Common Setups

Ready-made permission structures. Adjust group names and nodes to match your plugins.

Basic survival server

/pex group default create
/pex group default weight 0
/pex group default add modifyworld
/pex set default group default true

/pex group member create default
/pex group member weight 10
/pex group member add essentials.sethome
/pex group member add essentials.spawn
/pex group member add essentials.tpa

New players land in default. Promote manually: /pex user <name> group set member

VIP rank

/pex group vip create default
/pex group vip weight 20
/pex group vip prefix &6[VIP]
/pex group vip add essentials.fly
/pex group vip add essentials.hat
/pex group vip add essentials.feed
/pex group vip add essentials.sethome.multiple

/pex user Steve group add vip

Temporary VIP:

/pex user Steve group add vip 30d

Staff hierarchy

Uses inheritance and rank ladders.

/pex group helper create default
/pex group helper weight 40
/pex group helper prefix &a[Helper]
/pex group helper rank 1 staff
/pex group helper add essentials.tp
/pex group helper add essentials.tp.others

/pex group moderator create helper
/pex group moderator weight 60
/pex group moderator prefix &9[Mod]
/pex group moderator rank 2 staff
/pex group moderator add essentials.kick
/pex group moderator add essentials.mute
/pex group moderator add essentials.ban

/pex group admin create moderator
/pex group admin weight 100
/pex group admin prefix &c[Admin]
/pex group admin rank 3 staff
/pex group admin add permissions.*
/pex group admin add '*'

/pex promote NewStaff staff

Creative + survival worlds

Uses world context.

/pex world world_creative inherit world

/pex group creative create default
/pex group creative add worldedit.*
/pex group creative add gamemode.creative world_creative

/pex set default group default true world
/pex set default group creative true world_creative

Network proxy (Bungee + backend)

Install PermissionsExPlus-1.23.5.jar on every backend and the proxy
Use the same permissions.yml (SQL backend recommended for shared data)
Set up groups on one server, /pex import or share the database

# config.yml — SQL backend for shared data
permissions:
  backend: sql
  backends:
    sql:
      type: sql
      url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/permissions
      user: pex
      password: secret

EssentialsX permission map

Group	Typical nodes
default	`modifyworld`, `essentials.help`, `essentials.list`
member	`essentials.sethome`, `essentials.spawn`, `essentials.tpa`
vip	`essentials.fly`, `essentials.hat`, `essentials.feed`
mod	`essentials.kick`, `essentials.mute`, `essentials.tp`
admin	`permissions.`, ``

Plugin node names vary by EssentialsX version — check your plugin’s wiki for exact nodes.

After any setup

/pex hierarchy
/pex user <yourname> check essentials.fly
/pex reload

See Troubleshooting if something does not work.