Legacy Format Support

Messages can be read from and formed into different formats.

MiniMessage (Default)

The default format using the Adventure MiniMessage.

a="<red>Hello world!</red>" # <-- because MiniMessage is default format this will be parsed as MiniMessage
a="!!minimessage: <red>Hello world!</red>"

String miniMessage = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.MINI_MESSAGE);

NBT

The JSON like format that is being used by Minecraft internally

a="!!nbt: {"text":"Hello world!","color":"red"}"

String nbt = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.NBT);

Legacy (§)

The original ingame formatter to make colored values. Does not support hover texts or clickable texts. HexColors follow the pattern §x§r§r§g§g§b§b

a="!!paragraph: §cHello world!"

String legacyParagraph = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.LEGACY_PARAGRAPH);

Legacy (&)

Similar to the § formatter, but with the ampersand symbol instead. HexColors follow the patterh &#rrggbb

a="!!ampersand: &cHello world!"

String legacyAmpersand = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.LEGACY_AMPERSAND);

Plain Text

Simply turns everything into unformatted text.

# no reason, since MiniMessage would produce the same result.
a="!!plain: Hello world!"
# more likely example, where you don't want a tag to be parsed and display it as is:
a="!!plain: <msg:example>"
# it will produce the string "<msg:example>" and not a resolved message

String plain = MY_MESSAGE.toString(MessageFormat.PLAIN);