This guide will show you how to set up and use WorldGuard plugin on your server.

WorldGuard Plugin

WorldGuard is an easy world area protector for Minecraft, supporting single player and multiplayer.
This amazing plugin has a lot of features that can help you with your server such:

Create zones in your world that only permit mods or certain players from building within
Set additional game rules on your server (deny wither block damage, falling damage, etc.)
Set game rules on specific areas (food regen, health regen, disable PvP, TNT, control mob damage) in your world
Blacklist certain items and blocks so they can't be used
Dump useful statistics and information about your server (/wg report -p)
CPU profile your server (/wg profile -p)
Add useful commands like an immediate "STOP ALL FIRE SPREAD" command.
Protects against many types of grief (fire spread, tree growth, TNT cannons, piston machines, crop trampling, paintings and item frames, etc.), and certain interactions can also be allowed (door open, lever usage, etc.)
And etc.

WorldGuard Official Thread

If you don’t know how to install a plugin, please follow our knowledge about it here.

Downloading WorldGuard Plugin

First you need to download WorldGuard plugin.
Note that each WorldGuard version correspond to a different Minecraft Server Version.
So, Before downloading it, make sure you have downloaded the correct version for your server.

Installing WorldGuard Plugin in your server

Once you have downloaded the plugin, just upload it to your “plugins” folder in your FTP.
We highly recommend you to use FileZilla for this. You can find more about FileZilla in our article “ How to install plugins on your server “.

Once WorldGuard plugin is in your “plugins” folder, you need just to restart your server.

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Updated on: 08/26/2022