social
Enhance your server's communication.Modular, customizable and feature-packed.
📚 Information
social 🦜 is a fully modular plug-in focused on enhancing your server's communication without affecting the gameplay experience. It is developed using modern APIs, providing a simple but powerful tool for server owners and developers. Everything can be configured, including messages.
🤔 Features
- ✨ Fully compatible with MiniMessage and PlaceholderAPI to have great-looking messages
- 🗣️ Channel-based chat provider. You can add or remove channels according to your server's needs. For example, you could have a global and a staff channel
- 😲 Reactions that appear above a player's head with nice animations
- 🧵 Chat replies and threads. Players can click on a message to reply to it.
- 🛡️ Group chat channels. Players can create their own group channel with
/group. Server owners can see group messages with Social Spy. - 😎 Emoji support in a very similar way as Discord:
:emoji_name: - ‼️ Mentions that work with usernames and nicknames.
- 🔗 Server links. Available since Minecraft 1.21, server links are a great way of sharing external resources with your players in the pause menu.
- 📢 Built-in announcements with a configurable interval. Can broadcast messages through the action bar
- 🤫 Private messages with social spy for staff members
- 🖌️ Advanced text formatting with bold, italics, underline and more options
- 🤬 Chat filters that block IPs, URLs or words. Even in private messages
- 🌊 Flood/spam prevention
- ☕️ Developer-friendly API with countless possibilities. Developers can add custom channels, reactions, emojis, filters, keywords...
- 👀 No dependencies
⚠️ Compatibility chart
| Compatible? | Version | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PaperMC | ✅ | 1.16+ | Reactions are available from 1.20 onwards |
| PurpurMC | ✅ | 1.16+ | Reactions are available from 1.20 onwards |
| Spigot | ✅ | 1.16+ | Reactions are available from 1.20 onwards |
| Bukkit | ✅ | 1.16+ | Reactions are available from 1.20 onwards |
| Folia | ❌ |
🔌 Integrations
🏷️ PlaceholderAPI
- Compatible with every placeholder added by PlaceholderAPI.
💬 DiscordSRV
- Compatible with chat channels
🐷 banco
- Adds keyword
[balance]to show balance amount in chat.
➕ Official add-ons
👤 social-chatheadfont
- Provides compatibility with ChatHeadFont.
🖊️ Usage
🔧 First run
When you run social for the very first time it will automatically generate two files:
- 'settings.yml' contains general settings
- 'messages.yml' contains configurable messages
You can disable any feature by modifying settings.yml
✏️ Key concepts
💬 Parsers
social provides a set of powerful built-in tools in the form of parsers. Parsers are rules that modify text accordingly. Here's a list of parser types:
| Description | Format | Triggerable by players? | Example | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filter | Replace expressions or words with '***' | configurable | ✅ | 192.168.1.1 ➡️ *** |
| Emoji | Replaces a word with a unicode input (emoji) | :emoji: | ✅ | :smile: ➡️ 😄 |
| Keyword | Replaces a word with a specific component | [keyword] | ✅ | [balance] ➡️ 10.4$ |
| Placeholder | Replaces a word with a specific component | $placeholder | ❌ | $channel ➡️ global |
