1. Mox MC

IP: moxmc.com
Mox MC has built a strong reputation as one of the best Minecraft servers. Its Hide and Seek mode is packed with well-designed maps, smooth gameplay, and an active player base. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting out, Mox MC is a must-try.

2. Advancius Network

IP: mc.advancius.net
Advancius Network offers a well-rounded experience with over 20 game modes, including an impressive Hide and Seek option. This server stands out for its support of both Java and Bedrock editions, along with its community-driven features, such as free ranks and no pay-to-win mechanics.

3. Cubeside.de

IP: server.cubeside.de
Cubeside is one of Germany’s oldest and most trusted Minecraft servers. With over a decade of experience, it offers a premium Hide and Seek mode complete with custom plugins and stunning maps. The server is ideal for players seeking a reliable and polished gaming experience.

4. Silver-MC

IP: silver-mc.ddns.net
Silver-MC is a hidden gem in the Minecraft community, offering a classic Hide and Seek mode alongside other fun mini-games like BlockHunt. This Java and Bedrock-compatible server is perfect for players looking for casual, laid-back gameplay with a welcoming community.

5. Mineplex

IP: mineplex.com
As one of the most well-known Minecraft servers, Mineplex delivers an exceptional Hide and Seek experience. With a wide variety of mini-games, Mineplex has a massive player base and regularly updated content. Its attention to detail and active community make it a top choice for Hide and Seek enthusiasts.

For more inspiration and official updates, visit https://www.minecraft.net, the official Minecraft website. These servers provide the best Hide and Seek experiences, so pick one, log in, and let the fun begin!

Whether you’re hiding, seeking, or just enjoying the creativity of Minecraft, these servers guarantee hours of excitement.

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We all love minigames and especially when you can get your own server and have your own for you and your friends to play on.

How Do Minigame Plugins Work on a Minecraft Server

Plugins are extra files you can add to a server to create new and exiting features for you and your friends to use on servers. Some plugins provide anti cheat features, cool additions like guns or just extra commands.

So when you join the well known servers like hypixel or bedrock servers like lifeboat network you’re playing on lots of differently developed minigame plugins.

This means that if you rent your own server you can also use such plugins and have games like chess, murder mystery and other fun plugins that we will go through now.

Best Minecraft Minigame Plugins

So lets get started with the Minigame plugins, these range from 1.8 to 1.19.2 but to run them all, you’re able to using a 1.17 server and using the viaversion or viabackwards plugin to allow older and newer version on.

1. Murder Mystery MInigame Plugin 1.8 – 1.17

This minigame plugins gives you the full murder mystery experience on your server and all for free! This includes roles like Murderer, Detective or just the normal players. Each role gets different perks of weapons and the idea is pretty simple, kill the murderer, try to stay alive or if you are the murderer to find everyone before the time runs out.

You get a great scoreboard on the right that displays all the live information and is super easy to set up like all plugins plugins. Using their intake GUI you can setup your arena in 10 minutes and even use free maps they provide.

The download is on their page, once you verify you can download it from the download page.

2. MineChess Minigame Plugin 1.8 – 1.19

One of my favourite plugins, the Minechess plugin gives you chess but in Minecraft! Not only is this easy to setup on your server. Including outbuilding boards and pieces and boards to join. But it also auto guides you with where to place your pieces and even follows all the chess rules.

It knowns when you’re in check, checkmate and also helps you from placing yourself in check mate. It has a scoring system on the right and a command to check your general score. This works well on multiple worlds using multiverse or even multiple boards on one world.

3. The Bridge Minecraft Minigame Plugin 1.8 – 1.17

If you haven’t heard of the bridge before, let me explain. Each team starts on either side of the bridge and the only place you can place or break blocks is in the void between the islands. To score the team has to get into the enemy base and jump into their portal to score.

Meaning that its a game of defence and offence by balancing trying to score with defending your base with your team mates. As with any plugins plugin this works really well for servers using multiverse or just one world.

Setup is easy and doesn’t take long, all is done in game and you even have a free map you can use which is also downloadable from their discord.

The download is on their page, once you verify you can download it from the download page.

