Minecraft plugin ColoredSigns

🔌 About Colored Signs

Colored Signs is a Minecraft plugin that enables color and formatting codes on placed signs. It converts legacy color codes (using a configurable character such as &) and supports 1.16+ hex color codes on sign text. The plugin exposes configuration options for the color character, hex support, permission mode, and an optional sign editor.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin's core purpose is to restore and extend sign text formatting for server communities that want colored or formatted sign text while retaining control via permissions and configuration. It is focused on cosmetic/text-formatting functionality rather than gameplay mechanics.

⚙️ Features

• Support for legacy color codes using a configurable color character (default &).
• Support for hex RGB color codes on signs (requires Spigot/Paper 1.16+).
• Optional sign editor (requires Spigot/Paper 1.18.2+ to enable sign editing via sneak+right-click).
• Permission-driven control (optional permission mode) with granular nodes for colors and formatting.
• Configuration options exposed in a config file (debug mode, color character, permission-mode, hex enable, editor enable, broadcast options).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server administrators who want player-facing colored signs without giving everyone access.
• SMP and survival servers that use signs for shops, instructions, or roleplay text.
• Servers that require per-color or per-format permission control for signs.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Allow moderators to create colored announcement signs while keeping regular players on plain text.
• Enable hex color codes for themed server hubs and destination signs.
• Use the sign editor to let trusted staff adjust sign text without replacing the sign block.

⌨️ Commands

(Only commands documented by official sources are listed.)

🔐 Permissions

You must enable permission-mode in the plugin config for these nodes to be enforced. Default values are not specified in the official configuration (permission-mode defaults to false).

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the plugin JAR from an official resource and place it into your server's plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server so the plugin can create its configuration files and register features.
• Check the server console for startup messages confirming the plugin loaded.

📦 Dependencies

• No required third-party dependencies are documented by the author.

🧾 Configuration

• The plugin creates a config file with options such as color-character, permission-mode, enable-hex-color-codes, enable-sign-editor, and broadcast toggles.
• permission-mode (default: false) controls whether the permission nodes are enforced.
• enable-hex-color-codes requires Spigot/Paper 1.16+ to function.
• enable-sign-editor requires Spigot/Paper 1.18.2+ to enable sneak+right-click editing behavior.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Confirmed supported server software: Spigot and Paper.
• Confirmed Java requirement: Java 8 minimum, Java 17 recommended.
• The author provides source code under GPL-3.0 and a public issue tracker.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need controlled, configurable sign text formatting (including hex color support) with optional sign editing and per-color permissions, Colored Signs provides these features while allowing administrators to enable or disable permission enforcement via config.