Frequently Asked Questions
- #1 - Why are NPCs showing up in the tablist?
- #2 - How to make TAB work with LuckPerms?
- #3 - How can i make belowname not affect NPCs but keep it for players?
- #4 - I enabled MySQL and my prefix is now gone!
- #5 - Why does customtagname not work?
- #6 - Why is player sorting not working?
- #7 - How to add players to %staffonline% placeholder?
- #8 - How to make player heads visible in tablist?
- #9 - Where can i find current default config files?
- #10 - How can I split players into multiple columns?
- #11 - How to use space in prefix/suffix command?
- #12 - Can I change/remove the green connection bar in tablist?
- #13 - Placeholder is not working
- #14 - How can I display ItemsAdder images?
- #15 - Why is the plugin not on Spigot anymore?
- #16 - How can I use UTF characters in configuration?
- #17 - Is there a way to remove all players from tablist?
- #18 - How to add images to tablist?
See Citizens FAQ.
- If you want to take prefixes/suffixes, check this guide and use
%luckperms-prefix%&%luckperms-suffix%. - Sorting:
First, Configure weights correctly in LuckPerms. Then, you have 2 options:
- Configure sorting by groups (recommended).
- Sorting by weights directly:
PLACEHOLDER_HIGH_TO_LOW:%luckperms_highest_group_weight%.
Option 1: Disable vanilla belowname and enable unlimited nametag mode in config.yml, then run /tab group _DEFAULT_ belowname &c%health% Health.
Option 2: Make NPC plugin hide their original names (using teams) and place holograms for displaying text.
When enabling MySQL, it will be used as a data storage and groups.yml / users.yml files will no longer be used.
If you want to upload your configuration to MySQL (or download it back to files), use MySQL conversion commands - /tab mysql upload and /tab mysql download, respectively.
After you are done, run /tab reload for the changes to take effect.
This property requires Unlimited nametag mode, which uses armor stands to display text. By default, you won't see your own armor stands, you will only see other players' armor stands. Unofficially modified clients designed to give user an unfair advantage over others that allow you to see your own nametag will not force TAB to send your own armor stands to you. To see your own, use /tab nametag preview.
See Common mistakes section on sorting page.
Give them the tab.staff permission.
Player heads are displayed by the client when connection to the server is an online connection. It cannot be directly controlled by plugins. The most common way to reach this is by setting online-mode=true in server.properties.
If you want to allow pirates on your server, you can still display heads for players who bought the game by changing their connections to online connections. Most commonly used plugins for this are FastLogin and JPremium, which change connections of premium players who enabled it to online connections.
Same goes for disabling heads - you cannot disable them if you have online mode enabled.
You can find all default files in the source code. You can also delete or rename a file and the plugin will regenerate it.
Players are put into columns by the client, it is not managed by the server. The only way is to get more players. They automatically split into more columns at 21, 41 and 61 players (due to limit of 20 entries per column). If you don't mind getting all 80 slots filled with fake player slots, check out the Layout feature.
Use "", for example /tab group owner tabprefix "&2&lOwner&r "
Connection bar is client sided and cannot be retextured or removed by TAB. You will need a custom minecraft client or a resource pack.
Most common reasons for a placeholder to not work include:
- Using % symbol by itself, which breaks placeholder starts and ends and therefore breaks all placeholders after it (use %% to display the symbol)
- Trying to use a PlaceholderAPI placeholder without downloading its expansion or not having PlaceholderAPI installed at all
- Trying to use TAB's internal bukkit-only placeholders on BungeeCord
- Trying to use PlaceholderAPI placeholders on BungeeCord without installing bridge plugin
Full list of reasons can be found on the Placeholders page.
ItemsAdder offers placeholders, which return the respective symbol to which your desired image is bound to. You can get them using ItemsAdder's PlaceholderAPI expansion using their %img_<something>% placeholder. ItemsAdder's internal placeholders (:something:) will not work in TAB.
I got banned for adding this line of text into the plugin description:
Option 1: Save the file in UTF-8 encoding and use your desired symbol directly.
Option 2: Find hex code of your symbol (4 hexadecimal numbers) and use \uxxxx format, where xxxx is hexcode of the symbol.
Make sure to also wrap the text into "" for the text to properly take \ as an escape symbol. Using '' will result in text being display literally, not as a code.
Note: Minecraft does not support every single UTF symbol and displays unsupported symbols as a box. You can try sending your symbol into chat and see if it works or not. If not, it's not supported by MC.
For a player to be visible in game, they must be in the tablist as well. Remember the NPC in tablist issue? If you don't mind players not appearing in game, get a plugin that hides all players. If you want to see them in game however, your only choice is to put a lot of empty lines into header, which will push all players out of the screen.
You can check out this reddit post. When using the symbol in configuration using \u format, don't forget to use "" in config instead of ''.