Chat Utilities
by rd5ey24d1ae
Chat Utilities gives players a radial chat wheel, floating chat windows with tabs and filters, and timestamps set per window.
What it does
Chat Utilities adds a radial menu for sending chat messages quickly with a simple mouse gesture. Each entry can be customized, and players set their own messages, commands and phrases to fill the wheel slots. Multiple pages organize entries across the wheel, so a player can reach many messages without crowding one screen. Placeholder support inserts values such as current coordinates into a message when it is sent.
The mod also rebuilds the chat area itself. Floating chat windows can be dragged, resized and placed anywhere on the screen. Each window can split messages across several tabs, and every tab carries its own filter. Keyword, exact-text and regular expression patterns can each drive a filter, which then hides, shows, highlights or plays a sound for the messages it catches. Timestamps take a custom format and color, sit before or after the message, and are set per window, and each window can list its newest message at the top or the bottom.
Chat Utilities runs on the client alone and needs Fabric API. It is published for Fabric only, for game versions 1.21.4 – 1.21.11, and the latest file is 2.2.3 for 1.21.11. The code is released under the MIT License, and the project is not open source.
Key features
Radial chat wheel
A mouse gesture opens a wheel of slots that sends a chosen message, command or phrase in one step.
Floating chat windows
Chat windows can be dragged, resized and placed freely, with several windows open at the same time.
Message filters
A message filter can be built from a keyword, an exact phrase or a regex, and every match can be hidden, shown, highlighted or accompanied by a sound.
Per-window timestamps
Timestamps can be formatted, colored and positioned before or after each message, separately for every window.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who follow several chat channels at once, want quick access to common messages, or need a tidier chat layout than the default one.
How it compares
FriendChat is client-side only, open source under the MIT License, and published for 1.21.11, so it covers a narrower version range than Chat Utilities. ChatFilterV1 is client-side only, not open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.21 – 1.21.8. Spellwords runs on the server alone under the MIT License and is open source, so it does not change the client chat window at all.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat Utilities | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-08-09 |
| FriendChat | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-08-03 |
| ChatFilterV1 | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.8 | Client-side only | 2025-09-20 |
| Spellwords | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-06-03 |
Questions
Does Chat Utilities need Fabric API?
Does the server need Chat Utilities?
Which game versions have Chat Utilities files?
In the catalog
Chat Utilities is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,084 Social mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/chat-utilities
- Owner
- rd5ey24d1ae
- Published
- 2026-05-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15