Various Notifications

Various Notifications is a modular and fully configurable notification mod for Hytale, featuring Mother — a sarcastic entity that comments on your actions throughout your adventure.

Mother is here to warn you, roast you (gently), and remind you when your survival decisions are... questionable 😌

✅ Currently Available (Production)

🛠️ Durability Notifications (Individual Messages)

Notifications when your tools or armor reach these durability thresholds

Each threshold has its own custom, configurable, and randomized messages.

🛏️ Bed Time Notification (Server-wide Message)

A server-wide message is sent when beds become usable.

❤️ Health Threshold Notifications (Individual Messages)

Messages when you reach low health thresholds

Unlimited thresholds
Unlimited messages per threshold
Full configuration support

☠️ Death Notifications (Server-wide Messages)

A message is sent to the whole server when a player dies. Messages are:

Custom
Configurable
Organized by death category (fall, drowning, etc.)

📦 Rare Chest Notification (Individual Message)

A message is sent when you open a chest for the first time and it contains a rare item.

Player Join: added server-wide messages when a player joins.

Player Leave: added server-wide messages when a player leaves.

⚙️ Notification toggles (Config + Commands)

You can now enable/disable notifications via the config JSON.
You can also enable/disable notifications via commands.

Commands

/vn notif list //List all notification settings and their current status

/vn notif all <true|false|on|off|toggle> //Enable or disable all notifications at once

/vn notif armordurability <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: ad) //Toggle armor durability warnings (threshold messages when armor is about to break)

/vn notif tooldurability <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: td) //Toggle tool durability warnings (threshold messages when tools are about to break)

/vn notif durability <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: drb) //Toggle all durability warnings (tools + armor)

/vn notif death <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: dth) //Toggle server-wide death messages (by death category)

/vn notif damage <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: hit) //Toggle big-hit messages (when a player takes heavy damage)

/vn notif timetosleep <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: tts) //Toggle server-wide “time to sleep” announcements (when beds become usable)

/vn notif playerjoin <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: pj) //Toggle server-wide messages when a player joins

/vn notif playerunjoined <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: pu) //Toggle server-wide messages when a player leaves

You can now change the notifier name via command:

/vn notifierName <name> (alias: nn)

You can now change the notifier color via command:

/vn colorNotifier <colorName> (alias: cn)
/vn colorNotifier <r> <g> <b> (alias: cn)

⚙️ Important Info

This mod is designed to be highly configurable:

Unlimited messages (as many as you want)
Unlimited thresholds (when applicable)
Custom messages per threshold/category (when applicable)
Random message selection from your configured message pool

🧪 Currently in Development

Planned for 1.5

Damage combo: detect repeated heavy hits / big impact sequences and notify the player.
Important item dropped: notify when an important item is dropped.
Inventory full: notify when inventory is full.
Rare item picked up: notify when a rare item is picked up.

💡 Future Ideas

Planned for 1.6

Biome / structure discovery: notify when discovering a biome or a structure.
Rain / storm weather comments: notifications reacting to weather changes.

Other planned notification ideas:

Session duration
Too far from spawn
Huge damage taken (single hit)
[CENSORED BY MOTHER] 👀

🎯 Mod Goal

The goal is to provide a notification system that is fun, useful, and 100% customizable, so you can adapt it to your server and your playstyle.

Mother judges, Mother warns, Mother comments...
and Mother was right from the start 😄

(You can rename Mother, of course.)

13/03/2026 UPDATE 1.4.0

✅ New notifications

Player Join: added server-wide messages when a player joins.
Player Leave: added server-wide messages when a player leaves.

⚙️ Notification toggles (Config + Commands)

You can now enable/disable notifications via the config JSON.
You can also enable/disable notifications via commands.

Commands

/vn notif list //List all notification settings and their current status

/vn notif all <true|false|on|off|toggle> //Enable or disable all notifications at once

/vn notif armordurability <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: ad) //Toggle armor durability warnings (threshold messages when armor is about to break)

/vn notif tooldurability <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: td) //Toggle tool durability warnings (threshold messages when tools are about to break)

/vn notif durability <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: drb) //Toggle all durability warnings (tools + armor)

/vn notif death <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: dth) //Toggle server-wide death messages (by death category)

/vn notif damage <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: hit) //Toggle big-hit messages (when a player takes heavy damage)

/vn notif timetosleep <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: tts) //Toggle server-wide “time to sleep” announcements (when beds become usable)

/vn notif playerjoin <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: pj) //Toggle server-wide messages when a player joins

/vn notif playerunjoined <true|false|on|off|toggle> (alias: pu) //Toggle server-wide messages when a player leaves

You can now change the notifier name via command:

/vn notifierName <name> (alias: nn)

You can now change the notifier color via command:

/vn colorNotifier <colorName> (alias: cn)
/vn colorNotifier <r> <g> <b> (alias: cn)

27/02/2026 UPDATE 1.3.0

🛏️ Bed Time Notification Rework (Server-wide)

The “time to sleep” notification was improved with:

Random messages
Fully customizable lines

❤️ Health Threshold Notifications (Individual Messages)

Messages when you reach low health thresholds (remaining health):

50%
30%
20%
10%
5%
1%
...and more if you add your own

☠️ Death Notifications (Server-wide Messages)

A message is sent to the whole server when a player dies, with messages that are:

Custom
Configurable
Organized by death category (fall, drowning, etc.)

📦 Rare Chest Notification

A message when you open a chest for the first time and it contains a rare item.

11/02/2026 : Update 1.2.1

Various bug fixes.

11/02/2026 : Update 1.2.0

The mod is compatible with the latest version of the game.

Bug fixes:

Metadata is now removed when placing an item into the salvage workbench to work around a logic bug (for an unknown reason, it doesn’t work when the item has metadata).

11/02/2026 : Update 1.1.1

Fixed an issue where messages for armor and tools were swapped.

10/02/2026 : Update 1.1.0

Mother will now notify you when your tools start to wear out — and of course, she doesn’t hold her tongue!

Added notifications when a tool (tools and weapons) drops below 50%, 30%, 20%, 10%, 5%, and 1% durability.
Added notifications when a piece of armor drops below 50%, 30%, 20%, 10%, 5%, and 1% durability.

Messages are fully configurable: you can add as many thresholds as you want, and as many messages per threshold as you want. Messages are picked randomly — just edit the config file.

```