WorldGuard lets you and players guard areas of land against griefers and undesirables, as well as tweak and disable various gameplay features of Minecraft. * Block creeper and wither block damage, falling damage, etc. * Disable fire spread, lava fire spread, ice formation, Endermen picking up blocks, etc. * Blacklist certain items and blocks so they can't be used * Warn moderators when certain items and blocks are used * Protect areas of your world so only certain people can build in them * Set areas where PVP, TNT, mob damage, and other features are disabled * Protect your server from various 'exploits' like magical obsidian creation machines * Disable, or enable, various Minecraft features, like sponges from classic * Add useful commands like an immediate "STOP ALL FIRE SPREAD" command * Enable only features you want! Everything is off by default WorldGuard is open source and is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3. A Bukkit server implementation (such as [Paper](https://papermc.io)) and the [WorldEdit plugin](https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/worldedit) are required to use WorldGuard. You can get a release copy of WorldGuard from the [BukkitDev site](https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/worldguard). Compiling --------- The project is written for Java 8 and our build process makes use of [Gradle](http://gradle.org). Dependencies are automatically handled by Gradle. Contributing ------------ We happily accept contributions, especially through pull requests on GitHub. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for important guidelines to follow. Submissions must be licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3. Links ----- * [Homepage](http://enginehub.org/worldguard) * [Discord](https://discord.gg/enginehub) * [Issue tracker](https://github.com/EngineHub/WorldGuard/issues) * [Continuous integration](http://builds.enginehub.org) [](http://ci.enginehub.org/viewType.html?buildTypeId=bt11&guest=1) * [End-user documentation](https://worldguard.enginehub.org/en/latest/)