About VIPJoinPlus

VIPJoinPlus is a modern, lightweight and fully customizable join & quit message plugin for servers that want more than plain chat lines.

Give your VIPs and ranked players the spotlight they deserve with gradients, HEX colors, hover & click events, and, uniquely, join/quit messages that are shown to every player in their own language.

Highlights

• Per-player languages every online player sees the message in their own client language
• Permission-based groups with a smart priority system
• Modern formatting with MiniMessage (gradients, HEX, hover & click)
• Lightweight & Folia-ready

Compatibility

• Java 21 or higher
• Spigot, Paper and Folia (1.21+)
• Requires the free Nexus core plugin → Download the latest Nexus (install it alongside VIPJoinPlus)

Features

• Custom join & quit messages based on permissions (VIPs, ranks, etc.)
• Smart priority system when a player matches multiple groups
• Per-player localization, drop a lang/<language>.yml file and the message is shown to each viewer in their own language (English & Spanish included)
• Modern formatting with MiniMessage (gradients, HEX, hover & click events)
• Multiple formatting modes: MiniMessage, Legacy (& codes) and Mixed
• PlaceholderAPI support
• Optionally hide the default vanilla join & quit messages
• Configurable join & quit message delays
• Async & performance-friendly
• Reload-safe clean reloads (PlugMan-friendly), no stale or duplicated messages
• Built-in debug mode to diagnose group matching and delivery

Commands

• /vipjoinplus reload → Reload the configuration and language files

Permissions

• vipjoinplus.reload → Allows reloading the plugin
• group.<name> → Assigns a player to a message group (configurable per group)

Why VIPJoinPlus?

Most join/quit plugins are outdated, limited, or speak a single language.

VIPJoinPlus focuses on modern formatting, clean configuration and real customization for VIPs and ranked players, with first-class per-player localization, while staying lightweight and fully compatible with the latest server software, including Folia.