10 Minecraft Plugins to Take Your Server to the Next Level

Making a fun and enjoyable Minecraft server for your players is not rocket science. It relies on finding the perfect balance between features and fun. You need to give your player base features that will make things simple while giving them an adventure to follow, as well as giving them features that keep their gameplay interesting and fun.

So what can you do to achieve that?

You can add custom or publicly available plugins to your server to add more features to your server.

But isn't that going to ruin the vanilla experience?

Not if you do it correctly. You have to choose plugins that align with your goals for your server. So in this article, we are going to discuss our top picks for best server plugins in 2025 that will elevate your server to the next level without ruining the vanilla experience.

Our Top 10 Plugin Picks for Your Server

1. Claim Chunk
2. BlueMap
3. QuickShop
4. Simple Voice Chat
5. Chunky
6. TabListPing
7. TheGoldEconomy
8. Sleeper
9. CustomNPCs
10. SetHome

Claim Chunk

This plugin does exactly what the name says: claiming entire chunks at a time rather than claiming the selected area like other widely used claim region plugins. ClaimChunk plugin allows users to:

• Claim
• Unclaim
• Change the name of the territory
• Give or remove access to territories

This is a simple plugin that does not harm your server performance nor player experience. When a player claims a chunk, there are little particles appearing, which we think is a nice touch.

Author: cjburkey01
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/claimchunk

BlueMap

BlueMap is another massively popular plugin that allows you to create a live map of your entire server on a website, which is extremely useful and the best addition for a server that uses a custom world map or servers that run an SMP server.

This allows your users to view where the current players are exactly in your server in real time, as well as look for player bases that are being built or scavenge for structures or biomes of your server easily. What we most like about BlueMap specifically is that it allows users to scroll and zoom in on maps and look extremely close in the map and even get a 3D view of the map.

Author: BlueColored
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/bluemap

QuickShop

Everyone is used to setting up a server shop where they can buy and sell items using server currencies that don't even fit the nature of Minecraft. So this plugin completely changes that. With QuickShop, any player can set up a shop at their base to either buy or sell items using items in Minecraft as currency.

Users can set what they need in exchange for what they sell and vice versa. For example, users can set up their own little stall where they sell a stack of dirt for 1 gold ingot, and the users have full flexibility to customize their shops as they like.

Author: Ghost_chu
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/quickshop-hikari

Simple Voice Chat

Unlike Discord chats, Simple Voice Chat adds the proximity voice chat feature to your server, making it a much more immersive experience for your users. Imagine going on a mining adventure with your friends and getting lost in a mineshaft and trying to find your friends back in which direction you hear them from.

Author: henkelmax
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/simple-voice-chat

Chunky

Chunky is another well-known plugin among many users. This plugin allows you to pre-load an area of chunks on your server so you can massively reduce the time that it takes to load chunks. You can specify the area that you want to pre-load and hit generate to start loading. Once it's completed, your users won't have to wait till the chunks load, making the immersive experience seamless.

Author: pop4959
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/chunky

TabListPing

This is another simple and lightweight plugin that shows each player's server ping in the tab player list. This is by far the most accurate player ping plugin because it uses ping time rather than pulling pings from the server itself. You don't need any configuration, it's as simple as placing this in your plugins folder.

Author: Bobcat00
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/tablistping

TheGoldEconomy

This is the perfect plugin if you need to have a working economy in your server but don't want to add other economy plugins since they don't fit the normal Minecraft vibe. Because TheGoldEconomy uses Minecraft gold ingots as the currency, which allows users to deposit, withdraw, and even pay other players using gold, which in our opinion fits perfectly with Minecraft.

And most importantly, this can go hand-in-hand with the previously mentioned QuickShop plugin. Then you can even pay on the shops with gold, making it a complete economy. You can even set limits on how much gold mobs drop to reduce inflation.

Author: ConfusedAlex
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/thegoldeconomy

Sleeper

Sleeper is an essential plugin that we think all servers should have. When you try to sleep because your base location is filled with mobs and you can't work, so you try to skip the night by sleeping, but then no one else in the server wants to sleep? You can't get half of the server to sleep at once? Well, this is the solution.

With this plugin, you can change the percentage of players that need to sleep in order for a night to pass. You can set it as low as 1 player needs to sleep for that.

Author: hraponssi
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/sleeper

CustomNPCs

So this is also pretty much self-explanatory. You can add custom NPCs in your server with this plugin, and each NPC can have specific interaction-based actions like run server commands, send messages in server chat, play sounds, teleport users, give/remove XP, and give potion effects. There are many other features that these NPCs have which you can learn more about on the official plugin page.

Author: Foxikle
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/customnpcs

SetHome

This is another amazing plugin that you should definitely add to your server. This plugin allows users to set their home location using a command by naming the place, which they can then use to instantly teleport to from anywhere in the map. This allows users to wander anywhere they want without worrying about finding their way back.

Author: wilmer
Official Plugin page: https://modrinth.com/plugin/sethome

Conclusion

That concludes our top plugin picks for any server. With all these plugins that we mentioned combined, your server will become a truly exciting and, most importantly, enjoyable environment for your players. You can always mix and match more plugins and remove the plugins that you don't like. But if you just want a tried and tested list of plugins that you need for your server, give them a try.

Enjoy Hosting! Enjoy Minecraft!