4. Paintball Battle MInigame Plugin 1.8 – 1.19

Another firm favourite of mine is the Paintball Battle minigame plugin and it works on 1.19 servers too which is a bonus!

This is a very well developed game with easy setup, which is all done in game with a great looking GUI and commands. It also has a great score board that you can also display with other plugins like holographic displays showing kill and score counts.

Teams of 2 will battle it out until your out of lives in any map you choose to create, you get perks that give you general bonuses or intake shops that you can use by collecting golden nuggets from other players deaths.

Using the in game shop you can get awesome new shooting methods like triple shot of even a nuke! A great addition to any Minecraft server.

5. Saber Factions Minigame Plugin 1.8 – 1.19

Faction plugins and servers have been around for some time, which has given them time to progress and get better and better. With Saber faction plugin you get the full factions experience with just one plugin!

That’s faction claims, banks, permissions, checks for your teams and much much more. Used with an economy plugin such as vault it give you the bank features so other players in your faction can pay into your bank too.

Promote or demote players, grow your faction and become the top faction on your server! All with saber factions minigame plugin.

6. Iridium Skyblock Minigame Plugin 1.13 – 1.18

This is a plugin I have personally used for some time. The developer Peaches keeps this up to date with fixes and of course version updates (were possible). This is truly the best free Skyblock plugin for a Minecraft server and you will notice it reminds you of other well known Skyblock games you have likely played on bigger servers.

Fro island creation selectors to changing the biomes around for your island. This well developed plugin has all the well known Skyblock features and more.

Features:

• Island shop
• Upgrades
• Missions
• Coop with players
• Protection from other players
• All done on one world
• Biome selectors
• Ore generators

7. Build Battle Minigame Plugin 1.8 – 1.17

This is a well known minigame plugin found on most big servers. With this you can play with friends strangers or even enemies and still have fun!

For those with creative minds this minigame allows you to build and compete against others in getting the best looking build from the suggested word. You usually get around 5 or 10 minutes and once every has finished building you get to vote for each others builds.

The minigame included everything you might expect including floor changing, free map to use, instruction video to setup and even works with citizens to give your players a floor changing NPC.

As even with plugins plugins this works well, is good or multi world servers and also is super easy to setup. Download by joining their discord and go to the download page.

8. Village Defence Plugin 1.8 – 1.17

One of my absolute favourite and one I use every year for the servers at Insomnia Gaming Festival. This allows you to create a zombie survival minigame on any map you want!

With its easy setup and GUI you can have an arena up in minutes and also use multiple arenas. The idea is that you have 10 villagers that you have to keep safe, and of course yourself. Waves of zombies come out in waves and get harder and harder as you go.

The best thing about this plugin is that it gives you in game shops that you can setup for players to use, including golems and wolfs they can buy and spawn in to help them. All prices and items can be set by you to make this a unique minigame for your server.

You also get a free map to use from the plugins discord and its a pretty good one too! And not to forget this can be played multiplayer but also in single player to see what wave you can’t too.

Download form the plugins discord under the download channel.

Conclusion

Whether you’re using one or all of these plugins. your sure to have a minigame server that your friends want to join with this much going on. All these plugins are free and can be downloaded using the link button below the description that will take you to the original download site.

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Lets take a look at the top 10 best plugins for 1.19 Minecraft servers. We also have a video to show all 10 plugins.

Top 10 Plugins For a 1.19 Minecraft Server

Plugins for Minecraft servers allow you to do many different things, from anti cheats, player heads, minigames and more. There is always a plugin to suit your server need. So we have put together a list of the 10 best minecraft plugins that you can use for your 1.19 Minecraft server. For this we used a paper server so we can support either bukkit or spigot plugins.

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10. Essentialsx Plugin

This plugins works well with 1.19 servers and can be download from the essentialsx site for the latest version plus extra add ons.

This plugins gives you hundreds of new commands to make normal commands shorter or just give you many more options to use in your server. Its very intuitive and makes administration, moderation and also functionality of the server much easier.

It provides features such as set home or tp home so players can easily set a home place and teleport back if needed.

