What's new

Paper plugin migration

• SimpleChat is now a paper plugin

MiniPlaceholders support

• MiniPlaceholders is now a supported soft dependency. If installed, its placeholders will be resolved in chat formats automatically.

Config-driven chat parsing

• A new chat-parsing section in config.yml lets you control which formatting tags (colors, gradients, bold, hover, links, etc.) are available in chat, independently of permissions. Set use-permissions: false to allow all enabled tags for every player, or keep it set to true to keep them gated behind the existing permission nodes.

Breaking changes

• Requires Paper 1.21.1+ and Java 21
• plugin.yml is replaced by paper-plugin.yml meaning this plugin will no longer load on non-Paper/paper fork servers

Fixes issue where permission formatting was not actually working

• Fixes the chat not actually parsing the link from the previous version, and just putting the tags in plain text

• Adds auto-parsing links
• Adds permission for auto-parsing links simplechat.chat.links

• Adds the ability to have separate formats based on custom permissions. This also adds the ability to make certain chats colored specific ways like this

• Tested on 1.21.5

• Adds the ability to use <item> to show the item you are holding to chat
• Permission for this feature is simplechat.item.show-item

• Fixes the mappings so that paper will stop remapping it
• No Other Changes

• Change Placeholder API to a soft dependency instead of hard dependency
• Change to maven because idk why it was using gradle
• Supports 1.20.5

Now will parse both:

• Placeholders from placeholder API that use the section symbol
• Placeholders that are in minimessage formatting (i.e. if a placeholder returns a value of a string like <red>hello)