Essential Plugins
- EssentialsX — The Swiss Army knife of server plugins. Adds /home, /warp, /spawn, basic economy, and hundreds of utility commands.
- LuckPerms — The best permission plugin available. Fine-grained control over what each player or group can do.
- Vault — Economy API that connects EssentialsX economy to other plugins like shops.
Anti-Grief and Protection
- GriefPrevention — Lets players claim land with a golden shovel. The gold standard for player protection.
- CoreProtect — Logs every block change. Roll back grief in seconds.
Economy and Shops
- ShopGUI+ — Clean admin shop with support for custom items.
- QuickShop Hikari — Lets players create their own chest shops.
Quality of Life
- Dynmap — Live browser-based map of your world.
- BetterSleeping — One player sleeping skips the night.
- ViaVersion — Lets newer client versions join your server.
Install any of these via the Pterodactyl file manager on your CraftNodes server by uploading the JAR to the plugins folder and restarting.