EpicGuardPlus
🛡️➕ Enhanced bot protection plugin for Minecraft servers with extended security features. EpicGuardPlus is an actively maintained fork of EpicGuard…
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EpicGuardPlus
Enhanced bot protection plugin for Minecraft servers with extended security features.
EpicGuardPlus is a maintained fork of EpicGuard, originally by xxneox, with integrated features from AntiVPN by funkemunky.
It provides configurable antibot and anti-VPN protection for Paper, Velocity, and Waterfall servers.
Features
- 8+ configurable antibot checks
- Geographical country/city blacklist or whitelist
- VPN/proxy detection with configurable services and caching
- Nickname regex checks
- Reconnect verification
- Server list ping verification
- Client settings packet verification
- Lockdown mode during heavy bot attacks
- Name similarity detection
- Account limit per IP address
- SQLite and MySQL database support
- Live actionbar attack statistics
- Staff alerts when a player is blocked
- Custom console commands on detection
- Automatic whitelisting for verified players
- Console filter to reduce attack log spam
- Bedrock prefix whitelisting
Supported Platforms
| Platform | Support |
|---|---|
| Paper and forks | 1.17+; newer Paper builds should be tested before production use |
| Velocity | 3.1.0+; newer Velocity 3.x builds should be tested before production use |
| Waterfall / BungeeCord | 1.17+; support depends on the proxy build |
Requires Java 17 or higher.
Only install the jar that matches your platform:
- Paper/Purpur/Spigot-compatible server:
EpicGuardPlusPaper-x.x.x.jar - Velocity proxy:
EpicGuardPlusVelocity-x.x.x.jar - Waterfall/BungeeCord proxy:
EpicGuardPlusWaterfall-x.x.x.jar
Do not install the Core jar. Core is bundled inside the platform jars.
Put the selected jar into your server or proxy plugins folder and restart.
Commands
Main command: /guard
Aliases: /epicguard, /guardpaper, /guardvelocity, /guardwaterfall
Available commands:
/guard help/guard reload/guard whitelist <add/remove> <nick/address>/guard blacklist <add/remove> <nick/address>/guard analyze <nick/address>/guard status/guard save
Permissions
epicguard.admin
Access to all /guard commands and staff alerts.
epicguard.bypass
Bypasses antibot checks and can auto-whitelist the player's IP on join.
Privacy
EpicGuardPlus stores IP addresses and associated nicknames in the configured local database.
If proxy/VPN checks are enabled, IP addresses may be sent to the configured proxy detection service. The default service is proxycheck.io.
MaxMind GeoLite2 databases may be downloaded for local geolocation checks when configured.
The plugin may check this repository for updates. Metrics or telemetry are not collected.
Source and License
Source code: https://github.com/Sqouidly/EpicGuardPlus
Licensed under GPL-3.0.
Portions are derived from AntiVPN, licensed under Apache-2.0.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.19, 1.19.1, 1.19.2
- 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 EpicGuardPlusWaterfall-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 5.9 MB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.