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ChatControl is chat management and formatting solution for bukkit that significantly reduces amount of spam, ads, swearing and bots on your server! Create custom rules and handlers for complete control over the chat. This also comes with many other, often unique features, see the list below!
Get full version | Issue Tracker | Wiki |Permissions | Configuration
Unofficial video by Koz4Christ
Note: In commands, there is no such argument as "username".
Features
Rules and Handlers
NEW: Rules syntax highlightning for Atom
Do you want ChatControl's Rules Syntax in your Atom editor?
Check out https://atom.io/packages/language-mc-chatcontrol by @Piepmatz. Thank you!
Compatibility
Use "/chc list" to display all available commands of the plugin.
Optional dependencies
- 1.7
- 1.8
- 1.9
- 1.10
- 1.11
- 1.12
- 1.13
Note: If you appreciated my work over the past five years, please consider buying the new version here.
If you enjoyed this plugin you might also be interested in Confiscate and CoreArena.
ChatControl is chat management and formatting solution for bukkit that significantly reduces amount of spam, ads, swearing and bots on your server! Create custom rules and handlers for complete control over the chat. This also comes with many other, often unique features, see the list below!
Get full version | Issue Tracker | Wiki |Permissions | Configuration
Unofficial video by Koz4Christ
Note: In commands, there is no such argument as "username".
Features
Rules and Handlers
- Example usage:
- Effective curse/swear word filtering.By default, over 48 curse words are blocked!
- Powerful IP / URL advertisements blocking
- Filter spam and repetitive characters
- Block unicode / non-english messages
- Typo / slang correction
- Command aliases
- Utility commands / messages
- Fun message replacements
- Define your own rules that matches certainregular expressions and applies for: chat, commands, signs or packets
- Packet rules allows you to edit messages from the server itself or even other plugins(or hide them). The support replacing message per different worlds with rewritein operator
- For example, change the unknown command message to no permission message in survival, but to something else in the hardcore world
- Handlers allow you to easily manage a big set of rules without spaghetti code
- Custom syntax and parser, fixing many YAML limitations
- Inspired by popular but now outdated PwnFilter
- Format chat messages, with variables:
- %pl_prefix and %pl_suffix
- %world (TIP: if you want to customize the world name, use Multiverse-Core and edit world alias in worlds.yml)
- %health
- %player (player name)
- %town and %nation (if Towny plugin is enabled)
- %clan (if SimpleClans plugin is enabled)
- %countryname and %countrycode
- %regionname and %isp (player's internet provider)
- PlaceholderAPI is supported.
- Supports global chat (begin with "!") and local chat (ranged mode)
- Use chatcontrol.chat.overriderangedpermission to get all messages in the world
- Use chatcontrol.chat.spy permission to get all messages in all worlds - spy mode
- Block the same or similar messages and commands
- Strip special and duplicate characters to prevent bypasses (toggleable)
- Ignore first argument in commands to prevent too strict check
- Customizable percentage
- Set the delay between messages and commands
- Lower long unreadable message spam
- Whitelist commands from delay and similarity check
- Efficient and intelligent CAPS prevention
- Customize minimum message length, caps percentage, amount of caps in the row and a whitelist of ignored words
- Ignore player names
- Set the delay between logging in again
- Prevent signs with the same text (alert staff + drop the sign) (Useful against "AutoSign" cheat)
- Block chat until player moves on join(Prevent bots joining and spamming)
- Clear the in game chat. Support reason and arguments:
- -anonymous (-a) (to hide the cleaner's name)
- -silent (-s) (to hide entire broadcast message after clean)
- -console (to clear console)
- Do not clear chat for players with permission
- Globally prevent chatting and executing certain commands under the mute.
