SelectiveMobGrief

# SelectiveMobGrief **Stop unwanted block destruction while keeping useful mob behaviours working.** SelectiveMobGrief gives server owners independent control over **Creeper block damage** and **Enderman block pickup and placement**, without disabling Minecraft’s mob-griefing gamerule globally. Creepers still explode. Villagers still collect food. Sheep still eat grass. Your dirt blocks stop mysteriously relocating themselves. ## Features - **Creeper block protection:** prevent normal and charged Creepers from destroying blocks while preserving their explosions, entity damage and knockback. - **Enderman block protection:** prevent Endermen from picking up or placing blocks, including Endermen already carrying a block. - **Independent settings:** enable or disable either protection separately. - **Useful mob behaviours preserved:** villager item pickup and sheep grazing are left alone. - **Simple configuration:** two settings that apply across all worlds. - **No extra plugins required:** runs directly on Paper. Unrelated mob behaviours and other explosion sources, such as ordinary TNT, are not intercepted. ## Requirements - **Paper 26.2** - **Java 25** ## Installation 1. Stop your server. 2. Place the SelectiveMobGrief `.jar` file in your server’s `plugins` folder. 3. Start the server. The default configuration will be generated automatically. 4. Keep the mob-griefing gamerule enabled in each world where you want normal mob behaviours: ```text /gamerule minecraft:mob_griefing true ``` **The gamerule must remain enabled for the intended setup.** SelectiveMobGrief selectively blocks the configured Creeper and Enderman actions; it does not change gamerules or restore behaviours disabled by other server settings. ## Configuration Edit `plugins/SelectiveMobGrief/config.yml`: ```yaml # Allow Creepers to destroy blocks? creeper-block-damage: false # Allow Endermen to pick up and place blocks? enderman-block-griefing: false ``` - **`false`** prevents that kind of block griefing. - **`true`** allows normal behaviour, subject to gamerules and other plugins. Both protections are active by default. Settings apply to every world. **Fully restart the server after editing the configuration.** No JAR rebuild is needed. Both settings are required and must contain boolean values. An invalid configuration disables the plugin and prints a console error; protection remains inactive until the file is corrected and the server restarted. ## Commands and permissions There are **no plugin commands or permission nodes**. Protection runs automatically and applies regardless of player operator status. ## Compatibility and scope SelectiveMobGrief respects events already cancelled by other plugins. Enabling a behaviour in its configuration does not override another protection plugin or a disabled gamerule. Creeper protection covers **block damage**. Entities such as item frames, paintings and dropped items remain subject to normal entity damage. Indirect explosions from other sources are outside the plugin’s scope. ## Reporting issues Please include your Paper build, Java version, configuration, relevant console errors and steps to reproduce the problem. If you use other protection plugins, include those too.