Language Packs

Language Packs

VelocityNavigator keeps player-facing text in messages.toml. You can use one of the included translations, adjust a few lines for your network, or maintain a completely custom language.

Included languages

Code	Language
en	English
ru	Russian
es	Spanish
fr	French
de	German
pt_br	Brazilian Portuguese
zh_cn	Simplified Chinese

Set the language at the top of messages.toml:

language = "de"

Restart the proxy or run /vn reload. Choosing an included language loads the complete pack, so make a copy first if you have edited the current messages.

Custom translations

Use your own short code when you want to keep custom text:

language = "nl"

Unknown codes are treated as custom packs and your current values are preserved. Leave active_language alone; VelocityNavigator updates it to remember which built-in pack is currently written to the file.

VelocityNavigator uses one language for the whole proxy. It does not switch messages automatically from each player's client locale.

Placeholders

Messages may contain placeholders such as <player>, <server>, <time>, <reason>, <attempt>, and <max>. Keep the placeholders that matter to the message even when you rewrite the surrounding sentence.

For example:

connecting = "<green>Sending you to <server>...</green>"
cooldown = "<yellow>Please wait <time> more second(s).</yellow>"

Party, queue, menu, and admin messages have their own placeholders. The comments written above each setting show the values available there.

Colors and formatting

The text fields accept:

• MiniMessage tags such as <green> and <bold>
• classic codes such as &a and &l
• hex colors such as &#55FFFF
• Bungee-style hex color sequences

If you want angle brackets to appear as text instead of a placeholder, use < and >.

Menu text

The same file also contains the default text used by selectors:

• [menus.chat] for the clickable Java chat menu
• [menus.inventory] for the Java inventory title, item names, and lore
• [menus.bedrock] for the Bedrock form title, content, and buttons

Per-server icons, slots, names, and lore overrides belong in gui.toml; see Java and Bedrock Selectors.

After editing

Run:

/vn reload

If a line does not render as expected, check for an unclosed MiniMessage tag or a placeholder that was accidentally changed. The Troubleshooting Guide has more formatting checks.