Protections

Region protections

eGens consults a region-protection plugin before generators are placed and before generators are broken — even by the generator's owner, when the configured provider says the player isn't allowed to interact with that block. Claim membership trumps generator ownership.

Four adapters ship:

Provider	Plugin
WORLDGUARD	WorldGuard
GRIEFPREVENTION	GriefPrevention
LANDS	Lands
TOWNY	Towny

Configuration

config.yml:

integrations:
  protection: AUTO          # AUTO | NONE | WORLDGUARD | GRIEFPREVENTION | LANDS | TOWNY

• AUTO probes the supported plugins in order (WorldGuard → GriefPrevention → Lands → Towny) and picks the first one that's enabled. Falls back to NONE if none are loaded.
• NONE disables the integration entirely — generators can be placed in any claim regardless of build permissions.
• The named providers pin eGens to that specific plugin even when the others are also installed.

Per-provider rules

WorldGuard

eGens checks the BUILD flag at the placement location and at the location of every existing generator before allowing a break. Players without BUILD (or whose region denies it) can't place / break eGens generators there.

GriefPrevention

eGens calls GriefPrevention's allowBuild() / allowBreak() for each operation. Players who don't have build/break access in the claim are denied.

Lands

eGens checks the BLOCK_PLACE / BLOCK_BREAK flags at the target location. Land members and trustees with those flags can build; non-members can't.

Towny

eGens calls Towny's BUILD / DESTROY action permission. Plot owners, residents with the right permission node, and town officials with build perms can place / break.

Override permission

egens.world.bypass skips the protection check entirely (it also skips the world whitelist/blacklist). Use sparingly — typically only for staff accounts that need to clean up rogue generators.

Skyblock integrations

There is no built-in adapter for BentoBox / IridiumSkyblock / ASkyBlock / SuperiorSkyblock. The user-facing decision was to keep the protection adapter surface focused on the big four named above. Skyblock owners typically either:

• Use one of the big-four adapters (e.g. Lands often runs alongside BentoBox).
• Disable eGens protections (integrations.protection: NONE) and rely on the skyblock plugin's island-only build permission to enforce placement.

Hot-reload

/egens reload re-reads integrations.protection and switches adapters without a restart. Existing generators continue to tick; only the next placement / break check uses the new adapter.

Troubleshooting

• "This area is protected" when there shouldn't be one — verify which adapter was picked. The startup banner logs the effective protection provider. Switch to NONE temporarily to confirm whether the protection plugin or eGens is denying the action.
• Claim member with build perms still can't break — confirm whether the protection plugin distinguishes "build" from "break" / "destroy". GriefPrevention does; WorldGuard's BUILD flag covers both. eGens calls the right method per adapter, but some bespoke setups disable one and not the other.

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