Features/Functionality

TabbyChat is a client-side mod for Minecraft that aims to make the multiplayer chat interface more organized, managable, and user-friendly.

Primary Features

The primary feature of TabbyChat is to organize chat messages into different channels, and to represent those channels via tab-like buttons displayed above the chat interface. There are several different ways to configure TabbyChat to organize chat, including:

• Auto-searching for new chat channels or PM messages
• Selecting the appropriate Chat-Channel delimiters and manually creating the desired tabs
• Using custom filters to direct messages matching the desired expression to a specific tab

Custom Filters

Custom filters allow the user to tell TabbyChat to perform various actions when a chat message matches the defined Regular Expression. These actions include the following:

• Highlight the matching text (with color and/or formatting)
• Play a notification sound
• Send the message to a specific tab
• Send the message to all tabs
• Prevent the message from displaying
• New for this fork: Choose if a filter applies to a world/server or to all servers

Additional Features

• Unread Message Notifications
• Timestamps prepended to chat messages
• Suppress spammed chat messages
• Log all chat to logfile with timestamps
• Force Unicode font rendering
• Interactive scroll bar
• Dynamically movable/resizable chat box
• Customize the number of messages retained (displayed) for each tab
• Customize the length of time a message remains on-screen during normal gameplay
• Each tab can have a 'command prefix' that can be applied to your messages
• Multi-line chat with configurable transmission delay
• New mouse controls and Key-binds added for interacting with TabbyChat
• Spell-checking

For a rundown of it's features, please see:

Originally by RocketMan10404, the mod was maintained and further updated by Killjoy1221 & Dykam. 1.7 is the last mc version of the original TabbyChat, as Killjoy rewrote the mod for 1.8+ as TabbyChat 2. This is a separate project which I'm not affiliated with.

This fork fixes a crash with Botania's corporea index and an incompatability with lotr's /fmsg command. I also added a toggle for choosing if a filter should apply on all servers or only on the current one. The biggest change though is that this fork is a forge only mod. Previous 1.7.10 TabbyChat builds also had LiteLoader versions. Due to technical limilations I unfortunately had to remove this.