From 27eacef1dc46934afa7225f6d15bfa3cc21ddb3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 1wair <1wairesd.com.industries@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:02:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] reduce log noise for unreachable backend servers

Log ConnectException as WARN instead of ERROR to avoid printing
full stack traces when a backend server is simply offline.
---
 .../proxy/connection/client/ConnectedPlayer.java         | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/connection/client/ConnectedPlayer.java b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/connection/client/ConnectedPlayer.java
index 8d39fcf9f6..a69fe8638b 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/connection/client/ConnectedPlayer.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/connection/client/ConnectedPlayer.java
@@ -718,8 +718,13 @@ public void handleConnectionException(RegisteredServer server, Throwable throwab
       friendlyError = Component.translatable("velocity.error.connected-server-error",
               Argument.string("server", server.getServerInfo().getName()));
     } else {
-      logger.error("{}: unable to connect to server {}", this, server.getServerInfo().getName(),
-          wrapped);
+      if (wrapped instanceof java.net.ConnectException) {
+        logger.warn("{}: unable to connect to server {} ({})", this,
+            server.getServerInfo().getName(), wrapped.getMessage());
+      } else {
+        logger.error("{}: unable to connect to server {}", this,
+            server.getServerInfo().getName(), wrapped);
+      }
       friendlyError = Component.translatable("velocity.error.connecting-server-error",
               Argument.string("server", server.getServerInfo().getName()));
     }