VanillaAFK Plugin
A simple and lightweight AFK plugin with custom overhead messages for Paper servers.
📦 Installation
- Download the
VanillaAFK.jarfile - Place it in your server's
plugins/folder - Restart the server
🎮 Usage
Basic Commands:
/afk- toggle AFK mode/afk [text]- enter AFK with custom text/afk reload- reload configuration
Examples:
/afk- AFK with default text/afk Gone for lunch- AFK with custom text/afk &cBe back soon- AFK with colored text
⚙️ Configuration
All settings are located in plugins/VanillaAFK/config.yml:
Messages:
messages:
afk-enabled: "&aYou entered AFK mode with text '&f<text>&a'"
afk-disabled: "&aYou exited AFK mode"
default-afk-text: "&7AFK"
🎨 Text Formatting
Supports standard Minecraft color codes:
Colors:
&0 - Black
&1 - Dark Blue
&2 - Dark Green
&3 - Dark Aqua
&4 - Dark Red
&5 - Purple
&6 - Gold
&7 - Gray
&8 - Dark Gray
&9 - Blue
&a - Green
&b - Aqua
&c - Red
&d - Pink
&e - Yellow
&f - White
Formatting:
&k - Obfuscated
&l - Bold
&m - Strikethrough
&n - Underlined
&o - Italic
&r - Reset
🔐 Permissions
vanillaafk.customtext - use custom AFK text
vanillaafk.reload - reload plugin configuration
📋 Features
Custom overhead messages with color formatting
Animated sandclock emoji (configurable)
Movement detection to exit AFK mode
Support for both Bukkit colors and HEX colors
Easy configuration reload
Lightweight and optimized
🐛 Support
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please create an issue on GitHub.
- 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 VanillaAFK.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 2.6 MB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.