Simple Server Transfer

Simple Server Transfer is a Paper and Spigot plugin that redirects players to a configured server the moment they join, using the vanilla Transfer packet introduced in Minecraft 1.20.5. No BungeeCord, no Velocity, no proxy software required.

🔌 How It Works When a player connects, the plugin schedules a transfer after a configurable tick delay and fires the vanilla Transfer packet to send them to your configured destination. The destination server receives a normal vanilla transfer and handles it natively — no special software needed on that end beyond accepts-transfers: true in paper-global.yml.

✨ Features

Transfer

• Vanilla Transfer packet — no proxy software required on either end
• Configurable delay between join and transfer (in ticks)
• Separate transfer target for Bedrock players via Geyser + Floodgate

Server Presentation

• Hide online and max player count in the server list (Paper only)
• Suppress join and quit broadcast messages

World Control

• Lock the day/night cycle
• Lock weather

Player Restrictions

• Block chat while players wait to be transferred
• Block commands while players wait (ops are exempt)

Server Limiter ⚙️ An optional mode designed for servers that exist solely as a transfer relay. When enabled it suppresses mob spawning, entity damage, hunger drain, block breaking and placing, block and entity interaction, item dropping, and world auto-saving — reducing server load to the absolute minimum needed to accept a connection and fire the transfer.

📋 Requirements

• Java 21 (Java 25 for the Paper 26.1.x release)
• accepts-transfers: true must be set in paper-global.yml on the destination server
• Geyser and Floodgate are only required if Bedrock support is enabled in the config

⚙️ Configuration Everything is controlled through config.yml, which is generated on first run and fully documented with inline comments. The proxy-mode option acts as a master switch — when set to false the plugin does absolutely nothing.

A full server restart is required for any config changes to take effect. /reload is not supported and will not work correctly.

🔓 Open Source Simple Server Transfer is fully open source. The source code, including both the normal and shaded jar, is available on GitHub.