- Also hide join/quit/kick and death messages
- Supports reason and arguments
- -anonymous (-a) (to hide the cleaner's name)
- -silent (-s) (to hide entire message after clean)
- -console (to clear console)
- Customize or hide join/quit and kick messages. Support variables:
- %player
- %pl_suffix and %pl_prefix
- (see more variables above in Chat formatter)
- Send fake join or leave messages (/chc fake)
- Broadcast messages in the specified interval
- 3 modes - by order, random and random with cache that prevents messages to repeat until all were broadcasted
- Set a prefix and a suffix
- Supports variables %player and %world
- Different messages per world
- World messages inherit global messages by default, this can be disabled by inserting - excludeGlobal on the first line.
- Disable tab complete if no argument is given, leaking server info.
- Notice: If using spigot, it is recommended to disable this feature and to configure it in spigot.yml!
- Change other plugins' or even server messages (see rules/packet.txt file)
- Remove unwanted messages from the console
- Get notified when somebody mentions you in the chat or if you receive '/tell', '/r' (or any specified message)
- Customizable sound, volume and pitch.
- Respects the difference in sound names between MC 1.9 and older
- Can specify a prefix that is necessary to get notified (e.g @kangarko)
- Only notify afk players (toggleable, requires Essentials)
- Capitalise sentences automatically
- Insert a dot at the end
- Respects domains and IP addresses
- Define minimum message length for capitalization and punctuation
- Save entire chat conversation to file. Unlike console output, this will save only player messages and specified commands
- Ignore certain players
- Current available locations:
- English (en)
- Slovak (sk)
- Czech (cz)
- Spanish (es)
- German (de)
- French (fr)
- Dutch (nl)
- Swedish (se)
- Hungarian (hu)
- Bulgarian (bg)
- To customize the localization, create a file in plugins/ChatControl/localization/messages_LOCALE.yml (replace LOCALE with the short name of the localization - the one above in brackets)
- On reload, it will be filled with all the values and kept up to date with newer versions.
- If you make a localization, it would be appreciated if you send it to me via PM. Thanks!
- Apply different settings for each group (or players) with certain permission
- Example: Allow trusted players to type quickly but set the message delay for quests to, for example, 5 seconds.
- Example 2: Set different join/leave/kick message for certain players/groups.
- Automatically update configuration
- NOTE: On update, the YAML comments (#) are lost, due to how bukkit handle the saving. Visit github page if you need reference values or comments
- Intelligently report errors and -Redacted- values
- NOTE: This is heavily improved in the premium version.
- Notify new version availability
- Automatically download new version
- Zero performance impact thanks toasynchronous processing
- Extremely efficient and low CPU / RAM usage
- Asynchronous updater and non-blocking features
- Safety checker to prevent malformed regular expressions running into an infinite loop and freezing the server
- Custom syntax parser
NEW: Rules syntax highlightning for Atom
Do you want ChatControl's Rules Syntax in your Atom editor?
Check out https://atom.io/packages/language-mc-chatcontrol by @Piepmatz. Thank you!
Compatibility
- The plugin is compatible from Craftbukkit 1.2.5 to the latest Spigot (and the vast majority of versions in between).
- Plugin doesn't use NMS access so it will most likely not break upon next releases (1.10.x etc)
- Minimum Java version to run the plugin: Java 8
- Cauldron & PaperSpigot compatible
Use "/chc list" to display all available commands of the plugin.
Optional dependencies
- ProtocolLib for custom rules in packet.txt file and preventing tab complete.
- If you are on 1.8 make sure you have at least #70 or newer!
- Essentials or EssentialsX for detecting AFK players.
- Vault for chat formatter and taking money players in "then fine" operator in custom rules.
- Multiverse-Core for colored world alias in chat formatter.
- Towny for %nation and %town variables in chat formatter.
- SimpleClans for %clan variable in chat formatter.
- AuthMe Reloaded 3.5 or 5.1+ for better join/kick/quit messages.
- PlaceholderAPI for extra variables.
- NoCheatPlus (not a dependency, but recommended) provides advanced support also against many types of chat spam.
