

TextOverPlayer
TextOverPlayer is a Minecraft plugin that displays chat messages over the player's head using text_display. It supports & colors and message display time.
Features
- Display chat messages above a player's head.
- Support for & color codes in messages.
- Configurable message display duration.
- Customizable number of characters per line.
- Ignores the first character for global chat.
- Customizable text size.
- Adjusting the height of text above the head.
- Commands to reload configuration and change settings.
Commands
/textoverplayer reload: Reload the plugin configuration and messages.yml.
Permissions
textoverplayer.reload
Configuration
The config.yml file contains the following settings:
lifetime: 100 # The lifetime of the text above the player's head (20 ticks = 1 second)
y-offset: 0.3 # Distance from the player's head
max-length: 30 # Maximum line length
font-size: 1.0 # Minecraft font size
cooldown: 20 # Delay between the appearance of a new message if the old message has not yet disappeared (optimal value selected)
ignore-prefix: "!" # A character that will be deleted when writing in chat if it is at the beginning. Example: !Hello -> Hello
Messages
The messages.yml file contains the following settings: (MiniMessages supported)
reload_success: "<green>TextOverPlayer configuration reloaded successfully!"
no_permission: "<red>You don't have permission to perform this command!"
usage_reload: "<red>Usage: /textoverplayer reload"
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as TextOverPlayer-2.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 12 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.