• Vanilla commands. Everything ships at normal priority, so vanilla /gamemode, /give and friends keep working no matter what. You can still reach everything through /essentialsc:<command>, and every command can be turned off, reprioritized, aliased, put on a cooldown or given custom help text in commands.yml. EssentialsX takes over vanilla commands by default, and you have to dig through overridden-commands and disabled-commands to stop it.
• Turning stuff off. Don't use homes, kits, TPA or punishments? Turn them off and they're really gone: no background tasks, no listeners, and the commands don't even get registered. EssentialsX loads its core features together and has optional add-on modules for stuff like chat, spawn and protection.
• Storage. One SQLite database (or MySQL if you want) holding players, homes, kits, punishments and economy. No pile of per-player files. EssentialsX keeps one YAML file per player on disk.
• Languages. 29 languages are built in, and each player picks their own with /language. EssentialsX uses one language for the whole server by default. Matching each player's client language is an opt-in setting (per-player-locale).
• Menus. Shop, auction house, kits and RTP open real inventories you can click through. No walls of chat, and no extra plugins needed for a shop or an AH. EssentialsX is mostly chat and commands.
• Switching over. /migration essentialsx pulls over users, homes, warps, bans, mutes and economy, and dry-run mode shows you what would happen first. EssentialsX has no importer, so you start from zero.
• Mail. EssentialsX has /mail, EssentialsC doesn't. For offline messages you're stuck with /msg history or Discord.
• Older servers. EssentialsX runs on Spigot and on versions going back years. EssentialsC needs Paper and 1.20.6+, so on an old setup EssentialsX is your only option.
• Track record. EssentialsX has been around for over a decade and half the plugin world builds on it. EssentialsC is younger, so check the issue tracker before moving a big network over.

Money

• Auction House: click through it in a menu, no extra plugin needed
• Shop: a shop menu built right in
• Economy: balances live in the same database as everything else

Getting around

• Homes and Warps
• TPA requests between players
• Wild Teleport (RTP): opens as a menu

Running your server

• Moderation tools: bans, mutes and other punishments
• Kits: claim them from a menu
• Nicknames and Scoreboard
• Discord notifications

Also included

• 90+ commands: turn off, reprioritize, alias, add cooldowns to or change the help text of any of them in commands.yml
• Turn stuff off: disable a feature and it's really gone, with no background tasks, no listeners and no registered commands
• One database: SQLite by default, MySQL if you want it
• 29 languages: each player picks theirs with /language
• MiniMessage: gradients, hover text and RGB just work in every message

...and more!

1. Make sure you're on Paper (or a supported fork) with Minecraft 1.20.6+ and Java 21+.
2. Grab EssentialsC from Modrinth and drop it in your plugins folder.
3. Start the server, then tweak the generated configs. The wiki explains every option.
4. Coming from EssentialsX? Run /migration essentialsx to bring over users, homes, warps, bans, mutes and economy. Try dry-run mode first so you can see what would happen.

EssentialsC is built for Paper and its forks and works on Minecraft 1.20.6 - 26.2+.

*Forks that don't change the core Bukkit API work too.

You'll need: Java 21+, Minecraft 1.20.6+, and one of the server types above.

I use AI as a tool while building EssentialsC.

• A small part of the core code was written with AI, then I reviewed, tested and adapted it.
• I also used AI for the language files and a bigger part of the configs, mainly the shop sections.
• I still review everything and handle the final implementation myself.

Contributions are always welcome! Got an idea, found a bug, or want to improve something? Open an issue or send a pull request on GitHub.

Just make sure your changes fit the project and are tested before you do.