Name History

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Simple Name History Mod. With my own hosted API, and a custom hostable API.

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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later
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0.2.0+26.2
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💜 Name History


Warning: This mod has been generated mostly with AI as i couldnt be bothered, but I want to inform my users of this.

A beautiful, modern Minecraft mod for viewing player username history

Requires Fabric API Minecraft Fabric License GitHub


✨ Features

🎨 Beautiful UI

  • Modern purple color scheme that's easy on the eyes
  • Fully customizable colors - change every aspect of the theme to match your style
  • Real-time color preview in the config screen with grid layout

🔍 Powerful Lookup

  • Chat Commands - Quick lookups via /namehistory <username|uuid>
  • Player Auto-Complete - Tab completion for online player names
  • Cached Results - Fast repeated queries with configurable cache duration
  • Smart Detection - Automatically detects whether you're searching by username or UUID

⚙️ Highly Configurable

  • ModMenu Integration - Easy configuration through ModMenu
  • API Endpoint - Connect to any compatible name history API
  • Optional Authentication - API key support for private servers
  • Customizable Timeouts - Adjust request timeout and cache duration
  • Grid Layout - Organized 2-column color configuration

🚀 Getting Started

Installation

  1. Install Fabric Loader
  2. Download and install Fabric API
  3. Download and install Fabric Language Kotlin
  4. Download the latest release of Name History
  5. Place the .jar file in your .minecraft/mods folder
  6. Launch Minecraft!

Usage

Commands:

/namehistory <username|uuid>  # Look up a player's name history (with tab completion)
/namehistory update <query>   # Force update cached data
/namehistory delete <query>   # Remove cached entry

Examples:

/namehistory Notch
/namehistory 069a79f4-44e9-4726-a5be-fca90e38aaf5
/namehistory update jeb_

Tip: Press Tab after /namehistory to auto-complete from online player names!

⚙️ Configuration

The mod creates a config file at config/namehistory-client.json on first launch.

Default Configuration

{
  "baseUrl": "https://liforra.de/api/namehistory",
  "requestTimeoutMs": 8000,
  "cacheTtlMinutes": 10,
  "apiKey": "",
  "apiKeyHeader": "X-API-Key",
  "primaryColor": "#9b59d0",
  "secondaryColor": "#b388ff",
  "specialColor": "#ce93d8",
  "errorColor": "#ff6090",
  "disabledColor": "#9e9e9e"
}

Configuration Options

Option Description Default
baseUrl API endpoint URL https://liforra.de/api/namehistory
requestTimeoutMs Request timeout in milliseconds 8000
cacheTtlMinutes Cache duration in minutes 10
apiKey API key (leave empty if not needed) ""
apiKeyHeader HTTP header name for API key X-API-Key
primaryColor Main UI text color #9b59d0
secondaryColor Headers & player names color #b388ff
specialColor Name history entries color #ce93d8
errorColor Error messages color #ff6090
disabledColor Disabled elements color #9e9e9e

Using ModMenu

If you have ModMenu installed:

  1. Click "Mods" from the main menu
  2. Find "Name History" in the list
  3. Click the config button
  4. Customize colors by clicking the color preview boxes!

🔧 Building from Source

Prerequisites

  • Java 21 or higher
  • Git

Build Steps

git clone https://github.com/liforra/namehistory-minecraft.git
cd namehistory-minecraft
./gradlew build

The compiled mod will be in build/libs/name-history-0.1.0.jar.

🌐 API Compatibility

This mod works with any API that implements the following endpoints:

Method Endpoint Description
GET /api/namehistory?username=<username> Get history by username
GET /api/namehistory/uuid/<uuid> Get history by UUID
POST /api/namehistory/update Force update player data
DELETE /api/namehistory?username=<username> Delete cached entry

📄 Full API Documentation

Response Format

{
  "uuid": "069a79f4-44e9-4726-a5be-fca90e38aaf5",
  "query": "Notch",
  "history": [
    { "id": 1, "name": "Notch", "changedAt": null, "censored": false }
  ]
}

💡 Tip: Use the OpenAPI spec to generate client libraries or server stubs.

📸 Screenshots

Chat Command Output

Chat Example

Configuration Screen

Config Screen

🎨 Artwork and Attribution

  • The purple icon used in this project is a modified derivative of icon.png from the project “fabric-name-history-lookup” by Woolyenough
    (Copyright © 2022 Woolyenough), licensed under the MIT License.
  • Original repository: https://github.com/Woolyenough/fabric-name-history-lookup
  • Changes: recoloring to purple, removal of the stem, centering of the glyph, and minor pixel adjustments for the theme.

This project includes the MIT license text and copyright notice for that asset in ICON_NOTICE.txt.

No endorsement by the original author is implied.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0).
See LICENSE for details.

Third‑party components:

  • Icon derivative: MIT-licensed work by Woolyenough (see ICON_NOTICE.txt).

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

  • Report bugs
  • Suggest new features
  • Submit pull requests
  • Improve documentation

💖 Credits

  • Built with Fabric
  • Written in Kotlin
  • Inspired by the need for a beautiful, modern name history viewer

Made with 💜 by liforra

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  • The /namehistory Command
    The /namehistory Command The layout, and default theme of the /namehistory command
  • Config GUI
    Config GUI The config GUI opened with ModMenu

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