Survival Friend - The only plugin you'll need!

Enhance your SMP with configurable survival features for Spigot, Paper and Folia.

Features at a glance

• Prevent creeper damage to blocks and/or players
• Prevent crop trampling by players and/or mobs
• Open an ender chest or workbench with /ec and /wb
• Navigate with /compass
• Prevent distance-based despawning in portal farms
• Send /tpa requests with a configurable cooldown
• Customize the Ender Dragon's health
• Broadcast Totem of Undying pops
• Require players to accept your server rules
• Turn concrete powder into concrete or stained glass
• Restore gravity block duplication on Folia
• Restore persistent Ender pearl stasis chambers on Folia
• View active Paper exploit settings
• Toggle features through /menusf — operators can change settings, while other players have read-only access

Setup instructions

1. Download the latest release from Modrinth.
2. Put the .jar file into your server's plugins folder and start the server.
3. Open /menusf as an operator to enable or disable features.
4. Edit plugins/SurvivalFriend/config.yml for additional settings, such as dragon health, teleport cooldowns and server rules. Restart after changing these values.

Detailed features list

• Creeper Protection: Choose whether creepers can destroy blocks or damage players. Both protections can be toggled independently.

• Crop Trampling: Prevent players, mobs or both from destroying crops by stepping or jumping on farmland.

• TPA: Players can send teleport requests using /tpa <player> and accept them through /tpa <player> accept or a clickable chat button. The default cooldown is 60 minutes, configurable through tpa.cooldown-seconds. Set it to 0 to disable the cooldown. Requests expire after 120 seconds by default.

• Portal Farms: Prevent selected mobs from despawning because they are far away from a player after entering a portal. The default list includes Guardians, Iron Golems, Creepers, Wither Skeletons and Zombified Piglins. Customize it through spf.mobs. This feature has been tested on Paper and Folia with multiple players. Farms still require ticking chunks; this feature does not keep chunks loaded.

• Harder Dragon: Configure the Ender Dragon's maximum health through hd.health. While enabled, newly spawned or respawned dragons receive the configured health. Existing dragons are unaffected. Vanilla base health is 200 HP (100 hearts).

• Totem Pop Notifications: Broadcast a death-style message whenever a player survives by using a Totem of Undying. Both hands are supported, with messages for environmental damage, projectile shooters, TNT igniters and other damage sources.

• Ender Chest and Workbench: Open an ender chest with /ec or a crafting table with /wb. Each command can be available to everyone, restricted to operators or disabled.

• Compass: Use /compass <player> to track another player in the same world, or /compass <x> <z> to point towards coordinates. Relative coordinates and /compass reset are supported.

• Server Rules: Players can read and accept your rules through /rules. When enabled, players must accept every rule before they can move or teleport. Rules and acceptance are saved, and changing the rule text requires players to accept it again. This feature is disabled by default.

• Block Transformation: Drop concrete powder into a water cauldron to convert the entire stack into matching concrete without consuming water. Smelt concrete powder in a normal furnace to obtain matching stained glass, one block per powder, using normal fuel and cooking time. All 16 colors are supported. This feature is enabled by default and can be toggled immediately through the Cauldron item in /menusf.

• Gravity Duplication — Folia Only: Restore gravity block duplication at End portals, including sideways entries that break into items. Toggle the Sand item in /menusf. Temporary copies retain their intended motion after completing the portal transfer, and blocked transfers are cleaned up. This feature is disabled by default.

• Pearl Stasis — Folia Only: Restore Ender pearl stasis chambers using persistent pearl placeholders. Supports upward bubble columns and honey chambers. Saved chambers survive player disconnects and server restarts. While enabled, chambers keep a configurable area of chunks ticking, making them useful alongside solo gravity duplication setups. Disabling the feature releases its chunk tickets. Toggle the Eye of Ender in /menusf. This feature is disabled by default.

• Paper Exploit Status: The Comparator in /menusf displays the active Paper settings for piston duplication, headless pistons, permanent block-breaking exploits and unsafe End portal teleportation. Available on Paper and Folia. Clicking refreshes the display; change the settings in config/paper-global.yml and restart to apply them.

Switching server engines

Gravity Duplication and Pearl Stasis can only be enabled and run on Folia. When starting the server on Paper or Spigot, both settings are automatically reset to false and saved.

Switching back to Folia requires enabling them again manually. Saved pearl chamber data is preserved.