About GriefPrevention
From SpigotMCPREVENTS all forms of grief - build/break, theft, spam, spawn camping, and more without a database.
Stop responding to grief and prevent it instead. Grief Prevention will solve your grief problems without a roster of trained administrators, without 10 different anti-grief plugins, and without disabling any standard game features. Because Grief Prevention teaches players for you, you won't have to publish a training manual or tutorial for players, or add explanatory signs to your world.
Grief Prevention stops grief before it starts automatically without any effort from administrators, and with very little (self service) effort from players. Solve all your grief problems with a single anti grief download, no database, and (for most servers) no configuration customization.
Got a question? Having problems? Check the documentation!
Got a problem or bug you can reliably reproduce? Or a feature request? Report it on the <a href="https://github.com/GriefPrevention/GriefPrevention/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">issue tracker!
Also, you might be able to catch me/others on the #GriefPrevention IRC chat channel (or dumcord) for help (please state your question and exercise patience if you use this option).
The Manual (Documentation)
If you're new to Minecraft servers, you can learn how to set up a Minecraft server to run GriefPrevention and other plugins here.
If you're not running a 1.8 or later server, you can get older builds of GriefPrevention on the BukkitDev page.
Yes, everything is customizable. See The Manual
- No database or world backups required.
- Extremely efficient CPU / RAM usage.
- Land claims are easy to manage.
- New players get automatic claims around their first chests.
- Players who ask for help in chat get an instant link to a demonstration video.
- Resizing claims and creating new claims is done with ONLY the mouse, no slash commands.
- When a player appears to be building something nice outside his claim, he's warned and shown his claim boundaries.
- Claim boundaries are easy to see, and don't require any client-side mod installation.
- Extremely easy-to-remember, single-parameter slash commands for giving other players permissions.
- Claim subdivision and granular permissions are available to organize towns and cities.Watch this video.
- It's IMPOSSIBLE to grief a land claim. Watch this video.
- No building or breaking.
- No stealing from ANY containers.
- No sleeping in beds.
- No button/lever usage.
- No adjusting redstone repeaters.
- No pushing blocks in with pistons.
- No pulling blocks out with pistons.
- No TNT damage.
- No creeper damage.
- No damage from TNT cannons.
- No explosive damage from other plugins, like Extra Hard Mode or Magic Spells.
- No enderman block changes.
- All doors may be automatically locked (optional, see config file).
- No killing or luring animals away.
- No stealing water (e.g. buckets).
- No trampling crops, by players, animals, or monsters.
- No building overtop, all claims reach to the max build height.
- No placing or breaking paintings / item frames.
- Fluids will not flow into a claim from outside.
- No placing blocks via TNT/Sand/Gravel cannon.
- No placing portals without build permission (even by walking through a portal in another world).
- Pets and death loot are protected.
- Players can't pick up what another player dropped on death without permission.
- All types of pets are protected everywhere, even outside of land claims (can be configured per-world).
- Excellent anti-spam protection
- Warns, then mutes, then may kick or ban spammers (configurable - you choose).
- Most spammers get only one message out before they're muted.
- Blocks server advertising (IP addresses).
- Blocks repeat message spam.
- Blocks ASCII art (ex. Nyan Cats) spam.
- Blocks similar message spam.
- Blocks unreadable (gibberish) message spam.
- Blocks CAPS.
- Blocks macro spam (very different messages in quick succession).
- Blocks login/logout spam, even when the spammer has multiple accounts.
- Blocks death spam.
- Blocks bot team spam.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 4 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Spigot and Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
GriefPrevention 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
- 16.18.7, released 2026-03-05
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1.21 to 26.3 (4 versions) | 26.3 |
| Spigot | 1.21 to 26.3 (4 versions) | 26.3 |
From 10 recorded builds of GriefPrevention.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.18.7 | 2026-03-05 | 1.21 to 26.3 (4 versions) | Spigot, Paper |
| 16.18.6 | 2026-02-05 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 16.18.6 | 2026-02-05 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 16.18.6 | 2026-02-02 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 16.18.5 | 2025-10-06 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 16.18.4 | 2024-06-28 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
Run GriefPrevention 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 GriefPrevention 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
- 26.3 and 3 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓SpigotMCOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorRoboMWM, as published on SpigotMC
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree








