Random teleport (RTP) on a Minecraft server: plugins and setup

In short: if the server already runs EssentialsX, you don't need another plugin — it has /tpr and /settpr. For /rtp with menus, limits and biome filters, take EzRTP or WildRTP; for a network with shared homes, HuskHomes. Either way, keep the radius inside the world border, set a cooldown and pre-generate the RTP area with Chunky: otherwise every teleport makes the server generate new chunks, and TPS drops.

Comparison: EssentialsX, EzRTP, HuskHomes, WildRTP#

Each one in brief#

EssentialsX: /tpr

In EssentialsX the random teleport is /tpr (aliases /etpr, /tprandom), with the permissions essentials.tpr and essentials.settpr. The area is set in game: /settpr <world> center puts the center where you stand, /settpr <world> minrange <radius> and /settpr <world> maxrange <radius> set the ring the point is picked from. Until a maximum is set, EssentialsX takes it from the world border. Blocked biomes are listed under excluded-biomes in plugins/Essentials/tpr.yml — oceans and rivers by default. Cooldown and delay come from the shared teleport-cooldown and teleport-delay in config.yml: if the player moves or gets hit during the delay, the teleport is cancelled.

EzRTP

A standalone MIT plugin configured by file: rtp.yml holds radius.min and radius.max, heights, the search pattern (random, circle, square and others), unsafe blocks and the biomes.include and biomes.exclude filters; limits.yml holds the cooldown and daily and weekly limits. It has a world selection menu, pre-cached locations, a queue, a teleport price through Vault and a /rtp pregenerate command that pre-generates the world through Chunky. Builds 3.0.0 and later for 26.1 need Java 25.

HuskHomes

A homes and teleports plugin for a single server or a network: /rtp is one command next to /home, /warp and /tpa. The area is the rtp.region section (min: 500, max: 5000) around the /spawn point, the cooldown is RANDOM_TELEPORT: 600 under cooldowns. By default RTP is disabled in the Nether and the End (restricted_worlds): the docs say plainly that /rtp doesn't work well in the Nether. On a network, an admin can send a player to a random spot on another server: /rtp <player> <world> <server>.

WildRTP

A plugin with /wild and an /rtp alias: a circular or square area (shape), centered on 0, 0 or on the player, a cooldown and a movetimer — a few seconds standing still before the teleport. Blocked biomes go in the biomes list, unsafe blocks in blocks (LAVA, WATER, AIR by default), per-world settings in the custom section. It can teleport players on first join and after death (auto-rtp) and respect WorldGuard, GriefPrevention, Lands and other claims. For the Nether there's the BOTTOM_UP search strategy.

The settings that matter#

• A minimum radius keeps players from landing near spawn, where everything is already cut down and built over.
• A maximum radius belongs inside the world border: a point past the border is useless. EssentialsX without a maxrange and EzRTP without radius.max use the border as the maximum anyway.
• A cooldown stops both command spam and hunting for a «good» spot with dozens of teleports in a row — each of them loads new chunks.
• A delay that cancels on movement (teleport-delay in EssentialsX, movetimer in WildRTP, the countdown in EzRTP) stops players escaping a fight by teleport.
• Blacklist the oceans: spawning in the middle of an ocean without a boat is the worst possible start.

Pre-generate the world so RTP doesn't lag#

A random point almost always lands where nobody has been. If the chunk doesn't exist yet, the server builds it during the teleport — terrain, caves, structures, lighting: the player waits longer, and a wave of teleports after a restart gives the server the same generation work as an elytra flight into unexplored land. The WildRTP author notes that Paper loads and generates chunks asynchronously, and that a world pre-generated with Chunky makes teleports faster. EzRTP built in a /rtp pregenerate command for exactly this.

1. 1

   Set a world border

   The command takes a diameter: RTP up to 5000 blocks from the center needs at least /worldborder set 10000. Details in world border.

2. 2

   Match the RTP radius to the border

   The maximum teleport radius should be no more than half the border's diameter.

3. 3

   Estimate the size

   The chunk calculator shows how many chunks and region files a world that size has.

4. 4

   Pre-generate the area

   With Chunky: chunky worldborder takes the center and radius from the border, chunky start begins generation. The order of steps, hardware and disk space tips are in pre-generating the world.

5. 5

   Don't forget the Nether and the End

   If RTP is allowed in other dimensions, each has its own border and needs its own pre-generation.

RTP and the anticheat#

RTP drops a player far from spawn, and from there speed decides everything. Movement cheats — ElytraFly, BoatFly, Fly, Speed and Timer — cross the world faster than honest players: the server generates chunks faster than it's built for, and other people's bases get found in minutes. DGuard — the best anticheat for a modern Minecraft server — checks all 47 cheat types of the comparison, gathers evidence and doesn't rush to a verdict, so an honest player's lag after a teleport doesn't turn into a ban.

The checks run in network threads — 0.03 % of one core on the main thread — so the anticheat adds no load where world generation already creates it. DGuard runs on Paper and Leaf 1.21–26.3; the main version is 1.21.11, and the other versions are supported but not yet proven on live servers.

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