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On this page, you will learn where you can use MiniMessage formatting in Phoenix Lobby.
#Information
Phoenix Lobby understands MiniMessage tags, like <red>, <bold> or <gradient:#ff5555:#5555ff>, on top of the classic & colour codes. This lets you use gradients, hover text and clickable links, none of which & codes can do.
#Format
| Example | Result |
|---|---|
<red>Hello |
Red text |
<#ff8800>Hello |
Any hex colour |
<gradient:#5e4fa2:#f79459>Phoenix Lobby</gradient> |
Text fading from one colour to another |
<bold><underlined>Warning |
Bold and underlined |
<rainbow>Welcome back!</rainbow> |
Each letter a different colour |
<hover:show_text:'Click me'>Hover</hover> |
Text with a tooltip |
<click:open_url:'https://example.com'>Our site</click> |
Text that opens a link |
A closing tag is optional. <red>Hello colours the rest of the line, while <red>Hello</red> there colours only the first word.
#Where it works
| Place | Notes |
|---|---|
| Holograms | Including <font:...> from a resource pack |
| Scoreboard | Title and lines |
| MOTD | Message, and the player count on Paper |
| Tablist | Header and footer |
| Join and quit messages | And the rest of the plugin's chat messages |
| Menu titles, item names and lore | Anywhere the editor lets you write text |
#Where it doesn't work
Nametag prefixes and suffixes are the exception. Minecraft draws those through the scoreboard team system, which only understands the old colour codes, so a tag there is reduced to the nearest legacy colour.
#Usage notes
- Legacy
&codes, including&#RRGGBBhex, keep working everywhere exactly as before. - In chat messages, use one style per line. A chat line is only sent as MiniMessage when it contains no legacy colour codes at all, so mixing
&cand<red>in the same line falls back to legacy and prints the tag. - Everywhere else the two can be mixed freely. A scoreboard line or a hologram is read as MiniMessage as soon as it contains a tag, and any
&codes in it are converted along with it. - A tag the server does not recognise is left in the text as written rather than being dropped, which is what keeps resource pack glyph tags working.
MiniMessage needs Paper or a fork of it. On plain Spigot the tags are printed exactly as you typed them, so stay on & codes there.