About EssentialsX
From SpigotMCThe modern Essentials suite for Spigot and Paper.
About EssentialsX
EssentialsX is the essential plugin suite for Spigot servers, including over 130 commands and countless features for servers of any scale!
EssentialsX is a continuation of the original Essentials 2 plugin for Bukkit servers, adding 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 wiki.
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.
Support
Looking for help with EssentialsX? You can join the MOSS server on Discord for community-powered support.
You can also report bugs and request new features over on GitHub. (Please search for issues before you create new ones!)
Note: please use MOSS or GitHub for support, not private messages, the forum thread or the review section on SpigotMC. You'll get a much faster answer on Discord or GitHub than on SpigotMC.
Donate
EssentialsX is provided completely free-of-charge. If you'd like to support the EssentialsX project, you can make a one-off contribution or support us monthly on Patreon or GitHub Sponsors.
If you're not able to donate, we'd really appreciate if you could take the time to write a review below, or give us a star on GitHub. Every little helps!
Metrics collection
EssentialsX collects anonymous server statistics through bStats, an open-source statistics service for Minecraft software.
If you'd like to disable metrics collection via bStats, you can edit the plugins/bStats/config.yml file.
Contributing
EssentialsX is an open source project released under the GPLv3 license, and we welcome code contributions on GitHub.
Our translations are also crowdsourced! If you'd like to help bring EssentialsX to your language, you can do so on Crowdin.
Finally, if you're knowledgable about EssentialsX and want to help others, you can join us on MOSS and GitHub Discussions to help other people with setting up and using EssentialsX.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 15 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.
Loaders
Runs on Spigot and Paper.
Footprint
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 SpigotMC, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Spigot, 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
- 2.22.0, released 2026-05-31
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1.8 to 26.1 (15 versions) | 26.1 |
| Spigot | 1.8 to 26.1 (15 versions) | 26.1 |
From 10 recorded builds of EssentialsX.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.22.0 | 2026-05-31 | 1.8 to 26.1 (15 versions) | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.21.2 | 2025-08-03 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.21.1 | 2025-05-26 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.21.0 | 2025-03-22 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.20.1 | 2023-08-05 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.20.0 | 2023-08-05 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
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 catalogAdmin & protection
Permissions, moderation, anti-cheat and land protection for the people running the server.
Runs on your server
From source side supportSpigotMC lists EssentialsX as required on the server. Check its SpigotMC page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- SpigotPaper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1 and 14 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓SpigotMCOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authormd678685, as published on SpigotMC
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree








