PlayerChatPing (client)

Someone writes your name in chat and you scroll right past it. Happens to everyone. This makes it impossible to miss.

Client-side, works on any server. No server plugin needed, nothing gets sent anywhere.

What you get 🔔

• Your name lights up yellow in chat whenever someone writes it, @You or just You
• A ping sound (pick any sound you like)
• A pop-up: subtitle by default, or title, action bar, both, or none
• Nicknames: add extra names so @Frosty pings you too
• Add your own prefixes (!, #, whatever your server uses)
• Smart enough not to ping you for your own messages, your own join/death messages, or your name in the sender part of a line
• Cooldown so chat spam can't ping you 20 times a second

Setting the sound 🔊

Three ways, pick what you like:

1. In game: /chatping sound block.note_block.pling — it plays it once so you know it's right. /chatping sound volume 0.5, /chatping sound pitch 1.5 to fine-tune, /chatping sound test to preview.
2. Config file: config/playerchatping-client.json, then /chatping reload.
3. Resource pack sounds work too, just use their id.

Some nice ones: entity.experience_orb.pickup (default), block.note_block.pling, block.note_block.bell, entity.player.levelup, block.bell.use, entity.arrow.hit_player, ui.button.click.

Commands

/chatping toggle
/chatping sound <id> | volume <v> | pitch <p> | on | off | test
/chatping popup <title|subtitle|both|actionbar|none>
/chatping color <&e|yellow|#ffaa00> [bold]
/chatping prefix add|remove|list <prefix>
/chatping name add|remove|list <nickname>
/chatping requireprefix [on|off]
/chatping cooldown <seconds>
/chatping test
/chatping info

/pcp works as a short alias.

Downloads 📦

• Fabric 26.2
• Fabric 1.21.x (built on 1.21.11)
• Forge 26.2
• Forge 1.21.x (1.21.8+, built on 1.21.11)

No Fabric API or other libraries required. Drop it in mods/ and you're done.

Goes well with

The PlayerChatPing server plugin. If a server runs it you'll get the server-side ping too; turn one of them off with /chatping toggle if you don't want both.

Support 💬

Bugs, ideas, questions: https://discord.gg/M48jfjrykS