Overview
Most free spawn protection plugins cover the obvious — breaking and placing blocks — and miss the ten evasion tricks a player finds on day one: a piston placed right at the edge, a lava bucket thrown from outside, a dispenser aimed inward.
SpawnProtection was built to close exactly that. It's lightweight — zero dependencies, settings cached in memory, no unnecessary background tasks — but nowhere near simple in what it protects.

Install it, configure it in five minutes, and forget about it.

Key Features
Complete protection, not just surface-level

• Block break and block place prevention
• PvP blocked both ways: attacks from outside into the area, and from inside out
• Explosions (TNT, creepers, charges) can't destroy anything inside the radius, even if the explosion starts outside
• Fire: ignition from flint & steel/fire-based projectiles and natural spread, both covered
• Fluids: placing, collecting and flowing water/lava inside the area, blocked on all three fronts
• Pistons: can't push or pull blocks into, out of, or within the protected area — including sticky retractions from outside
• Dispensers: can't "remote-fire" buckets, TNT, flint & steel or entities into the area from outside
• Protected entities: armor stands, item frames, paintings, vehicles (boats/minecarts), villagers, animals, water mobs, golems and display entities

⚙ Real configuration, not just for show

• Radius mode (cylindrical or spherical, your choice) or full-world mode
• Customizable protection center, not tied to the world's spawn point
• Every protection toggles independently — use only what you need
• Separate bypass permission for admins, independent from the rest

Genuinely multilingual
Built-in messages in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, with a fallback system: if a translation is missing, it automatically falls back to English instead of showing broken messages.

Commands built for everyday use

• /spawnprotection help — list of commands
• /spawnprotection info — current configuration status, at a glance
• /spawnprotection reload — reload without restarting the server
• /spawnprotection setcenter / resetcenter — set the protection center to your current position, or restore it to the world's spawn
• /spawnprotection preview — draws the protection radius with particles, right in the world

Available alias: /spl

Painless config migration
Every update migrates your config.yml automatically, creating a dated, versioned backup before touching anything. You update, and it keeps working — no need to redo your configuration by hand.

Permissions

Permission	Effect	Default
spawnprotection.admin	Access to all plugin permissions	OP
spawnprotection.bypass	Bypasses all active protections	OP
spawnprotection.reload	Allows reloading the plugin	OP
spawnprotection.info	Allows viewing the configuration status	OP
spawnprotection.setcenter	Allows setting and resetting the protection center	OP
spawnprotection.preview	Allows previewing the radius with particles	OP

All permissions are independent — you can grant info without granting reload, for example.