McFormatter

About the mod

McFormatter is a lightweight Minecraft chat formatter plugin for Fabric servers. It aims to allow users to use markdown-style formatting in Minecraft chat messages.

Current Features

• Bold text
  • Surround bolded text with two asterixes, *like this*
  • Italicised text
    • Surround text to be italicised with a single asterix on each side, *like this*.
  • Hyperlinks
    • Hyperlinks can created by surrounding the text of the link with square brackets, then surrounding the URL with parentheses, [like this](http://example.com/)
  • Basic links
    • If you want some text to be interpreted as a link, surround it with angle brackets
    • i.e. <http://example.com/>
  • Escaping
    • Players can escape formatting characters by using a backslash (\) before the character they would like to escape.

Planned Features

• Emojis
  • In future, players will be able to use Unicode emojis in a similar way to how emojis are used in applications like Discord
  • i.e. :smile: will be able to be used to display a smiling emoji
  • Underlining
    • Future updates will allow players to underline text by surrounding the text with two underscores on each side.
  • Permissions
    • I realise that sending links, and masking links, can be a large risk to a server's security. This is why, in future, I plan to add ways to disable/enable types of formatting for different players. This will likely require some permissions library.