Bukkit

Join and Quit Messages is a plugin that gives you the opportunity to customize the messages when a player joins or leaves your server. It is really easy to use and gives a personal touch to your Minecraft server. You can customize your own join and quit messages easily by changing the information within the config.

Give brand new players their own welcome, give each rank its own message, use different messages per world, let staff join unseen, and make any part of a message clickable.

Requirements

• Spigot or Paper 1.16 or newer
• Java 17 or newer
• PlaceholderAPI (optional)

Hex colors

It is possible to use hex colors or standard Minecraft colors. You can pick your own hex colors here. You can completely customize your own messages. However, the hex colors need to be like this: <#RRGGBB>. This is also shown in the config below.

The result of this config is the following:

Standard Minecraft colors

You do not have to use hex colors. The standard Minecraft colors work too, and you can mix both in the same message. You can choose from the following colors:

Your config will then look like the following:

Then this will be the result of this config.

A single & that is not followed by a real color code is left alone, so a message like Tom & Jerry joined shows exactly as written.

Clickable and hover messages

Any part of a message can run a command, open a link, copy text, or show a tooltip when hovered.

joinmessage: "&7[&2+&7]&a%player% <click:suggest_command:/msg %player% ><hover:show_text:&7Send a message>&8[msg]</hover></click>"

Click and hover can be combined and nested, colors carry across a tag, and placeholders work inside a tag's value. Use /jqm test <message> to try one out — it renders the result clickable and tells you if a tag has a typo.

Only messages in your own config can create clickable text, so another plugin supplying a custom nickname can never inject a clickable command into your join messages.

First join messages

Players who have never joined before can get their own message.

first_join:
  enabled: true
  message: "&7[&2+&7] &6Welcome &e%player% &6to the server! &7(&a#%playercount_online%&7)"

Permission based Messages

Give each rank its own join and quit message. A player who holds several of these gets the one listed first under priority.

permission_messages:
  enabled: true
  priority:
    - myserver.premium
    - myserver.vip
  join:
    "myserver.vip": "&7[&6VIP+&7] &6%player% &7joined with style!"
    "myserver.premium": "&7[&5PREMIUM+&7] &5%player% &7entered the server!"
  leave:
    "myserver.vip": "&7[&6VIP-&7] &6%player% &7left the server"
    "myserver.premium": "&7[&5PREMIUM-&7] &5%player% &7departed"

Messages per world

Show a different message depending on which world the player is in. You can set these up in game, without touching the config file — changes save and apply straight away.

/jqm world list
/jqm world add <world> <join|leave> <message>
/jqm world remove <world> [join|leave]

The message is everything after join or leave, so it does not need quotes. World names and join/leave are tab-completable.

Per-world messages use the world the player is in at the moment they join or quit, so walking through a portal does not trigger them.

Silent join and quit

Players with the joinandquitmessages.silent permission are not announced at all. Useful for staff, and it works nicely alongside vanish plugins. Suppressed messages are still written to the console so you keep a record.

Random Messages

It is possible to show arbitrary join and quit messages and you can edit the list. In the config.yml there are 2 lists for the messages, which can be edited for other random messages. The same line is never picked twice in a row.

Which message wins

When more than one could apply, they are used in this order:

1. Silent — players with the silent permission are never announced
2. First join message
3. Permission message
4. World message
5. Random message
6. The default join or quit message

🎯 Commands

🔐 Permissions

Placeholders

• %player% : Player name
• %displayname% : Player display name
• %world% : World name where the player leaves/joins
• %playercount_online% : Current amount of players (also works as %online%)
• %playercount_max% : Maximum amount of players (also works as %max%)

Placeholder API

Within the join and quit messages you can also use the placeholder API. This lets you customize the messages even more. More information about what you can use can be found here.

Metrics

This plugin uses bStats to record which features are actually used, so development can follow what servers really configure. Only on/off flags and counts are sent, never message content, player names or world names. You can turn it off in plugins/bStats/config.yml.