
- Fully customizable, meaning you can change the messages and settings of the plugin inside the configuration files.
- Light and efficient, won't cause any sort of lag towards your server!
- Staff join and quit messages.
- Automatic Config Updates. No need to manually update file properties.
- Supports multiple platforms: Spigot, Velocity and Folia.
- Discord Logging using webhooks support in discord.yml
- MiniMessage support (Using non-strict mode, automatically converts legacy & color codes)
Note: This plugin does not and will never give support to cracked servers.
Commands
/staffchat(/sc) - Send messages to your staff privately
/staffchattoggle(/sctoggle) - Toggle sending messages to your staff privately
/staffchatreload(/screload) - Reload your config files
/adminchat(/ac) - Send messages to your admins privately
/devchat(/dc) - Send messages to your developers privately
/adminchattoggle(/actoggle) - Toggle sending messages to your admins privately
/devchattoggle(/dctoggle) - Toggle sending messages to your developers privately
/chat <staff|dev|admin|all> - Toggle sending messages to a chat
/schide <staff|dev|admin|all> - Allows you to mute/hide messages from either one or all staff chats.
Permissions
simplestaffchat.command.help - Allows you to see the help page
simplestaffchat.command.staffchat - Allows you to use /staffchat
simplestaffchat.command.toggle - Allows you to use /staffchattoggle
simplestaffchat.command.reload - Allows you to use /staffchatreload
simplestaffchat.command.adminchat - Allows you to use /adminchat
simplestaffchat.command.adminchat.toggle - Allows you to use /adminchattoggle
simplestaffchat.command.devchat - Allows you to use /devchat
simplestaffchat.command.devchat.toggle - Allows you to use /devchattoggle
simplestaffchat.command.hide - Allows you to use /schide
simplestaffchat.command.chat - Allows you to use /chat
simplestaffchat.staffchat.see - Allows you to see all staffchat messages
simplestaffchat.staffchat.symbol - Allows you to use the symbol to use staffchat
simplestaffchat.adminchat.see - Allows you to see all adminchat messages
simplestaffchat.adminchat.symbol - Allows you to use the symbol to use adminchat
simplestaffchat.devchat.see - Allows you to see all devchat messages
simplestaffchat.devchat.symbol - Allows you to use the symbol to use devchat
simplestaffchat.join - Sends a join message when a staff member joins
simplestaffchat.switch - Sends a switch message when a staff member switches to a different server on the network (BungeeCord/Velocity only)
simplestaffchat.quit - Sends a join message when a staff member leaves the server
All commands are customizable from the commands.yml file. (Available in version 3.0 or higher)

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Placeholders
- %player% - Get the player name
- %displayname% - Get the player display name
- %server% - Get the player server
- %message% - Get the message
- %arrow% - Get an arrow for a message
- %arrow_2% - Get alt arrow for a message
- %star% - Get a star for a message
- %circle% - Get a circle for a message
- %luckperms_prefix% - Get the player's luckperms prefix
- %luckperms_suffix% - Get the player's luckperms suffix
Dependencies
PlaceholderAPI (Optional)
SignedVelocity (Required when using Velocity it must be installed on all Spigot/Paper servers too)
Install
- Download plugin
- Place the .jar file in your plugins folder
- Restart your server
- Enjoy!
Note: Only install it in either all backend servers or in the proxy not both the plugin will not work properly.
Discord
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All Versions
+ Add Version- 1.21 support
- Add relocations for PaperLib/MorePaperLib as it was causing some issues with LibertyBans and potentially other plugins
- Fixed an issue with PlaceholderAPI placeholders not being replaced properly
- Bump adventure-platform to 4.3.3
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- Fixed discord webhooks
- Fixed the hide command
- Added new messages to the locale file that will be used for when trying to use staff chat and you have it muted it will just cancel the message now
- Added new startup messages
- Fixed join messages (players without the staffchat see permission were able to see them)
Folia support has been tested now and is fully working.
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- Fixed isPaper check causing errors on 1.8-1.17 for Paper
- Fixed LuckPerms prefixes for Bungee
Known Issues:
- The hide command doesn't work currently targeted fix for 4.3.x
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- Fixed messages not being sent properly on Bungee
- Fixed command aliases on Bungee
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- Added BungeeCord support back
- Added MiniMessage support for BungeeCord
- Legacy hex color format &#hex will now be converted to the MiniMessage format of <#hex>
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- Fixed an api-version error on Paper servers
Spigot servers were not affected by this and shouldn't need to update to this version
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Changes:
1.20.5/1.20.6 support
Added support for MiniMessage for color in messages
Added a servers config for blacklisted servers such as if you have an auth server and you don't want anyone to use staff chats there
A modules system to enable/disable entire parts of the plugin
Dropped support for Waterfall
Dropped support for 1.8-1.17
For Velocity you need to install SignedVelocity on Spigot and Velocity servers otherwise a lot of message errors will occur such as player disconnect/kicks.
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- Changes:**
- Fixed toggle/symbol chats not working on Velocity.**
- Fixed toggle messages not sending disabled message when disabling toggle chats**
- Velocity should be 100% working now but to be sure i'll be doing some betas.
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Added experimental velocity proxy support
Please note I'd still recommend using the spigot version for velocity support as not everything is working yet.
Fixed not being able to configure other symbols in the config files
Fixed the UpdateChecker
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Changes:
- Added 1.20 support.
- Added experimental Folia Support.
- Added HEX color support to BungeeCord version
- Fixed being able to toggle into multiple chats.
- Fixed permissions not being correct for example /staffchatreload could be used by anyone that had toggle permission etc.
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- Added MC 1.8-latest support
- Fixed a typo in /staffchatreload on bungee - Kristiaen
- Added Customizable Commands in commands.yml/bungee-commands.yml
- Added Admin & Dev chats
/adminchat(/ac) permission: simplestaffchat2.command.adminchat /adminchattoggle(/actoggle) permission: simplestaffchat2.command.adminchat.toggle /devchat(/dc) permission: simplestaffchat2.command.devchat /devchattoggle(/dctoggle) permission: simplestaffchat2.command.devchat.toggle adminchat see permission: simplestaffchat2.adminchat.see adminchat symbol permission: simplestaffchat2.adminchat.symbol devchat see permission: simplestaffchat2.devchat.see devchat symbol permission: simplestaffchat2.devchat.symbol
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Changes:
- 1.16+ is now required
- PlaceholderAPI is now required
- All messages are now located in a .lang file in the SimpleStaffChat2/locale folder this adds the ability to add official translations support for the plugin. (No translations other than english are available at this time if you wish to contribute to this voluntarily you can reach me on my discord)
- There have been many config updates so there is a chance you will need to reset your config file
- A new UpdateChecker has been added
- A lot of general code improvements have been made
- Added official Velocity support with the use of the Plugin Messaging Channel you can enable this by adding the plugin to all of your spigot/backend servers then enabling the "velocity" config option for all of them (You will need to restart for this to take effect)
- Added gradient support for messages using this format <<gradient:#xxx:#xxx:#xxx>>Message
This update took me about 3 months glad it's finally releasing to you all
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- Zach