VNJoinMessage
A highly customizable join, first join, and leave message plugin for Paper servers, featuring MiniMessage, 30+ placeholders, optional PlaceholderAPI…
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VNJoinMessages
VNJoinMessages is a lightweight and highly customizable Minecraft plugin for creating custom join, first join, and leave messages.
Features
- Custom join messages
- Custom first join messages
- Custom leave messages
- Multiple messages with optional random selection
- MiniMessage formatting support
- Optional PlaceholderAPI support
- Custom prefixes and separators
- Hover text
- Click actions
- Join, first join, and leave sounds
- Actionbar messages
- Configurable message delays
- Permission-based message broadcasting
- Replaces the vanilla join and leave messages
- Extensive placeholders for player and server information
- Date and time placeholders
- Server TPS, RAM, uptime, Java version, ping, world, gamemode, and more
- Simple configuration
- Reload commands with test message support
Commands
/reload-joinmsg [join|first|leave]
Reloads the configuration and optionally sends a test message.
/joinmessages-reload [join|first|leave]
Alias for the reload command.
Placeholders
VNJoinMessages includes placeholders such as:
%player%%displayname%%uuid%%world%%gamemode%%health%%max_health%%food%%level%%exp%%ping%%online%%online_max%%server%%motd%%version%%tps%%tps_1m%%tps_5m%%tps_15m%%first_join%%last_join%%join_count%%time%%date%%datetime%%ram_used_mb%%ram_max_mb%%ram_free_mb%%java_version%%uptime%%permission%
If PlaceholderAPI is installed its placeholders can also be used in VNJoinMessages.
Requirements
- Paper or a compatible Bukkit/Paper server
- Minecraft 1.21+
- PlaceholderAPI is optional
VNJoinMessages does not require PlaceholderAPI for its core functionality.
- 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 VNJoinMessages-1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 9 KB
- Download link checked 2 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.