
ModsJava
Chat Plus
Movable/resizable chat, chat windows, chat tabs, copy/translate/select/bookmark/screenshot messages, player heads, speech to text, filter messages…
⬇ Download on Modrinth
Adds more customization to the chat.
Vanilla Changes
- Increases the maximum messages Minecraft can store.
- Increases the maximum number of command suggestions shown.
- Resize/Relocate the chat box.
- Scroll through the chat faster/slower.
- Made the tiny scrollbar larger and actually functional.
- Removed the "Server message. Cannot be reported" sidebar.
- And more!
Custom Features
General
- Create chat windows with chat tabs.
- Customize the chat window.
- Resize
- Relocate
- Background Color
- Scale
- Text Opacity
- Unfocused Opacities
- Unfocused Height
- Line Spacing
- Outline
- Padding
- Message alignment (left/middle/right)
- Message direction (top down/bottom up)
- Automatically create tabs.
- Tab notifications.
- Highlight lines automatically*.
- Bookmark messages manually or automatically* and jump to them.
- Highlight the current hovered over line.
- Find messages in chat and jump to them.
- Take screenshots of the whole chat or specific messages and auto upload them to imgur.
- Select groups of messages by right clicking them, and then perform many of the custom options on them (Screenshot/Copy/Bookmark/etc).
- Adds timestamps to messages.
- Adds player heads next to messages.
- Peek chat.
- Compact messages.
- And more!
Language Related
- Automatically* translate incoming messages.
- Send messages in different languages.
- Control click messages to translate them.
- Send messages using speech to text (can be auto translated) using VOSK, download your desired model and place in config/chatplus/models. (NOTE: This uses push to talk and larger models are slower!)
*Based on user defined regexes.
Compatibility
This mod overrides the vanilla chat renderer. Any mod that uses mixin on it will probably not work.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as chatplus-fabric-2.9.0-dev-shadow.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 27.6 MB
- Download link checked 26 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.