
Player Traps
This plugin introduces craftable traps that add a new layer of strategy and danger to the game, allowing players to craft everything from cages and spike…
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PlayerTraps
PlayerTraps is a plugin that revolutionizes PvP and base defense by integrating a fully functional trap system directly into survival gameplay. Forget complex redstone contraptions; now your players can craft, place, and utilize a variety of tactical traps to protect their territories or hunt down their opponents.
This plugin is designed to be intuitive for players and highly customizable for admins, making it the perfect addition for any Survival, Factions, or Anarchy server seeking more dynamic and strategic gameplay.
Core Features
- Integrated Crafting: All traps are obtained through unique and balanced crafting recipes.
- Five Unique Trap Types: Each trap has a distinct effect to suit different playstyles.
- Spike Trap: Damages and slows the victim.
- Cage Trap: Instantly encases the player in a prison.
- Launcher Trap: Sends the victim flying into the air.
- Poison Trap: Applies a lingering poison effect.
- Explosion Trap: Creates a damaging explosion.
- Tactical Design: Traps are single-use, and the placer is immune.
- Fully Configurable: From
config.yml, you can enable/disable traps, adjust their power, and translate all messages.
Crafting Recipes
Spike Trap

Cage Trap

Launcher Trap

Poison Trap

Explosion Trap

Commands & Permissions
/traps reload- Reloads the configuration from the
config.ymlfile. - Permission:
playertraps.admin(defaults to OPs only).
- Reloads the configuration from the
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10
- 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.
- Ships as PlayerTraps.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 12 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.