NobodyNews

NobodyNews is an in-game news and announcement system for Minecraft server owners and administrators.

Share server updates, events, maintenance notices, rule changes, important information, or other announcements directly with your players — without requiring Discord or an external website.

Players can simply use /news to access the latest server news.

✨ Features

• Clean book-style news reader
• Multiple server announcements
• Individual read/unread tracking for every player
• Join notifications when unread news is available
• Optional notification sound
• Complete in-game administration with /newsadmin
• Create and edit announcements directly in-game
• Activate or deactivate announcements without deleting them
• Delete outdated announcements
• Minecraft colors and text formatting
• ↵ Multi-line messages
• English and German language support
• Configurable timezone
• Persistent SQLite storage
• Permission-based administration

🎨 Message Formatting

Use Minecraft formatting codes directly in your message.

Examples:

&c = Red
&a = Green
&e = Yellow
&l = Bold
&o = Italic
&n = Underlined
&m = Strikethrough
&r = Reset formatting

Example:

&c&lImportant News

This will display Important News in red and bold in Minecraft.

Standard Minecraft color codes from &0 to &f are supported.

Messages can also contain multiple lines, making longer announcements easier to structure and read.

🕒 Timezone

NobodyNews uses UTC by default, but the timezone can be changed in the configuration.

Examples:

UTC
Europe/Berlin
America/New_York
Asia/Tokyo

This allows the displayed date and time to match your server or community location.

📖 For Players

Players open the news system with:

/news

Unread announcements are marked as new.

When a player selects an announcement, it opens in a Minecraft book, providing a clean and comfortable way to read server news.

The read status is stored individually for every player.

🛠️ For Administrators

Use:

/newsadmin

Authorized staff members can create, edit, activate, deactivate, and delete announcements directly in-game.

NobodyNews provides server teams with a simple way to keep their community informed directly inside Minecraft.