📸 PhotoChat

Send real images straight into Minecraft chat.

PhotoChat renders pictures inline in the chat window — right under a <player> [Photo] line. Previews scroll and fade together with normal messages, open in a full viewer with zoom and pan, and can be sent as spoilers so sensitive images stay censored until the viewer chooses to reveal them.

Players without the client mod can still join — they simply get a short text notification instead of the picture.

✨ Features

• 🖼️ Inline previews — images appear directly in chat and scroll/fade like real messages
• 🔍 Full viewer — click a photo to open it with zoom and pan
• 🙈 Spoilers — send a photo already hidden behind a censor plate; reveal on click
• 👁️ Hide / reveal any received photo with a right-click toggle
• 📂 Native file picker — pick an image through your OS dialog
• 🔗 URL support — send images from a direct link
• 🌐 Multiplayer relay — the server forwards photos to everyone
• 💬 Graceful fallback — players without the mod get a text message
• ⚙️ Automatic resize & compression — keeps packets, memory and GPU usage in check

💻 Commands

Examples

/photo file /home/user/Pictures/cat.png
/photo url https://example.com/image.png
/photo spoiler url https://example.com/secret.png

⌨️ Keybinds

The key can be rebound in Options → Controls → PhotoChat.

🖱️ Clicking photos in chat

Available while the chat window is open.

🔎 Image viewer

📦 Requirements

Server — PhotoChat must be installed for photos to be relayed.

Client — optional, but required to see image previews. Players without it only receive a text fallback message.

Dependencies

• Minecraft 26.1.2
• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API

🗜️ Image handling & limits

• Source files up to 32 MB are accepted
• Images are re-encoded to JPEG ≤ 2 MB, max edge 512 px, before sending
• The chat keeps the last 30 photos in history
• Supported formats: PNG, JPG/JPEG, WEBP, BMP, GIF
• URLs must be direct image links

🧩 Compatibility notes

PhotoChat modifies the chat UI to render previews. Most mods work fine, but behavior with chat-UI mods may vary.

If you use mods that merge, compact, replace, or heavily redesign chat messages, image spacing or previews may behave differently.

⚠️ Known limitations

• Early beta release.
• Image previews require the client mod.
• Some chat-UI mods may conflict with image layout.
• Very large or unsupported image formats may fail to send.