Commands
ChatControl has a ridiculous command offering. Everything you need to know about commands is shown in the game using feature-rich interactive system. Just use your mouse and hover over commands to get more information.
To use commands, simply execute them in your console or the in-game chat. Many commands support additional parameters, see below.
- [] = optional arguments (use only one at once, or one + reason when muting or clearing the chat)
- <> = required arguments
TIP: The short variant for /chatcontrol is /chc and /ch for /channel You can change those commands in settings.yml by finding Command_Aliases keys.
Type /chc perms to view all available command permissions.
You can also view the required permission directly in the error message when you attempt to execute a command you don't have access to.
To see more on how commands works and how it can be used, simply hover your mouse over it and additional information will follow.
Send any message to everyone on your server or network. You can send a chat message, title, boss bar, action bar, toast or even json.
Create a custom book. You can then read this book by yourself or for other players, using this command, or in chat formatting such as: "Click [here] to read server rules." or in Rules.
Clear the game chat. You can specify the parameters -a for anonymous clearance (hides who cleared it) or -s to avoid announcing anything. Proxy is supported. You can also give a clear reason.
Set yourself a custom chat color and decoration. You can set this via command for yourself or other players or via a GUI menu. For Minecraft 1.16+ we support RGB color codes using HEX such as "#CCDD99".
If you want to report a bug, run this command. It will compile all files into a single ZIP file that you can then upload to GitHub when creating an Issue. We remove your MySQL password and other sensitive data.
Send any command to be executed on proxy or even on another server. Make sure that you give yourself the "chatcontrol.command.forward" permission on proxy also.
Utility command to view player nicks, view saved player data, parse variables to test them or view if player is a newcomer. Newly connected players can have different rules such as longer antispam delays, see Newcomer.
Discover what happened in game such as player messages, commands, what books were written, what mails were sent, what private messages were exchanged and much more. With a powerful filtering such as "/chc log all by:kangarko in:1h".
Manipulate player join, quit, death messages or with timed message broadcasts without leaving the game.
View all permissions the plugin has, what permissions you have and what are given by default.
Manipulate player warning points. Players can receive punishment points for doing certain things such as spamming or cursing (configurable). We execute certain actions such as mute/kick when they exceed a certain amount of points. Points can be grouped into sets such as "light-swears", "hard-swears", "spam" etc.
Remove all messages from a player, even if he disconnected after writing them. Proxy is supported.
Place 3D regions in the world you can then use in rules using the "require region" or "ignore region" operators, see Rules. For example, you can make stricter antispam in your spawn area. Or you can write a rule that completely prevents writing something in your PvP arenas.
Reloads the plugin and its configuration. Some things by their nature, such as listener priorities, console filtering etc. cannot be reloaded. PlugMan is unsupported and may break. Please only use /chc reload and restart as soon as possible.
Add, import, list, reload or toggle chat filters. A filter, called a rule, is a simple way to catch ANYTHING in your chat, commands, signs, items, books or even server packets and execute actions on it. Such as by typing "apple" player receives a warning. This is used against spam, swears, ads, also to stop bots, or even creating entire help systems, chat bots or new plugin commands (like Skript). See Rules.
Admin command for setting custom nick, prefix or suffix for players. Proxy is supported. You can also list offline players' nicks, prefixes and suffixes!
A quick tour on getting started with ChatControl, or migrating from a previous version.
Join a player a chat channel in a certain mode, either to write or to read it. Proxy is supported.
Forcefully set or remove players from channels. Supports bulk execution. Ideal for scripting.
Leave a player (even on proxy) from a chat channel.
List players in channels. Proxy is supported.
Send message to a channel even if you are not joined in it.
Send message to a channel as someone else. Great for automating, or simply trolling.
The following commands don't have a prefix such as /chc or /ch.
Stop viewing a player's chat messages, toggle ignore for other players or list all ignored players. You can also ban ignored players sending you private messages.
See who's online on your server or proxy, nicely sorted by any key you define, such as player rank, prefix, the weather, politics etc.
Send long messages in a book form to players, even offline players. Supports advanced features such as auto-responder, forwarding, and inbox/archive folder.
Send a formatted message to chat. What else do you need to know? /me is FAPPING right now
When players join, you can configure what message they will receive as a greeting. Use this command to send this message again to anyone.
Mute a player, a channel or the whole server for a given period, with an optional reason. We also prevent join/quit/death messages appearing during mute, prevent private messages, mails, and even certain commands you specify when server or player is muted.
Reply to a private message, even on proxy or even reply to console.
See what players are chatting that's outside your reach, such as channels you are not joined in, private messages, books, signs, commands, etc. Toggle via command or a beautiful GUI.
Set yourself a custom nick, prefix or suffix.
Send a private message to a player.
Disable receiving a certain player message: join, quit, kick or death. You can enable players to disable seeing death messages, or timed messages announcements for example...
Reloads proxy settings.yml and player messages.