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# Plugin Installation Tutorial

Tutorial covering the installation of Irminsul plugins

Installing Irminsul plugins is easy, but the process is different for installing game server plugins and installing HTTP server plugins.

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Plugins can be malicious! **Never run plugins from sources you do not trust.** 
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## Game 

Place your plugin .jar into the `plugins` folder within your server's run directory. This folder is created automatically when you first launch Irminsul.

As Irminsul supports multiple game servers, simply dragging a plugin into the `plugins` folder isn't enough, as some people may want different plugins on different servers. You must go to your server's `config.hjson` and add the plugin name to the `plugins` array within the settings of the server you wish to add it to. The `.jar` is not needed.

```json
# List of enabled plugins on this server
"plugins": [
    "DiscordPlugin-1.0.0"
]
```

Attempting to use a plugin that server can't find will raise a warning, yet the server will continue without it. Likewise, having a plugin in your `plugins` folder that is not used by any servers will raise a warning.