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NPC Police (Policing, Bounty, Jails, and more!)
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.8–1.19. File opened and checked on 12 Oct 2026; downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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NPC Police provides servers a system for implementing a judicial system. It provides a structured jail system, NPC based police force, incarceration system, bounties, and general mayhem deterrent.
Features:
- Base settings configurable at many levels.
- Server (Config.yml), World, Regions, Jail, and per NPC
- Customization of bounties
- based on damage dealt, murders of NPCs / Players, PVP, Escapes
- Add or subtract bounties based on status, (Wanted, In Jail, Escaped, in a cell at night/day)
- Define your own bounty to time served
- Global, per World, or per jail!
- Customizable message system
- Limit alerts/notices based on the distance to the activity, or jail
- Set the delay or time it will take to reach each player based on distance (News can travel fast, or slow, you decide)
- Define what NPCs are protected globally, Regions, or per NPC
- Enable NPCs to only attack what they can see
- Custom line of sight system that can also see through windows, iron bars, ice based on how transparent they are.
- Ability to confiscate the player's inventory upon arrest, as well as multiple methods to return it.
- Ability to configure items as banned, and they are never returned upon arrest.
- Customizable commands for many events
- Globally or per world:
- NPC Warnings, Alerting Guards, Alerting (No guards in range), NPC Murders, Players becoming (Wanted, Arrested, Escaped, Released)
- Per Jail
- Arrested, Escaped, Released
- Globally or per world:
- Each jail can be customized
- Jails name
- Multiple cell locations
- Bounty per second spent
- Out of a cell during the day or night
- In the jail
- Bounty per PVP damage in jail
- This system also extends some of your other plugins feature sets
- Worldguard (More flags available to support customization of your worlds)
- Set the bounties for PVP, NPC Damage, NPC Murders, Time spent Escaped or Wanted
- Set NPC defaults (Does not override settings on an NPC directly, just at the server or world level)
- Define regions to auto-flag players with a status upon entering.
- Ability to require line of sight with an NPC. Transparent blocks, glass, etc all have levels that affect sight.
- Add a bounty when flagged
- Send a message to the player when caught!
- PlaceholderAPI
- Offers several variables to display elsewhere.
- Users: Bounty, TotalBounty. Current Status, Prior Status, Current JailName, Last assault/Murder/Arrested date or time in hh:mm:ss, Times Arrested/Escaped/Murders
- Global: Most wanted user (Bounty, Status, Name), Closest Jail
- Offers several variables to display elsewhere.
- BetonQuest
- Provides extra Events, Objectives, and Conditions to build even more in-depth quests/stories
- LeaderHeads
- Users love nothing more than looking at who is the worst or best criminal across your network (MySql, or Server via SQLite)
- Top Current Bounties, Latest/Most Arrests, Latest/Most Escapes, Most Murders, Highest total bounties
- Worldguard (More flags available to support customization of your worlds)
Required Plugins:
- Vault (Economy & Permissions)
- Citizens2 (NPC interaction)
- WorldGuard (Jail region management)
- Sentinel
Spoiler: Text Tutorial
- Download the latest version of the plugin and place it into your plugins folder.
- Start the server, it will auto-create a default config (plugins/jailer/config.yml)
- Edit the file and setup the worlds (or copy the default for each that you want the plugin to function in)
- Create a worldguard region covering your jail area [/region create tutorialjail]
- Create a jail /np createjail {short name} {region name} {Display Name}
- /np createjail tutjail tutorialjail Tutorial Jail
- Now add cells, stand in the cell where you want players to be sent. type /np addcell
- Create an NPC in or around your jail that players can access from inside
- Select that NPC and type /np npc
- Click on the X inside the menu option. It should turn to a checkmark. That person now accepts right clicking.
- Create an NPC outside the jail
- equip them with a weapon
- For Sentinel use the following commands:
- /trait sentinel
- type /np npc
- Check the box for guard, should show a checkmark now
- Check the box for LOS Attack
- create another NPC to attack within 25 blocks of the guard
- Attack it, and you should see a warning or bounty. The Guard should start attacking once you harm the NPC enough.
- When in jail, right-click the NPC you created in there and a menu should come up.
- Quick visual layout of a simple jail.
- 1: I tend to place the judge/jailer in a location that both outside players and arrested players can interact with them.
- 2: Cells are the locations I use to set where the player will be sent to after being arrested.
- 3: Create a method to get out, I use iron doors to ensure the NPC guards cannot get into the jail (Tend to use a set of two to ensure they do not get into the jail)
- If a player leaves the jail region, they will be converted to escaped and using Sentinel or sentry you can have the guards hunt them down.
Spoiler: Jail Creation Tutorial
Spoiler: Complex jail design
Videos of features:
Spoiler: [2.0.1+] - line of sight settings
Spoiler: [2.0.8] - Inventory Management
Spoiler: [2.0.12] - Jail Exit Points
Servers running this plugin:
- Pigcraft Reborn @ mc.pigcraftreborn.net (Running on the PVP server) [1-11-2020 Offline?]
Enjoy!
Spoiler: Screenshots
Stats:
![[IMG]](http://proxy.spigotmc.org/cd1e0e0f4bf7208ddcec661dc2d68d0001b3f4ad?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbstats.org%2Fsignatures%2Fbukkit%2FNPC_Police.svg)
Enjoy!
* This plugin uses the plugin Metrics system. If you want to disable it, open /PluginMetrics/Config.yml and set opt-out to true. Mostly for my curiosity
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
- 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 Spigot — 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.
NPC Police (Policing, Bounty, Jails, and more!) is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and newer. Downloaded 46,027 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.