chatinfo

ChatInfo

A lightweight yet powerful plugin for Minecraft 1.21.4 Paper servers that allows administrators to create custom chat commands with configurable messages.

Features

• Create unlimited custom chat commands with predefined messages
• Inventory GUI editor — edit messages directly in-game via chest GUI + chat input
• MiniMessage support — <gold>, <gradient:...>, <click:open_url:'...'> alongside legacy & codes
• PlaceholderAPI support — use %player_name%, %server_online% etc. in messages
• Cooldown system — per-command cooldown in seconds
• Aliases — multiple names for the same command
• Description — shown in /chatinfo list
• Permission-based command access control
• Hot reload — no server restart needed
• Brigadier sync — new commands appear in tab-complete instantly

Installation

1. Download the latest JAR from Releases
2. Place the JAR in your server's plugins/ folder
3. (Optional) Install PlaceholderAPI for placeholder support
4. Start or restart your server
5. Edit plugins/ChatInfo/config.yml to customize commands

Commands

Admin (chatinformator.admin / OP)

Players

Any command defined in config.yml — e.g. /info, /rules, /vip

Configuration

reload-message: "<green>Configuration reloaded!"
no-permission-message: "<red>You don't have permission!"
cooldown-message: "<red>Please wait <yellow>{time}s</yellow> before using this again!"

commands:
  info:
    description: "Server information"
    aliases: []
    cooldown: 0
    permission: ""
    messages:
      - "<dark_gray>━━━━━━ <gold><bold>INFO</bold></gold> ━━━━━━"
      - "<yellow>Welcome to the server!"
      - "<green>Discord: <aqua>dc.example.com"
      - "<dark_gray>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"

  rules:
    description: "Server rules"
    aliases: [rule]
    cooldown: 5
    permission: ""
    messages:
      - "<dark_gray>━━━━━━ <red><bold>RULES</bold></red> ━━━━━━"
      - "<gray>1. No spamming"
      - "<gray>2. Be respectful"
      - "<dark_gray>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"

Message Formatting

Permissions

Requirements

• Java 21+
• PlaceholderAPI (optional)

Compatibility

Requires Paper (not Spigot/Vanilla). Built on Paper 1.21.4 API — works on all newer versions.

License

Released under the MIT License.