SimpleTab

SimpleTab is a server plugin that implements the tablist (player list) header/footer configuration and dynamic information display.

It has support for formatting colors using the ampersand (&) character, and support for PlaceholderAPI.

Supported Minecraft versions

TL;DR: Starting with SimpleTab v1.2.0, you can only run the plugin if the server runs on Java 17+. Version 1.1.0 still supports any version of the game, but requires ProtocolLib to run on game versions prior to 1.13.

Configuration

The configuration file will be created on first launch of your server with the plugin, it's going to be in plugins/SimpleTab/config.yml. It's going to look like this:

# Text above player list
header: "A cool header"

# Text below player list
footer: "And a very cool footer"

# Update period in ticks (1 tick = 50ms)
updatePeriod: 20

You can use \n for newlines as well as &+char for formatting. You can also use %placeholder_name% for dynamic information if you have PlaceholderAPI installed.

Take a look at the example configuration that uses all 3 features.