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Citizens

NPC plugin for Bukkit, Spigot and Paper Minecraft servers

Game Servers ★ 730 stars Medium setup ISC

Citizens is a Minecraft server plugin for creating and managing non-player characters with custom behaviors, pathfinding, and scriptable interactions. It powers quests, shops, and decorative NPCs on multiplayer servers.

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Key features

  • Custom NPC creation
  • Pathfinding and behaviors
  • Quest and shop NPCs
  • Developer API

Strengths

  • Released under the ISC license
  • Written in Java
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is Citizens secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Citizens's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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