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How to Set Up TAB (Playerlist/Scoreboard) and PlaceholderAPI on Your Minecraft Server

1. Download the TAB and PlaceholderAPI .jar Files

Go to the official Modrinth or Spigot page for TAB and PlaceholderAPI. Select your specific Minecraft version, and click download to save both files to your computer.

modrinth TAB download button
modrinth PlaceholderAPI download Button

2. Log In to Your Panel

3. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

Cybrancee panel Minecraft files page, with files tab outlined

4. Select the ‘Plugins’ Folder

Navigating to the plugins folder in the server file manager.

5. Upload the .jar Files Inside the Plugins Folder

Uploading the TAB and PlaceholderAPI .jar files into the Cybrancee plugins folder

6. Restart Your Server

8. Select the ‘Console’ Tab

Console tab highlighted in the left sidebar menu

9. Download Placeholder Expansions

Run these two commands one by one:

papi ecloud download Player

papi ecloud download Server

Running the command to download the Player expansion for PlaceholderAPI in the server console
unning the command to download the Server expansion for PlaceholderAPI in the server console

10. Reload PlaceholderAPI

Type papi reload in the console and press Enter to activate the packs.

Executing the papi reload command in the console to activate the downloaded expansions

11. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

Cybrancee panel Minecraft files page, with files tab outlined

12. Select the ‘TAB’ Folder Inside the Plugins Folder

Locating and opening the newly generated TAB folder inside the plugins directory

13. Select the ‘config.yml’ File

Selecting the config.yml file inside the TAB folder to edit the plugin settings

14. Configure Your Tablist and Scoreboard

We highly recommend watching a Tutorial Video to fully understand how to customize all of these configurations. However, if you just want the basic setup to get started right away, here is exactly what you need to find and edit in the config.yml file:

To get your Server Name: Find the header-footer section at the very top of the file, look under the header category, and edit the default text to your actual Server Name.

To get your Store Address: Find the same header-footer section, look under the footer category, and edit the placeholder text to display your website or store link.

To get your Sidebar Scoreboard: Scroll down until you find the scoreboard section and change the line that says enabled: false to enabled: true.

To get live stats and your Server IP: Look inside the lines category under the scoreboard section. You can type %server_online% to show the total player count, type %player_ping% to show connection speed, and type your actual Server Address at the very bottom so players always know the IP to join.

Editing the header and footer sections in the TAB configuration file to customize the server name and store link
Changing the scoreboard setting from false to true in the configuration file to activate the sidebar

15. Restart Your Server

16. Press your Tab key in-game to see your player list

The final in-game view of the customized Tablist and Scoreboard showing live player ping and server stats

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