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CoreProtect

by CORE · for Minecraft

CoreProtect is a fast, efficient, data logging and anti-griefing tool. Rollback and restore any amount of damage.

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Artistic License 2.0License
PaperLoaders

About CoreProtect

From Hangar

CoreProtect is a fast, efficient, data logging and anti-griefing tool. Rollback and restore any amount of damage.

CoreProtect

CoreProtect Community Edition

CoreProtect is a fast, efficient data logging and anti-griefing tool. Inspect, lookup, rollback, and restore any amount of damage without impacting your server performance.

CoreProtect is the #1 anti-griefing plugin, and has been actively developed since early 2012.

| Quick Links | | | --- | --- | | CoreProtect Discord: | discord.gg/b4DZ4jy | | CoreProtect Patreon: | patreon.com/coreprotect | | CoreProtect Documentation: | docs.coreprotect.net | | Downloads for MC 1.14 - 26.3: | coreprotect.net/latest | | Downloads for Hytale: | coreprotect.net/hytale |

Donation Keys

To support the project and obtain a donation key, visit coreprotect.net/donate.

Video Tutorial

CoreProtect video tutorial

Core Features

  • Fast, efficient data logging.
  • Rollbacks and restores with lag-free processing.
  • Multi-threaded to ensure server performance is never impacted.
  • No configuration required. Install the plugin, and you're good to go.
  • Embedded DuckDB columnar storage by default, with optional ClickHouse, SQLite, and MySQL support.
  • Supports Bukkit, Spigot, Paper, Folia, MultiPaper, and more.
  • Permission system support and advanced lookup permissions.
  • Easy-to-use commands and inspector.
  • Advanced lookup filters and operation limits by radius, world, or WorldEdit selection.
  • Paginated results with clickable pagination.
  • Preview rollbacks and restores, and undo rollbacks by restoring the same data.
  • Rollback or restore specific users, multiple users, or global activity.
  • Inventory rollback support.
  • Purge old data by time, world, and block type.
  • Multi-world support.
  • Configurable global and per-world logging settings.
  • Safe default parameters.
  • Include or exclude specific blocks, items, entities, or users, plus logging blacklists.
  • WorldEdit and supported FAWE logging.
  • Enhanced item lookup tooltips.
  • Localization and translation support.
  • Automatic update checking and error reporting.
  • Developer and networking API support.
  • ...and much more!

What does it log?

Blocks and World Changes

  • Blocks placed or broken by players.
  • Natural block breakage, such as attached blocks breaking when their support is removed.
  • Block movement, including falling sand, gravel, and piston movement.
  • Water and lava placement, removal, and flow.
  • Liquid tracking, associating flowing liquids with the player who placed the source.
  • Fire ignition from flint and steel or fire charges, block burning, and fire fade.
  • Optional natural fire extinguishing.
  • TNT, Creeper, Ghast, and other explosions, plus primed TNT removal.
  • Entities changing blocks, including Endermen, Ender Dragons, and zombies breaking doors.
  • Leaf decay.
  • Tree growth linked back to the player who planted the sapling.
  • Mushroom, vine, amethyst, chorus, and bamboo growth.
  • Sculk spread from sculk catalysts.
  • Nether portal and other natural portal generation.
  • Crops trampled by players and turtle eggs trampled by players or entities.
  • Snow generated by snow golems.
  • Liquid-formed blocks such as obsidian, cobblestone, and concrete.
  • Flowers placed in flower pots.
  • Dragon egg teleportation.
  • Suspicious sand and gravel brushing or destruction.
  • Custom blocks, such as CraftEngine blocks.

Containers, Inventories, and Items

  • Items taken from or placed into vanilla or supported third-party containers.
  • Hopper, dropper, and dispenser transactions, including container transfers.
  • Player inventory transactions, including items dropped, thrown, shot, or picked up.
  • Items broken, created, destroyed, deposited, or withdrawn by players.
  • Items placed on campfires and lectern book transactions.
  • Chiseled bookshelf, decorated pot, and shelf inventory transactions.
  • Copper Golem chest and jukebox transactions, plus crafter slot changes.
  • Bundle actions through the #bundle tag.
  • Items crafted or traded with villagers.
  • Allay item exchanges.
  • Paintings and item frames.

Entities and Player Activity

  • Entity deaths and detailed death reasons.
  • Player-caused entity kills, including animals and monsters.
  • Armor stands and End Crystals.
  • Villagers killed by lightning, gossip data, and job-site memories.
  • Thrown eggs, snowballs, potions, ender pearls, tridents, and wind charges.
  • Player interactions with doors, buttons, levers, containers, bookshelves, and jukeboxes.
  • Sign text, color, glow, wax, and modern double-sided signs.
  • Player chat messages and commands.
  • Player sessions including logins and logouts, player deaths, and username changes.
  • Skull skin texture data on Paper servers and custom skull textures.
  • WorldEdit changes and supported FAWE clipboard pastes.
  • ...and more!

How to use the inspector

Once you have the inspector enabled with /core inspect or /co i, you can do the following:

  • Left-click a block to see who placed that block.
  • Right-click a block to see what adjacent block was removed.
  • Right-click while placing a block in a location to see what block was removed at that location.
  • Right-click while placing a block in another block to see who placed it. For example, place dirt in water to see who placed the water.
  • Right-click a door, button, lever, container, or similar block to see who last used it.

A Few Reviews

Read the full description on Hangar →

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 47 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.

Loaders

Runs on Paper.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

CoreProtect on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers, for Paper servers. We download it from Hangar, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Paper
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
24.1, released 2026-09-24

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Paper1.16 to 26.2 (39 versions)26.2

From 5 recorded builds of CoreProtect.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
24.12026-09-241.16.5 to 26.2 (34 versions)Paper
24.02026-07-071.16.5 to 26.1.2 (33 versions)Paper
23.22026-05-151.16 to 1.21.11 (35 versions)Paper
23.12025-12-141.16 to 1.21.10 (34 versions)Paper
23.02025-08-081.16 to 1.21.8 (32 versions)Paper

Run CoreProtect on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Hangar as “Plugins”

Admin & protection

Permissions, moderation, anti-cheat and land protection for the people running the server.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Hangar lists CoreProtect as required on the server. Check its Hangar page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Paper
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.2 and 46 earlier
Requires
One-click install needs a Paper server.

Verified at the source

  • ✓HangarOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorCORE, as published on Hangar
  • ✓LicenseArtistic License 2.0Free

CoreProtect, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install CoreProtect?

Hangar lists CoreProtect as required on the server. Check its Hangar page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Paper.

Is it free?

Yes. CoreProtect is free to download from Hangar. Its license is Artistic License 2.0.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run CoreProtect on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add CoreProtect in one click.