QuietPause

While a pause is active, players cannot move, place or break blocks, open inventories, interact with containers, drop or swap items, or launch projectiles. Damage and hunger are prevented, mobs stop moving and lose their AI, and the mod holds still arrows, falling blocks and vehicles in place. Explosions, fire and block spread are also stopped. The server stays online during the pause, so commands, plugins and other integrations keep working.

Either of the two commands toggles the pause for the whole server. A pause can be started in public mode, where any player may pause the game, or in admin mode, where only server administrators can pause and resume. A player who started a pause in public mode is the only one who can end it. Changing the access mode requires operator access, and on Paper the permission is granted through the server's permission system. When a pause ends, a safe five-second countdown runs before gameplay continues.

The mod suits small private servers, cooperative worlds, manhunt and minigame sessions, and groups of friends, where a short break should not mean shutting the server down. It is open source under the Apache License 2.0, and the source code and issue tracker are public. Developers can use the QuietPause APIs on Paper and Fabric, and the integration instructions and code examples are in the project's GitHub repository.