KickChatMC

Bring your Kick stream chat directly into your Minecraft server. KickChatMC 0.4.1 uses Kick's negotiated anonymous Centrifugo WebSocket connection to relay live chat to online players.

Features

• Live Kick chat in-game — Messages appear as [KICK] username: message with color-coded formatting.
• Bot filtering — Ignore configured bot accounts, including BotRix.
• Emote formatting — Kick emotes are converted into readable text.
• Per-player toggle — Show or hide Kick chat with /kickchat toggle.
• Config reload — Admins can apply configuration changes with /kickchat reload.
• Connection recovery — Heartbeats, anonymous token renewal and automatic reconnect with backoff.
• No account credentials — Network operations run off the server thread. Tokens and raw chat messages are never logged.

Requirements

Requirement	Version
Server	Paper/Purpur 26.2
Java	25
Plugin	KickChatMC 0.4.1
Kick	Matching numeric channel and chatroom IDs

Installation

1. Download KickChatMC 0.4.1 and replace the old JAR in your server's plugins/ folder.
2. Load the plugin or start the server to generate plugins/KickChatMC/config.yml.
3. Open https://kick.com/api/v2/channels/YOUR_CHANNEL_NAME. Use the top-level id for kick-channel-id and chatroom.id for kick-channel.
4. Update both IDs in the config and run /kickchat reload.

Configuration

kick-channel: "YOUR_CHATROOM_ID"
kick-channel-id: "YOUR_CHANNEL_ID"
bot-usernames:
  - "BotRix"
debug: false

Upgrading: Add kick-channel-id to your existing config. The two IDs must refer to the same streamer. Old Pusher options (app-key, cluster, ws-url, auth-token) are ignored. No login or OAuth token is required.

Validation: Five automated tests pass. Live chat reception and message relay on a running Paper 26.2 server were verified.