
🛡️ GuardsPlugin
GuardsPlugin is a Spigot/Paper plugin that allows server owners to create and manage personal guard NPCs that can follow players, protect areas, and attack targets on command.
Built for Minecraft 1.21.1, this plugin is designed to be lightweight, configurable, and compatible with popular NPC systems.
✨ Features
Create custom guard NPCs with unique IDs
Make guards follow players
Command guards to attack specific players
Distance-based tracking and behavior
Simple and intuitive /g command system
Designed to work alongside Citizens
Optimized for survival and SMP servers
📜 Commands
/g create <name> <skin> <id> – Create a new guard
/g follow <id> <player> – Make a guard follow a player
/g attack <id> <player> – Order a guard to attack a player
/g delete <id> – Remove a guard
(Additional features and improvements planned)
⚙️ Requirements
Minecraft: 1.21.1
Server Software: Spigot / Paper
Dependency: Citizens (required)
🧩 Use Cases
Roleplay servers with bodyguards
SMP servers with custom protection systems
PvE or PvP environments needing NPC defenders
🚧 Development Status
This plugin is under active development.
More features such as advanced AI, equipment, health systems, and permissions may be added in future updates.
❗ Notes (Important)
This plugin does not provide unfair advantages outside server control
No malware, no data collection, no external connections
Fully server-side and open to extension
⚠️ This plugin requires the Citizens plugin to function. Citizens is not hosted on Modrinth and must be downloaded separately.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 customguardplugin-2.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 5 KB
- Download link checked 11 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.