Sitting & Poses

What Is Sitting & Poses?

The poses module lets players relax in the world — sit down on the ground or on furniture-like blocks, with more poses on the way. It is the built-in answer to "do I need a separate sit plugin?" — you don't.

Like every part of uxmEssentials, it is a module you can turn off entirely (modules/poses/config.conf → enabled = false) if your server doesn't want it.

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Sitting

There are two ways to sit:

How	What happens
/sit	Sit down right where you're standing. If you're looking at a nearby seat block, you sit on that instead.
Right-click a seat block	Right-click the top of a stair, slab, or carpet (or any block on your custom list) to sit there.

You stand back up by sneaking, taking damage, teleporting, or logging out.

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Sitting on Other Players

Players can pile up: right-click another player to sit on their shoulders, and they can right-click someone too — the stack goes as high as you like.

This is off by default because it's a novelty, not every server wants it. Turn it on with features.player-sit = true in the config.

Anyone can opt out of being sat on with /poses toggle — one command flips between allowing and refusing riders. Their choice is remembered across logouts. Prefer a menu? /poses opens a small settings panel showing your current pose and the same allow/refuse switch.

Command	What it does
Right-click a player	Sit on them (if the feature is on and they allow it)
/poses toggle	Allow / refuse other players sitting on you

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Lay, Belly-flop & Spin

Sitting isn't the only way to relax:

Command	What it does
/lay	Lie down on the ground
/bellyflop	Flop face-down on the ground
/spin	Sit and slowly spin in place

You leave any pose the same way you leave a seat — sneak, take damage, teleport, or log out.

Each pose can be turned off individually in the config (features.lay, features.bellyflop, features.spin).

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Crawling

/crawl drops you into a crawl so you can move through 1-block-high gaps — under slabs, into 1×1 tunnels, wherever a standing player wouldn't fit. Run /crawl again to stand back up. It also ends when you teleport, die, or log out.

Unlike the other poses, you can keep walking while you crawl.

Turn it off with features.crawl = false.

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Which blocks can I sit on?

Out of the box, players can right-click stairs, slabs, and carpets. You decide the full list in the config with sittable-materials, and you can turn right-click seating off entirely while keeping /sit.

The plugin works out the right sitting height and facing from the block — a player on a stair faces the way the stair faces, and sits at the correct height on slabs and carpets.

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Claims & Regions

Poses respect your land-protection setup, so players can't sit or crawl where they aren't welcome:

• Land claims — if you run a claim plugin (GriefPrevention, PlotSquared, uxmClaims and others), a player can only pose where they're trusted to act. Toggle with respect-claims.
• WorldGuard flags — when WorldGuard is installed, uxmEssentials registers four custom region flags — sit, playersit, pose, crawl — each defaulting to allow. Set a flag to deny in a region to block that pose there. Toggle the whole check with respect-worldguard.

If you don't run any region plugin, everything is simply allowed — no setup needed.

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Configuration

Everything lives in plugins/uxmEssentials/modules/poses/config.conf (HOCON):

poses {
  enabled = true

  features {
    sit = true
    player-sit = false   # right-click a player to sit on them (off by default)
    lay = true
    bellyflop = true
    spin = true
    crawl = true
  }

  # Play a soft snore sound while a player is laying down (no resource pack)
  snore = true

  # Right-click a block to sit on it
  sit-on-blocks = true
  sittable-materials = [
    "*_STAIRS"
    "*_SLAB"
    "*_CARPET"
  ]

  # How far away a seat block may be when you right-click it
  max-distance = 2.0

  # Stand back up on the exact spot you started from
  return-to-start = true

  # Respect land claims and WorldGuard region flags
  respect-claims = true
  respect-worldguard = true
}

After editing, apply it with /uxmess reload poses.

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Permissions

Node	What it grants	Default
uxmessentials.sit.use	Use /sit and right-click seats	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.playersit.use	Sit on another player	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.lay.use	Use /lay	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.bellyflop.use	Use /bellyflop	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.spin.use	Use /spin	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.crawl.use	Use /crawl	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.poses.toggle	Use /poses toggle to allow/refuse riders	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.poses.gui	Open the /poses settings panel	✅ everyone
uxmessentials.poses.cooldown.<seconds>	Wait <seconds> between starting poses (anti-spam; grant the number of seconds)	Not set
uxmessentials.poses.cooldown.bypass	Skip the pose cooldown	Operators
uxmessentials.module.poses	Reload/inspect the poses module	Operators

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Placeholders

With PlaceholderAPI installed:

Placeholder	Returns
%uxmessentials_poses_sitting%	yes while the player is sitting, no otherwise
%uxmessentials_poses_posing%	yes while the player is laying, belly-flopping, or spinning
%uxmessentials_poses_pose%	the current pose: sit, lay, bellyflop, spin, or none
%uxmessentials_poses_toggle%	allow or refuse — whether the player accepts riders

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Good to know

• No ghost seats. Seats are invisible, non-saved helper entities that are cleaned up the moment you stand, log out, or the chunk unloads — and any stray left by a crash is swept away on the next server start. You will never find a leftover invisible stand in your world.
• Folia-ready. All seat handling runs through the region-aware scheduler, so it behaves on both Paper and Folia.

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Next Steps

• ⚙️ Configuration — how uxmEssentials config works
• 🧩 The Module System — turn modules on and off
• 🔑 Permission Reference — every node