Watchdog

Unintrusive protection. Your world is strongly protected but still maintains an unobstructed vanilla playing experience.

Most protection plugins ask you to trade vanilla gameplay for safety: claim tools, region wands, chunk markers, land-claim GUIs. Watchdog doesn't. It works silently in the background: place a chest and it's yours, tame a wolf and it's yours, no command run, no region drawn, nothing to learn. Players who never touch a protection command still get protected; griefers still hit a wall. The plugin only speaks up when it actually needs to: a denial message, or the optional interface if you want it.

Since perfect security is impossible anyway, Watchdog aims for 99% security and leaves out edge cases that would require deep modification of the game experience. Enough to prevent most griefing.

For even better protection, pair it with a rollback plugin. Watchdog stops most griefing before it happens, rollback undoes whatever slips through.

✨ Features

Automatic protection

• Blocks and entities are protected the instant they're placed, tamed, leashed, or bred. No player action required.
• Protections follow logically connected structures automatically: doors, beds, and other multi-block objects protect both halves together.
• Torches, item frames, and other blocks attached somewhere also protect the block they depend on.
• Growth is covered too: bonemealed trees, giant mushrooms, and melon/pumpkin stems protect their new blocks under the same owner
• Falling blocks (sand, gravel, concrete powder) keep their protection through the fall and re-apply it wherever they land
• Redstone signals from outside can be blocked from affecting a protected block (torches, pistons, doors, lamps, and more)
• Water and lava respect existing protections and extend when flowing.

Theft protection

• Hoppers, hopper minecarts, and other item-transfer mechanisms can't drain a protected container unless the initiator has access. Deposits are always allowed, only unauthorized withdrawal is blocked.
• Vehicles (minecarts, boats) can't be destroyed or stolen by non-owners.

Friends & sharing

• Add and remove players as friends to give them access to your blocks and entities.
• List your current friends.

Player controls

• Sneak + empty-hand right-click on anything you own or that is unprotected to open a simple protection interface.
• The interface allows toggling protection, redstone blocking, or item-transfer blocking per block/entity.
• Personal defaults for auto-protect, auto-block-redstone, and auto-block-item-transfer, so you decide how new builds get locked down.

Admin tools

• A wand (bedrock block) to instantly check who owns any block.
• Zone tools to mark a region and bulk override, fill, or clear protections across it. Perfect for cleaning up and solving disputes.
• A master-key permission lets admins bypass protections.

📜 Commands

All commands live under /watchdog (alias /wd).

Command	Description
/wd friends add <player>	Add a player to your friends list
/wd friends remove <player>	Remove a player from your friends list
/wd friends list	List your current friends
/wd settings autoprotect	Toggle whether new blocks/entities you create are auto-protected
/wd settings blockredstone	Toggle whether new redstone-sensitive protections auto-block outside signals
/wd settings blockitemtransfer	Toggle whether new container protections auto-block outside item transfer
/wd admin wand	Get the ownership-lookup wand
/wd admin mark pos1 / pos2	Mark a corner of the current zone at your position
/wd admin override <player>	Reassign all protections in the marked zone to a player
/wd admin fill <player>	Protect every unprotected block in the marked zone for a player
/wd admin clear	Remove all protections in the marked zone

🔐 Permissions

Permission	Grants
wd.protect	Basic protection — required for auto-protect on placement
wd.friends	Use the friends system
wd.admin.wand	Use the ownership-lookup wand
wd.admin.edit	Use zone marking, override, fill, and clear
wd.admin.master-key	Bypass any protection, anywhere
wd.admin.crawl	Internal tool for cataloguing block dependency behavior (server admins/maintainers only)

⚙️ Configuration

Fully translatable messages and interface labels via config.yml. Choose exactly which worlds are protected. Everything outside the configured world list is left untouched.

Per-player defaults (toggleable anytime via /wd settings):

• Auto-protect — protect new blocks/entities automatically (on by default)
• Auto-block redstone — block redstone signals on new protections (on by default)
• Auto-block item transfer — block item extraction from new protections (on by default)

💬 Support

The plugin is still in relatively early development. Found a bug or have a suggestion? Reach out via Modrinth's messaging. We appreciate your feedback!

📄 License

Free to use for everyone, but all rights reserved for now.