Vystorm Estates | Protected Plots, Rentals & Property Sales

Latest feature update - 1.11.0
Separate visitor, container and building rights

Grant visitor access, container access and building rights independently. Existing members and guests retain their existing behavior. Access is rechecked for open inventories and protected vehicles.

Available in all seven bundled languages. Targeted feature and restart checks passed on official Spigot 26.3 and CraftBukkit 26.3. See the latest update notes for installation instructions and validation details.

✅ Ready out of the box – everything is preconfigured. Sensible defaults for every setting: drop the jar (plus Vystorm Core) into plugins/, restart, play. Changing anything is optional – in-game config editor or config.yml.

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Server support: Spigot/CraftBukkit 26.3 and the existing Paper/Purpur integration. See the compatibility section above for exact validation and platform details.

Requires Vystorm Core (free) – the shared base of all Vystorm plugins (seven language bundles, in-game config editor, update check). Just drop one extra jar into plugins/, no setup.


Rent and sell plots with signs. Built-in protection, no WorldGuard needed. Mark an area, create a plot, put up a sign: players rent or buy with one click, extend by clicking again, invite friends and get a refund when they leave. Rents run out on their own, the plot is rebuilt as it was and goes back on the market.


Renting and buying

• Plots in seconds. /estates pos1, pos2, create <name> rent|buy <price>, then a sign with [estate]. By default plots reach from bedrock to sky.
• Rent or buy. Rent per period (7d, 12h, 2w …) with a maximum time ahead, or buy once. Prices through Vault, so any economy plugin works (XPVaultEconomy too). Free plots work without Vault.
• Live signs. The sign shows "for rent" with price, or tenant and end date. Right-click rents, buys or extends; sneak + right-click shows info.
• Market menu. /estates market lists all free plots, cheapest first; click to stand in front of the sign.
• Auto-renew. /estates autorenew pays the next period from the owner's balance when the rent runs out, even while offline.
• For owners. Members (add/remove), transfer, extend, leave with refund of unused time, sell with a refund share, show draws the border with particles. Walking into a plot shows owner or price.
• Player menu. Standing on your plot, sneak + right-click a player with an empty hand to add or remove them as a member with one click.

Protection

• Built in. Only owner and members build or use doors, chests, buttons, buckets, frames and armour stands. Unowned plots stay locked.
• Borders hold. Explosions spare plots; water, lava and pistons cannot cross plot borders. Each rule can be switched off.
• Nested plots. Overlaps are refused; nested plots work (the smaller one wins).
• Shared region register. Every plot is published in Vystorm Core's region register, so other Vystorm plugins know who owns a spot.

Plots that reset themselves

• Snapshots. /estates snapshot <plot> saves how a plot looks; whenever it becomes free again it is rebuilt exactly like that, spread over ticks.
• Fair limits. Plots per player through vystormestates.limit.<n>; owners are warned before each rent ends.
• Inactive owners. With inactive-owners.free-after: 60d, a plot goes back on the market when neither owner nor members were online for 60 days (off by default).

Commands & permissions

• /estates market – Free plots, cheapest first
• /estates info, /estates list free|mine – Plot details, plot lists
• /estates add|remove <player>, transfer <player> – Manage members, hand a plot over
• /estates extend, leave, sell, autorenew, show – Owner actions
• /estates pos1, pos2, create <name> <rent|buy> <price> [period] [max-ahead] [full-height] – Create plots (admin)
• /estates delete, setprice, snapshot, reset, reload – Admin tools

• vystormestates.use – everyone – Rent, buy, manage own plots
• vystormestates.teleport – everyone – Teleport from the market
• vystormestates.limit.<n> – – – Plots per player
• vystormestates.admin – OP – Create plots, link signs, snapshots
• vystormestates.bypass – OP – Build everywhere, manage all plots

Requirements

• Paper or Purpur 1.21.8 to 26.2, Java 25
• Vystorm Core (free); the player menu entry needs Core 0.51.0 or newer
• Optional: Vault or VaultUnlocked with any economy plugin, for example XPVaultEconomy

More from Vystorm

Vystorm Core, Vystorm Rails, VystormPortals, CustomTrees, XPVaultEconomy, BlockIntegrations, Vystorm Veins, Winter Is Coming, Vystorm Insomnia, Vystorm Gallery, Vystorm Paddock, Vystorm Snapshot and Vystorm Boards, all free.

Free and open source (MIT). Vystorm Estates is a new implementation inspired by the discontinued AreaShop; no code of the original was used.