Conflicting Commands

Vanilla Commands Overwriting ChatControl's Commands

In Minecraft servers, vanilla commands can sometimes override plugin commands when they share the same name (e.g. /tell).
To resolve this, you can:

• Override vanilla commands in commands.yml or with command management plugins.
• Adjust plugin configurations to rename or prioritise commands.
• Use the command namespacing (e.g. /PluginName:Command)

For example, chatcontrol commands follow this syntax:
/chatcontrol:Command, such as /chatcontrol:msg etc

This ensures the desired version of the command is used.

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Guide On How To Resolve Command Conflicts!

This guide will show you how to override vanilla commands in commands.yml
If this is not what you need help with, check out common-issues with commands!

Step 1. Find The Commands Namespacing.

Open /plugins/ChatControlRed/settings.yml, this will help you work out the command namespacing syntax for the conflicting commands, which is needed in STEP 3.

Example for Private_Messages and its command aliases

  # The tell command aliases.
  # EDIT AS YOU WISH BUT THERE MUST BE AT LEAST ONE ALIAS
  Tell_Aliases: [tell, w, m, t, pm, message, msg, whisper]

Based on these settings, the command namespacing will follow this syntax:

/chatcontrol:tell
/chatcontrol:w
/chatcontrol:m
/chatcontrol:t
/chatcontrol:pm
/chatcontrol:message
/chatcontrol:msg
/chatcontrol:whisper

Step 2. Open commands.yml File

Open the commands.yml file in the root/server directory. This is the same location where the server.jar & server.properties files and the "plugins" folder are located.

This is where you will override these commands to ensure the correct commands are used.

Step 3. Make Changes To commands.yml

Once you have opened the file add the "command alias" under aliases, then below that, place the commands using command namespacing. These are the commands you got in STEP 1.

Example of commands.yml setup based on the Private_Messages.Tell_Aliases settings in ChatControl.

aliases:
  tell:
  - chatcontrol:tell $1-
  w:
  - chatcontrol:w $1-
  m:
  - chatcontrol:m $1-
  t:
  - chatcontrol:t $1-
  pm:
  - chatcontrol:pm $1-
  message:
  - chatcontrol:message $1-
  msg:
  - chatcontrol:msg $1-
  whisper:
  - chatcontrol:whisper $1-

Step 4. Restart The Server

Restart the server to make these changes go into full effect.