What's new

Paper plugin migration

• SimpleChat is now a paper plugin

MiniPlaceholders support

• MiniPlaceholders is now a supported soft dependency. If installed, its placeholders will be resolved in chat formats automatically.

Config-driven chat parsing

• A new chat-parsing section in config.yml lets you control which formatting tags (colors, gradients, bold, hover, links, etc.) are available in chat, independently of permissions. Set use-permissions: false to allow all enabled tags for every player, or keep it set to true to keep them gated behind the existing permission nodes.

Breaking changes

• Requires Paper 1.21.1+ and Java 21
• plugin.yml is replaced by paper-plugin.yml meaning this plugin will no longer load on non-Paper/paper fork servers

Fixes issue where permission formatting was not actually working

• Fixes the chat not actually parsing the link from the previous version, and just putting the tags in plain text

• Adds auto-parsing links
• Adds permission for auto-parsing links simplechat.chat.links

• Adds the ability to have separate formats based on custom permissions. This also adds the ability to make certain chats colored specific ways like this !Image showing that the chat is yellow, and is not reset by closing tags or using the reset tag

• Tested on 1.21.5