Lightweight, Folia-safe nickname plugin. Let players set fun nicknames (with color codes), show them in chat and the tab list, and look up a player’s real Mojang username from their nickname—colors ignored. Fully Unicode-aware (Cyrillic and other scripts supported).
Works on: Folia 1.21.x (and Paper 1.21.x)
Requires: Java 21
/nick & /unnick — players can set or clear their nickname.
/realname — type a nickname (e.g. &aAsd) and get the real Mojang name (Asd).
By default, it matches letters-only and ignores color codes, so minor punctuation/spaces don’t matter.
Cyrillic & full Unicode — nicknames accept all letter scripts (e.g., Алексей, Мира-2025).
Color codes — supports legacy & codes (e.g., &a, &l, &x&F&F&0&0&0&0).
Tab list & chat display — enable/disable each in config.
Persistent storage — nicknames saved in plugins/NicknameEasy/nicks.yml.
Folia-safe by design — all Bukkit/Paper API calls run on the correct region thread; background file I/O never touches the API.
/nick <newName|off> # set your nick or turn it off
/unnick [player] # clear your own nick, or someone else's (with permission)
/realname <nickname> # returns the player’s Mojang username
How /realname matching works
Strips legacy color/format codes (& or §, incl. legacy hex).
(Default) letters-only comparison: punctuation, spaces, and digits are ignored for matching.
Example: /realname Asd matches &aA-s_d, and returns Asd.
You can switch to “exact minus colors” matching in the config.
nicknameeasy.nick # allow setting your own nickname (default: true)
nicknameeasy.nick.reset # allow /unnick yourself (default: true)
nicknameeasy.realname # allow /realname (default: true)
nicknameeasy.nick.colors # allow using & color codes (default: op)
nicknameeasy.nick.others # allow clearing others' nicknames (default: op)
LuckPerms examples
/lp group default permission set nicknameeasy.nick true
/lp group default permission set nicknameeasy.realname true
# staff
/lp group staff permission set nicknameeasy.nick.others true
/lp group staff permission set nicknameeasy.nick.colors true
plugins/NicknameEasy/config.yml)
