Join Messages

Join Messages

A Join Message is a custom, styled line broadcast in chat when the player joins the server. It's a full cosmetic type — owned in the vault and equipped from /cosmetics.

If a player has one equipped, it replaces the normal join broadcast. If they have nothing equipped, the vanilla (or other plugin's) join message is used exactly as before — the plugin only steps in when there's something to show.

Configuration (joinmessages.yml)

join-messages:
  royal:
    display: "&6Royal Entrance"                                   # shown in menus
    value: "&6&l» &fAll hail, &6&l{player} &fhas arrived! &6&l«"  # the broadcast
    icon: GOLDEN_HELMET
    permission: celestial.cosmetics.joinmessage.royal
  sparkle:
    display: "&dSparkle Entrance"
    value: "&#F0F444&l✦ &f{player} &7has entered the realm &#F0F444&l✦"
    icon: NETHER_STAR
    permission: celestial.cosmetics.joinmessage.sparkle

Field	Required	Meaning
display	yes	Name shown in menus
value	yes	The message broadcast on join. Supports & codes, &#RRGGBB hex, and {player}
icon	yes	Menu icon material (or PLAYER_HEAD + texture:)
permission	no	Defaults to celestial.cosmetics.joinmessage.<id>

The {player} placeholder

Use {player} anywhere in value and it's replaced with the joining player's name. You can place it more than once, or omit it entirely.

Presets

The shipped joinmessages.yml includes 150+ ready-made entrances — seasonal (Halloween, Christmas, Easter), themed (pirate, ninja, vampire, robotic, cosmic), gemstone, pride, and gradient/animated styles. Delete the ones you don't want, or add your own following the shape above.

Animated styles: entries whose colors fall in a resource-pack shader trigger range (e.g. the #F0F0xx / #F5F5xx / #FAFAxx / #FCFCxx families in the defaults) light up automatically if your pack drives text effects from those hex codes — the same mechanism used by Rebirth Colors. With no such pack they simply render as ordinary colored text.

Equipping

• Players: open /cosmetics, pick the Join Message category, click one you own.
• Admins: /cosmetics set <player> joinmessage <id> / /cosmetics clear <player> joinmessage.

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