Notice format (for config editors)

This page is for people editing messages.yml. If you're coding in Java, see Basic Usage instead.

Quick rules#

✨ Quote strings that contain <colors> or spaces.
📋 Multi‑line chat = YAML list (- "line").
⏱️ Times: times: "fadeIn stay fadeOut" uses seconds, e.g. "0.5s 3s 1s".
🧩 Placeholders like {player} are replaced by your plugin code.

Chat#

welcome: "<green>Hello, {player}!"

Actionbar#

healSuccess:
  actionbar: "<green>❤ Health restored"

Title & Subtitle#

warning:
  title: "<red>Warning!"
  subtitle: "<gray>PvP enabled in this area"
  times: "0.5s 3s 1s" # fade in, stay, fade out

Bossbar#

bossInfo:
  bossBar:
    color: "GREEN"
    text: "<green>Objective updated"
    progress: 0.6

Sounds#

levelUp:
  sound: "ENTITY_PLAYER_LEVELUP 2.0 1.0" # volume, pitch

Combined example#

advanced_notification:
  chat:
    - "<gradient:gold:yellow>Welcome to the server!</gradient>"
    - "<gray>Use <gold>/help</gold> for assistance.</gray>"
  actionbar: "<aqua>You have <gold>5</gold> unread messages"
  title: "<gradient:red:dark_red>WARNING!</gradient>"
  subtitle: "<gray>You are entering a PvP zone</gray>"
  times: "0.5s 3s 1s"
  sound: "ENTITY_ENDER_DRAGON_GROWL MASTER 1.0 0.8"
  titleHide: true