Chat Patches is a client-side mod designed to significantly enhance the vanilla Minecraft chat experience by addressing several common limitations and annoyances. It aims to provide a more robust and user-friendly chat system, allowing players to retain more information and interact with it more effectively. This mod tackles issues such as limited chat history, the absence of timestamps, and the potential for message loss, offering a comprehensive solution for players who desire a more functional and configurable chat interface within the game, making communication smoother and more informative for everyone involved in multiplayer interactions or even single-player sessions where chat logs are important. The mod achieves its improvements by altering how chat messages are handled and displayed in the game. It dramatically increases the maximum number of chat messages that can be stored, from a mere 100 to an impressive 16,384, ensuring that you don't lose crucial conversation history. Furthermore, it introduces timestamps to every message, displaying the time in a clear [HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND] format with a tooltip offering the full date, and allows for the preservation of chat history and sent messages across all worlds and servers you visit. It also includes features for logging messages for later retrieval, minimizing spam by counting duplicate messages, and adjusting the chat HUD position to prevent overlap with other interface elements, all while offering extensive customization options for each feature. Chat Patches is compatible with Minecraft versions 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2, 26.2-snapshot-6, and 26.2. It is developed for the Fabric and Quilt mod loaders. This mod is strictly client-side, meaning it is required on the player's client but is unsupported and unnecessary on the server. Players looking to utilize its features must install it on their own game installation, ensuring a seamless and enhanced chat experience without requiring any server-side modifications or affecting server performance, making it an ideal choice for individual players or modpack creators focusing on client-side enhancements. To install Chat Patches, place the mod file into the 'mods' folder of your Minecraft installation. For Fabric and Quilt, this is typically located within your main Minecraft directory. Before launching the game, ensure you have the necessary dependencies installed, which include Fabric API. For versions 1.19.2 and later, you will also need a menu mod like Mod Menu or Catalogue along with Menulogue to access the in-game configuration menu; for 1.18.x versions, Cloth Config and Mod Menu are required. If you encounter issues accessing the configuration menu, you can always edit the settings directly by navigating to the 'config' folder within your Minecraft directory and modifying the 'chatpatches.json' file.
