Advanced Floating Text
Floating text, live leaderboards and clickable signs, drawn by the game itself and edited in game with a live preview.
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Overview
Most floating text add-ons hang a name tag on an invisible mob, then hunt through every entity in the world, every tick, to keep it in place. Advanced Floating Text is drawn with Minecraft's own text rendering instead: no entities, nothing for /kill @e to destroy, nothing that freezes when a chunk unloads, and nothing running for texts nobody is near.
Type /mygen:floatingtext (or use the Floating Text Wand on a text) and pick from nine templates: a welcome sign, a leaderboard, server info, a rules board, a countdown, a shop sign and more. The editor shows every change on the real text as you make it, with the finished text, placeholders filled in, at the top.
Make it look the part with & colour codes, hex colours, gradients and rainbows, any size, thirteen backgrounds, and text that faces each player or stays fixed like a sign. Make it move with bob, spin, swing and pulse, rainbow, shimmer, typewriter, blink and glitch effects, and up to twelve pages that turn by themselves. Eleven particle effects, made for the add-on, come in any colour: sparkles, glow, embers, snow, hearts, music notes, enchanting glyphs, an orbit ring, fireflies, bubbles and shooting stars.
Players can punch a text to turn its page, get a message, run a command, hear a sound or teleport. Placeholders fill in live: players online, TPS, game and real time, moon phase, weather, countdowns, scores, and per-player values like each viewer's name, rank, health and biome. Leaderboards show the top players of any scoreboard in gold, silver and bronze, keep offline players' names, and can rank lowest first or online players only.
Texts can be shown to everyone, to players with or without a tag, or to editors only, grouped and switched on and off together, and brought back from Recently deleted. Command blocks and other add-ons can drive any text with script events. Operators set how often placeholders update, how smooth motion is and how far texts load, and can let builders edit with a tag instead of operator.
Features
- Drawn with Minecraft's own text rendering: no entities, nothing to /kill
- Texts only exist while a player who may see them is nearby
- Editor with a live preview: every change shows on the real text
- Nine templates, from welcome signs to leaderboards
- & colour codes, hex colours, gradients and rainbows
- Size, 13 backgrounds, facing the player or fixed like a sign
- Bob, spin, swing and pulse; rainbow, shimmer, typewriter, blink and glitch
- Up to 12 pages that turn by themselves
- 11 particle effects in any colour
- Clickable text: next page, message, command, sound or teleport
- Live placeholders, including per-player ones
- Leaderboards that keep offline players' names
- Show to everyone, by tag or editors only; groups; Recently deleted
- Script events for command blocks and other add-ons
- No experimental toggles required
How to install
- Download the .mcaddon from CurseForge and open it with Minecraft to import both packs.
- Add the Advanced Floating Text behavior pack to your world; its resource pack switches on with it.
- No experimental toggles are required.
- Type /mygen:floatingtext, choose Create a text here and pick a template.
- Operators can edit, and so can players with the floatingtext:editor tag.
Changelog
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v1.0.0 Latest
The first release. Needs Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50 or later; no experimental toggles.
Added
- Floating text drawn with Minecraft's own text rendering: no entities, nothing for
/killto remove, and nothing that stops when a chunk unloads - Texts only exist while someone who can see them is nearby, so a world full of signs costs nothing until a player walks up to one
/mygen:floatingtextmenu: create a text from nine templates, edit the one you're looking at, find texts nearby or by search, groups, Recently deleted, Help and World settings/mygen:floatingtext "text"puts a text in front of you straight away- The Floating Text Wand: use it on a text to edit it
- An editor with a live preview: every change shows on the real text as you make it
- Colours:
&codes, every Bedrock colour, hex colours, gradients and rainbows - Any size, 13 backgrounds, facing each player or fixed like a sign, hidden behind blocks or not, and a view distance per text
- Motion: bob, spin, swing, pulse, and bob and spin
- Text effects: rainbow, shimmer, typewriter, blink and glitch
- Up to 12 pages per text, turning by themselves
- Eleven particle effects in any colour: sparkles, glow, embers, snow, hearts, music notes, enchanting glyphs, orbit ring, fireflies, bubbles and shooting stars
- Clickable text: punch a text to turn its page, get a message, run a command, hear a sound or teleport
- Live placeholders: players online, TPS, game and real time, moon phase, weather, countdowns, scores, your own values, and ones that show each player their own name, score, rank, health and more
- Leaderboards from any scoreboard, in gold, silver and bronze, keeping offline players' names, lowest first or online only
- Show texts to everyone, to players with or without a tag, or to editors only; switch whole groups on and off
- Recently deleted: bring back any of your last 10 deleted texts
- Script events for command blocks and other add-ons
- Operators and players with the
floatingtext:editortag can edit - World settings: how far texts load, how often placeholders update, how smooth motion is, particles and clicks on or off, and your time zone
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50+
- Floating text drawn with Minecraft's own text rendering: no entities, nothing for
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