ChatLocker is a simple plugin that allows you to disable your server's chat simply, quickly, and easily. It can be used, for example, for server-side events to prevent the chat from disrupting the audience or the event's progress, and in many other cases.
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This plugin is compatible from version 1.18.2 to 1.21x.
Download the latest version of the plugin and upload it to your server's plugins folder.
Once uploaded, restart the server for the changes to take effect.
✅ Features:
- Lock the chat with the /lock command.
- Unlock the chat with the /unlock command.
- View the chat status with the /chatstatus command.
- Allows specific ranks/users with the chatlocker.bypass permission to write messages in the chat.
🧑💼 Permissions:
- chatlocker.lock
- chatlocker.unlock
- chatlocker.bypass
⌨️ Commands:
- /lock
- /unlock
- /chatstatus
📸 Screenshots:
Message that appears when you try to send a message with the chat locked.
Messages that appear whenan Administrator blocks or unblocks the chat.
SpigotMC:
https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/chatlocker-1-18x-1-21x.128131/
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.11, 1.11.1, 1.11.2
- 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.
- Ships as ChatLocker-1.7.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 352 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.