diff --git a/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/Settings.java b/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/Settings.java
index 065e2dd..e21167e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/Settings.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/Settings.java
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ public static class MAIN {
         @CommentValue("Set -1 to disable PNG recompression")
     })
     public double PNG_QUALITY = 0.0;
+    @Comment(@CommentValue("Write packets outside of Netty pipeline to avoid plugins that modify packets (e.g. PacketEvents)"))
+    public boolean DIRECT_WRITE = false;
     public boolean LOG_PINGS = false;
     public boolean LOG_IMPROPER_PINGS = false;
     @Comment({
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/injection/HandshakeSessionHandlerHook.java b/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/injection/HandshakeSessionHandlerHook.java
index 997fb51..632c7a4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/injection/HandshakeSessionHandlerHook.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/elytrium/fastmotd/injection/HandshakeSessionHandlerHook.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import io.netty.channel.Channel;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundBuffer;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import net.elytrium.fastmotd.FastMOTD;
 import net.elytrium.fastmotd.Settings;
@@ -93,6 +94,26 @@ private void switchState(State oldState, State newState) {
     this.state = newState;
   }
 
+  private void sendPacket(ByteBuf packet, boolean constant) {
+    if (Settings.IMP.MAIN.DIRECT_WRITE) {
+      ChannelOutboundBuffer buffer = this.channel.unsafe().outboundBuffer();
+      if (buffer == null) {
+        packet.release(); // connection was closed already, no need to send the packet.
+      } else {
+        // .slice() constant packet to ensure that Netty do not modify its readerIndex
+        if (constant) {
+          packet = packet.slice();
+        }
+
+        // Send the packet
+        buffer.addMessage(packet, packet.readableBytes(), this.channel.voidPromise());
+        this.channel.flush();
+      }
+    } else {
+      this.channel.writeAndFlush(packet);
+    }
+  }
+
   @Override
   public boolean handle(LegacyPingPacket packet) {
     this.connection.close();
@@ -154,11 +175,11 @@ public void handleGeneric(MinecraftPacket packet) {
       buf.writeByte(9);
       buf.writeByte(1);
       packet.encode(buf, null, null);
-      this.channel.writeAndFlush(buf);
+      this.sendPacket(buf, false);
       this.connection.close();
     } else if (packet instanceof StatusRequestPacket) {
       this.switchState(State.REQUEST, State.PING);
-      this.channel.writeAndFlush(this.plugin.getNext(this.protocolVersion, this.serverAddress));
+      this.sendPacket(this.plugin.getNext(this.protocolVersion, this.serverAddress), true);
     } else {
       this.original.handleGeneric(packet);
     }