify whether players are prompted to confirm /clearinventory and /pay commands before they are executed using the default-enabled-confirm-commands section of the config.

In addition, players can turn confirmations on or off for themselves with /clearconfirm and /payconfirm respectively.

Teleport to exact coordinates

This feature was implemented in (0a563b9).

This feature introduces the teleport-to-center configuration feature. When set to true (default), all teleportations are centered to the block; technically, setting the x and z coordinate decimals to .5 and .5. When teleport-to-center is set to false, all teleports are performed to the exact location as given.

Mail chat formatting

Requested in #1560; added in 665229b.

This feature introduces the ability to format /mail messages using & formatting codes - click here for more information.

Helmet slot hat

Added in 7958cd0.

If allow-direct-hat is enabled in the config.yml, then players with the permission essentials.hat can click on their helmet slot to place any block on their head, not just helmets.