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ChatControl is chat management and formatting plugin for Bukkit, Spigot and Paper that significantly reduces the amount of spam, ads, swearing and bots on your server!<\/p>\n
It received over 600,000+ downloads since 2013 and was since modernized to work on the latest Minecraft version.<\/p>\n
## Issue Tracker | Wiki<\/p>\n
Create custom rules and handlers for complete control over your chat. ChatControl also comes with many other, often unique features, see the list below!<\/p>\n
### Unofficial review video by Koz4Christ
\nNote: In commands, there is no such argument as “username”.<\/p>\n
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## Features<\/p>\n
### Rules and Handlers<\/p>\n
– Rules can be used for:
\n – **Effective curse\/swear word filtering**. By default, over 48 curse words are blocked!
\n – **Powerful IP \/ URL advertisements blocking**
\n – **Filter spam** and **repetitive characters**
\n – **Block unicode \/ non-english messages**
\n – **Typo \/ slang correction**
\n – **Command aliases**
\n – Utility commands \/ messages
\n – Fun message replacements
\n– …they are entirely up to you, and the possibilities are endless!
\n– Define your own rules that matches certain **regular expressions** and applies for: chat, commands, signs or packets
\n– 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
\n – For example, change the unknown command message to no permission message in survival, but to something else in the hardcore world
\n– Handlers allow you to easily manage a big set of rules without spaghetti code
\n– Custom syntax and parser, fixing many YAML limitations
\n– Inspired by popular but now outdated PwnFilter<\/p>\n
### Chat Formatting <\/p>\n
– Format chat messages, with variables: {player_prefix} and {player_suffix}
\n – {world} (TIP: if you want to customize the world name, use Multiverse-Core and edit world alias in worlds.yml)
\n – {health
\n – {player} (player name)
\n – {town} and {nation} (if Towny plugin is enabled)
\n – {clan} (if SimpleClans plugin is enabled)
\n – {country_name} and {country_code}
\n – {region_name} and {isp} (player’s internet provider)
\n – PlaceholderAPI is supported.
\n– Supports **global chat** (begin with “!”) and **local chat** (ranged mode)
\n – Use _chatcontrol.chat.overrideranged_ permission to get all messages in the world
\n – Use _chatcontrol.chat.spy_ permission to get all messages in all worlds – spy mode<\/p>\n
### Anti Spam
\n– Block the same or similar messages and commands
\n – Strip special and duplicate characters to prevent bypasses (toggleable)
\n – Ignore first argument in commands to prevent too strict check
\n – Customizable percentage
\n– Set the delay between messages and commands
\n– Lower long unreadable message spam
\n– Whitelist commands from delay and similarity check<\/p>\n
### Anti Caps
\n– Efficient and intelligent CAPS prevention
\n– Customize minimum message length, caps percentage, amount of caps in the row and a whitelist of ignored words
\n– Ignore player names<\/p>\n
### Anti Bot
\n– Set the delay between logging in again
\n– Prevent signs with the same text (alert staff + drop the sign) (Useful against “AutoSign” cheat)
\n– Block chat until player moves on join (Prevent bots joining and spamming)<\/p>\n
### Chat Clear
\n– Clear the in game chat. Support reason and arguments:
\n – -anonymous (-a) (to hide the cleaner’s name)
\n – -silent (-s) (to hide entire broadcast message after clean)
\n – -console (to clear console)
\n– Do not clear chat for players with permission<\/p>\n
### Chat Mute
\n– Globally prevent chatting and executing certain commands under the mute.
