VanillaProtect

VanillaProtect

VanillaProtect is a lightweight yet powerful protection plugin for Minecraft servers running Paper, Purpur, Spigot, Bukkit or Folia 1.21+. It automatically tracks block ownership and prevents new players from breaking blocks or opening containers placed by other players. No commands needed from players, everything works out of the box.

🛡️ How it works

When any player places a block, VanillaProtect silently records that block's location and the player's UUID in a database. If a newcomer (a player whose first join was less than N hours ago) tries to break or open something that belongs to another player, the action is cancelled and the newcomer gets a friendly message explaining how much time they have left.

Once the newcomer period expires, all restrictions are lifted automatically.

✨ Features

• Block break protection - newcomers cannot break blocks placed by other players
• Container protection - chests, barrels, shulker boxes, furnaces, dispensers, hoppers, brewing stands, anvils, crafters and more are all protected
• Optional door/button/lever protection - toggle in config
• Natural blocks are freely breakable - stone, dirt, trees etc. are not restricted by default (configurable)
• Per-block ownership tracking - only the exact blocks placed by others are protected, not entire regions
• Configurable newcomer period - set anywhere from 6 to 24+ hours
• Two storage backends - SQLite (recommended) or YAML flat file
• Auto-save - data is saved periodically and on shutdown
• Folia support - fully compatible with threaded region servers
• No dependencies - single JAR, drop and go

🌍 Multi-language support

VanillaProtect ships with 4 built-in languages:

You can also create your own language file by placing a plugins/VanillaProtect/lang/<code>.yml file in the plugin folder. All messages support color codes.

⚙️ Configuration overview

# How long a player is considered a newcomer (in hours)
newcomer-hours: 12

# Toggle individual protections
protection:
  block-break: true
  chest-open: true
  block-place: false
  block-interact: false

# Storage backend: sqlite or yaml
storage:
  type: sqlite
  auto-save: 5

# Disable protection in specific worlds
disabled-worlds:
  - world_nether
  - world_the_end

💬 Commands

Aliases: /vanillaprotect, /vp, /vprotect

🔑 Permissions

📦 Compatibility

📁 Plugin folder structure

plugins/VanillaProtect/
├── config.yml
├── blocks.db
└── lang/
    ├── en.yml
    ├── ru.yml
    ├── uk.yml
    └── de.yml

Made by 1mN1kO