You can set warps for your players to use along with tpa commands to let them teleport to each other. Meaning you don’t need extra plugins taking up more space on your server.

You can set and give player kits for the players that are accessible through commands that you can give to them. Full permission list here. Use a permissions plugins such as Luckperms to give your players the relevant permissions for commands.

This comes along with a full economy (requires vault) with pay player commands, sell to server commands and even sign posts you can enable to let your players create their own shops to buy and sell.

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9. Geyser & Floodgate

Using the combination of both Geyser and floodgate you can easily and within 15 minutes have Bedrock players playing on your Java server. It provides some amazing code translating between Java and Bedrock that makes gameplay non lagy and very playable.

At first you used to have to have a java account and sign in but now with the plugin called floodgate this authorisation is done automatically and means you don’t need a java account and can simply log in with Bedrock.

The only thing you really need to do once installed is change some configuration to match your IP and Port for your server and your good to go! Brilliant plugin for any 1.19 server.

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8. Villager Market Plugin

Villager market is a great 1.19 plugin that gives you not only the ability to create server shops. But also player shops that they can use to buy or rent to sell their own items.

Its easy configuration means that not only are server shops easy to set up, but also shops t rent take minutes to setup and price, and are easy for the players to set up too.

One of the best things about this plugin is the easy ability to sell commands, by charging for a command and then executing the command if the player has enough currency. It works great with vault and essentials or any other economy plugin.

You can also use this to give free kits that have time delays or limits to how many a player can buy and its super versatile for any 1.19 server.

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7. Weapon Mechanics Gun Plugin

If your looking for guns on your Minecraft server but don’t want to use mods, install forge and have to go through all that faf then this is the perfect plugin for you.

By simply installing the gun plugin on a 1.19 server it will automatically work with no more installation or configuration needed. Its that easy.

Guns are all available by using the plugin commands, you can find our previous post here which included the commands for the guns. These range from pistols to Ak’s. Grenades to air strikes and all with ammo to use as well.

This works well with shaders installed also and can really turn up the level of excitement on your server. This can also be used with the villager market plugins command sell feature and sell weapons from the villager for a price! It even displays in the menu nicely so players can see what gun they will buy from the shop.

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6. Viaversion & Viabackwards Plugins

Have you always wandered how some servers allow all version on no matter how old or new? This can be easily done by installing either viabackwards or viaversion to allow older or newer Minecraft version on to your server.

This can be great for servers that rely on a plugin that hasn’t updated, servers using geyser and floodgate for the version switch over, and generally just to allow more players on to your server.

This 1.19 plugin will work from the box and there is no configuration or setup required, simply download and upload to your server and your done.

ViaVersion will allow anyone that has a newer version than your server to join, for example if your server is 1.16. A player using 1.19 can still join and play.

Viabackwards allows you to let on players all the way back to 1.8, so even if the players are playing outdated Minecraft versions they can still join easily.

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5. Saber Factions Minigame Plugin

Another great plugin for any 1.19 server. Saber factions gives you the complete factions experience for free! With one simple download you can get started on you world with factions, claims, banks, missions and much more.

Claims are clearly marked and you can even use the commands to find other ones near you, describe your faction and also full member control and permissions. With vault, an economy plugin and a small config change you can use the currency for factions also.

This 1.19 plugin also works with multiverse and having multiple worlds. Simply create one with factions and you can block the commands on the other worlds using a permissions plugin such as luckperms.

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4. Mine Chess Minigame Plugin

If you are a fan of chess or simply ant a fun 2 player game for your 1.19 serer then the MineChess minigame plugin is the one for you. This gives you the full chess experience full with automation and assistance with playing.

With only 4 commands you can set up and auto build a complete chess board to play in seconds once setup. Lobbies are easy to set and you can use this with multiple worlds using multiverse.

The pawns can be selected on your turn and will show you the spaces they can go too. Each turn is timed and you can also check your stats easy with a simple command.

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3. Custom Items Plugin 1.19

This normally free plugin has released a free version allowing you to create 2 free custom items for your Minecraft server.

These can have different abilities attached, come as different items and it has a great amount of in game configurability to it.

