Compatibility
Minecraft: Java Edition
1.21.x
Platforms
Supported environments
Creators
Details
Licensed GPL-3.0-only
Published 6 months ago
Updated 2 days ago
🌌 ShadowChat
ShadowChat is an all‑in‑one chat, nickname, anti‑spam, tablist, anti-badwords & spychat framework for Fabric 1.21 servers - Easily theme every part of player communication while protecting your chat from spam & slurs – all reload‑able with zero restarts.
✅ Features
- Rich Chat Formatting – Gradient / hex colors, vanilla codes, click & hover events, PlaceholderAPI support.
- Rank Prefixes & Per‑Rank Lines – Unlimited rank definitions with permission hooks (LuckPerms ready).
- Nicknames – Players can set colored nicknames that carry over to chat and tablist.
- Custom Tablist – Header + footer plus and format (
%luckperms:prefix% %nickname%). - Anti‑Spam & Bad‑Word Filter – Sliding‑window spam check, configurable swears with warnings & punish.
- Spy‑Chat – Staff can monitor all private messages with
/spychat on|off. - Join/Leave/Death Messages – Fully color‑parseable templates with placeholders.
- Daily Log Files – Optional plain‑text chat logs in
config/shadowchat/chat_logs/. - Announcements – Staff can add announcements for the server to be poste on a specific time.
- Modular Systems – All features is modular and can be turn off/on in
chat_config.json.
⚡ Commands
Spoiler
- /nick <nick> - Set your nickname
shadowchat.nick. - /nick reset - Reset own nick
shadowchat.nick.reset. - /spychat - Toggle spy‑chat on|off
shadowchat.spy. - /schat reload - Reload all configs
shadowchat.reload - /bc or /broadcast - Send broadcast messages
shadowchat.broadcast - /r <message> or /reply <message> , /replay <message> - replay private messages
shadowchat.reply - /ignore <player> - Ignore messages from a player
shadowchat.ignore - /ignore list - See the list of ignored players
shadowchat.ignore.list - /ignore clear - Clear ur ignore list
shadowchat.ignore.clear - /ignore clear <player> - Clear a ignore list from a player
shadowchat.ignore.clear.other
🔐 Permissions
Spoiler
shadowchat.nickshadowchat.nick.resetshadowchat.spyshadowchat.spy.bypassshadowchat.reloadshadowchat.rank.<id>shadowchat.colorshadowchat.broadcastshadowchat.replyshadowchat.ignoreshadowchat.ignore.immuneshadowchat.ignore.overrideshadowchat.ignore.listshadowchat.ignore.clearshadowchat.ignore.clear.othershadowchat.ignore.bypass
📂 Configuration Files
config/shadowchat/chat_config.json- Main formatting, ranks, spam, tablist.config/shadowchat/badwords.json- Censor list, warning & punishment rules.config/shadowchat/data/nicknames.json- Stored nicknames (auto‑generated).config/shadowchat/chat_logs/*- Daily chat logs.config/shadowchat/announcements.json- Announcements configuration.
📝 Dependencies
- ⚠️ LuckPerms Fabric PlaceholderAPI needed here




