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PauseGame

PauseGame

Plugin

Dynamically pause your multiplayer worlds!

Server Game MechanicsManagementOptimizationUtility

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  • Removed version checking as 26.1+ versions will break it

PauseGame 3.2.3

by gabeh on Dec 26, 2025
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  • Fixed an issue where a player could join and the server will not unpause
  • Removed save-game-on-quit we should trust the server to do all the unloading espically to prevent some odd issues with performance or saving
  • Added a work around in the form of freeze-delay as paper does not start to unload chunks until 10s later

This can easily fixed by going into spigot.yml setting unload-frozen-chunks to true and set this to 0 OR in paper-world-defaults.yml setting delay-chunk-unloads-by to zero & this to 0. This work around is added in to keep the plugin plug and play.

  • Removed mod support
This caused more issued than I would've liked and was a headache to maintain. This may come back in the future if interest is shown.
  • Increase time until server is frozen to 20 ticks to ensure chunks are unloaded
  • Some more logging under the hood
  • Bug fixes for various issues
  • Fix a bug where the game would pause incorrectly with multiple players
  • Preserve velocity when falling or running (more useful when players are using InvMove)
  • Small optimization

PauseGame 3.0.0

by gabeh on Jun 19, 2024
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It is recommended to regenerate this config for this version

  • Plugin will no longer step the game and instead save the game before attempting to unload all chunks to ensure chunks will unload without fail
  • Removed step-ticks
  • Replaced save-game with save-game-on-quit disabling this new option will disable both saving the game and unloading chunks

PauseGame 2.1.1

by gabeh on Jun 16, 2024
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  • Fixes some issues with Mod support being enabled on both server and client

PauseGame 2.1.0

by gabeh on Jun 15, 2024
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  • Fixed some issue where certain interaction could still occur while the game was paused
  • Removed the option to disable player movement while the game is paused
  • The plugin will now attempt to step the game instead of freezing the game later when the player leaves

PauseGame 2.0.0

by gabeh on Jun 12, 2024
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It is recommend to regenerate your config with this update

  • Removed run-gc & force-unload-chunks options from the config

These options were more likely to do more harm than good and thus removed.

  • Added enable-mod-companion & freeze-pause-menu-players

Enabling mod companion support will let the server be able to detect when a player is in the pause menu to pause the server if they have the companion mod installed. Optionally you can have the players freeze in place when their pause menu is up and the server is frozen.

  • Added small tiny code optimizations

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