Installation

Requirements

• Java matching your server
• A Bukkit API server: Spigot / Paper / Purpur / Folia / PandaSpigot, etc.
• Main feature: roughly 1.8–1.21.11+
• Sign translation detection: Paper 1.21.5+ (or a fork with the same API)

Soft dependencies (optional)

Plugin	Role
PlaceholderAPI	Message placeholder expansion (when integrated)
LuckPerms	Permission management
floodgate	Skip Bedrock players for sign detection
PacketEvents	Intercept plugin-channel registration packets earlier and more reliably

If these are missing, related features are skipped or fall back quietly.

Steps

1. Download the .jar from Releases
2. Place it in plugins/
3. Start (or reload) the server to generate:
   • plugins/FakeModBlocker/config.yml
   • plugins/FakeModBlocker/messages_en.yml (and any other locale you enable)
4. Edit the config as needed
5. Run /modblocker reload to apply changes

Quick check

1. Join with an OP account
2. Run /modblocker check <player> to inspect registered plugin channels
3. With logger: true, the console prints channel lists so you can extend forbiddenList

Next: Configuration