FriendChat

FriendChat adds a lightweight tabbed chat interface to Minecraft, letting you filter conversations and quickly message specific players — no server-side installation required.

✨ Features

• Three chat tabs: Normal, Friends, and MP (private message focus)
• Friends list: filter chat to only show messages containing names from your custom friend list
• MP tab: focus on a single player and instantly reply to them without retyping commands
• Configurable commands: rename any of the mod's commands to fit your server or playstyle
• Persistent config: your friend list and settings are saved between sessions
• Client-side only: works on any server, nothing to install server-side

🖱️ How it works

Three tabs appear at the bottom-left of your chat screen. Click a tab to switch between:

• Normal — the regular, unfiltered chat
• Friends — only messages containing a name from your friends list are shown
• MP — only messages involving your currently focused player are shown

📜 Commands

All commands are client-side.

/chatfriend

Manage your friends list.

• /chatfriend add <player> — add a player to your friends list
• /chatfriend remove <player> — remove a player from your friends list

/chatmp <player>

Focuses the MP tab on the given player and switches to it. While the MP tab is active, any message you type in chat that doesn't start with / is automatically sent as a private message to that player using your server's message command (see below).

/friendchatconfig <type> <newValue>

Rename the mod's commands.

• /friendchatconfig friend <newValue> — change the name of /chatfriend
• /friendchatconfig mp <newValue> — change the name of /chatmp

⚠️ A game restart is required for renamed commands to take effect.

⚙️ Configuration

FriendChat automatically creates two files in your config folder:

• friendchat_config.json — command names and server message command
• friendchat_friends.json — your saved friends list

Default values:

{
  "friendCmd": "chatfriend",
  "mpCmd": "chatmp",
  "configCmd": "friendchatconfig",
  "serverMsgCmd": "msg"
}

If your server uses a different private message command than /msg (e.g. /tell, /w, /pm), update serverMsgCmd in the config file to match — this is what FriendChat uses under the hood when you type in the MP tab.

📋 Requirements

• Only Minecraft 1.21.11 for now
• Fabric Loader 0.18.1+
• Fabric API
• Java 21+

📄 License

MIT