ClearLag++:

The ClearLag++ plugin for Minecraft servers is a powerful tool for increasing server performance and comprehensively combating lag. It offers a variety of intelligent features to ensure smooth and stable operation.

Intelligent Entity Management

Automatic Cleanup:

Automatically removes dropped items and entities after a configurable time, with a visible countdown.

• Comprehensive Protection: Excludes named mobs, farmed mobs, and mobs with a scoreboard tag from being cleaned up.
• After-Death & Recent-Activity Protection: Protects death drops and items dropped near players for a configurable duration.
• Smart Stacking: Merges items beyond the normal 64 limit and groups non-stackable items (like potions) to keep entity counts low.
• Clean-up Effects: Adds configurable particles and sounds when entities are cleared to make the process feel seamless.

Targeted Removal:

Administrators can selectively remove hostile, passive, or all mobs using /clearlag killmobs or /clearlag nuke.

Advanced Performance Optimizations

Redstone & Physics Optimization:

Limits the update rate of redstone components and prevents lag from mass falling-block events (sand/gravel) or piston-heavy contraptions.

Entity & Tile Entity Limiter:

Sets strict limits for Item Frames, Armor Stands, Vehicles, Projectiles, and Tile Entities (Hoppers, Chests, Spawners) per chunk and globally.

Mob Spawn & Breeding Limiter:

Controls the natural spawn rate and prevents breeding lag by limiting the number of animals per chunk.

AI Optimization (Distance-Based Despawn):

Removes mobs that are further from every player than a configurable distance, eliminating the AI and pathfinding cost they cause. Note: this despawns the mob itself, it does not merely switch its AI off. Named, bred, tagged, tamed and leashed mobs are excluded by default, and any mob the game itself never despawns is always kept.

Environmental & Connection Control:

Throttles fire spread, liquid flow, and portal usage. Includes a Packet Rate Limiter (ProtocolLib) to stop network-based lag.

Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Dynamic Control

Performance Metrics & Monitoring:

Provides real-time statistics on TPS, MSPT, CPU utilization, and RAM usage. Includes a BossBar Performance Meter for live monitoring.

Dynamic View Distance:

Automatically scales server-wide view distance and simulation distance based on real-time TPS and player activity.

Performance Alerts & Snapshots:

Notifies administrators and automatically saves Lag Snapshots (detailed reports) when performance spikes or falls below thresholds.

Diagnostic Tools:

The Chunk Scanner identifies chunks with high entity counts, while the Lag Profiler highlights performance bottlenecks. With debug mode enabled, every single entity the plugin removes is written to the console together with the feature responsible — so if something disappears and no removal line appears for it, you know immediately that ClearLag was not the cause.

Multi-World & Time Support:

Features Per-World Profiles and Time-Based Rules allowing for unique settings during day, night, or event modes.

Per-Region Rules (WorldGuard):

Mark individual regions as clear-immune so entities inside them survive every clear, and override the hostile and passive mob limits per region — ideal for marketplaces, arenas and event areas.

Comprehensive Integration:

Full native support for LuckPerms, Discord webhooks, PlaceholderAPI, WorldGuard and ProtocolLib, plus third-party plugins like MythicMobs, EliteMobs, Nexo, Oraxen, ItemsAdder, LevelledMobs, Citizens, the major hologram and NPC plugins, and every common mob stacker.

LuckPerms

All permissions/commands can be managed via LuckPerms