About EssentialsX
From ModrinthThe essential plugin suite for Paper and Spigot servers.
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EssentialsX
EssentialsX is the essential plugin suite for Spigot and Paper servers, including over 130 commands and countless features for servers of any scale!
EssentialsX is a modern continuation of the original Essentials suite for Bukkit, with support for the latest Minecraft versions. EssentialsX also includes several performance enhancements and fixes on top of the original Essentials, as well as plenty of new useful features for servers. You can view major differences and learn how to set EssentialsX up over at the EssentialsX website.
Requirements
- EssentialsX is designed to use modern permissions plugins - we strongly recommend LuckPerms. You also need Vault for prefix/suffix support.
- EssentialsX currently supports CraftBukkit, Spigot and Paper (recommended). Other server implementations may work, but we don’t recommend them as they may cause compatibility issues.
- EssentialsX officially supports Minecraft 1.19.4 and 1.18.2, and also runs on older versions dating back to 1.8.8.
Support
Looking for help with EssentialsX? You can join the MOSS server on Discord for community-powered support. You can also start a discussion or report bugs on GitHub.
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Donate
EssentialsX is provided completely free-of-charge. If you’d like to support the EssentialsX project, you can make a recurring donation on Patreon or GitHub Sponsors, or make a one-off donation on Ko-fi.
If you’re not able to donate, we’d really appreciate if you could give us a star on GitHub. You can also join MOSS to help out other EssentialsX users.
Metrics collection
EssentialsX collects anonymous server statistics through bStats, an open-source statistics service for Minecraft software. You can opt out in plugins/bStats/config.yml.
Contributing
EssentialsX is an open source project released under the GPLv3 license, and we welcome code contributions on our GitHub. Our translations are also crowd-sourced, so if you’d like to help bring EssentialsX to your language, you can do so on Crowdin. Finally, if you want to help other users out with setting up and using EssentialsX, you can join us on MOSS and GitHub Discussions.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 21 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Bukkit, Paper and Spigot.
Footprint
A 5 MB download, rated a light load on a server.
EssentialsX on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers, for Paper servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Bukkit, Paper, Spigot
- 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
- 2.22.0, released 2026-05-31, 5 MB
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Bukkit | 1.8.8 to 26.1.2 (20 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| Paper | 1.8.8 to 26.1.2 (20 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| Spigot | 1.8.8 to 26.1.2 (20 versions) | 26.1.2 |
From 5 recorded builds of EssentialsX.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.22.0 | 2026-05-31 | 1.8.8 to 26.1.2 (16 versions) | Bukkit, Paper, Spigot |
| 2.21.2 | 2025-08-03 | 1.8.8 to 1.21.8 (15 versions) | Bukkit, Paper, Spigot |
| 2.21.1 | 2025-05-25 | 1.8.8 to 1.21.5 (15 versions) | Bukkit, Paper, Spigot |
| 2.21.0 | 2025-03-22 | 1.8.8 to 1.21.4 (15 versions) | Bukkit, Paper, Spigot |
| 2.20.1 | 2023-08-05 | 1.8.8 to 1.20.1 (13 versions) | Bukkit, Paper, Spigot |
Dependencies
- Optional: modrinth project Vebnzrzj (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run EssentialsX 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 catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists EssentialsX as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- BukkitPaperSpigot
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 20 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server. 1 other project installed alongside it.
- File size
- 5 MB
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-03Open ↗
- ✓Authormdcfe, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree
