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Stress-free server utilities - Essence is a lightweight and customisable Essentials alternative with Folia support.
Direct download from Hangar · 408 downloads
Essence is a plugin for Paper / Spigot servers, made by LewMC. Stress-free server utilities - Essence is a lightweight and customisable Essentials alternative with Folia support.
It supports Minecraft 1.19 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 408 times on Hangar. That puts it at #247 of the 457 admin and permission plugins listed here. The last update came out on Nov 2, 2026.
Essence has had 33 releases on Hangar. More than six of them came out in the past year. The newest is 1.13.1, released on Nov 1, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 26.1 – 26.3. It runs on Paper. The download is 500 KB.
| Version | Released | Minecraft | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
1.13.1 | Nov 1, 2026 | 26.1 – 26.3 | Release |
1.13.0 | Oct 14, 2026 | 26.1 – 26.3 | Release |
1.12.0 | Sep 14, 2026 | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Release |
1.12.0-SNAPSHOT | Sep 5, 2026 | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Snapshot |
1.11.2 | May 6, 2026 | 1.21.1 – 26.1.2 | Release |
Essence is a lightweight and customisable general use plugin for servers of any size. It adds a number of commands including teleportation, warps, user homes, easy gamemode changing, teams, kits, chat formatting & management, and inventory management systems.
Create homes, warps, teams, and kits. Share the love by healing or feeding someone. Repair your tools for your next big adventure or have someone pay you to do it for them. Manage your chat, displaying it in any format, colour, order, or way you’d like! Add custom joining and leaving messages, manage your world spawns, and add a Message of the Day to your server.
Essence is one of the most customisable plugins you’ll find. With integrations with Vault and PlaceholderAPI, the fun doesn’t stop here. Use Essence as an economy provider, letting you a thriving economy on your server, whilst we talk to the other plugins for you. Or display prefixes from your permissions plugins using Essence Chat, now built-in.
You can also import your data from existing plugins including EssentialsX.
With Essence, your server is yours. You can do what you’d like, how you’d like, wherever you’d like. The limit it your imagination.
Interested in learning more? See a full list of our features or our over 100 commands. With constant updates, a thriving developer community. If you want more, we’ll give you more. We take bug reports and feature requests on our GitHub page.
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We have an open wiki available if you need help with anything, it contains information regarding all aspects of Essence and how to use it. Just click the image below or visit lewmc.net/wiki!
Not into Wikis? No problem! We also have a community Discord server that we regularly provide support in - visit lewmc.net/discord to join!
Essence collects anonymous statistics including the number of servers running Essence, the number of players, etc. using bStats, an open-source statistics service for Minecraft software. You can opt out in plugins/bStats/config.yml.
If you like Essence and you'd like to add something, feel free to contribute! We're over on PixelGit at pixelgit.org/lewmc/essence.
Written by LewMC. Read it with pictures on Hangar.
Make sure your server runs Paper and Spigot on Minecraft 1.19 – 26.x.
Download the .jar file from Hangar and put it in the plugins folder of your server.
Restart the server. Avoid /reload, many plugins do not handle it well.
Type /plugins in the console: Essence should be listed in green. Its config files are created in the plugins folder on the first start.
Full guide: How to install plugins on a Minecraft server
| Resource | Downloads | Versions | Last update | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 408 | 1.19 – 26.x | 10 days ago | Free | |
| 51K | 1.20 – 26.x | 9 days ago | Free | |
| 23K | 1.8 – 26.x | 26 days ago | Free | |
| 287K | 1.8 – 26.x | Aug 22, 2024 | Free |
Yes. Essence supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21, 1.20, 1.19.
Yes. Essence is free to download from Hangar.
Essence runs on Paper and Spigot servers.
Yes: Vault, PlaceholderAPI. Install it before Essence.
Yes. The last update came out in the past day.
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