McFormatter

McFormatter

About the mod

McFormatter is a lightweight Minecraft chat formatter plugin for Fabric servers.
It aims to allow users to use markdown-style formatting in Minecraft chat messages.

Current Features

• Bold text
• Surround bolded text with two asterixes, \like this\
• Italicised text
• Surround text to be italicised with a single asterix on each side, \like this\.
• Hyperlinks
• Hyperlinks can created by surrounding the text of the link with square brackets, then surrounding the URL with parentheses, \[like this\]\(http://example.com/\)
• Basic links
• If you want some text to be interpreted as a link, surround it with angle brackets
• i.e. \
• Escaping
• Players can escape formatting characters by using a backslash (\\) before the character they would like to escape.

Planned Features

• Emojis
• In future, players will be able to use Unicode emojis in a similar way to how emojis are used in applications like Discord
• i.e. \:smile\: will be able to be used to display a smiling emoji
• Underlining
• Future updates will allow players to underline text by surrounding the text with two underscores on each side.
• Permissions
• I realise that sending links, and masking links, can be a large risk to a server’s security. This is why, in future, I plan to add ways to disable/enable types of formatting for different players. This will likely require some permissions library.