Replay Minecraft moments exactly as they happened.
Overview
Recap is a Paper plugin that records gameplay on your server and replays it as a live in-world recap. It captures what players do, recreates it visually inside Minecraft, and restores the world when the replay ends.
Features
Players
- Movement and pathing
- Player skins
- Held items and equipment
- Jumps and interactions
World
- Block placement and breaking
- Water, lava, and flowing fluids
- Sign text and sign edits
- Environment changes during recording
Entities
- TNT ignition and explosions
- End crystal placement and destruction
- Entity interactions during playback
Uses
Recap is great for creators, admins, event servers, and builders who want to review gameplay moments visually instead of relying on logs or explanations.
Commands
/recap start
Starts a new recording session./recap stop
Stops the active recording and saves it. If a playback is active, it stops the playback and restores the world./recap play <id>
Plays a saved recording in real time./recap play <id> preview
Plays a saved recording in preview mode./recap list
Shows all saved recordings./recap info <id>
Shows details about a recording, including date, duration, world, players, and event count./recap delete <id>
Deletes a saved recording./recap pause
Pauses the active playback./recap resume
Resumes a paused playback./recap seek <id> <timestamp>
Jumps the active playback to a specific time, such as2:30./rc
Shortcut alias for/recap.
Permissions
Record
recap.record lets players start and stop recordings.
Playback
recap.play lets players play, pause, resume, and seek replays.
Info
recap.list lets players list recordings and view recording details.
Admin
recap.admin lets players delete recordings and use admin-level features.
All
recap.* grants all Recap permissions.
Summary
A Paper plugin that records player actions and replays them in-world, including movement, skins, block changes, fluids, explosions, and interactions.
- 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.
- Ships as Recap-Clean-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 281 KB
- Download link checked 11 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.