LuckPerms: Modern Permissions Done Right

Why LuckPerms

PermissionsEx and GroupManager are unmaintained. LuckPerms is the standard: relational-DB backend, a real web GUI, fast lookups, and an actual maintainer.

Install

1. 1Drop LuckPerms-Bukkit.jar into /plugins/
2. 2Restart
3. 3Run lp in console, confirms install

Bootstrap A Hierarchy

lp creategroup default
lp creategroup vip
lp creategroup mod
lp creategroup admin

lp group admin permission set * true
lp group mod permission set worldedit.use true
lp group mod permission set essentials.ban true
lp group vip permission set essentials.fly true

lp user YourName parent set admin

Inheritance

lp group admin parent add mod
lp group mod parent add vip
lp group vip parent add default

Anyone in admin gets every permission mod, vip, and default have, no duplication.

Prefixes With Weight

A player can be both VIP and Mod. Without weight, chat shows a random prefix. Set weight to break ties, highest wins:

lp group admin meta addprefix 100 "&c[Admin] "
lp group mod   meta addprefix 90  "&9[Mod] "
lp group vip   meta addprefix 50  "&a[VIP] "

Requires Vault + EssentialsXChat to actually appear in chat.

Migrate From PEx

Don't uninstall PEx. With both installed:

lp migration permissionsex

LuckPerms ingests the PEx flat files. Then remove PEx.

Web Editor

lp editor

Returns a one-time URL. Edit the whole permissions tree in a browser; save sends it back.

Need More Help?

Stuck on a specific node? Run lp verbose record YourName for 30 seconds, do the action, paste the report URL in Discord.