Protect your players’ builds from unwanted explosions
A lightweight Spigot/Paper plugin that uses CoreProtect to prevent explosions from destroying blocks placed by players.

ExplosionProtector hooks into all types of explosions (TNT, creeper, ender crystal, bed/respawn-anchor explosions, etc.) and checks each affected block’s origen via the CoreProtect API.

• Player-placed blocks are protected and remain intact.
• All other blocks (natural terrain, plugin-placed, etc.) are destroyed as normal.
• TNT chain reactions are still allowed: TNT will break TNT and natural blocks, but any player-placed block in the blast radius remains safe.

This is ideal for:

• PvE or Creative servers where you want to preserve player builds.
• Minigame or adventure maps that use TNT but need to protect certain structures.
• Any world where accidental or malicious explosions should not ruin player work.

1. Download the latest ExplosionProtector.jar.
2. Place it into your server’s plugins/ directory.
3. Ensure you have CoreProtect v10+ installed and enabled.
4. Start or reload your server. You should see in console:

   [ExplosionProtector] Plugin enabled: protecting player-placed blocks from explosions.
   

All settings are in plugins/ExplosionProtector/.

# config.yml
# Supported language codes: en, ru, es, zh, hi, ar, fr, de, ja, pt
language: en

On first run the plugin extracts:

• messages.yml (default English)
• messages_ru.yml
• messages_es.yml
• messages_zh.yml
• messages_hi.yml
• messages_ar.yml
• messages_fr.yml
• messages_de.yml
• messages_ja.yml
• messages_pt.yml

Each contains all user-facing strings. To add or adjust translations, edit the corresponding file in the plugin’s folder.

All commands require the explosionprotector.info permission (default OP-only).

/ep status
# Status: enabled
# Blocks protected in last operation: 17

/ep language ru
# Language set to 'ru'.

• CoreProtect Lookup Cache
  Added Guava-backed cache to reduce repeated CoreProtect queries and improve performance during big explosions.
• Multi-Language Support
  • Extracts all messages_<lang>.yml on first run.
  • config.yml option language: <code>.
  • /ep language <code> for on-the-fly language switching.
• TNT Chain Reaction Handling
  Refactored logic so TNT chain reactions still destroy TNT and natural blocks but protect player-placed blocks.
• Unified Explosion Handlers
  Consolidated EntityExplodeEvent and BlockExplodeEvent logic for consistent protection.
• Automatic Resource Extraction
  Ensures no “file not found” warnings when all translation files are present in the JAR.
• Configurable Messages & Clean Code
  All user text moved to message files; comments and code streamlined and fully English-documented.

• Basic protection of player-placed blocks against all explosion types using CoreProtect API.
• Support for TNT, creeper, ender crystal, block explosions.
• /ep status command showing protection status.

• Spigot / Paper 1.13+
• CoreProtect v10 or higher

MIT License. See LICENSE in the GitHub repository for details.