MKT Essentials

A large chat, cosmetics and integration release. MKT Essentials is now fully self-sufficient: the tab list, nametags, MOTD and placeholders all work with no companion mods, while optional hooks light up when other mods are present. Chat gains rich formatting, interactive elements and a Discord bridge.

Chat & Formatting

• Nicknames (/nick) — set a display nickname that now shows everywhere: in chat, in the tab list, and above the player's head (the skin is preserved). Staff with mktessentials.nick.see see the real name on chat hover. Config: chat.yml → nickname.

• Markdown-style formatting — write *italic*, **bold**, __underline__, ~~strikethrough~~ and ??matrix?? (obfuscated) directly in chat. Works in chat and on anvil/book/sign text. Config: chat.yml → markdown.

• Inline objects — [item] inserts the item you're holding, with its full tooltip on hover; <head> inserts your player head. Config: chat.yml → objects.

• Interactive replacements — URLs become clickable links, :emoji: shortcodes expand, and ||spoiler|| renders as hover-to-reveal blocks. Config: chat.yml → replacement.

• Mentions — type @player to highlight and ping them (with a sound). Recipients can opt out with /mentions. Config: chat.yml → mention.

• Per-player chat colour (/chatcolor) — pick a personal base colour for your messages. Config: chat.yml → chatcolor.

• Chat settings GUI (/chatsetting) — a clickable menu to toggle your personal chat options (mentions, etc.), plus an ignore-list menu.

• Local / per-world chat — messages reach only nearby players (configurable radius) or the current world, with a global prefix to broadcast server-wide. Config: chat.yml → chat-local.

• Question highlighting — messages ending in a question are visually emphasised. Config: chat.yml → questionanswer.

• Anonymous chat (/anon) and stream announcements (/stream) — send a message without your name attached, or announce a stream with a clickable link. Config: chat.yml → anon, stream.

• Symbols (/symbol) — insert glyphs/special characters into chat.

• Coloured anvil, book and sign text — legacy & codes, MiniMessage and markdown now apply to renamed items in an anvil, text written in books, and text on signs. Config: chat.yml → objects toggles anvil-color, book-color, sign-color.

Cosmetics & Display

• Native tab list — configurable header/footer with placeholders and frame animations, plus an optional latency/ping display. Config: chat.yml → tablist.

• Native above-head nametags — rank prefix/suffix rendered above players via scoreboard teams (nickname-aware). Config: chat.yml → nametag.

• Below-name scoreboard — show a number or health value beneath player nametags in the world. Config: chat.yml → belowname.

• Sidebar scoreboard and boss bar — a configurable side panel and a top boss bar, both with placeholders and animation support. Config: chat.yml → sidebar, bossbar.

• Server brand (F3) — customise the server name shown on the F3 debug screen, with optional rotation between multiple texts. Config: chat.yml → brand.

• Welcome greeting with skin face — a personalised join greeting (first-join vs returning) that can render the player's actual skin face as pixel art in chat. Uses the player's name so it works in offline mode. Config: chat.yml → greeting.

• MOTD & favicon override — set the server-list description and icon directly in the mod, with a separate maintenance MOTD. Config: chat.yml → motd.

New Commands & Features

• Mail (/mail) — send and read offline mail; unread mail is announced on join.

• Polls (/poll) — create and vote in server polls.

• Roleplay (/me, /do) — action/narration messages.

• Maintenance mode (/maintenance) — put the server in maintenance with its own MOTD; non-exempt players are kept out.

• Right-click player interactions, /online (formatted online list), and social commands for managing chat relationships.

• Fun commands — /dice, /coin and similar.

• /geolocate <player> — look up the approximate location of a connected IP (staff tool).

Integrations

• Optional mod hooks (auto-detected, toggles in integration.yml → mods):

  • TAB — when installed, the mod's native tab list, nametags and ping display step aside so TAB manages them.
  • MiniMOTD — when installed, the mod's MOTD override steps aside.
  • SkinsRestorer — the greeting face uses the player's SkinsRestorer skin.
  • Plasmo Voice & Simple Voice Chat — a player muted in-game is silently muted in voice chat too.

• 2-way Discord chat relay — bridge a Discord channel with in-game chat. In-game messages (and optional join/leave notices) post to Discord — as plain bot messages or, with a webhook, showing each player's name and avatar — while channel messages appear in-game. Anti-@everyone protection and colour-code sanitisation apply in both directions. The bot status shows the live online player count. Config: integration.yml → discord.relay. Requires the KotlinForForge mod and the bot's Message Content Intent.

Moderation

• Shadowban "phantom" full isolation — with moderation.shadowban-method: phantom, a shadowbanned player joins into an empty world: they see no other players (entities and tab list), no one sees them, they receive no one's chat, no join/leave spam is generated, and — with a voice-chat mod hooked — their microphone is silently dropped. Mobs and items remain visible.

Improvements

• Fully self-sufficient — no companion mod is required. The tab list, nametags and MOTD are native, and MKT placeholders (%mktessentials:*%) resolve internally; the Text Placeholder API is used only to expose them to other mods when present.

• Configuration reorganised by concern — chat, social and cosmetic settings live in chat.yml; external mod/service hooks live in integration.yml. Existing setups are migrated automatically.

Bug Fixes

• /me no longer collides with vanilla — the vanilla /me is removed so the mod's roleplay command handles it correctly.

• /tp supports selectors and all forms again — @p/@e/@s/@a, player→player, player→coordinates, and coordinate targets all work, mirroring vanilla /teleport.

• /mkt reload no longer crashes on a type mismatch — a mistyped config value now logs a warning and falls back to the default instead of throwing.

• The Discord bot starts whenever Discord is enabled, independent of the auth system, and fails softly (server still starts) with a clear hint when its Kotlin dependency is missing.

Notes

• Backward compatible: existing configs are migrated, and every new feature ships disabled or with safe defaults.