
Chat Heads Vintage
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.12. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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Chat Heads Vintage is a backport of dzwdz's Chat Heads for Minecraft 1.12.2.
It adds player heads next to chat messages, making it easier to distinguish between different players in multiplayer. It also improves the overall appearance of the chat by giving it a more polished and visually appealing look.
Features
- Shows each detected sender's skin head and hat layer beside their name, or in a neat column on the left side of the chat
- Heads fade together with chat messages and can optionally have a shadow and a 3D hat effect
- Keeps wrapped messages, hover text, and clickable chat links properly aligned, including when timestamp or chat-formatting mods move sender names
- Offers accurate
STRICTsender detection or broaderHEURISTICdetection for server display names and nicknames - Can optionally show heads in system messages and command suggestions provided by Cleanroom, Brigo, or Salutation
- Manual aliases use the format
nickname=MinecraftUsername, for example:ServerNickname=RealName
Compatibility
Compatible Font Renderer mods:
- Revo Font (recommended)
- SmoothFont
Chat Heads Vintage is compatible with the following command suggestion implementations:
- CleanroomLoader 0.6.10 or later (recommended)
- Brigo (Forge)
- Salutation (Forge)
Cleanroom 0.6.10 and later includes a more modern and polished command suggestion system than Brigo or Salutation, so using Cleanroom's built-in implementation is recommended.
Brigo and Salutation cannot be used together with Cleanroom's built-in command suggestion system.
Incompatible
- Revo UI
Credits
This mod is not my original creation.
The original Chat Heads mod was developed by dzwdz based on a request from Hugman on the Fabric Discord server.
All credit for the original mod goes to its original author.
- dzwdz — Creator of the original Chat Heads mod
Original Description
This clientside mod adds player heads next to chat messages, as seen on the screenshot above. It makes telling various people in chat apart a bit easier, and it looks hella nice.
Based on a request from Hugman on the Fabric Discord.
Cloth Config (and Mod Menu for Fabric) is needed to access the settings, but the mod works without it, using the default settings.
Note: The default settings might not work on some servers. In this case try using the "Heuristic only" sender detection mode. Note that this might put wrong chat heads on some messages.
Note: Incompatible with newer versions of OptiFine (~1.20.1), use Sodium and co instead.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.12.2
- 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 chat_heads-0.1.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 76 KB
- Download link checked 9 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.