About VIPJoinPlus

VIPJoinPlus is a modern, lightweight and fully customizable join & quit message plugin for servers that want more than plain chat lines.

Give your VIPs and ranked players the spotlight they deserve with gradients, HEX colors, hover & click events, and, uniquely, join/quit messages that are shown to every player in their own language.

Highlights

Per-player languages every online player sees the message in their own client language
Permission-based groups with a smart priority system
Modern formatting with MiniMessage (gradients, HEX, hover & click)
Lightweight & Folia-ready

Compatibility

Java 21 or higher
Spigot, Paper and Folia (1.21+)
Requires the free Nexus core plugin → Download the latest Nexus (install it alongside VIPJoinPlus)

Features

Custom join & quit messages based on permissions (VIPs, ranks, etc.)
Smart priority system when a player matches multiple groups
Per-player localization, drop a lang/<language>.yml file and the message is shown to each viewer in their own language (English & Spanish included)
Modern formatting with MiniMessage (gradients, HEX, hover & click events)
Multiple formatting modes: MiniMessage, Legacy (& codes) and Mixed
PlaceholderAPI support
Optionally hide the default vanilla join & quit messages
Configurable join & quit message delays
Async & performance-friendly
Reload-safe clean reloads (PlugMan-friendly), no stale or duplicated messages
Built-in debug mode to diagnose group matching and delivery

Commands

/vipjoinplus reload → Reload the configuration and language files

Permissions

vipjoinplus.reload → Allows reloading the plugin
group.<name> → Assigns a player to a message group (configurable per group)

Why VIPJoinPlus?

Most join/quit plugins are outdated, limited, or speak a single language.

VIPJoinPlus focuses on modern formatting, clean configuration and real customization for VIPs and ranked players, with first-class per-player localization, while staying lightweight and fully compatible with the latest server software, including Folia.