Application

Text Formatting & Text Placeholder API

Important: This setting must be modified in config/embellish-chat/presets.json, not in config/embellish-chat/styles.json.

{
  "prefix": {
    "chat.prefix.default":"<b>[%player:displayname%]</b> "
  }
}

You can reformat the full chat message by matching the complete line and applying a REPLACE style. When using custom chat formatting, enable disable_vanilla_chat_format in config.json.

Bubble Chat

{
  "pattern": "(.+)()",
  "styles": [
    {
      "styleType": "BUBBLE",
      "preset": ""
    },
    {
      "styleType": "BLOCK",
      "preset": ""
    }
  ]
}

This combination displays a speech bubble and blocks the normal chat message. It is useful when you want nearby conversation to feel more natural.

Using chat as a macro

[
  {
    "pattern": "(sad)()",
    "styles": [{ "styleType": "COMMAND_RUN", "preset": "/trigger ec.flag set 100" }]
  },
  {
    "pattern": "(like|love)()",
    "styles": [{ "styleType": "COMMAND_RUN", "preset": "/trigger ec.flag set 200" }]
  },
  {
    "pattern": "(hate)()",
    "styles": [{ "styleType": "COMMAND_RUN", "preset": "/trigger ec.flag set 300" }]
  },
  {
    "pattern": "(oh|ah)()",
    "styles": [{ "styleType": "COMMAND_RUN", "preset": "/trigger ec.flag set 400" }]
  }
]

Using triggers with COMMAND_RUN lets chat act like a lightweight macro system. The example above comes from a showcase datapack that maps words to different emotes or reactions.

Global Style

{
  "pattern": "(.+)()",
  "styles": [
    {
      "styleType": "COLOR_RAINBOW",
      "preset": "0.3"
    }
  ]
}

In regular expressions, .+ matches the full message. That makes it easy to apply a subtle rainbow effect to every chat line.

Using It Directly as an Option

{
  "pattern": "((red))",
  "styles": [
    {
      "styleType": "COLOR_PRESET",
      "preset": ""
    }
  ]
}

Writing a pattern like ((red)) makes capture groups 1 and 2 contain the same text. For example, this lets COLOR_PRESET use red as both the matched text and the option value, so every red appears in red.