Commands

Protect has a vast command offering. Everything you need to know about commands is shown in the game using feature-rich interactive system. Just hover over commands to get more information.

How to Use Commands

To use commands, simply execute them in your console or the in-game chat. Many commands support additional parameters, see below.

• [] = optional arguments (in filters, you can use multiple)
• <> = required arguments

TIP: The alias for /protect is /p. You can change it in settings.yml in the Command_Aliases key.

Permissions

Type /protect perms to view all available command permissions.

You can also view the required permission directly in the error message when you attempt to execute a command you don't have access to.

Main Commands

To see more on how commands works and how it can be used, simply hover your mouse over it and additional information will follow.

/protect debug

If you want to report a bug, run this command. It will compile all files into a single ZIP file that you can then upload to GitHub when creating an Issue. We remove your MySQL password and other sensitive data.

/protect edititem

Edit properties such as name, lore, enchants or potions of the held item.

/protect inspect

Utility command to view the content of the container you're looking at without opening it and remove items at certain slots. Useful for removing crashed items in containers that can't be viewed as they kick clients.

/protect inv

View player inventory, armor or enderchest content. Offline players are supported.

/protect invclose

Utility command to forcefully close an opened inventory for a player.

/protect iteminfo

Show your or a player's held item properties: NBT tag, material, id, data, durability and Bukkit toString()

/protect logs

A complex command to view database logs for confiscated items, spied commands or shop transactions. Run /protect logs <tableType> ? to view all of the filtering options.

There are many options, example: /protect logs items date:1h location:here,10 will find all confiscated items in the last hour at your location within a 10-block radius.

Restoring Confiscated Items

If an item was wrongly confiscated, use /protect logs items to view the log. Click on a log entry to open a GUI showing the confiscated items. From this GUI, you can:

1. Drag items from the GUI directly into your inventory to restore them one by one
2. Click the restore button to return all items from that confiscation event to the player

Restored items receive internal metadata marking them as legitimate, so they will not be confiscated again by the same rule.

/protect perms

Display all plugin's permissions.

/protect playtime

Utility command to display how long a player has played on your server.

/protect reload

Reloads the plugin and its configuration. Some things by their nature, such as listener priorities, console filtering etc. cannot be reloaded. PlugMan is unsupported and may break. Please use /protect reload instead of /rl or plugman and restart as soon as possible.

/protect scan

Manually scan a player's inventory.

/protect export

Export the item in your hand to an NBT JSON string. Usage: /protect export [player] [-console|-file|-chat]. Default copies to clipboard. Use -file to save to the exports/ folder for later import.

/protect import

Import an itemstack from an NBT string and give it to a player. Usage: /protect import <player> chat <json> or /protect import <player> file <filename>. Files are loaded from the exports/ folder.

/protect row

Internal command to manipulate database rows from the logs interface. Usage: /protect row menu <table> <rowId> to view items, or /protect row remove <table> <rowId> to delete a log entry.