All editing can be done in game with their easy to use GUI and can really help customize your server with items that players can use or find else where.

There is a bit to learn with this one so we suggest taking a look at their wiki page to find out more and how to use the plugin on your 1.19 server.

2. Grim Anti Cheat Plugin

If you are looking for a free to use and open source anti cheat then you will be happy to find that grim ticks the boxes.

With a simply installation it will now keep track of all players and even give you a display of anything results found.

It intuitively also shows you the client brand so you can see if the players are using well known exploit version.

You can find many positive reviews on the download page on spigot and so far i have used it and its done a great job detecting cheaters and also not causing much lag on the server.

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1. Grief Prevention Plugin 1.19

One of my favourite and most used plugin for any 1.19 server. As the title suggest its saves you from grief, and this is true and tested by myself. Firstly it provides an easy claim system to make sure your plot is safe. This can be done by placing your first chest or using a golden shovel (configurable to other items) to mark your area.

Any item, crop, mob or frame is now complete defended against tnt, creepers, stealing and grief of any kind. This also stops many exploits with other plugins that allow pushed or cannon tnt to enter.

Not only will tnt explosions above sea level be completely disabled but creepers will not cause any damage to any block ever again.

To put it simply, it stops any grief, stealing (from secured plots) and stops mobs being used as weapons, as well as other well known “exploding” items.

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Final Thoughts

So this is my top 10 list of Minecraft plugins for a 1.19 server. Hopefully with the range of plugins you can use more than one and many have been tested with multiverse and geyser too. Meaning that many work as cross platform or on multiple worlds.

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An awesome 1.19 Minigame plugin for Minecraft servers that is free, easy to setup and works really well with multiple players.

What Is The Mine Chess Minigame Plugin?

The MineChess Minigame is exactly as the name suggests, a chess minigame for your Minecraft server. It gives you a timed chest game for up to two players at a time to play with your friends.

Setup is extremely easy and literally takes minutes and the board even auto builds itself. Meaning within about 3 commands you have a chest board that’s ready to play with others.

It doesn’t even stop there. When you select our piece it will also show you where you can place it and all the rules of chess are followed.

It also comes with a pre configured scoreboard to let you know your scores and times along with a timer for the game. All together a great minigame plugin for 1.19 servers.

How To Download MineChess Minigame Plugin For 1.19

To download this plugin is easy, visit their website here and click on the download button on the top right of the page.

Once downloaded you will have the plugin on your downloads list as a jar type file. You don’t need to open the file, simply keep it to be uploaded to your server now. You don’t need any other plugin for this one to work, its a stand alone plugin.

How To Install Mine Chess Minigame Plugin On Your Server

Step 1. Download the MineChess plugin using the section above.

Step 2. Stop your server (this is a spigot plugin so you can use either a spigot server or we recommend a paper server)

Step 3. Login to your FTP file access or FileZilla.

Step 4. Upload the plugin to the plugin folder

Step 5. Start your server.

How To Set Up Your Minigame Chess Board & Lobby

Setting Up Your Lobby

To setup the lobby stand where the lobby is going to be and type:

/chess setmainlobby

Next we create the chessboard name:

Creating The Chessboard

/chess create nameofchessboard

Now its time to build the board, make sure there is plenty of open space around you and type:

/chess build nameofchessboard

Then stand were you want the players to spawn by the board ad type:

/chess set spawn nameofchessboard

To enable it we then have to type:

Getting Started

/chess enable nameofchessboard

Finally go to your lobby area and put down a sign and type the lines below on the sign:
(Don’t type in Line 1 or Line 2 this indicates what line to put it on the sign post)

Line 1 – [Chess]
Line2 – nameofchessboard

Exit out of the sign and if done correctly this will now switch into the gaming lobby board

To start a game simply click the sign and wait for another player to join you.

Final Thoughts Of Mine Chess Minigame Plugin 1.19

Once setup the playing is very self explanatory. The plugin indicated when a player has his or hers turn and even shows you where you can place each piece. This is a super fun plugin, easy to install and a great addition for any 1.19 server looking to add a minigame plugin.

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