NobodyNews is an in-game news and announcement system for Minecraft server owners and administrators.
Share server updates, events, maintenance notices, rule changes, important information, or other announcements directly with your players — without requiring Discord or an external website.
Players can simply use /news to access the latest server news.
✨ Features
- Clean book-style news reader
- Multiple server announcements
- Individual read/unread tracking for every player
- Join notifications when unread news is available
- Optional notification sound
- Complete in-game administration with
/newsadmin - Create and edit announcements directly in-game
- Activate or deactivate announcements without deleting them
- Delete outdated announcements
- Minecraft colors and text formatting
- ↵ Multi-line messages
- English and German language support
- Configurable timezone
- Persistent SQLite storage
- Permission-based administration
🎨 Message Formatting
Use Minecraft formatting codes directly in your message.
Examples:
&c = Red
&a = Green
&e = Yellow
&l = Bold
&o = Italic
&n = Underlined
&m = Strikethrough
&r = Reset formatting
Example:
&c&lImportant News
This will display Important News in red and bold in Minecraft.
Standard Minecraft color codes from &0 to &f are supported.
Messages can also contain multiple lines, making longer announcements easier to structure and read.
🕒 Timezone
NobodyNews uses UTC by default, but the timezone can be changed in the configuration.
Examples:
UTC
Europe/Berlin
America/New_York
Asia/Tokyo
This allows the displayed date and time to match your server or community location.
📖 For Players
Players open the news system with:
/news
Unread announcements are marked as new.
When a player selects an announcement, it opens in a Minecraft book, providing a clean and comfortable way to read server news.
The read status is stored individually for every player.
🛠️ For Administrators
Use:
/newsadmin
Authorized staff members can create, edit, activate, deactivate, and delete announcements directly in-game.
NobodyNews provides server teams with a simple way to keep their community informed directly inside Minecraft.
Admins can create a new server announcement directly from the administration menu.
Admins can manage existing server news by editing, deactivating, or deleting messages.
Admins can view existing announcements, including their title, status, publication date, and message ID.
Admins can review the complete announcement before publishing it and confirm that the content is correct.
Players read announcements in a Minecraft book with title, date, colors, and text formatting.