Chat
By default, your chat will be sent to all players in the server. There are a few different ways to change who your chat is sent to.
For information on moderating chat (muting), see the Chat moderation page.
Click any of the categories below to read more about them.
Direct messages
To send a single direct message to an online player, start your message with @[name] and then type your message.
For instance, @goodly how to make a server pls? will send "how to make a server pls?" to goodly.
If you would like to send many direct messages without having to type @[name] each time, you can toggle direct messages using /whisper [name]
To send mail to offline players that they can read when they join later, use /send [name] [message]
These will be sent to their /inbox. See /help inbox for more info.
Local chat
Using /map chat or /os map chat toggles local chat for the level you're in.
When a level has local chat on, chat sent in the level will only be seen by other players in that level. Chat from other levels will not be seen either. This is a good option for roleplay or to reduce distractions while building in your level.
As a side note, player death messages are always sent as local chat mode even if the level does not have it enabled.
If you are the server owner, you can force every level to have local chat mode by changing the Server-wide-chat option to false.
If you are not running the server GUI, this option can be found in properties/server.properties as world-chat
Opchat and Adminchat
Opchat and Adminchat allow sending chat that only online staff can see.
There are multiple ways to send to Opchat.
/opchat [message]##[message]-
/opchat- toggle automatically sending everything to Opchat
By default, Operator rank and above may see Opchat. However, any rank can send chat to it.
To change the rank that is allowed to see Opchat, use /cmdset opchat [rank] 1. See Command permissions for more on changing command ranks.
Adminchat is identical to Opchat, but it sends to SuperOp rank and above instead of Operator.
/adminchat [message]++[message]-
/adminchat- toggle automatically sending everything to Adminchat
By default, SuperOp rank and above may see Adminchat. However, any rank can send chat to it.
To change the rank that is allowed to see Adminchat, use /cmdset adminchat [rank] 1. See Command permissions for more on changing command ranks.