How to Set Up PL-Hide on Your Minecraft Server

Stop players seeing your plugin list and clean up tab-completion of plugin commands.

Stop players seeing your plugin list and clean up tab-completion of plugin commands.

By default, any player can type /plugins (or /pl, or /bukkit:pl) and get a full list of everything you run. Tab-completion hands out even more. Start typing and the client suggests commands from every plugin, namespaced like essentials: and worldguard:. That lets anyone see exactly what's running behind your server. PL-Hide cleans all of it up.

Requirements

• A Paper or Spigot server.

Installation

1. Download Plugin Hide (PL-Hide) from SpigotMC.
2. Stop your server from the MCServerHost dashboard.
3. Upload the jar to plugins/ via the File Manager.
4. Start the server. It generates its config on first run.

What It Does

Out of the box, PL-Hide:

• Hides or replaces /plugins and /pl output so players can't list your plugins. You can give them a custom message instead, or block the command entirely.
• Cleans tab-completion so the namespaced plugin:command suggestions stop showing up when players hit Tab.
• Blocks commands you don't want players running or seeing, with a custom message when they try.

How the Config Works

PL-Hide is built around lists of commands you allow or block, with two shortcuts that do most of the work:

• * (wildcard). Allow everything at once, then blacklist the exceptions.
• ! (negation): prefix a command to block it inside an otherwise-allowed group.

So a common pattern is "allow all commands except these few," written as a wildcard plus a handful of negated entries. Blocked commands return a custom message, and you can use placeholders like {player} and {cmd} in it.

Letting Staff See the Real List

You obviously still want to see your own plugins. Grant staff the bypass permission so /pl shows them the real list:

/lp group admin permission set plhide.bypass.pl-message true

Regular players get the hidden or custom version.

Conclusion

Install PL-Hide, hide the plugin list and clean up tab-completion. It's a tidy layer of obscurity on top of real security, not a substitute for it.

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