About ViaVersionStatus
From SpigotMCDisplays players' client versions when they join your server
Description
ViaVersionStatus will report which Minecraft versions your players are using when they join your server. Reports are sent to your server log file and online players with the permission viaversionstatus.notify. Optionally, if a player joins with a client version different than your server version, the plugin can send the player a warning that he's not using the matching client version. The plugin can also issue console commands based on the client's version.
Reasonable default values are provided in the configuration file, so you can simply put the plugin in your plugins folder and restart your server. The plugin requires ViaVersion and Java 17+.
Note that ViaVersion provides a command to show the versions of all currently online players: /viaversion list
Permissions
ViaVersionStatus has a number of permissions to allow fine-tuning of its behavior. However, all you really need to do is give the permission viaversionstatus.notify to admins you want to receive in-game version notifications when other players join. If you give yourself the '*' permission, you might also want to set viaversionstatus.notify.ignoresame to false.
Following are details of all ViaVersionStatus permissions:
viaversionstatus.notify - A player with this permission will get a message with the player's client version (as shown above) when they join the server. Defaults to op.
viaversionstatus.notify.ignoresame - A player with this permission will not get a message with the player's client version if the client's version matches the server's version. Defaults to false.
The following permissions apply to the players joining your server and can be used to control exactly which features of ViaVersionStatus will be invoked when they join. All of the following permissions default to false, so simply give a player(s) a permission to exempt them from the corresponding processing. Most of these features can also be disabled in the config file if you want to do so for all players.
viaversionstatus.exempt - Exempts this player from all processing at join.
viaversionstatus.exempt.log - Exempts this player from client version being logged at join.
viaversionstatus.exempt.notify - Exempts this player from notifying other players at join while also preventing them from triggering the configured join notification command.
viaversionstatus.exempt.notify.message - Exempts this player from notifying other players at join.
viaversionstatus.exempt.notify.command - Exempts this player from triggering the configured join notification command.
viaversionstatus.exempt.warn - Exempts this player from receiving an older version warning while also preventing them from triggering the configured older version warning command.
viaversionstatus.exempt.warn.message - Exempts this player from receiving an older version warning.
viaversionstatus.exempt.warn.command - Exempts this player from triggering the configured older version warning command.
viaversionstatus.exempt.warn.newer - Exempts this player from receiving an newer version warning while also preventing them from triggering the configured newer version warning command.
viaversionstatus.exempt.warn.newer.message - Exempts this player from receiving a newer version warning.
viaversionstatus.exempt.warn.newer.command - Exempts this player from triggering the configured newer version warning command.
Configuration (optional)
Strings in the configuration file can use four variables: %player% is replaced with the player's name, %displayname% is replaced with the player's "display name", %version% is replaced with the version of the player's client, and %server% is replaced with the detected server version. You can also use the standard Minecraft color codes. Strings should be enclosed in double quotes ("...").
notify-ops - If true, ops will be notified of the client's version when any player joins the server.
notify-string - This message is sent to players with the viaversionstatus.notify permission when any player joins the server.
notify-command - This command is issued by the console when a player joins the server (defaults to none).
warn-players - If true, players joining with a client that is older than the server version will be warned with the warn-string message.
warn-string - This message is set to players joining with a client that is older than the server version, if enabled. Note that warn-players must be true to use this.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 6 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.
Loaders
Runs on Spigot and Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
ViaVersionStatus 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
- 4.01, released 2026-05-07
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1.18 to 26.1 (6 versions) | 26.1 |
| Spigot | 1.18 to 26.1 (6 versions) | 26.1 |
From 10 recorded builds of ViaVersionStatus.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.01 | 2026-05-07 | 1.18 to 26.1 (6 versions) | Spigot, Paper |
| 4.00 | 2025-06-05 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 3.13 | 2022-10-28 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 3.12 | 2022-09-05 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 3.11 | 2022-01-29 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 3.10 | 2021-09-26 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
Run ViaVersionStatus 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 ViaVersionStatus 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 5 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓SpigotMCOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBobcat00, as published on SpigotMC
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
