CrossChat Backend Placeholders

Extend CrossChat with placeholders from your backend servers.

CrossChat Backend Placeholders is an addon for CrossChat that allows placeholders provided by backend plugins to be used in CrossChat's global chat format.

Instead of being limited to placeholders available on the Velocity proxy, this addon lets you pull placeholder data from your backend servers and use it when formatting cross-server messages.

✨ Features

• 🔗 Backend placeholder support — Use placeholders provided by plugins running on your backend servers.
• 💬 CrossChat integration — Designed specifically to work alongside CrossChat.
• ⚡ Lightweight — Adds only the functionality needed to bridge backend placeholders with CrossChat.
• 🔄 Dynamic values — Placeholder values can reflect the player's current backend state.
• 🧩 Works with your existing setup — Keep using CrossChat's normal chat formatting while extending it with backend data.

📦 Requirements

• CrossChat — Required
• Velocity — Required by CrossChat
• Backend server — Paper/Spigot-compatible backend
• PlaceholderAPI — Required for backend placeholders

🚀 Installation

1. Install CrossChat on your Velocity proxy.
2. Install CrossChat Backend Placeholders on your proxy.
3. Install the required placeholder support on your backend servers.
4. Install PlaceholderAPI and the expansions you need on your backend.
5. Configure the addon if required.
6. Restart your proxy and backend servers.

Once installed, backend placeholder values can be made available to CrossChat's formatting system.

💡 Example

You could use backend information such as:

• Player rank
• Economy balance
• Current world
• Player level
• Faction/team
• Server-specific statistics
• Any other value exposed through PlaceholderAPI

This allows your global chat to contain information that isn't available directly on the proxy.

🔌 Designed for CrossChat

This addon does not replace CrossChat.

It extends CrossChat's functionality by allowing backend-provided placeholder values to be used alongside CrossChat's existing formatting system.

CrossChat handles the global chat. This addon brings backend data into it.

📚 CrossChat

CrossChat is a Velocity plugin that connects chat across multiple backend servers into one global channel.

Required: CrossChat on Modrinth

🐛 Issues & Support

If you encounter a problem, please provide:

• CrossChat version
• CrossChat Backend Placeholders version
• Velocity version
• Backend server software and version
• PlaceholderAPI version
• The placeholder causing the issue
• Relevant console logs

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CrossChat Backend Placeholders — Bringing your backend data to global chat.