ZFD Utilities

1.2.5+mc26.3

Player heads in chat

• Added player skin heads beside chat messages, including the sender's hat layer.
• Heads use Minecraft's built-in skin renderer with an explicit, subtle vanilla-style shadow.
• Added a Player heads in chat toggle in both settings screens, enabled by default.
• Toggle heads with /zfdutils chatheads on|off|toggle.
• Recording and Vanilla profiles keep chat heads disabled.

Chat compatibility and fixes

• Improved sender detection for server-formatted chat, including supported nicknames, TAB/display names, and ranked chat prefixes.
• Improved passive nickname detection using complete TAB names, TAB entries containing Nickname (RealUsername), and existing sender click/UUID hover metadata. Identified nicknames are remembered for the current connection.
• Fixed styled, obfuscated, and single-letter badge prefixes between rank tags hiding otherwise identifiable senders, and excluded artificial TAB layout slots from player matching.
• Chat-head detection uses data already received by Minecraft; it does not send server commands, nickname queries, or additional network packets.
• Fixed missing heads for rank formats with badge symbols between tags, such as [61] ✔ [VIP] ZFDMC: h, including legacy-server chat received by a Minecraft 26.3 client through protocol translation.
• Fixed heads relying on the renderer's default shadow flag; the native head now explicitly requests the same quarter-brightness, one-pixel shadow as vanilla white text.
• Preserves message colours, formatting, translations, click actions, and hover events.
• Prevents duplicate heads when a message already contains a player sprite.
• Avoids assigning heads to unknown or ambiguous senders, server notifications, or names mentioned within message text.
• Refreshes cached player information after relevant updates and clears server-specific identities when changing connections.

Minecraft 26.3 and reliability

• Updated to Minecraft 26.3.
• Requires Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer, Fabric API 0.161.0+26.3 or newer, and Java 25 or newer.
• Improved frequently used HUD, screen, and player-name lookups.
• Improved cleanup of optional voice diagnostic recordings when Minecraft closes.