HidePlugins

Stops players from finding out what plugins and server software you run.

It blocks /pl, /ver, /help and anything else you add, takes them out of tab complete, and by default answers with your server's own unknown command message. To a player it looks like the command just doesn't exist.

Works on Paper 1.18.2 up to 26.3, and on Folia.

Features

• Blocks any command you list for players without the bypass permission
• Aliases and namespaced versions are covered on their own, so hiding plugins also hides pl, bukkit:plugins and bukkit:pl
• Hidden commands don't show up in tab complete, even for modified clients that ask the server directly
• Can hide every namespace:command from tab complete, since those give away plugin names
• The default reply matches the real unknown command message for your server version
• Custom messages per command with MiniMessage
• /hp check <command> to see if something is hidden and why

Config

message: "<unknown_command>"

hidden-commands:
  - plugins
  - version
  - help
  - icanhasbukkit

custom-messages: {}

hide-namespaced-commands: true

message supports MiniMessage, <unknown_command> and <command>. Leave it empty to send nothing.

Want to show something else for a specific command? Put it under custom-messages:

custom-messages:
  plugins: "<white>Plugins (0):"
  version: "<gray>This server is running <green>a potato"

Commands

• /hp reload reloads the config and updates tab complete for everyone online
• /hp check <command> tells you if a command is hidden

Permissions

• hideplugins.admin use /hp (op by default)
• hideplugins.bypass see and use everything (op by default)
• hideplugins.bypass.<command> bypass a single entry, like hideplugins.bypass.plugins

Updating from 2.x

Your old config keeps working. The permissions were renamed though: hide_plugins.bypass is now hideplugins.bypass and hide_plugins.reload is now hideplugins.admin. The README has the full list of config changes.

Source and issues are on GitHub.