No Enderman Grief

Every mob can be spawn-proofed and optimized around — except endermen.

They teleport straight through spawn-proofing into hidden pockets (deep underground, inside player bases), and the moment one picks up a block, it sticks around far longer than it should, quietly eating into the mob cap and tanking spawn rates on any mob farm nearby. Run a base with several farms, and endermen are the one mob nobody can design around — no matter how well everything else is optimized. (And yes, they also just grief builds overnight.)

No Enderman Grief fixes that at the source: endermen simply can't pick up or place blocks anymore, full stop. Unlike turning off the mobGriefing gamerule, this doesn't touch anything else — creepers still explode, villagers still farm, silverfish still infest. Only endermen are affected.

Which download do you need?

This project covers both platforms — pick the version tagged for yours below:

• Running a Paper server? Grab a Paper-* version.
• Playing singleplayer, or running a Fabric server? Grab a Fabric-* version.

Both do exactly the same thing — same behavior, same config philosophy — just built for different platforms, since a Bukkit/Paper plugin can't run in vanilla singleplayer (no plugin API exists there) and a Fabric mod can't run as a server plugin.

Paper plugin

Features

• Endermen simply can't pick up or place blocks anymore. That's it.
• No more block-holding endermen surviving indefinitely in hidden pockets, dragging down your mob farm spawn rates.
• Everything else about mob griefing stays vanilla.
• Turn it on or off per world, if you want endermen to behave differently in the Nether or your Overworld.
• Optional logging, if you want a record of what got blocked and when.
• One admin command to reload settings without restarting your server.

Requirements

• Paper server (Spigot/Bukkit/Purpur are not supported — this plugin needs Paper specifically)
• Minecraft 1.21.x
• Java 21

Installation

1. Download a Paper-* version below.
2. Drop it into your server's plugins/ folder.
3. Restart your server.
4. Done — endermen are already blocked from griefing. No further setup needed.

Configuring it (optional)

Everything works out of the box with sensible defaults. If you want to fine-tune it — turning it off in specific worlds, or turning on logging — a config.yml is created automatically in plugins/NoEndermanGrief/ the first time the plugin runs. Full details on every option are in the GitHub README.

Fabric mod

Features

• Endermen simply can't pick up or place blocks anymore. That's it.
• No more block-holding endermen surviving indefinitely in hidden pockets, dragging down your mob farm spawn rates.
• Everything else about mob griefing stays vanilla.
• Optional logging in chat and the log file, if you want to know what got blocked and when.
• No other mods required — this works entirely on its own.

Requirements

• Fabric Loader (0.19.3 or newer)
• Minecraft 1.21
• Java 21
• No Fabric API needed — this mod doesn't depend on it

Installation

1. Download a Fabric-* version below.
2. Drop it into your .minecraft/mods/ folder (or your Fabric server's mods/ folder).
3. Launch the game.
4. Done — endermen are already blocked from griefing. No further setup needed.

Configuring it (optional)

Everything works out of the box with sensible defaults. If you want to turn on logging, a config file is created automatically at config/no-enderman-grief.json the first time the mod runs. Full details are in the GitHub README.

Source & issues

Source code, build instructions, and issue tracker: https://github.com/Jack-Underhill/No-Enderman-Grief