About Essentials
From HangarThe essential plugin suite for Paper! (and Spigot)
EssentialsX
EssentialsX is the essential plugin suite for Spigot and Paper servers, including over 130 commands and countless features for servers of any scale!
EssentialsX is a modern continuation of the original Essentials suite for Bukkit, with support for the latest Minecraft versions. EssentialsX also includes several performance enhancements and fixes on top of the original Essentials, as well as plenty of new useful features for servers. You can view major differences and learn how to set EssentialsX up over at the EssentialsX website.
Requirements
- EssentialsX is designed to use modern permissions plugins - we strongly recommend LuckPerms. You also need Vault for prefix/suffix support.
- EssentialsX currently supports CraftBukkit, Spigot and Paper (recommended). Other server implementations may work, but we don’t recommend them as they may cause compatibility issues.
- EssentialsX officially supports Minecraft 1.21, 1.20.6 and 1.19.4, and can also run on older versions.
Support
Looking for help with EssentialsX? You can join the MOSS server on Discord for community-powered support. You can also start a discussion or report bugs on GitHub.
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Donate
EssentialsX is provided completely free-of-charge. If you’d like to support the EssentialsX project, you can make a one-off or recurring contribution on Patreon or GitHub Sponsors.
If you’re not able to donate, we’d really appreciate if you could give us a star on GitHub. You can also join MOSS to help out other EssentialsX users.
Metrics collection
EssentialsX collects anonymous server statistics through bStats, an open-source statistics service for Minecraft software. You can opt out in plugins/bStats/config.yml.
Contributing
EssentialsX is an open source project released under the GPLv3 license, and we welcome code contributions on our GitHub. Our translations are also crowd-sourced, so if you’d like to help bring EssentialsX to your language, you can do so on Crowdin. Finally, if you want to help other users out with setting up and using EssentialsX, you can join us on MOSS and GitHub Discussions.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 50 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogPlugins
Its source category doesn’t say more about what it does, so NxLabs lists it under Other.
Runs on your server
From source side supportHangar lists Essentials as required on the server. Check its Hangar page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Paper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 49 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓HangarOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorEssentialsX, as published on Hangar
- ✓LicenseGPLFree










