# Anti Join Flood

## About this module

The Anti Join Flood module prevents more than a defined amount of players joining every minute to prevent bot join flooding to lag, spam, & or crash the server.

## Config guide

You can access the below settings in the **anti-join-flood.yml** file within the **modules** folder of the plugin's root folder.

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### allowed-joins-per-minute

This is the limit of joins (including relogs) that will be allowed by the server within 60 seconds

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Make sure you change this value to what will work best for your server to prevent ChatSentry from blocking players from joining when it shouldn't.
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**Recommended settings:**
\
Small servers: \~12
\
Medium servers: \~35
\
Big servers: \~100+

```yaml
allowed-joins-per-minute: 12
```

### disable-join-flood-check-on-startup

This option disables join flood checking for 2 minutes and 30 seconds after starting to prevent blocking people joining back after the server restarts.

Only set this to false if the server is actively being flooded to prevent issues.

```yaml
disable-join-flood-check-on-startup: true
```


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