BetterChatHeads

Better Chat Heads v2.0.0 Changelog

Major Upgrade

• Reworked the mod into a bigger v2.0.0 release
• Improved overall multiplayer reliability for player head rendering
• Cleaned up the in-game config experience and release metadata

Added

• Smart Skin Sync+
• Live Skin Swap
• Per-Server Profiles
• Server Learning Cache
• Better support for rank-heavy and custom-formatted server chat
• More polished config layout and visual styling

Improved

• Username and sender matching across more server formats
• Skin fallback recovery for players that do not resolve immediately
• Handling for separators such as >>, », ->, ➟, and similar formats
• Duplicate chat merge handling so repeated messages keep original color styling
• 720p config layout handling and smaller-screen UI spacing
• Overall chat presentation and release polish

Fixed

• Some users showing default Steve/Alex heads instead of real skins
• Missing heads in certain lobby and gamemode chat formats
• Spam-repeat merged messages losing original colors
• Several server-format edge cases that broke sender recognition
• UI overlap and footer collisions in the config screen

Removed

• Tablist upgrade path
• Tab heads and tab accent ring features
• Head click copy-name feature
• Head shape feature
• Experimental styling paths that were not reliable enough for release

Release Notes

• This version is focused on chat-first rendering, not tablist features
• The mod remains client-side only
• Separate compatibility branches may be used for different 1.21.x minor versions