RestartShield

# 🛡️ RestartShield **RestartShield** is a colorful, polished restart and maintenance management plugin for **Paper 1.21.x** servers. It helps server owners schedule safe restarts, enable maintenance mode, warn players with clean countdown UX, and manage the whole process with commands, GUI controls, and rich notifications. --- ## ✨ Features - 🔄 **Smart restart scheduling** - Schedule restarts in seconds, minutes, or hours - Cancel active restart plans anytime - Prevent duplicate restart schedules unless explicitly overridden - ⏳ **Beautiful countdown system** - Timed broadcasts for upcoming restarts - Supports **chat**, **action bar**, **titles**, and **boss bars** - Configurable countdown milestones - Final 10-second countdown support - 🛠️ **Maintenance mode** - Instantly enable or disable maintenance - Block joins for normal players - Staff/admin bypass support - Optional whitelist support during maintenance - Custom maintenance kick messages - Custom maintenance MOTD support - 🎛️ **Colorful chest GUI** - Restart controls - Maintenance controls - Status overview - Quick actions - Clean and visually rich admin experience - 🧠 **Smart logic** - Optional empty-server restart mode - Optional restart cooldown protection - Safe restart flow with pre-restart actions - Optional drain mode to stop new joins and let the server empty naturally - 💬 **Modern messaging** - Built around **MiniMessage** - Fully customizable colorful messages - Clear admin feedback and player alerts - 🔔 **Notifications** - Discord webhook support - Operator join reminders - Console notifications - Configurable event alerts - ⚙️ **Production-focused** - Designed for real server use - Clean configuration files - Permission-based access - Safe defaults - Paper 1.21.x + Java 21 ready --- ## 📦 Command Highlights - `/restartshield restart <time|now>` - `/restartshield cancel` - `/restartshield status` - `/restartshield maintenance on` - `/restartshield maintenance off` - `/restartshield maintenance toggle` - `/restartshield drain on` - `/restartshield drain off` - `/restartshield reload` --- ## 🔐 Permissions - `restartshield.admin` - `restartshield.restart` - `restartshield.cancel` - `restartshield.maintenance` - `restartshield.maintenance.bypass` - `restartshield.maintenance.whitelist` - `restartshield.drain` - `restartshield.notify` - `restartshield.reload` - `restartshield.gui` --- ## 🎨 Why RestartShield? A lot of restart plugins handle the basics. **RestartShield** focuses on making the full restart and maintenance workflow feel safer, cleaner, more colorful, and more professional for real Paper servers. It is especially useful if you want: - Better player-facing restart warnings - Cleaner maintenance control - More polished admin UX - Discord/webhook notifications - A plugin that looks and feels modern --- ## ✅ Compatibility - **Server software:** Paper - **Minecraft versions:** 1.21.x - **Java:** 21 --- ## 🚀 Notes - Safe behavior is prioritized by default - External actions like custom hooks or forced restart commands should be enabled and configured carefully - Always test scheduled restart behavior once before production rollout --- ## 💬 Feedback If you test RestartShield on your server, feedback is always welcome. Suggestions for better restart flows, countdown UX, maintenance controls, and integration ideas are appreciated.