Server Chat Heads

Mod

Use player heads in chat and more via placeholders! Credits to CatDevz for making the original Minestom code.

Type

Mod

Modrinth Downloads

34,419

Modrinth ID

EM2ioiwa

Last Updated

Oct 24, 2026

Description

Server Chat Heads

Plz Mojang optimize font rendering

Use player heads in chat and more via placeholders! Credits to CatDevz for making the original Minestom code.

Showcase

How it works

When a player joins its skin gets downloaded and the colors of the pixels of the face get extracted and put in a User UUID, TextColor[][] Map, when the placeholder gets invoked, it searches for the user in that map and tries to print the head in chat using negative spaces and a custom pixel font.

Placeholders

Placeholder	Function
`%chatheads:player%`	Print the invoker's head
`%chatheads:player [target]%`	Print the target's head

Bleeding edge builds

Upstream builds are available in via GitHub Actions.

Credits

CatDevz for making the original Minestom code
Camper_Samu (me) for making the Fabric port
TheEpicBlock for PolyMC
Patbox for Polymer, a part of PolyMC and the core of many Serverside mods (like this one)
Fabric Server-Side Development Discord for helping me while making this mod and other mods (like WAYF? or PolyForgery)

License

This template is available under the GPLv3 license. Feel free to learn from it and incorporate it in your own projects following the license's guidelines.