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Essentials

by EssentialsX · for Minecraft

The essential plugin suite for Paper! (and Spigot)

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About Essentials

From Hangar

The 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.

Patreon 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.

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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 data

Game 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 catalog
Listed on Hangar as “Plugins”

Plugins

Its source category doesn’t say more about what it does, so NxLabs lists it under Other.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Hangar 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

Essentials, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Essentials?

Hangar lists Essentials as required on the server. Check its Hangar page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Paper.

Is it free?

Yes. Essentials is free to download from Hangar. Its license is GPL.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

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