Better Fabric Console

Better Fabric Console is a server-side Fabric mod that replaces the vanilla dedicated server console experience with an interactive, color-aware terminal.

Features

• Brigadier-aware command completion in the server console
• Command syntax highlighting with configurable argument colors
• Colored log output in terminal consoles
• Persistent command history in .console_history
• Optional logging of player-executed commands

Requirements

• Fabric server
• Fabric API
• adventure-platform-fabric

Installation

1. Download the latest Better Fabric Console, Fabric API, and adventure-platform-fabric jars.
2. Place the jars in your server mods/ directory.
3. Start the server once to generate config files.
4. Stop the server and edit configuration as needed.
5. Start the server again.

You may also choose to run the server with the --nogui argument (i.e. java -jar fabric.jar --nogui) to disable the server GUI (this is a Vanilla option).

Configuration

Better Fabric Console generates and reads:

• config/better-fabric-console/better-fabric-console.conf
• config/better-fabric-console/log4j2.xml

The bundled default Log4j config is also written to config/better-fabric-console/defaults/log4j2.xml for reference. If you customize log4j2.xml and the bundled default changes, Better Fabric Console will warn on startup until you review/merge the change and run:

/better-fabric-console dismiss-log4j-config-update

You can also start once with -Dbetter-fabric-console.dismiss-log4j-config-update=true to dismiss the warning.

Default better-fabric-console.conf for reference:

# Specify argument highlight colors, in order. Possible values: [BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE]
highlight-colors=[
    CYAN,
    YELLOW,
    GREEN,
    MAGENTA,
    BLUE
]
# Whether to log commands executed by players to console.
log-player-executed-commands=true

Click here to see the default log4j2.xml configuration.

Better Fabric Console also respects the following system properties to override terminal environment detection:

• Adventure ANSI properties: https://docs.papermc.io/adventure/serializer/ansi/

Changes require a server restart.

Command

• /better-fabric-console (operator-level): Prints mod version information.
• /better-fabric-console dismiss-log4j-config-update (operator-level): Marks the current bundled Log4j default as reviewed.

License

MIT. See license.txt.