How to Install Plugins on Your Minecraft Server | Iceline Hosting Knowledge Base

What is a Plugin?

A plugin is a jar file that goes into your Minecraft Server in order to change certain aspects of the game. You will see this many times when you are accessing an MC server hosting server. Even simple abilities like /home, /spawn, //wand, and more are the works of plugins. If you want to have ranks on your Minecraft server, an economy, a shop, or other features, you will need plugins. You can only have plugins if your MC server hosting server is running either Bukkit, Spigot, or Paper. If you want to modify your server past Vanilla Minecraft, these are the way to do it. In this guide, we are going to be breaking down how you can add plugins to your Minecraft server.

Before Starting

Make sure you've installed one of the plugin loaders like Spigot or Paper on your server, we personally recommend you to use Paper, learn how to install Paper on your server here!

How to Install Plugins With Our One-Click Installer

Go to the Iceline Hosting Game Panel.
Select your server and click on "Console" to access your server console.
In the top navigation bar of your server, locate “Plugins”. Go ahead and click that.
Here you can see a list of the most popular plugins, and you can use the search button to locate a specific plugin.
Once you find a plugin you want, simply click on the download button.
Once the plugin is installed, head to your server console and restart your MC server hosting server.
You can check if the plugin was installed correctly by typing “pl” into the console.

How to Manually Install Plugins

You will need to download the plugin from a trusted site like Spigot or Bukkit.
Once you decide on the plugins to download, make sure you download them into a folder on your PC where you can remember them for later use.
Go to the Iceline Game Panel and stop your server.
In your navigation bar, go to “Files”.
Locate your “plugins” folder and open it, then press the “Upload” button located to the top right corner of the file manager.
Either drag and drop the file you downloaded, or select the plugin on your pc and then press “Open”.
Once you do this, you will see a progress bar indicating you the number of files remaining to be uploaded. Wait for this to reach the end, then you can go back to the console tab and start the Minecraft server.
You can check the plugin installation by typing “pl” into the server console.

Installing plugins through Iceline AI

The Iceline AI is a powerful tool included with our game servers that you can use to manage your server. Through a simple conversation, you can ask the AI to make any change for you!

To install plugins through the Iceline AI, just ask the AI to install the plugin for you, the AI will search the plugin and ask for confirmation, simple as that!

Facing Any Issues?

If you have installed a plugin and it is not loaded into your Minecraft server hosting, make sure that your server is running either Spigot, Paper, or Bukkit. Also, be sure to check that the plugin version you downloaded is for the same version of Minecraft that your server is running. The last thing to check is that there are no dependency plugins. After you check these, if you are still having issues, feel free to contact our support team at Iceline Hosting.