Minecraft AuthMe Plugin Guide – Secure Your Minecraft Servers

AuthMe Minecraft Plugin – Introduction

Minecraft’s endless content takes players to all sorts of unique custom worlds and servers to play and build on. Everything from minigame battles in Survival Games and Skywars arena maps to RPG servers built upon magical powers from Minecraft plugins. With so much to explore, especially if you’re running your own adventure Minecraft server, it’s important to be able to protect your server. One way to do this is with a Minecraft plugin – the powerful AuthMe plugin!

AuthMe Reloaded is a lock and key style plugin for Minecraft servers used to secure servers to prevent bot attacks and username spoofing. This includes restricting users, IP addresses, and entire countries. Along with that, new account protections like email recovery, two-factor authentication, and user logs give you and your players peace of mind and account safety.
 
The Authme plugin is great for all Minecraft servers whether they’re using offline mode or online mode in your server settings. While offline mode is not recommended on Minecraft servers due to exploits such as account spoofing that can occur from disabling Mojang’s Authentication, AuthMe will provide much greater protection when used. Now that you know more about the AuthMe plugin, are you ready to improve your server’s protection? Below, learn how you can install and use the AuthMe plugin on your Minecraft game server!

Installing AuthMe Reloaded to your Minecraft Server

Before Installing AuthMe Reloaded

Your server will need to be able to support Minecraft plugins, which will require using a support Minecraft server type such as Bukkit/Spigot. To begin, ensure that your server is set to “Minecraft (Bukkit/Spigot)”. If you’re unsure if your server is set up correctly, you can press “SWITCH GAME” at the bottom left of your server panel to verify.

• If “Minecraft (Bukkit/Spigot)” is active, it’ll have “✅ Active” next to it.
• If the game type isn’t installed yet, press “Install” next to that to change to “Minecraft (Bukkit/Spigot)”.

How to Install the AuthMe Plugin

1. Firstly, download the AuthMe Reloaded Minecraft plugin.
2. Head to your Minecraft webinterface and stop your Minecraft server.
3. Once your Minecraft server is ready, on the left of the webinterface under “Tools”, click “File Browser” to access your server files.
4. After heading into your File Browser, click on the following folders “minecraftbukkit” ➜ “plugins”. The plugins folder is where AuthMe needs to be uploaded.
   

5. Next, at this location press the “Upload file” button. Locate the AuthMe .jar file that you downloaded, select that file, and press “Open” to begin the plugin upload.
   

6. After only a few seconds, AuthMe will be uploaded to your Minecraft server’s plugins folder.
7. Finally, start your Minecraft server to load the AuthMe Reloaded plugin.

How to Use AuthMe on a Minecraft Server

After AuthMe has been installed, you can start using the plugin right away. For everyone joining the server, upon joining players will need to register to play on your server. To register on a server, players can use the command /register <password>.
 
Upon registering, every time that player logs in they’ll need to use the command /login <password> to authenticate and play on the server. Your server and players are now protected!
 
The commands and permissions listed lower in this guide will help show you, your players, and your admins how to use more advanced features of AuthMe!

Managing the AuthMe Plugin

Plugin Configuration for AuthMe Minecraft Plugin

Once the AuthMe plugin is installed on your Minecraft server, there are some settings and files you can edit to customize the plugin further. From main server settings to plugin messages and emails the plugin will send players. We’ll show you how to find your AuthMe setting files and the most important settings and messages you can edit in these files!

Accessing your AuthMe Plugin Files

1. Firstly, stop your Minecraft server before editing any files or settings.
2. Next, to the left of your server panel under “Tools”, select the “File Browser” option to access your server files.
3. In your server files, go to the location “minecraftbukkit” ➜ “plugins” ➜ “AuthMe”.
   

4. Now that you’re at this location, you’re ready to begin editing your files. Click on a file to begin editing that file and its settings.

AuthMe Configuration Files and Settings

Config.yml

• Backend and MySQL settings | These settings allow you to change the database that AuthMe saves on. This includes the ability to set up a MySQL database with Authme.
• Sessions | Determines how long a player has to rejoin after quitting before they’d need to re-authenticate their account login.
• Restrictions | Restrict commands for non-authenticated users, set max username lengths, the maximum accounts per IP address that can join, and more.
• Security and Registration | Determines password requirements for the server and edits registration requirements including if registration is required.

Messages_en.yml

The messages_en.yml, found in the “messages” folder for AuthMe, allows you to set various messages for the plugin. The types of messages you can edit in AuthMe include:

• Registration messages
• Password messages
• Login messages
• Error messages
• Antibot messages

Alongside these messages, the files “email.html” and “welcome.txt” also include text that can be customized for players joining and using two-factor authentication or account recovery.

AuthMe Player and Admin Commands

Player Commands

By default, any player that joins your server will gain access to these commands and permissions from the AuthMe plugin.

Admin Commands

Main Permissions of AuthMe Minecraft Plugin

• authme.player.* | Gives a player access to all AuthMe player commands.
• authme.admin.* | Provides a player with full access to AuthMe commands.

Recommended Permission Plugin for AuthMe

To utilize permissions with the AuthMe plugin, we recommend using a permissions plugin. In particular, the plugin LuckPerms is highly recommended and contains a detailed wiki on how to set up permissions. You can follow the steps above for “How to Install AuthMe” to also install the plugin LuckPerms.

Once LuckPerms is installed, you can use these commands to set permissions:

• /lp user <username> permission set <permission> <true/false> | Using this command will set specific permissions to a player on your server. This is great if you’re just playing with a few friends or family.
• Example: /lp user Nitrado permission set authme.admin.* true
• /lp group <group> permission set <permission> <true/false> | When using this command, you’ll be able to set permissions for an entire group on your server. By default, there is only the group “default” but once you are using the plugin you can create more groups.
• Example: /lp group NitradoTeam permission set authme.player.* true

Start Using AuthMe on your Minecraft Server Today

With AuthMe installed, your server will now be protected and unstoppable. No matter if players attempt bot attacks or account spoofing, your server will stop them in their tracts. This ensures that you, your friends, and fellow Minecraft players can enjoy your server without interruption. If you do not yet have AuthMe installed, install the plugin today and secure your Minecraft server!

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