exProtect

exProtect logs every change on your server: blocks, containers, entities, items, chat and commands and rolls griefing back with a preview and undo. Changes are written through a crash-safe journal, so nothing is lost when the server dies.

Features

• Block logging – breaks, placements, signs, buckets, liquids, fire, explosions, pistons and physics, attributed to players or sources like #tnt
• Containers and items – what players add or remove from chests, hoppers and other containers, plus drops, pickups and inventory clicks
• Entities – kills and entity changes such as armor stands and item frames, restorable with their full data
• Chat, commands and sessions – who said, ran and joined what, with sensitive commands like /login hidden
• Inspector – /inspect and click any block or container to see its history
• Lookup menu – /lookup browses logged changes in an inventory menu, with teleport to the location; Bedrock players get native forms through Floodgate
• Rollback with preview – see the result as a client-side preview first, then apply it; queue several rollbacks without blocking the server
• Restore and undo – /restore re-applies rolled back changes, /exprotect undo reverts your last rollback or restore – even after a restart
• WorldEdit and FastAsyncWorldEdit – edits are logged and roll back, including block entity data such as chest contents and sign text
• Grief alerts – staff are warned when a player breaks many foreign blocks or empties foreign containers, optionally with a Discord webhook
• Crash-safe logging – a write-ahead journal keeps every entry until it is in the database; a killed server loses nothing and duplicates nothing
• SQLite or MySQL/MariaDB – works out of the box with a local file, or use a database server for large networks
• CoreProtect import – bring your existing history over, resumable
• Retention – old entries are purged automatically after a configurable number of days
• Developer API – query history, log your own changes and subscribe to batches
• Fully customizable – every message lives in language.yml, every sound in config.yml
• Folia support – runs on Paper and Folia

Commands

Command · Description · Permission
/inspect · Toggle the block inspector · exprotect.inspect
/lookup [filter] · Browse logged changes · exprotect.lookup
/rollback · Roll back changes · exprotect.rollback
/restore · Restore rolled back changes · exprotect.restore
/exprotect undo · Revert your last rollback or restore · exprotect.rollback
/exprotect status · Show database and queue status · exprotect.status
/exprotect purge t:30d [filter] · Delete matching entries older than the given time · exprotect.purge
/exprotect import coreprotect · Import CoreProtect history · exprotect.import
/exprotect reload · Reload config and language · exprotect.reload

Teleporting from the lookup menu requires exprotect.teleport. Grief alerts go to exprotect.alerts; exprotect.alerts.exempt never triggers them.

Filters

Parameter · Example · Meaning
u: · u:Steve,#tnt · Players or sources
t: · t:1d12h · Time span, required for rollbacks
r: · r:20, r:#world, r:#global · Radius or world, global if u: is set
a: · a:block, a:container, a:entity, a:chat · Action
b: · b:diamond_ore,villager · Block, item or entity
e: · e:tnt,Steve · Exclude blocks or players

Example: /rollback u:Steve t:2h r:50 undoes everything Steve changed within 50 blocks in the last two hours.

Requirements

• Paper or Folia 26.3 or newer
• Java 25
• MySQL or MariaDB – optional
• Floodgate – optional, native forms for Bedrock players
• WorldEdit or FastAsyncWorldEdit – optional, logs edits

Installation

1. Drop exProtect.jar into your plugins folder and start the server.
2. Adjust plugins/exProtect/config.yml (storage, what to log, retention, alerts, sounds) and language.yml (texts).
3. Run /exprotect reload – done.