⏸️ QuietPause

Give your multiplayer server a real pause button.

Someone needs to answer the door, change their settings, grab some food, or take a quick break?

QuietPause lets you pause the entire game without shutting down the server or allowing other players to continue progressing.

It is designed for private SMPs, co-op worlds, manhunts, minigames, and friend groups.

✨ What gets paused?

While the game is paused:

Player restrictions

• Players cannot move, place, or break blocks
• Inventories cannot be opened or interacted with
• Items cannot be dropped or swapped
• Damage and hunger are prevented
• Projectile launching is blocked

World freeze

• Mobs stop moving and lose their AI
• Projectiles, TNT, falling blocks, and vehicles are frozen in place
• Explosions and fire or block spread are prevented
• Redstone signals are frozen
• Crop, tree, and structure growth is stopped
• Fluid flow is halted
• Furnaces, brewing stands, and dispensers are paused
• Leaf decay is stopped
• Ice and snow formation, as well as ice melting, are prevented
• Entity transformations are prevented, including zombie villager curing
• Natural and patrol mob spawning is blocked
• Villager trade restocking is prevented
• Weather, thunder, and lightning are frozen
• World time stops

Safe resume

• Underwater players are protected during the pause
• Gameplay resumes with a safe 5-second countdown
• Everything continues from where it stopped once the pause ends

⚙️ How does it work?

QuietPause creates a server-wide pause by freezing gameplay entities and blocking actions that could progress the game.

🎮 Commands

Pause or resume the game

/f

or:

/p

Both commands toggle the server-wide pause.

When the game is resumed, QuietPause starts a safe 5-second countdown before gameplay continues.

Allow everyone to pause

/quiet f public

In public mode, every player can pause the game. Only the player who started the pause or an administrator can resume it.

Restrict pausing to administrators

/quiet f admin

In admin mode, only server administrators can pause or resume the game.

Changing the access mode requires operator access. On Paper, this permission can also be granted using:

quiet.pause.admin

📦 Supported platforms

• Paper
• Fabric
• Purpur and compatible Paper forks
• Dedicated multiplayer servers

No client-side installation is required when joining a dedicated server.

🌍 Languages and configuration

QuietPause includes:

• English messages
• Turkish messages
• Configurable server messages
• Public and administrator-only access modes

🧩 Developer API

QuietPause provides developer APIs for Paper and Fabric.

The API allows other plugins and mods to:

• Listen for pause and resume events
• Check the current pause state
• Pause or resume the game programmatically
• Cancel pause and resume events on Paper

For integration instructions and up-to-date code examples, see the QuietPause GitHub repository.

💡 Useful for

• Quick AFK breaks
• Temporary disconnects
• Pausing before an important fight
• Discussing plans during manhunts or minigames
• Preventing players from progressing while someone is away
• Taking a break without restarting the server

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Someone said “BRB”? Pause the game, not the server.