Busy Bodies for Paper

Server plugin for the Busy Bodies mod: on Paper servers, players with the Fabric or NeoForge mod see each other typing, in menus and asleep. No mods needed on the server.
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Description

Busy Bodies: everyone's up to something

The server half of Busy Bodies, for Paper servers.

Busy Bodies lets players see what the others are up to: who is typing, who has a chest open, who is stuck in a menu and who fell asleep at the keyboard. Players need the Busy Bodies mod for Fabric or NeoForge. This plugin is all a Paper server needs. No mods on the server.

  • Fabric players and NeoForge players see each other.
  • Players without the mod join as usual and are never sent anything.
  • The same settings and the same /busybodies command as on a modded server. The permission is busybodies.admin.
  • Everything a player sends is checked before it is passed on, and there is a cap on how much each player can send.

Install: drop the file into plugins and restart. The settings are written to plugins/BusyBodies/busybodies-server.json.

Good to know: made for Paper 26.3 and its forks, such as Purpur. Folia is not supported. On Paper, flying items show without their enchantment glint; everything else is the same as on a modded server.

A village square full of players typing, trading, smelting and sleeping

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