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+# Silencer  
+  
+A mute system with only one job that is muting players.  
+It is designed to be as lightweight as possible, holding only a single class, and using no traditional database of any kind. Instead, it uses [Persistent Data Containers](https://docs.papermc.io/paper/dev/pdc) to store data.
+
+## Building  
+  
+### Dependencies  
+1. Maven  
+  
+### Build  
+  
+```
+mvn package
+```  
+  
+The plugin will be in the newly-made target folder.
+