Better Fabric Console

Mod

Server-side Fabric mod enhancing the console with tab completions, colored log output, command syntax highlighting, command history, and more.

Type

Mod

Modrinth Downloads

32,382

Modrinth ID

Y8o1j1Sf

Last Updated

Sep 2, 2026

Description

Better Fabric Console

Better Fabric Console is a server-side Fabric mod that replaces the vanilla dedicated server console experience with an interactive, color-aware terminal.

Features

Brigadier-aware command completion in the server console
Command syntax highlighting with configurable argument colors
Colored log output in terminal consoles
Persistent command history in .console_history
Optional logging of player-executed commands

Screenshot 1

Requirements

Installation

Download the latest Better Fabric Console, Fabric API, and adventure-platform-fabric jars.
Place the jars in your server mods/ directory.
Start the server once to generate config files.
Stop the server and edit configuration as needed.
Start the server again.

You may also choose to run the server with the --nogui argument (i.e. java -jar fabric.jar --nogui) to disable the server GUI (this is a Vanilla option).

Configuration

Better Fabric Console generates and reads:

config/better-fabric-console/better-fabric-console.conf
config/better-fabric-console/log4j2.xml

The bundled default Log4j config is also written to config/better-fabric-console/defaults/log4j2.xml for reference. If you customize log4j2.xml and the bundled default changes, Better Fabric Console will warn on startup until you review/merge the change and run:

/better-fabric-console dismiss-log4j-config-update

You can also start once with -Dbetter-fabric-console.dismiss-log4j-config-update=true to dismiss the warning.

Default better-fabric-console.conf for reference:

# Specify argument highlight colors, in order. Possible values: [BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE] highlight-colors=[ CYAN, YELLOW, GREEN, MAGENTA, BLUE ] # Whether to log commands executed by players to console. log-player-executed-commands=true

Click here to see the default log4j2.xml configuration.

Better Fabric Console also respects the following system properties to override terminal environment detection:

Adventure ANSI properties: https://docs.papermc.io/adventure/serializer/ansi/

Changes require a server restart.

Command

/better-fabric-console (operator-level): Prints mod version information.
/better-fabric-console dismiss-log4j-config-update (operator-level): Marks the current bundled Log4j default as reviewed.