Essential Economy 🪙
EssentialEconomy is a simple, modern economy plugin for Paper 1.21+ servers. Supports MySQL and YAML storage, Vault integration, locale-aware currency formatting, and fully configurable messages — all from a single config file
Features
- Small file size! The current version is only 45 KB!
- Dual storage — Choose between YAML (file-based) or MySQL depending on your server setup
- Locale-aware formatting — Configure your currency's number format to match your region (e.g. en-US, de-DE)
- Custom currency — Set your own singular/plural currency name and optional custom symbol
- Vault support — Registers as a Vault economy provider so other plugins can hook in automatically
- Suffix shorthand — Players can enter amounts like 10k, 5m, or 1b in commands
- Balance leaderboard — Auto-refreshing /balancetop with a configurable update interval
- Hot reload — Apply config changes instantly with /money reload, no restart needed
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as EssentialEconomy-3.1.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 47 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.