If you'd like to make a financial contribution to the project, you can join our Patreon. Want to help improve EssentialsX? There are numerous ways you can contribute to the project. Writing a plugin and want to support EssentialsX? We have a Maven repository at, and the EssentialsX artifact is net.ess3:EssentialsX:2.17.0. Next, to build EssentialsX with Maven, run the following command:Įach module's jar can be found in target/ inside each module's directory.

Download and run BuildTools yourself for versions 1.8 and 1.8.3.

Use the provided script at scripts/buildtools.sh to automatically download and run BuildTools if needed.

To compile EssentialsX, you first need to run BuildTools.

BuildingĮssentialsX builds against the Spigot/CraftBukkit server software for legacy support. If you need to report a bug or want to suggest a new feature, you can open an issue on GitHub. Need help with using EssentialsX? Join the MOSS Discord community to ask for help and discuss EssentialsX. Otherwise, the plugin will fall back to config-based permissions.ĮssentialsX requires Java 8 or higher. If you have an unsupported permissions plugin but still wish to use wildcards, enable use-bukkit-permissions in the configuration. However, it has different requirements:ĮssentialsX requires Vault to enable chat prefix/suffixes and group support if you have a supported permissions plugin. For more details, see the wiki.ĮssentialsX is almost a completely drop-in replacement for Essentials.

It provides several performance enhancements and fixes that are currently not available in Essentials and Spigot-Essentials. Why use EssentialsX?ĮssentialsX is an unofficial continuation of Essentials, updated to support modern Minecraft and Spigot versions. If you are using this, do NOT ask Essentials for support. This is a fork of Essentials called EssentialsX.

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