\n – Also hide join\/quit\/kick and death messages
\n– Supports reason and arguments
\n – -anonymous (-a) (to hide the cleaner’s name)
\n – -silent (-s) (to hide entire message after clean)
\n – -console (to clear console)<\/p>\n
### Messages’ Customization & Broadcaster
\n– Customize or hide join\/quit and kick messages. Support variables:{player}, {player_suffix} and {player_prefix} (see more variables above in Chat formatter)
\n– Send fake join or leave messages (\/chc fake)
\n– Broadcast messages in the specified interval
\n – 3 modes – by order, random and random with cache that prevents messages to repeat until all were broadcasted
\n – Set a prefix and a suffix
\n – Supports variables %player and %world
\n – Different messages per world
\n – World messages inherit global messages by default, this can be disabled by inserting – excludeGlobal on the first line.<\/p>\n
### Packet Features
\n– Disable tab complete if no argument is given, leaking server info.
\n – Notice: If using spigot, it is recommended to disable this feature and to configure it in spigot.yml!
\n– Change other plugins’ or even server messages (see rules\/packet.txt file)<\/p>\n
### Console Features
\n– Remove unwanted messages from the console<\/p>\n
### Sound Notify
\n– Get notified when somebody mentions you in the chat or if you receive ‘\/tell’, ‘\/r’ (or any specified message)
\n– Customizable sound, volume and pitch.
\n – Respects the difference in sound names between MC 1.9 and older
\n– Can specify a prefix that is necessary to get notified (e.g @kangarko)
\n– Only notify afk players (toggleable, requires Essentials)<\/p>\n
### Grammar
\n– Capitalise sentences automatically
\n– Insert a dot at the end
\n– Respects domains and IP addresses
\n– Define minimum message length for capitalization and punctuation<\/p>\n
### Chat Conversation Saver
\n– Save entire chat conversation to file. Unlike console output, this will save only player messages and specified commands
\n– Ignore certain players<\/p>\n
### Localization
\n– Current available locations:
\n – English (en)
\n – Slovak (sk)
\n – Czech (cz)
\n – Spanish (es)
\n – German (de)
\n – French (fr)
\n – Dutch (nl)
\n – Swedish (se)
\n – Hungarian (hu)
\n – Bulgarian (bg)
\n– 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)
\n – On reload, it will be filled with all the values and kept up to date with newer versions.
\n– If you make a localization, it would be appreciated if you send it to me via PM. Thanks!<\/p>\n
### Groups (Permission-specific Settings)
\n– Apply different settings for each group (or players) with certain permission
\n – Example: Allow trusted players to type quickly but set the message delay for quests to, for example, 5 seconds.
\n – Example 2: Set different join\/leave\/kick message for certain players\/groups.<\/p>\n
### Lightweight & Safe
\n– Extremely efficient and low CPU \/ RAM usage
\n– Asynchronous updater and non-blocking features
\n– Safety checker to prevent malformed regular expressions running into an infinite loop and freezing the server
\n– Custom syntax parser<\/p>\n
#### You can turn every feature off and change every message!<\/p>\n
### Compatibility
\n– Minimum Minecraft version: Craftbukkit 1.2.5 (that is correct!) to the latest Spigot \/ Paper
\n– Minimum Java version: Java 8
\n – The plugin doesn’t use NMS access so it will most likely not break upon next releases (1.10.x etc)
\n – Cauldron & PaperSpigot compatible<\/p>\n
**Important for Minecraft 1.7.10 and lower:** Please install BungeeChatAPI alongside ChatControl.<\/p>\n
### Commands
\nSee “\/chc list” to display all available commands of the plugin.
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### Supported Plugins
\n– **ProtocolLib** for custom rules in packet.txt file and preventing tab complete.
\n– **Essentials** or **EssentialsX** for detecting AFK players.
\n– **Vault** for chat formatter and taking money players in “then fine” operator in custom rules.
\n– **Multiverse-Core** for colored world alias in chat formatter.
\n– **Towny** for {nation} and {town} variables in chat formatter.
\n– **SimpleClans** for {clan} variable in chat formatter.
\n– **AuthMe** for better join\/kick\/quit messages.
\n– **PlaceholderAPI** for extra variables.<\/p>\n
### Need help? Ask questions?
\n### Click here to send us a message.
\n### We aim to reply to all customers within 1-5 business days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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