Simple Handcuffs

Add arrests and prisoner escorts to your Paper or Purpur server. Hold the handcuffs, right-click a player to cuff them, and lead them along behind you. Right-click them again with the cuffs to release them.

Useful for police roleplay, prison servers, or settling an argument over who stole the diamonds.

How it works

Use /cuffs give to get a pair of handcuffs.

Hold them in your main hand and right-click a player.

Walk to lead your prisoner. They are pulled toward you if they fall behind and teleported to you if they get too far away.

Right-click your prisoner again while holding handcuffs to release them.

Handcuffs use a named blaze rod. No client mod or resource pack is required.

While cuffed

Players cannot:

Move items around, open containers, drop items, or pick them up.

Change hotbar slots or swap items between hands.

Attack, break or place blocks, or interact with blocks and entities.

Eat, drink, enter vehicles, or use elytra.

Teleport using ender pearls or chorus fruit.

Run commands unless you allow them in the config.

Normal chat remains available. By default, /msg, /tell, /w, and /r are also allowed.

Chains and arrest handling

Show a chain between the officer and prisoner using particles or visible chain links, or turn it off.

Arrests are saved across reconnects and server restarts.

If the officer disconnects, their prisoners remain cuffed and are held in place.

Prisoners are released when they die or their officer dies.

Only the arresting officer can release their prisoner by right-clicking.

Give selected players immunity with a permission.

Commands

Command

What it does

/cuffs give

Give yourself handcuffs.

/cuffs give [amount]

Give handcuffs to an online player.

/cuffs removeall

Release everyone and invalidate all existing handcuffs.

/sh and /handcuffs also work in place of /cuffs.

Permissions

Permission

What it allows

handcuffs.create

Create handcuffs with the give command.

handcuffs.removeall

Release everyone and invalidate existing handcuffs.

handcuffs.immune

Prevent the player from being cuffed.

Creation and remove-all permissions default to operators. Immunity must be granted separately.

Anyone holding valid handcuffs can use them. The creation permission controls who can spawn cuffs, not who can use them.

Configuration

Adjust the following in config.yml:

Prisoner limit per officer.

Cooldown between arrests.

Pull and teleport distances.

Commands prisoners can use.

Chain visibility and style.

Handcuff name and item description.

Messages and chat prefix.

The default setup allows one prisoner per officer with a five-second arrest cooldown. Prisoners are pulled back beyond three blocks and teleported back beyond twelve blocks.

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