Chat Heads Legacy

ChatHeads Vintage

Chat Heads Vintage is a backport of dzwdz’s Chat Heads for Minecraft 1.12.2.

It adds player heads next to chat messages, making it easier to distinguish between different players in multiplayer. It also improves the overall appearance of the chat by giving it a more polished and visually appealing look.

Features

• Shows each detected sender’s skin head and hat layer beside their name, or in a neat column on the left side of the chat
• Heads fade together with chat messages and can optionally have a shadow and a 3D hat effect
• Keeps wrapped messages, hover text, and clickable chat links properly aligned, including when timestamp or chat-formatting mods move sender names
• Offers accurate STRICT sender detection or broader HEURISTIC detection for server display names and nicknames
• Can optionally show heads in system messages and command suggestions provided by Cleanroom, Brigo, or Salutation
• Manual aliases use the format nickname=MinecraftUsername, for example: ServerNickname=RealName

Compatibility

Compatible Font Renderer mods:

• Revo Font (recommended)
• SmoothFont

Chat Heads Vintage is compatible with the following command suggestion implementations:

• CleanroomLoader 0.6.10 or later (recommended)
• Brigo (Forge)
• Salutation (Forge)

Cleanroom 0.6.10 and later includes a more modern and polished command suggestion system than Brigo or Salutation, so using Cleanroom’s built-in implementation is recommended.

Brigo and Salutation cannot be used together with Cleanroom’s built-in command suggestion system.

Incompatible

• Revo UI

Credits

This mod is not my original creation.

The original Chat Heads mod was developed by dzwdz based on a request from Hugman on the Fabric Discord server.

All credit for the original mod goes to its original author.

• dzwdz — Creator of the original Chat Heads mod

Original Description

This clientside mod adds player heads next to chat messages, as seen on the screenshot above. It makes telling various people in chat apart a bit easier, and it looks hella nice.

Based on a request from Hugman on the Fabric Discord.

Cloth Config (and Mod Menu for Fabric) is needed to access the settings, but the mod works without it, using the default settings.

Note: The default settings might not work on some servers. In this case try using the “Heuristic only” sender detection mode. Note that this might put wrong chat heads on some messages.

Note: Incompatible with newer versions of OptiFine (~1.20.1), use Sodium and co instead.