Etched Gate

Etched Gate

Staff approval for the music links players put on Etched discs and radios.

Etched lets anyone type a URL into an Etching Table or a Radio and play it to everyone nearby. Great with friends, risky on a public server. Etch Gate holds every new link until staff have looked at it.

How it works

• A player enters a link. Instead of going through, it waits for review, and the player is told so.
• Every online op gets the link in chat with clickable [Approve] and [Deny] buttons.
• Approving a link approves it for everyone, so a popular song only gets reviewed once.
• Ops skip the review. In singleplayer, so does the world’s owner.
• Each player can have up to 3 links waiting at once.

Denying takes it back

A denied link stops playing on discs that already exist, including copies and discs inside album covers. Block a whole website at once with /etchgate blockhost.

Commands (ops only)

Everything is saved with the world.

Good to know

• Approvals are for the exact link. site.com/song and site.com/song/ are different links, so nobody can get one approved and then swap in the other.
• An approval covers the link, not the file behind it. If a site changes the file later, deny the link or block the site.
• Artist and title text on music labels isn’t checked. Use a chat filter mod for that.
• Players in creative mode can edit disc data directly, so only survival players are gated.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge
• Etched 5.x
• Only the server needs it; players joining don’t. Works in singleplayer too.

Made with claude

For any suggestions use the curseforge comments.

You are free to use this mod in modpacks but, please do not distribute or reupload this mod on other websites without my consent, curseforge is the only mod hoster/distributor this mod will be on.