After months of hard work from our contributors, EssentialsX 2.19.2 is here!

(Note: 2.19.2 has been released to address an issue with Discord commands. If you're running 2.19.1 with the Discord module, please update to 2.19.2.)

This release adds 1.18.1 support, and contains countless new features and bug fixes. Keep reading to see all the new additions!

Thanks to all our contributors who contributed to this release (all of whom are listed on the GitHub release notes), as well as to everyone who has contributed to translations on Crowdin!

Finally, a massive thanks to our community members who have assisted countless people on GitHub and MOSS, including @triagonal, @JasonHorkles, @Evidentsinger14, @Chew, @Laarryy and many others.

In addition, a shoutout to our dozens of supporters on Patreon, GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi, including:

• AKP
• madscientist032
• @aternosorg
• @pebblehost
• ...plus 26 more supporters!

Your support helps us to continue spending hours of our free time working on and improving EssentialsX for everyone. If you've got any spare change, you can click one of the buttons below to support the EssentialsX project:




Supported server versions
EssentialsX officially supports the CraftBukkit, Spigot, and Paper server software. Specifically, EssentialsX is designed to work on the following Minecraft versions:

• ✅ 1.17.1 and 1.18.1 - EssentialsX actively develops against and supports these versions.
• ⚠️ 1.8.8, 1.9.4, 1.10.2, 1.11.2, 1.12.2, 1.13.2, 1.14.4, 1.15.2, and 1.16.5 - these versions are still supported, but are not a priority for us, and may be dropped in a future release.

We recommend using the latest version of Paper. EssentialsX includes significant improvements that require Paper, including:

• Paper's async chunk loading reduces lag spikes during player teleports.
  CraftBukkit and Spigot do not support async chunk loading from plugins.
• /anvil, /grindstone, /cartographytable, /loom, /smithingtable, /stonecutter are only supported on Paper.
  CraftBukkit and Spigot do not support the API needed for these.
• /recipe on 1.12+ requires Paper to avoid a dupe bug introduced by CraftBukkit and Spigot.
• Paper contains countless overall performance optimisations over CraftBukkit and Spigot.
• Paper supports all properly-written plugins for CraftBukkit and Spigot.

EssentialsX does not support the following Minecraft versions or server software:

• "Ultra-performance" Paper forks including Akarin, Yatopia, and similar projects - these often perform non-standard behaviour and can break your worlds and installed plugins.
• Mohist - The Mohist project is known to be sketchy, and has, in the past, tricked users into deleting official EssentialsX jars and installing an unofficial build. We cannot guarantee the safety or functionality of unofficial builds of EssentialsX; you should avoid using Mohist where possible.
• Other Forge/Bukkit hybrid servers including Cauldron, Thermos, Magma, CatServer - EssentialsX is built for the Bukkit API, which does not properly support mods. For modded servers, use SpongeForge and Nucleus, or an alternative mod for Forge or Fabric.
• 1.7.10 or below.

Upgrading to 2.19.1
If you're upgrading from 2.19.0, you can keep your current EssentialsX config file. However, 2.19.1 adds several new options that you may want to configure, and to do so you'll need to either update your config or add the new settings to your existing config. Read on for a list of changes and new config options.

Upgrading from 2.18.2 or older versions of EssentialsX? See the previous update changelogs.


Known issues
Anchor charges deplete on Spigot even when EssentialsX Spawn overrides the spawn location
On CraftBukkit and Spigot, anchor charges will deplete regardless of the respawn-at-anchor due to an unfixed bug in CraftBukkit. This bug has been patched in Paper.


Important changes, new features and bug fixes
For a full list of the new features and bug fixes in this release, see the full release notes on GitHub.