Practical, no-fluff guides to picking and running Minecraft server plugins — from the developer behind InfinitePlugins.
EssentialsX Chat and VentureChat are two long-established free options for Minecraft chat; LPC Pro is a paid alternative that bundles formatting, moderation, and Discord bridging into one plugin. This guide compares all three honestly — including where the free options are the right call — so you can pick based on what your server actually needs.
Every crates plugin demos well; the differences show up when you balance reward odds, watch TPS at spawn, or update Minecraft versions. This guide lays out the criteria that actually matter, looks honestly at the strong free options, and explains which of our three crates plugins — if any — fits your server.
The free LPC handles LuckPerms-based chat formatting — RGB colour codes, group formats, placeholders — and keeps receiving compatibility and security updates. LPC Pro adds MiniMessage formatting, AI moderation, Discord sync, chat bubbles, games, achievements, staff tools, and a chat shop for a one-time €14.99 (price at time of writing). Here is exactly where the line sits — and when staying on free is the right call.
Shops are the faucet and the drain of a server economy — every coin players earn or spend eventually passes through one. This guide covers deciding whether you need a shop plugin at all, choosing among the seven shop types InfiniteShops ships, and a setup order that will not wreck your economy in week one.
Vanilla Minecraft gets you a boat, a minecart, and a horse; anything that looks like a car, a bus, or an aircraft comes from a plugin. Our vehicles corner has three products — the paid InfiniteVehicles, its optional Premium Pack, and the free InfiniteVehiclesBuilder — and this guide explains which you actually need, and in what order.
A shop that opens with /shop and an AFK policy that frees slots without punishing real players are the kind of polish nobody compliments and everybody notices when it is missing. This guide covers GUIPlus, our paid in-game GUI editor, and AntiAFKPlus, our free AFK manager: what each actually does, when each is worth installing, and how the two fit together.
Vanilla fishing is a waiting game: cast, wait for the bobber, right-click. A fishing plugin turns every catch into something players have to earn, then gives them reasons to keep coming back — rarities, tournaments, a market. This guide walks through installing InfiniteFishing, deciding which of its systems to enable first, and the order that keeps the economy sane.
Custom crops used to mean a mod on every client. InfiniteCrops does it with a resource pack the plugin delivers itself: 25 crops with growth stages and harvest qualities, seasons, watering, soil, fertilizers, sprinklers, minions and greenhouses on a plain Spigot or Paper server. This guide covers the install, which of those systems to switch on in week one, and how the pieces connect.
Menus are the one plugin type where a migration is scary: every rank shop, warp menu and bank screen on the server lives in them. GUIPlus reads DeluxeMenus folders with a built-in converter, so the move is a copy, a check and a rebuild of whatever the old files could not express. This guide is the order to do it in and the checklist before the old plugin comes out.
If you already run LuckPerms, chat formatting is mostly a solved problem: the prefixes, suffixes and groups exist, and a formatter only has to read them. LPC is the free plugin that does exactly that, in one config line. This guide installs it, walks through the configuration examples the plugin ships with, and explains where the free version stops and LPC Pro begins.
Advanced Crates needs no other plugin, so the first crate is a matter of minutes. The decisions that matter come after it: which of the 17 animations to use, who gets to see them, and how rewards, one-time prizes and rerolls should behave. This guide is that first day, in order, ending with the add-on pack for servers that would rather not design key tiers by hand.
A crate that lives in a menu instead of at spawn changes how players use it: no walk, no block, no key item to lose. InfiniteCrates adds that as a third crate type next to stationary and lootbox crates, and ships the crate models, key models and GUI animations it opens with. This guide sets it up and is honest about the one client-side requirement.
Most crate plugins give you a fixed list of animations. SpecializedCrates ships 25 of them and then hands you the format they are written in, so a new animation is a config entry rather than a Java plugin. This guide covers what the builder can describe, how to test an animation with the in-game editor and the /scrates commands, and the crate types that will play it.
A bank is the menu that shows what GUIPlus does beyond buttons: it takes a number from the player in chat, checks it, moves money through your economy plugin and remembers a balance per player. None of that needs a bank plugin. This guide builds one in the in-game editor, one feature at a time, and ends with the checks to run before players see it.
A dependency you did not expect is the fastest way to turn a ten-minute install into an evening. This is the whole catalogue in one table: what each plugin requires before it will start, what it merely uses when it finds it, and which downloads are add-ons that need a base plugin first. Every entry is what that product page states, and nothing more.
Every plugin here supports the current Minecraft release. What differs is how far back each one goes — from 1.7.10 at one end to 1.20.6 at the other — and that floor is usually the deciding fact when you run an older server. This is the whole catalogue sorted by how far back it reaches, with the reason behind the two floors that are higher than the rest.
Every plugin here states Paper and Spigot. Exactly two say anything about Folia, and only one mentions Purpur. That gap is the point of this page: server software is a per-plugin fact, not a catalogue-wide promise, and the answer for your server depends on which plugin you are looking at. This is all fifteen in one table, with the proxy and Bedrock notes each record carries and the places they say nothing at all.
If you already run a shop plugin, the only question that matters is how much of your existing shop survives the move. InfiniteShops ships a converter, and this page is the honest reading of it: the sources it is stated to read, the fields it is stated to carry across, the places the record and the docs say nothing at all, and the order to do the cutover in so your economy is never live and half-configured at the same time.
Eight of the plugins here name ItemsAdder, Oraxen, Nexo or MMOItems for themselves in their own product record, and no two of them mean the same thing by it. (A ninth, InfiniteCropsRegions, names them only by restating the optional integrations of InfiniteCrops, the plugin it is a dependency of.) One puts those items in a crate reward pool, one charges players in them, one never touches your items and instead hands its own textures over to be hosted. This is every one of them in a single table, including the cells where a record says nothing.
Two questions get asked as one: where does this plugin keep its data, and will a second server see the same state? They are separate settings, and only one plugin here answers both with the same one. This page collects what each record and each documentation page actually says about storage backends and network sync — including the places where they say nothing at all.
Selling a VIP rank is easy. Wiring it is a list of small decisions, one per plugin, and nobody writes that list down. This page collects it: which plugins in this catalogue gate something behind a permission, which of them publish the node names you can paste straight into LuckPerms, and which only describe the tier and leave the naming to you. The gaps are marked as gaps.
Running Geyser does not by itself make every plugin aware of Bedrock players. Three plugins in this catalogue state something specific about Bedrock, and they state three different things: a per-minigame platform filter, a Floodgate-backed identity hook, and an AFK threshold that bends for less precise input. Everything else here is silent on the subject, which is its own kind of answer.