# hostprofiles<\/p>\n
> **Deprecation notice**
\n> Please consider using staffprofiles instead, which is more practical and easier to use.<\/p>\n
hostprofiles is a Minecraft plugin for various platforms that detects if a player joins the server on a specific address
\nand then logs them into a completely different game profile.<\/p>\n
Here is a usage example:
\nIf your server address were myserver.com, you could configure admin.myserver.com (the host) as a special host and map
\nthe player with the UUID of Joe to be logged with another, predefined UUID, use Admin_Joe as his username and have a
\ncompletely different skin (the profile). You could then only give Admin_Joe administrator privileges. This means that if
\nJoe joins using myserver.com, he is logged in as Joe and could play as a normal player, but if he logs into
\nadmin.myserver.com is logged in as Admin_Joe and can do administrative tasks.<\/p>\n
You can configure:<\/p>\n
– Which profile (UUID, name and skin) a player trying to log in (identified by his UUID) is going to have
\n– If a player gets kicked if there is no entry for his UUID
\n– A special MOTD for every host
\n– If a player should keep his original skin, or use a profile skin<\/p>\n
## Platforms<\/p>\n
Right now, the spigot plugin is only available for 1.18.1, Paper works on 1.18.1 and above. Supported platforms are Paper and Spigot.
\n**If you use Paper you MUST also use the build for Paper, the spigot build is NOT going to work.**<\/p>\n
## Support<\/p>\n
The Spigot and Paper builds are still very unstable, as they use various reflection tricks to change the game profile
\nand retrieve the hostname. Because the Paper API provides a method to set the game profile on join, there is one less
\nhack in there, so I would consider it preferable. The Velocity version uses only API, therefor is the most stable.<\/p>\n
**Velocity > Paper > Spigot**<\/p>\n
Problems or feature requests should be reported as issues on GitHub. If you have any questions or would like to receive
\nquick support, you can do so on the [my discord server](G4T9aKXJfy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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