How to Format Minecraft Chat With LuckPerms LPC

Overview

Minecraft chat is useful, but by default it is not exactly dressed for the occasion. Plain text does not show rank prefixes, suffixes, colors, or extra symbols unless another plugin handles the formatting. That becomes a problem when LuckPerms is already managing groups and prefixes, but players still see basic chat in-game.

LuckPerms Chat Formatter, often shortened to LPC, solves that by displaying existing LuckPerms prefixes and suffixes with very little setup. For many servers, installing it is enough. If the default layout is too simple, you can still adjust the format in its configuration file.

Installing LPC

1. Download both LuckPerms and LPC from their plugin pages. PlaceholderAPI is optional, but it unlocks more placeholder options for chat formats.

1. Move the downloaded `.jar` files somewhere easy to find, such as your desktop.

1. Open your server panel, then go to your FTP client or the file manager in your panel.

1. Log in with your panel password and open the `plugins` directory.

1. Upload the LuckPerms and LPC `.jar` files into that folder.

1. Wait until the uploads finish, then restart the server so both plugins can generate their files and load properly.

What LPC Does

LPC was created as a lightweight chat formatter for servers using LuckPerms. Its main purpose is simple: take the prefixes, suffixes, and group data already configured in LuckPerms, then show them in chat.

It supports older and newer Minecraft server versions, including many builds from 1.7.10 through 1.19. LuckPerms itself does not treat LPC as an official companion plugin, but LPC is still a common choice because it keeps chat formatting simple and does not bury server owners under a mountain of settings.

Editing the Configuration

After the server has restarted once, LPC creates its own folder and config file. Most chat changes happen there.

1. Open your server panel and return to your FTP client or the file manager.
2. Go to `plugins`, then open the `LPC` folder.
3. Find `config.yml` and choose the edit option.

1. Change the chat format as needed, save the file, then run `/lpc reload` in-game to apply the update.

LPC does not rely on many commands. In most cases, `/lpc reload` is the only one you need after editing the file.

Default Chat Format

The default format is enough for most servers because it automatically uses LuckPerms rank prefixes. To make that work cleanly, the prefixes in LuckPerms still need to be formatted correctly.

Inside `config.yml`, the default chat format appears inside quotation marks. Keep your edits inside those quotes so the YAML file remains valid. Color codes can be used to make ranks, names, and messages easier to read. For example, a rank named `Admin` could use a prefix like `&7[&c&lAdmin&7] `, which would display a gray bracketed red Admin tag in chat.

Placeholder Options

Placeholders let you include extra information in chat, such as the world name. A value like `{world}` can be useful on network-style servers, Multiverse setups, or any server where players move between multiple worlds.

For more advanced values, install PlaceholderAPI alongside LPC. That gives you access to a much larger set of placeholders from supported plugins.

Group Formats

LPC also includes an advanced group format section. Instead of relying only on the default format and LuckPerms prefix values, group formats let you define separate chat layouts for specific ranks inside the LPC config.

To enable this, remove the `#` symbols from the group format settings in `config.yml`, then adjust the entries for your groups. The final result can look the same as the default method, but it gives you more direct control over how each rank appears.

Final Notes

LuckPerms Chat Formatter is useful when you already have ranks configured and only need those ranks to appear in chat. Install LuckPerms and LPC, restart the server, confirm your prefixes are set correctly, and then fine-tune `config.yml` only if the default layout needs changes.

For most servers, that is enough to turn plain chat into something readable, organized, and a little less gray.