Elements: Nexus

Elements: Nexus

Elements: Nexus is a Server-side essentials all-in-one mod. Nexus covers ranks, the tab list, chat, homes, kits, moderation and more. It fixes a lot of issues that, in my opinion, had either never been addressed or updated, despite their options being available in the config files.

In this mod, I have added a Master Control File. Every feature and subcommand has its own on/off switch in config/elements_nexus/features.toml. A feature that is switched off doesn’t load at all. Only those switches need a restart. Every other settings and data file is reloaded with /nexus reload.

Ranks & permissions

• Groups with inheritance, prefixes, priority, rank colors and chat colors.
• Nexus registers as the NeoForge permission handler, so other mods see your ranks.
• Ranks can hand number values to other mods (node=value, e.g. claim limits).
• Rank-ups can run console commands on promotion, and can be announced in game and on Discord.

Tab list, nametags & side panel

• Tab list with rank tags, sorting, a header and footer, and an AFK marker. Nametags show the rank too.
• Side panel with name, rank, balance and claim location, each line set in sidepanel.toml.
• Balance comes from an economy mod that works through Elements: Vault, or from auto-detected coin mods, one currency per line.
• Location shows the claim name (Elements: Claims, Open Parties and Claims or FTB Chunks, if installed), with its own style per claim or dimension.
• The name follows the rank color, or the title color when one is on.

Chat

• Chat format, filter, mentions and clickable links.
• /msg, /r, /ignore, social spy and staff chat.
• Type [item] to show the item in your hand, or shift + right-click an item in your inventory to show it off. Hover it in chat for the full tooltip.
• A Title Scrolls {title} hook is included, and chat can use the title’s color.

Travel

• Homes with per-rank limits, warps, spawn, back, teleport requests and staff teleports, with warmup and a combat lock.
• Homes can be blocked in chosen worlds (e.g. resource worlds).
• Elytra gliding can be stopped in chosen worlds (e.g. spawn).
• Waystone rules: per-dimension control over placing, activating and teleporting with waystones (Waystones and similar mods). Chosen types, like warp plates, can be let through.

Ender Dragon respawn

The dragon respawns on its own a set time after it dies, using the vanilla crystal respawn.

• Exit portal: found on its own, taken from the dragon fight, or set by coordinates.
• End Crystals: on the outer bedrock, at a set distance and height, or at your own list of spots. Stray crystals near the portal can be cleared.
• Needs a player nearby, retries a set number of times, and tells staff if it fails.
• Everything is in dragon.toml, so it fits custom End layouts.

Holograms

Vanilla text displays with lines, animation, scale, spacing, width, background and facing options. They can be made and moved by coordinates from the console, and they’re reloaded from their file with /nexus reload.

Moderation

• Warn, mute, kick, ban, tempban, IP ban, freeze and jail.
• Inventory and ender chest view/edit, history and a rolling staff log.
• Vanish hides staff everywhere: tab list, /list, server ping, suggestions, messages and death messages.

Player toggles

• /pvp lets players opt out of PvP. Only damage is blocked, so riding and other right-clicks still work. Staff can turn PvP off for everyone.
• /phantoms turns phantom spawning on or off per player.

Messages

• Nicknames, /rules, /vote, /help (lists only the commands a player can use), /broadcast (chat or center screen), announcements and /restartwarn.
• Join, leave, first-join, MOTD and rank-up messages.
• Links in any of them are clickable: https://... or [Text](https://...).

Kits, AFK & entity limits

• One-time and cooldown kits.
• Automatic AFK detection.
• Per-chunk caps for pets, passive mobs, monsters, villagers and placed entities (armor stands, item frames, paintings, minecarts, boats and any entity or tag you add). Off by default.

Discord bridge

Event feed, two-way chat, staff chat, /link, rank-to-role sync and a status channel that shows the player count.

Migration & storage

• Imports from NeoEssentials, FTB Ranks, FTB Essentials, LuckPerms and TAB, with a preview before anything is written.
• JSON (default), YAML, SQLite or MySQL. Switch between them with /nexus storage convert. SQLite and MySQL need their driver jar in elements_nexus/drivers (not included).

Install

1. Drop elements_nexus-<version>.jar into the server’s mods/ folder. Use the full jar, not -slim.
2. Start the server once to generate config/elements_nexus/.
3. In config/neoforge-server.toml, set permissionHandler = "elements_nexus:permissions".
4. Restart the server.

Commands

Config

Files are in config/elements_nexus/.

• features.toml: the Master Control File, one switch per feature and subcommand, plus the overlap guard
• tablist.toml, sidepanel.toml, teleport.toml, afk.toml, moderation.toml, nicknames.toml, commands.toml, broadcast.toml, toggles.toml, waystones.toml, limits.toml, dragon.toml, discord.toml, storage.toml
• chat.toml, chat_filter.toml, rules.toml, help.toml, announcements.toml, messages.toml, vote.toml: hand-written text files

Every file except the features.toml switches and the storage type is reloaded with /nexus reload. The full command and permission list is on GitHub.

License

Free to use in any modpack. Credit Telmarine. No resale.