qChat Changelog

[1.0-pre1] - 2026-01-16

🎉 The First Pre-Release!

Welcome to the official first pre-release of qChat, a premium chat management suite for Minecraft (1.21+). Designed for power, performance, and player engagement, this version introduces a completely localized, interactive, and modular chat experience.

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✨ Comprehensive Features List

✨ Modern Chat Engine (MiniMessage)

• Next-Gen Formatting: Full native support for MiniMessage tags directly in chat.
  • Gradients: <gradient:aqua:blue>Text</gradient>
  • HEX/RGB: <#FF5555> or <color:red>
  • Text Decorations: Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and obfuscated.
• Interactive Player Components:
  • Dynamic Hover Tooltips: Hover over a player's name to see their message count and rank info.
  • Smart Click Events: Clicking a player's name in chat automatically suggests a /msg command for them.
• Real-time Item Sharing:
  • Use tags like [item], [i], or [hand] to showcase your equipment.
  • Generates an accurate HoverEvent.ShowItem component showing custom names, lore, and enchantments.
• Custom Emoji System:
  • Integrated emojis.yml for text-to-icon replacement.
  • Pre-configured with defaults like :heart:, :check:, :smile:, and :star:.

👥 Private GroupChat System

• Autonomous Groups: Players can create their own private channels with /qc gc create <name>.
• Administrative Rights: Group owners can /add members, /remove them, or transfer ownership.
• Custom Branding: Group prefixes are fully customizable with colors and gradients via /qc gc style.
• Focus Management: /qc gc automsg allows players to toggle "auto-chat" mode for a specific group.
• SQLite Persistence: Group data, memberships, and settings are preserved across server restarts via an embedded database.
• Filtering: Group chats now respect the global SmartFilter for censorship.

📍 Multi-Channel Architecture

• Isolation Levels:
  • Global: Default server-wide communication.
  • Local: Proximity-based chat with a configurable radius (e.g., 100 blocks).
  • Staff: Restricted channel for administrators and staff members (qchat.staffchat permission).
• Session Persistence: remembers your last active channel when you reconnect.

🔔 Smart Mentions & Notifications

• Precision Tagging: Mention players using @Name.
• Advanced Feedback: Configurable sound effects (ping) and Action-Bar notifications when mentioned.
• Mentions History GUI: A custom-built GUI accessible via /qc mentions to view recent messages where you were tagged.
• Player Privacy: Options to mute all pings or block mentions from specific users.

🛡️ Professional Moderation Tools

• Global Chat Control:
  • Freeze/Thaw: Instantly /lock or /unlock chat with broadcasted reasons and durations.
  • Slowmode: Precision chat cooldowns with high-res timers shown to players.
• Content Filtering:
  • Smart Filter: Detects bad words through leetspeak, repeated chars, and fuzzy similarity.
  • Dynamic Actions: Configure the plugin to BLOCK, CENSOR (e.g. k***a), or WARN.
  • Global Consistency: Filtering is now active in Global, Group, and Private messaging.
• Advanced Anti-Spam:
  • Adjustable Caps-Lock percentage limits.
  • Sentence similarity checking to prevent repetitive spam.
  • Min/Max message length enforcement.

📨 Enterprise Messaging Suite

• Interactive DMs: Beautiful formats for private messages with full hover/click support.
• Lightning Reply: /reply (or /r) for instant conversation switching.
• Privacy Controls: /ignore <player> to completely stop seeing messages from specific individuals.
• Focus Mode: /automsg <player> for persistent 1-on-1 conversations.

🤖 Monitoring & Automation

• Server Auto-Messages: Fully customizable broadcast system with randomizable lists and gradients.
• Live Admin Overlay: /qca live provides real-time stream of all activity.
  • Raw Message Access: Admins see blocked/censored words highlighted in red for better oversight.
• Proactive RAM Alerts: Automated monitoring that broadcasts lag warnings if memory usage is high.
• Administrative Spy: /qca spy (DMs) and Command Spy (Live Mode) for security.

⌨️ Dynamic Command System

• Fully Customizable Aliases: Every subcommand can be renamed in commands.yml (e.g., /qca clear -> /qca wyczysc).
• Smart Tab Completion: Dynamic suggestions update automatically to reflect your custom aliases.

🌍 Localization & User Experience

• 100% Translatable: Absolutely no hardcoded strings. Everything is in lang_XX.yml.
• Official Polish & English: Professional-grade translations provided for both languages.
• Categorized Help UI: Visually rich menus for /qc help and /qca help with interactive hover descriptions.

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📋 Complete Commands & Aliases Reference

Player Interface (/qc)

Command	Aliases	Description
/qc help		Interactive help system
/qc channel		Switch between active channels
/qc mentions		Open tag history GUI
/qc gc	/groupchat	Private group management
/qc ping		Manage mention pings
/stats		View chat statistics
/chat clear		Clear your chat screen
/me		Broadcast an action
/msg	/tell, /w, /whisper	Private messaging
/reply	/r	Quick conversation reply
/ignore		Manage ignore list
/automsg		Persistent 1-on-1 mode

Admin Interface (/qca)

Subcommand	Description
clear	Clear chat for everyone
lock	Freeze/Unfreeze global chat
slowmode	Dynamic chat cooldown
filter	Live bad-word management
spy	Monitor DMs
live	Real-time chat tracking & Command Spy
kick/ban/mute	Integrated punishment tools
reload	Hot-reload all configs and data
serverstats	Performance and RAM analytics

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🛠️ Technical Specifications

• Version: 1.0-pre1 (Current)
• API: Spigot 1.21-R0.1 (Paper recommended)
• Environment: Java 17+
• Data: SQLite 3.x (Embedded)
• Library: Adventure-API (Kyori)

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*Initial release documented by QPlay Studios (Mich112233). Enjoy the ultimate chat experience!

Made in Poland! 🤍❤️