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ChatControl is chat management and formatting plugin for Bukkit, Spigot and Paper that significantly reduces the amount of spam, ads, swearing and bots on your server!

Create custom rules and handlers for complete control over your chat. ChatControl also comes with many other, often unique features, see the list below!

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Note: In commands, there is no such argument as "username".

Features

Rules and Handlers

Rules can be used for:
Effective curse/swear word filtering. By default, over 48 curse words are blocked!
Powerful IP / URL advertisements blocking
Filter spam and repetitive characters
Block unicode / non-english messages
Typo / slang correction
Command aliases
Utility commands / messages
Fun message replacements
...they are entirely up to you, and the possibilities are endless!

Define your own rules that matches certain regular expressions and applies for: chat, commands, signs or packets
Packet rules allows you to edit messages from the server itself or even other plugins (or hide them). The support replacing message per different worlds with rewritein operator
- For example, change the unknown command message to no permission message in survival, but to something else in the hardcore world
Handlers allow you to easily manage a big set of rules without spaghetti code
Custom syntax and parser, fixing many YAML limitations
Inspired by popular but now outdated PwnFilter

Chat Formatting

*Vault required

Format chat messages, with variables: {player_prefix} and {player_suffix}
{world} (TIP: if you want to customize the world name, use Multiverse-Core and edit world alias in worlds.yml)
{health
{player} (player name)
{town} and {nation} (if Towny plugin is enabled)
{clan} (if SimpleClans plugin is enabled)
{country_name} and {country_code}
{region_name} and {isp} (player's internet provider)
PlaceholderAPI is supported.
Supports global chat (begin with "!") and local chat (ranged mode)
- Use chatcontrol.chat.overrideranged permission to get all messages in the world
- Use chatcontrol.chat.spy permission to get all messages in all worlds - spy mode

Anti Spam

Block the same or similar messages and commands
- Strip special and duplicate characters to prevent bypasses (toggleable)
- Ignore first argument in commands to prevent too strict check
- Customizable percentage
Set the delay between messages and commands
Lower long unreadable message spam
Whitelist commands from delay and similarity check

Anti Caps

Efficient and intelligent CAPS prevention
Customize minimum message length, caps percentage, amount of caps in the row and a whitelist of ignored words
Ignore player names

Anti Bot

Set the delay between logging in again
Prevent signs with the same text (alert staff + drop the sign) (Useful against "AutoSign" cheat)
Block chat until player moves on join (Prevent bots joining and spamming)

Chat Clear

Clear the in game chat. Support reason and arguments:
- -anonymous (-a) (to hide the cleaner's name)
- -silent (-s) (to hide entire broadcast message after clean)
- -console (to clear console)
Do not clear chat for players with permission

Chat Mute

Globally prevent chatting and executing certain commands under the mute.
- Also hide join/quit/kick and death messages
Supports reason and arguments
- -anonymous (-a) (to hide the cleaner's name)
- -silent (-s) (to hide entire message after clean)
- -console (to clear console)

Messages' Customization & Broadcaster

Customize or hide join/quit and kick messages. Support variables:{player}, {player_suffix} and {player_prefix} (see more variables above in Chat formatter)
Send fake join or leave messages (/chc fake)
Broadcast messages in the specified interval
- 3 modes - by order, random and random with cache that prevents messages to repeat until all were broadcasted
- Set a prefix and a suffix
- Supports variables %player and %world
- Different messages per world
  - World messages inherit global messages by default, this can be disabled by inserting - excludeGlobal on the first line.

Packet Features

Disable tab complete if no argument is given, leaking server info.
- Notice: If using spigot, it is recommended to disable this feature and to configure it in spigot.yml!
Change other plugins' or even server messages (see rules/packet.txt file)

Console Features

Remove unwanted messages from the console

Sound Notify

Get notified when somebody mentions you in the chat or if you receive '/tell', '/r' (or any specified message)
Customizable sound, volume and pitch.
- Respects the difference in sound names between MC 1.9 and older
Can specify a prefix that is necessary to get notified (e.g @kangarko)
Only notify afk players (toggleable, requires Essentials)

Grammar

Capitalise sentences automatically
Insert a dot at the end
Respects domains and IP addresses
Define minimum message length for capitalization and punctuation

Chat Conversation Saver

Save entire chat conversation to file. Unlike console output, this will save only player messages and specified commands
Ignore certain players

Localization

Current available locations:
- English (en)
- Slovak (sk)
- Czech (cz)
- Spanish (es)
- German (de)
- French (fr)
- Dutch (nl)
- Swedish (se)
- Hungarian (hu)
- Bulgarian (bg)
To customize the localization, create a file in plugins/ChatControl/localization/messages_LOCALE.yml (replace LOCALE with the short name of the localization - the one above in brackets)
- On reload, it will be filled with all the values and kept up to date with newer versions.
If you make a localization, it would be appreciated if you send it to me via PM. Thanks!

Groups (Permission-specific Settings)

Apply different settings for each group (or players) with certain permission
- Example: Allow trusted players to type quickly but set the message delay for quests to, for example, 5 seconds.
- Example 2: Set different join/leave/kick message for certain players/groups.

Lightweight & Safe

Extremely efficient and low CPU / RAM usage
Asynchronous updater and non-blocking features
Safety checker to prevent malformed regular expressions running into an infinite loop and freezing the server
Custom syntax parser

You can turn every feature off and change every message!

Compatibility

Minimum Minecraft version: Craftbukkit 1.2.5 (that is correct!) to the latest Spigot / Paper
Minimum Java version: Java 8
The plugin doesn't use NMS access so it will most likely not break upon next releases (1.10.x etc)
Cauldron & PaperSpigot compatible

Important for Minecraft 1.7.10 and lower: Please install BungeeChatAPI alongside ChatControl

Commands

See "/chc list" to display all available commands of the plugin.

Supported Plugins

ProtocolLib for custom rules in packet.txt file and preventing tab complete.
- Essentials or EssentialsX for detecting AFK players.
Vault for chat formatter and taking money players in "then fine" operator in custom rules.
Multiverse-Core for colored world alias in chat formatter.
Towny for {nation} and {town} variables in chat formatter.
SimpleClans for {clan} variable in chat formatter.
AuthMe for better join/kick/quit messages.
PlaceholderAPI for extra variables.

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ChatControl™ - Format & Filter Your Chat