Modlist
Terralith
Terralith takes Minecraft's 1.18 massive world generation overhaul, and turns it up to eleven.
Tectonic
Using the powerful worldgen tools from Caves and Cliffs, Tectonic completely rocks world generation with mountain ranges, underground rivers and more!
Terratonic
Terralith compatibility with Tectonic!
Amplified Nether
Amplified Nether increases the Nether height to 256 blocks tall, truly ushering in the "Amplified" feel.
Camps, Castles and Carriages
Add more medieval-fairy-tale style structures to your vanilla world!
Structory
Structory is a seasonally updated, atmospheric structure mod with light lore.
pl3xmap
Pl3xMap is the original minimalistic and lightweight world map viewer for Minecraft servers using the vanilla Minecraft rendering style.
Harbor
Ahoy, matey! Harbor is a Spigot plugin that redefines how sleep works in your server, making it easier for all the online players to get in bed quick and skip through the night!
Dynamic Lights
Emit Light from Held Items using the 1.17 Light Blocks in Spigot/Paper Servers.
Excellent Jobs
A better, lightweight and flexible jobs solution for your server! Features full customization and unique features!
ImageFrame
Want to display information on your server in a fancy way? Or maybe you want to display a nice animated TV screen in your home base? Then this is the plugin for you!
Vane
Better Harvesting, Unlock All Recipes, Anvil Cost limiter, Double Doors, Grass Path.
PvP Manager Lite
PvPManager is an all in one PvP plugin. Meaning that instead of multiple plugins that control the PvP experience in your server you would use just one.
Tree Feller
Fell full trees instantly with an axe.
Luckperms
LuckPerms is a permissions plugin for Minecraft servers. It allows server admins to control what features players can use by creating groups and assigning permissions.
Commands Manager
CommandsManager is a plugin that allows you to Block, Add a Cooldown and Add a Delay and Cost to any Command.
Spark
A performance profiler mod.
Ray Tracing Anti X-Ray
Paper Anti-Xray can't hide ores that are exposed to air in caves for example (see picture below). This plugin is an add-on for Paper Anti-Xray to hide those ores too, using ray tracing to calculate whether or not those ores are visible to players.
LandClaim
LandClaim is a land protection tool that allows players to safely claim WorldGuard regions and plots using money.
CoinsEngine
CoinsEngine is a simple plugin that allows you to create unlimited amount of custom virtual currencies or even use it as primary economy plugin!
OpenAudioMC
Allow community members to interact with others using spatial proximity voice chat.
OkTreasures
Vanilla Minecraft has a bug where the buried treasure search is so slow that it can sometimes freeze your game. It also happens in multiplayer, if anyone opens a buried treasure search, the server can sometimes crash. Contrary to what the bug tracker says, as of Minecraft 1.20.1, this is not fixed.
AppleSkin
Food/hunger-related HUD improvements
Roughly Enough Items
Clean and Customizable. Alternative to Just Enough Items/JEI.
Xaero's Minimap
Displays a map of the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which help you find the locations you've marked.
ProtocolLib
ProtocolLib is a library that allows read and write access to the Minecraft protocol. It handles most of the overhead required with reflection and channel injection and provides wrappers to simplify packet modification. It is updated with most Minecraft updates so, ideally, individual plugins don't have to. ProtocolLib often doesn't need to be updated for minor updates, especially if there are few code changes (i.e. the 1.8 security updates)
Nightcore
nightcore is updated version of the NexEngine utility plugin. Changes are unnoticeable for regular users. Almost all plugin's data is compatible, except Text Formations.
Placeholder API
PlaceholderAPI is a plugin for Spigot servers that allows server owners to display information from various plugins with a uniform format.
PAPI Proxy Bridge
A bridge library plugin for using PlaceholderAPI on proxy servers
Vault
Vault is a Permissions, Chat, & Economy API to give plugins easy hooks into these systems without needing to hook or depend on each individual plugin themselves. It was born out of a distaste for how both Register and the current Permissions API are run, and their lack of features or over-complicated implementations. Vault attempts to solve these issues by being intuitive and providing plugins with support for any system that they may use.
Geyser
Geyser is a program that allows Minecraft: Bedrock Edition clients to join Minecraft: Java Edition servers, allowing for true cross-platform between both editions of the game.
Floodgate
The companion to Geyser, Floodgate is a hybrid mode plugin which allows Minecraft: Bedrock Edition connections to join online mode Minecraft: Java Edition servers without the need for a Java Edition account.
Luckperms
LuckPerms is a permissions plugin for Minecraft servers. It allows server admins to control what features players can use by creating groups and assigning permissions.
Velocitab
Velocitab is a super-simple Velocity TAB menu plugin that uses scoreboard team client-bound packets to actually sort player lists without the need for a backend plugin.
ViaVersion
Allow newer versions to connect, why lose players after a Minecraft update?
Maintenance
The most customizable maintenance plugin for your Minecraft server you can find.
PAPI Proxy Bridge
A bridge library plugin for using PlaceholderAPI on proxy servers