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NewJoinMessage

Give every player a join and leave message that feels like theirs.

ONE JAR | MINECRAFT 1.8-26.2 | JAVA 8 COMPATIBLE | 11 PLUGIN INTEGRATIONS

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NewJoinMessage is a lightweight way to replace plain join and leave notices with personal messages, colors, icons, sounds, and a simple in-game editor.

Version 6.0 brings 11 major plugin integrations - all as soft dependencies that activate automatically when the plugin is installed.

What you can customize

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• A different join and leave message for every player
• Classic & color codes on every supported version
• Hex colors on server versions that support them
• A personal icon before the player's name
• Optional join and leave sounds, with old and new sound-name aliases
• Random pools of default messages
• First-join welcome messages and optional fireworks
• Messages disabled in selected worlds
• Vanish-aware broadcasts
• YAML storage by default, with optional MySQL

NEW: 11 Plugin Integrations

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All integrations are soft dependencies - they work if the plugin is installed, and gracefully do nothing if not.

Plugin	Placeholders / Features
PlaceholderAPI	All PAPI placeholders (%player_health%, %server_tps%, %vault_eco_balance%, etc.)
LuckPerms	%luckperms_prefix%, %luckperms_suffix%, %luckperms_group%
EssentialsX	%essentials_nickname%, %essentials_displayname%, %essentials_vanished%, %essentials_afk%
Citizens	%citizens_is_npc%, %citizens_npc_name%
ProtocolLib	Advanced packet manipulation for custom join/leave packets
WorldGuard	%worldguard_regions%, %worldguard_region% - disable/force messages in specific regions
Multiverse-Core	%multiverse_world%, %multiverse_world_alias%, %multiverse_world_colored%
DiscordSRV	%discordsrv_verified% - send join/leave messages to Discord
HolographicDisplays	Temporary holograms at player location on join/leave
MiniMessage (Adventure)	Full MiniMessage syntax: <red>text</red>, <gradient:blue:green>text</gradient>, <✨>text</✨>
MVdWPlaceholderAPI	All MVdW placeholders for broader compatibility

Made to be managed in-game

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Players can edit their own settings from the GUI. Staff with permission get an admin panel for browsing players and managing their messages. You can also preview a result immediately instead of reconnecting after every change.

Useful placeholders

Placeholder	Description
%player%	Account name
%displayname%	Current display name
%world%	Current world
%online%	Online player count
%max_players%	Server capacity
%server_name%	Server name
%motd%	Server MOTD
%server_version%	Server version
%time%	Current time (HH:mm:ss)
%prefix% / %vault_prefix%	Vault chat prefix
PLAYERNAME	Legacy player-name placeholder

Commands

Command	Description
/njm or /njm gui	Open the GUI
/njm set <join|leave> <message>	Set your message
/njm clear <all|join|leave>	Clear your message
/njm preview	Preview both messages
/njm toggle	Enable or hide your broadcasts
/njm icon <icon|off>	Choose an icon
/njm sound <join|leave> <sound|off>	Choose a sound
/njm language	Choose a language
/njm info <player>	Inspect a player's messages
/njm setplayer <player> <join|leave> <message>	Edit another player
/njm reload	Reload configuration

Aliases: /mjm, /modernjoinmessage, /newjoinmessage

Main permissions

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Permission	Description
joinleave.*	All permissions (OP by default)
joinleave.admin	Admin tools and admin GUI
joinleave.gui	Player GUI
joinleave.set.join / joinleave.set.leave	Personal messages
joinleave.preview / joinleave.toggle	Preview and broadcast control
joinleave.icon / joinleave.sound	Personal icon and sound
joinleave.info / joinleave.setplayer / joinleave.clearplayer	Staff management
joinleave.reload	Configuration reload

Set allow-all-players: true if everyone should be able to customize messages without individual set permissions.

Showcase

Click to view showcase screenshots

Compatibility

The single jar is designed for Spigot/Paper/Folia-compatible servers from Minecraft 1.8 through 26.2. The release jar was tested at both ends of that range: Spigot 1.8.8 on Java 8 and Paper 26.2 on Java 25.

Modern Paper may call it a "legacy plugin" because the jar intentionally does not declare a modern api-version. That warning is harmless and is what allows the same file to load on 1.8-1.12.

Installing or updating

1. Back up your current plugin folder.
2. Replace the old jar with the new jar.
3. Restart the server. Do not use /reload for a jar update.

If NewJoinMessage has no player data yet and finds an older plugins/ModernJoinMessage/data.yml, it imports those messages once during startup.

Found a bug?

Send the server version, Java version, and full relevant console error in the discussion thread or on discord. I would rather see the log and fix the cause than guess.