SmoothChat Adds smooth, configurable chat animations and opacity controls, plus a few quality-of-life chat shortcuts.
Features
- Chat background opacity control
- Chat text opacity control
- Fade-in time for new messages
- Slide-in/out animation for incoming messages
- Slide-in animation for the chat input box
- Animation speed settings
- Position/offset settings for animations
- Ctrl + A to select all text in the chat input
- Up/Down arrows to cycle through previous messages (chat history)
Warning!
If you are using MojangFixStationAPI you must toggle off the Open/Close Slide Animation, otherwise your input box will be invisible
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: b1.7.3
- 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 SmoothChat-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 22 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.