Server Chat Heads
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Server Chat Heads
Plz Mojang optimize font rendering
Use player heads in chat and more via placeholders! Credits to CatDevz for making the original Minestom code.
How it works
When a player joins its skin gets downloaded and the colors of the pixels of the face get extracted and put in a User UUID, TextColor[][] Map, when the placeholder gets invoked, it searches for the user in that map and tries to print the head in chat using negative spaces and a custom pixel font.
Placeholders
| Placeholder | Function |
|---|---|
%chatheads:player% |
Print the invoker's head |
%chatheads:player [target]% |
Print the target's head |
Bleeding edge builds
Upstream builds are available in via GitHub Actions.
Credits
- CatDevz for making the original Minestom code
- Camper_Samu (me) for making the Fabric port
- TheEpicBlock for PolyMC
- Patbox for Polymer, a part of PolyMC and the core of many Serverside mods (like this one)
- Fabric Server-Side Development Discord for helping me while making this mod and other mods (like WAYF? or PolyForgery)
License
This template is available under the GPLv3 license. Feel free to learn from it and incorporate it in your own projects following the license's guidelines.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1
- 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 chatheads-0.4+1.21.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 996 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.