HideChat

Chat Toggle

A lightweight, client-side Fabric mod that hides and shows your chat with a single keypress — with a clean visual confirmation each time.

What it does

• Press a key (default H, under Controls → Multiplayer) to toggle the chat overlay on or off.
• Hiding is purely visual: messages still arrive and stack up in the background — nothing is dropped, and your vanilla chat settings are untouched.
• You can still open chat to type or run commands while it’s hidden; you just won’t see the history.
• Each toggle plays a quick 350 ms bar at the chat line: green when chat is shown, red when hidden. It always plays — even with no messages on screen.

Why

Sometimes chat gets in the way — screenshots, cinematic shots, PvP, or just a cleaner HUD. chat toggle gives you an instant, reversible way to clear it without digging through options or losing messages.

Details

• Client-side only — works on any server, nothing needed server-side.
• No config files, no extra menus. Install and bind a key.
• Tiny footprint.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2
• Fabric Loader 0.19.3+
• Fabric API

Install

1. Install Fabric for 26.2.
2. Put Fabric API and chat toggle in your mods folder.
3. Launch, then bind Toggle Chat under Options → Controls → Multiplayer (defaults to H).